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He Had a Near-Death Experience and Realized What UFOs Actually Are | Keith Thompson

Third Eye DropsNov 1, 2026

At 24, journalist Keith Thompson nearly drowned in a Hawaiian riptide, left his body, and met dead relatives, including a great-uncle he didn't know had died. That experience launched decades of reporting on UFOs, near-death experiences, seances, and objects that seemingly appear from nowhere. In his new book Anomalous Phenomena, he argues these mysteries share a common pattern that points to a deep interconnectedness at the root of reality, one that materialist science has refused to map.

The Alien in Dr. Jonathan Reed's Freezer

AREA52 Podcast (Chris Ramsay)Oct 23, 2026

In October 1996, a man using the pseudonym Dr. Jonathan Reed says an alien creature killed his golden retriever Susie in a Washington forest, and he struck it dead with a branch. He claims he stored the body in his garage freezer, where it revived three days later, and that this began 25 years of telepathic contact, a teleportation bracelet called 'the link,' and a campaign of murders and cover-ups. Chris Ramsay sits down with Reed for nearly three hours to test one of the most polarizing cases in UFO history, while openly stating his own skepticism.

Religious Scholar: “UFO Disclosure Is THE APOCALYPSE!”

American AlchemyOct 21, 2026

Rice University religious studies professor Jeffrey Kripal argues that UFO disclosure is literally an apocalypse, a Greek word meaning an unveiling or revelation of reality, and that religious historians are the people best equipped to make sense of it. Drawing on his own 1989 Kundalini awakening, the alien sexual encounters of David Huggins, levitating saints, and a lightning-strike near-death experience that left a woman with precognitive abilities, he links mysticism, trauma, sexuality and the UFO phenomenon. He rejects both religious and skeptical explanations and argues for a 'third space' in which these experiences are taken seriously as real but not taken at face value.

Keith Thompson: Anomalous Phenomena—UFOs, Apports, and the Mystery of Consciousness

Earth AncientsOct 21, 2026

Journalist Keith Thompson, who introduced Harvard psychiatrist John Mack to the alien abduction phenomenon, discusses his new book 'Anomalous Phenomena: Apports and the Mystery of Objects that Materialize and Translocate.' He describes the Scole Experiment, a five-year series of seances in which coins, a 1944 newspaper, and images on sealed film reportedly appeared from nowhere, along with his own teenage experience of cosmic oneness and a near-death experience while drowning in Hawaii. The conversation ranges across Navajo Rