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FTR#1384 This pro­gram was record­ed in one, 60-minute seg­ment.

1929 Mag­a­zine Cov­er
Pho­to Cred­it: Wikipedia

Intro­duc­tion: Although not about Josua Halde­man (Musk’s grand­fa­ther), per se, this pro­gram flesh­es out how main­stream media out­lets are sourc­ing some of the most out­landish b.s. about space aliens hav­ing vis­it­ed us, yad­da yad­da yad­da.

This mate­r­i­al is to be con­sid­ered against the back­ground of Halde­man, the search for “ancient civ­i­liza­tions,” Apartheid South Africa as a direct exten­sion of the NSDAP (the Nazi par­ty under Hitler) and the prep­ping of the pub­lic for “ET Con­tact” b.s.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: Review of “The Nine;” Review of Joshua Halde­man’s “Lost Civilization/White Suprema­cist” ide­ol­o­gy; The fact that all of this orig­i­nates with the tabloid The Week­ly World News!

Links: Spit­fire List | FTR-68 The Aliens Are STILL Not Among Us; Spit­fire List | FTR #167 No, the Aliens STILL Aren’t Among Us!; Spit­fire List | FTR #178 That’s Right, the Aliens Are STILL not Among Us; Spit­fire List | FTR #588 The Aliens Are Com­ing, The Aliens Are Coming—Not’; Spit­fire List | FTR #639 The Aliens Are Com­ing! The Aliens Are Com­ing: NOT! (Part II).

1a.“Erich von Daniken, Who claimed Aliens Vis­it­ed Earth, Dies at 90;” by Mike Peed; The New York; Jan­u­ary 11, 2026.

. . . . He wrote the man­u­script for what became “Char­i­ots of the Gods” while man­ag­ing the Hotel Rosen­hügel in Davos. At the hotel’s bar one day, he met the edi­tor of a Swiss sci­ence mag­a­zine, who intro­duced Mr. von Däniken to an exec­u­tive at Econ-Ver­lag, a Swiss pub­lish­ing house. Econ-Ver­lag agreed to print 6,000 copies of what was orig­i­nal­ly titled “Erin­nerun­gen an die Zukun­ft,” or “Mem­o­ries of the Future,” but only after hir­ing Wil­helm Rog­gers­dorf, who had edit­ed the Nazi news­pa­per Völkisch­er Beobachter, to rework much of it. . . .

1b.“Secret CIA pro­gram claimed to have found alien civ­i­liza­tion on dark side of the moon: ‘They look like us’” By CHRIS MELORE; The Dai­ly Mail; 06/03/2025

As the US pre­pares to send astro­nauts back to the moon, a CIA file has resur­faced that claims to have found life there more than 25 years ago.

In the 1970s and 80s, the CIA con­duct­ed exper­i­ments with indi­vid­u­als who claimed they could per­ceive infor­ma­tion about dis­tant objects, events, or peo­ple, a process known as ‘remote view­ing.’

The expe­ri­ence of remote view­er Ingo Swann was first revealed in 1998 when he explained how his psy­chic episode took him to the dark side of the moon, a region that always faces away from Earth and out of sight from human eyes.

That’s where the remote review­er made a shock­ing dis­cov­ery: tow­ers, build­ings, and human-like aliens work­ing at a secret com­plex on the moon’s sur­face.

Dis­turbing­ly, Swann said gov­ern­ment offi­cials knew the aliens had a base there, and these humanoids could actu­al­ly sense his pres­ence as he viewed them with his mind from 238,000 miles away.

He claimed that a race of aliens that ‘looked exact­ly like us’ erect­ed sev­er­al giant tow­ers on the moon. One was the size of the Unit­ed Nations build­ing in New York.

Swann, who died in 2013, made the shock­ing claims in his book ‘Pen­e­tra­tion: The Ques­tion of Extrater­res­tri­al and Human Telepa­thy’ released in 1998.

Despite Swann’s detailed claims, there has nev­er been any tan­gi­ble proof of alien bases or life on the moon dis­cov­ered by lunar mis­sions led by the US, Rus­sia, Chi­na, Japan, and India.

…

Swann wrote how he received a phone call in Feb­ru­ary 1975 from intel­li­gence agents in Wash­ing­ton DC, ask­ing for his help with anoth­er secret project.

A meet­ing was set up between Swann and a mys­te­ri­ous gov­ern­ment oper­a­tive known as Mr Axel­rod.

Swann had a hood placed over his head and was instruct­ed not to speak or ask any ques­tions as he was tak­en by heli­copter to an under­ground base.

Once there, Mr Axel­rod gave the remote view­er a very sim­ple task: ‘We want you to go to the Moon for us, and describe what you see.’

How­ev­er, Swann was also told that he could not reveal any­thing he saw in that vision for ‘at least 10 years.’

When the CIA oper­a­tive-turned-author was final­ly able to share his psy­chic vision, the descrip­tion he gave was jaw-drop­ping.

‘I found tow­ers, machin­ery, lights of dif­fer­ent col­ors, strange-look­ing build­ings,’ Swann wrote in the 1998 tell-all.

‘I found bridges whose func­tion I couldn’t fig­ure out. There were a lot of domes of var­i­ous sizes,’ he con­tin­ued.

Swann not­ed that the aliens appeared to be all male and did not wear any cloth­ing. They were dig­ging holes into the moon’s craters dur­ing some kind of min­ing or earth-mov­ing oper­a­tion.

One thing he did not expect to see was two of the aliens spot­ting his con­scious­ness view­ing the secret moon base.

‘Two of them point­ed in my direc­tion,’ Swann explained.’How could they do that… unless… they have some kind of high psy­chic per­cep­tions, too?’

It was at that moment Mr Axel­rod end­ed the remote view­ing ses­sion he recruit­ed Swann for.

How­ev­er, Swann revealed that the news of an alien takeover on the moon did not phase Axel­rod or oth­er intel­li­gence offi­cials.

The remote view­er then ques­tioned his recruiters about why NASA or the US mil­i­tary haven’t gone back to the moon since 1972.

His ques­tions stum­bled upon the unnerv­ing truth: ‘They some­how have told you to stay away. That’s why you are resort­ing to psy­chic per­cep­tions. They are not friend­ly, are they?’ Swann asked Axel­rod.

The oper­a­tive report­ed­ly told him that he was ‘approx­i­mate­ly cor­rect… but not com­plete­ly so.’

NASA has not con­duct­ed a manned moon mis­sion since 1972. Swann’s remote view­ing ses­sion alleged­ly took place in 1975, 3 years after humans gave up on trav­el­ing to the moon

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On May 1, the Trump Admin­is­tra­tion slashed $6 bil­lion that would have paid for research, oper­a­tions on the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion, and future mis­sions, includ­ing the Mars Sam­ple Return (MSR) mis­sion.

At the same time, the cuts will allow NASA to allo­cate over $1 bil­lion to manned space mis­sions, ensur­ing ‘that America’s human space explo­ration efforts remain unpar­al­leled, inno­v­a­tive, and effi­cient.’

…

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2.“Secret CIA files claim to expose loca­tions of three alien bases… and two of them are on Earth” By STACY LIBERATORE; The Dai­ly Mail; 05/01/2025

Amer­i­cans tuned into a con­gres­sion­al UFO hear­ing today, where top sci­en­tists and Pen­ta­gon insid­ers claimed the US gov­ern­ment has been hid­ing proof of alien life.

And while offi­cials con­tin­ue to deny encoun­ters with mys­te­ri­ous aer­i­al phe­nom­e­na, a resur­faced CIA doc­u­ment sug­gests the gov­ern­ment may have iden­ti­fied extrater­res­tri­al beings decades ago.

In the 1970s and 80s, the CIA con­duct­ed exper­i­ments with indi­vid­u­als who claimed they could per­ceive infor­ma­tion about dis­tant objects, events, or peo­ple — a process known as ‘remote view­ing.’

One such report, titled ‘Descrip­tion of Per­son­nel Asso­ci­at­ed ‘ET’ Bases,’ detailed a ses­sion in which a remote view­er was giv­en unknown tar­gets and asked to describe what they per­ceived.

The doc­u­ment describes alleged alien bases locat­ed in Alas­ka, South Amer­i­ca or Africa, and on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

…

The remote view­er also report­ed see­ing ‘enti­ties’ at these sites. One was said to have ‘a very large, round­ed-shaped head’ and ‘very unhu­man appear­ance,’ while anoth­er was described as ‘very pale’ with a ‘sharp nose.’

But the Titan base appeared to be staffed with human sci­en­tists, includ­ing ‘an attrac­tive female.’

The remote view­ing ses­sion was part of the CIA’s top-secret STARGATE pro­gram, which recruit­ed indi­vid­u­als believed to have psy­chic abil­i­ties for mil­i­tary and intel­li­gence pur­pos­es dur­ing the Cold War.

…

The report on extrater­res­tri­al bases was pro­duced in 1987 and lat­er declas­si­fied in 2000.

Dur­ing a remote view­ing ses­sion, par­tic­i­pants typ­i­cal­ly sketched what they ‘saw’ and jot­ted down brief notes about their per­cep­tions.

The 12-page doc­u­ment includes sev­er­al draw­ings believed to depict the loca­tions of these ET bases—one sketch appears to resem­ble a rocky moun­tain.

That draw­ing has been inter­pret­ed as Mount Hayes in Alas­ka, which stands rough­ly 8,000 feet tall.

Mount Hayes has long been the sub­ject of UFO sight­ings and the­o­ries about a hid­den under­ground alien base. Numer­ous wit­ness­es have report­ed see­ing fly­ing saucers, strange lights, and oth­er unex­plained phe­nom­e­na in the area.

…

The remote view­er described see­ing two beings stand­ing out­side one of the bases, ‘accom­plish­ing some sort of rou­tine task.’

Inside the base, they per­ceived two more enti­ties. One was seat­ed at a cir­cu­lar con­sole with a round, screen-like object, accord­ing to the ses­sion notes.

The sec­ond fig­ure was per­form­ing anoth­er task in the back­ground.

‘The enti­ty at the con­sole appeared to be in human form but lacked defin­i­tive fea­tures,’ the remote view­er shared, adding that the being appeared to acknowl­edge their pres­ence and invit­ed them to observe its work.

At the Titan base, the remote view­er did not report see­ing any alien life.

Instead, they described the site as appear­ing to be staffed by indi­vid­u­als who ‘looked no dif­fer­ent than native earth­lings.’

They observed two male tech­ni­cians seat­ed at a con­trol pan­el, with a female figure—described as hav­ing brown hair and wear­ing a pale green lab coat—standing behind them in what appeared to be a super­vi­so­ry role.

The final loca­tion was described as being some­where south of the equa­tor, though the remote view­er couldn’t deter­mine whether it was in South Amer­i­ca or Africa.

Although the sketch was labeled ‘South Amer­i­ca,’ the land­scape report­ed­ly resem­bled Europe.

At that base, the view­er report­ed see­ing two enti­ties.

‘The first had a very large, round­ed-shaped head on a slen­der neck… very unhu­man appear­ance… almost robot-like… unable to make con­tact with this being,’ the report notes.

The sec­ond enti­ty appeared more human, though it had no hair and lacked dis­tinct facial fea­tures. ‘The enti­ty seemed friend­ly enough and appeared to be aware of my pres­ence,’ the remote view­er wrote.

The CIA oper­at­ed sev­er­al secret remote view­ing pro­grams dur­ing the Cold War, using indi­vid­u­als with alleged psy­chic abil­i­ties to assist in a range of intel­li­gence operations—from track­ing kid­napped hostages held by ter­ror­ist groups to locat­ing fugi­tive crim­i­nals inside the U.S.

One such pro­gram, known as Sun Streak, even tasked a remote view­er with locat­ing the Ark of the Covenant, which they claimed was hid­den some­where in the Mid­dle East.

In anoth­er high-pro­file ses­sion, famed remote view­er Joe McMonea­gle, known as the CIA’s ‘Remote View­er No. 1,’ was report­ed­ly giv­en coor­di­nates and asked to describe what he saw.

Speak­ing on the show Amer­i­can Alche­my in March, McMonea­gle said he visu­al­ized a giant pyra­mid on Mars, larg­er than Egypt’s Great Pyra­mid of Giza, filled with what he called ‘mon­ster rooms.’

‘I start­ed get­ting an image of human beings that were trapped in a place where the atmos­phere was turn­ing bad,’ McMonea­gle recalled. ‘It was obvi­ous these peo­ple were dying for some reason—but they were humans. They were just twice our size.’

The coor­di­nates he had been giv­en were lat­er revealed to cor­re­spond to Mars, 1,000,000 BC—as writ­ten on a white card hand­ed to him dur­ing the ses­sion.

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3.“Chill­ing declas­si­fied CIA file reveals aliens com­mit­ted ‘revenge mas­sacre’ after UFO was shot down” By CHRIS MELORE; Dai­ly Mail; 04/03/2025

A bone-chill­ing doc­u­ment declas­si­fied by the CIA has exposed an alleged mas­sacre by aliens from a crashed UFO who turned an entire mil­i­tary unit into stone.

Accord­ing to the report, Sovi­et troops shot down a fly­ing saucer hov­er­ing over the Sovi­et mil­i­tary unit in Siberia rough­ly 35 years ago, and what hap­pened next was tru­ly ter­ri­fy­ing.

In the doc­u­ment, sum­ma­riz­ing a 250-page top secret file acquired by US intel­li­gence agents, eye­wit­ness­es said five aliens climbed out of their wrecked craft, com­bined them­selves into one crea­ture, explod­ed in a burst of intense ener­gy, and turned 23 sol­diers into sol­id rock.

One CIA offi­cial referred to the shock­ing bat­tle as ‘a hor­rif­ic pic­ture of revenge on the part of extrater­res­tri­al crea­tures, a pic­ture that makes one’s blood freeze.’

The agency added that the ‘extreme­ly men­ac­ing case’ proved the aliens who vis­it­ed Earth pos­sessed weapons and tech­nol­o­gy far beyond the US government’s ‘assump­tions’ – sug­gest­ing they were already aware of the aliens’ exis­tence.

The unearthed doc­u­ment, declas­si­fied in 2000, was recent­ly the top­ic of the AI or Evil pod­cast, where host Josh Hoop­er revealed that two of the sol­diers at the UFO crash site actu­al­ly sur­vived the encounter.

How­ev­er, the 23 ‘pet­ri­fied sol­diers’ could not be saved. Their remains and the debris from the space­craft were report­ed­ly moved to a secret research base near Moscow.

…

The sub­ject of the doc­u­ment states: ‘Paper reports alleged evi­dence on mishap involv­ing UFO.’

This extra­or­di­nary tale was also pub­lished in the Ukrain­ian news­pa­per Holos Ukrayiny on March 27, 1993.

The inci­dent, which a Cana­di­an news­pa­per believed took place between 1989 and 1990, was only uncov­ered by the CIA after the fall of the Sovi­et Union and its ‘secret police’ orga­ni­za­tion, the KGB.

The CIA doc­u­ment explained that the alleged alien craft was fly­ing low and qui­et­ly above the Sovi­et unit while they were engaged in a train­ing mis­sion.

Offi­cials wrote that ‘for unknown rea­sons’ the Sovi­ets launched a sur­face-to-air mis­sile at the UFO, send­ing it crash­ing to the Earth near the unit’s posi­tion.

Accord­ing to the only two sol­diers who sur­vived, when the sol­diers approached the craft, the five aliens freed them­selves of the debris and came close togeth­er near the wreck.

Moments lat­er, the sol­diers said the group of aliens ‘merged into a sin­gle object that acquired a spher­i­cal shape.’ In sim­pler lan­guage, the aliens beings some­how mor­phed into a giant ball.

That’s when the new ball-like alien began to buzz and hiss before ignit­ing into a bril­liant white light.

With the sol­diers still look­ing on, the ball of light erupt­ed like a giant flare of ener­gy, turn­ing 23 of the 25 Sovi­ets into ‘stone poles.’

The report stat­ed that the only rea­son two of the men sur­vived was because they were stand­ing in a shad­ed area at the time of the alien ener­gy blast.

Test­ing of the soldier’s bod­ies showed the alien flare had some­how changed liv­ing tis­sue into a sub­stance that close­ly resem­bles lime­stone.

The CIA doc­u­ment added that ‘a source of ener­gy that is still unknown to Earth­lings’ was respon­si­ble for the blast which fatal­ly trans­formed the Sovi­ets.

Even in 2025, the sci­ence behind such a shock­ing trans­for­ma­tion is still dif­fi­cult to explain med­ical­ly and tech­no­log­i­cal­ly.

Accord­ing to the Jour­nal of Applied Physics, it is pos­si­ble to use high-ener­gy radi­a­tion or elec­tro­mag­net­ic puls­es to change nor­mal mat­ter into plas­ma – a form that’s not a liq­uid, sol­id, or gas.

In the report, the CIA described the aliens as short humanoids with ‘large heads and large black eyes.’

The account match­es who UFO researchers, alleged alien abductees, and oth­ers who believe in alien life refer to as a race called ‘the Greys.’

Their fea­tures have become the clas­sic image the pub­lic thinks of when dis­cussing aliens from out­er space – a small, skin­ny, grey-skinned alien, with an over­sized head and large black eyes with no iris.

The Greys would even­tu­al­ly become linked to the infa­mous Roswell Inci­dent of 1947, as CIA doc­u­ments would lat­er sug­gest that alien beings were pulled from the alleged wreck in New Mex­i­co.

…

Despite their promi­nent place in extrater­res­tri­al research, this dis­turb­ing inci­dent appears to be the first time humans have alleged that these beings could have accom­plished such ter­ri­fy­ing feats.

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4.“CIA doc­u­ment doesn’t prove aliens turned Sovi­et sol­diers to stone — and it was nev­er clas­si­fied” by Alek­san­dra Wrona; Snopes; 04/26/2025

Claim:
A recent­ly declas­si­fied CIA doc­u­ment con­firms that after Sovi­et troops shot down a UFO in 1987, the aliens turned 23 sol­diers into stone.

Rat­ing:
False

In April 2025, rumors spread on social media about an alleged­ly declas­si­fied CIA doc­u­ment that proved a sto­ry about aliens turn­ing 23 Sovi­et sol­diers to stone after a UFO was shot down.

One X post (archived) with the claim reached more than 11.1 mil­lion views, as of this writ­ing. The text on the image attached to the post read, “DECLASSIFIED CIA DOCUMENT CLAIMS ALIENS TURNED 23 SOVIET SOLDIERS TO STONE AFTER UFO WAS SHOT DOWN.”

The sto­ry also gained atten­tion across social media plat­forms includ­ing X, Threads, YouTube, Insta­gram and Face­book. Pod­cast­er Joe Rogan also dis­cussed the alleged CIA doc­u­ment in an episode of his pod­cast fea­tur­ing guest Post Mal­one.

News out­lets includ­ing the New York Post, Dai­ly Mail, Fox News, India Today, NDTV and The Eco­nom­ic Times, also report­ed on the alleged doc­u­ment.

In short, although the doc­u­ment at the cen­ter of the claims was gen­uine­ly avail­able on the CIA’s web­site, it was not an offi­cial agency report. Rather, it was a trans­la­tion of a Ukrain­ian news­pa­per arti­cle based on a fic­tion­al sto­ry orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in the tabloid Week­ly World News. Addi­tion­al­ly, the doc­u­ment was nev­er clas­si­fied and there­fore nev­er declas­si­fied. As such, we have rat­ed this claim as false.

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What’s actu­al­ly in the doc­u­ment

The doc­u­ment cir­cu­lat­ing online appeared on the offi­cial CIA web­site under the title, “Paper reports alleged evi­dence on mishap involv­ing a UFO.”

It opened with a line cred­it­ing the CIA’s For­eign Broad­cast Infor­ma­tion Ser­vice, which the agency estab­lished to “mon­i­tor, record, tran­scribe, and ana­lyze for­eign broad­casts,” accord­ing to records in the Nation­al Archives. The third line of the doc­u­ment con­tained the label “UNCLAS,” indi­cat­ing the page was nev­er clas­si­fied — mean­ing it was also nev­er declas­si­fied, despite what some social media users claimed. The fifth line sug­gest­ed the doc­u­ment was sup­posed to be passed to the BBC.

Addi­tion­al­ly, the top sec­tion of the doc­u­ment stat­ed that the source was an arti­cle that appeared in the March 27, 1993, issue of the Ukrain­ian news­pa­per Holos Ukrayiny, on Page 5. Fur­ther down, how­ev­er, a note in the doc­u­ment explained that the sto­ry was a reprint of an arti­cle, titled “Cos­mic Revenge,” that ran in anoth­er news­pa­per, Ternopil Vechirniy (see image below). Ternopil is a city in west­ern Ukraine.

We have con­tact­ed both Ukrain­ian news­pa­pers to request copies of the rel­e­vant issues and will update this sto­ry if we hear back.

The arti­cle also not­ed the sto­ry orig­i­nat­ed from “the author­i­ta­tive mag­a­zine Cana­di­an Week­ly World News.” Week­ly World News is a U.S. news­pa­per known for pub­lish­ing fab­ri­cat­ed sto­ries. It is also dis­trib­uted in Cana­da — like­ly the rea­son the CIA trans­la­tion of the Ukrain­ian arti­cle used the word “Cana­di­an” to describe the pub­li­ca­tion.

The scan of the doc­u­ment showed a stamp in the bot­tom right cor­ner mark­ing it as “Approved for Release” in May 2000, although the CIA’s Free­dom of Infor­ma­tion Act Elec­tron­ic Read­ing Room web­site said the doc­u­ment was released on Jan. 31, 2011.

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From FTR#913:

JFK and the Unspeak­able: Why He Died and Why It Mat­ters by James W. Dou­glass; Touch­stone Books [SC]; Copy­right 2008 by James W. Dou­glas; ISBN 978–1‑4391–9388‑4; p. 301.

 . . . . On his new assign­ment, Vin­son would soon learn that the CIA’s projects out of Site 51 includ­ed exper­i­men­tal air­craft shaped like saucers. The same was true at the CIA’s oth­er base at Roswell, New Mex­i­co, where the C‑54 car­ry­ing the sec­ond Oswald had land­ed. Both Site 51 and Roswell were home to “fly­ing saucers” that peo­ple saw peri­od­i­cal­ly in the area. They in fact came not from out­er space but from the CIA, which encour­aged the fly­ing saucer reports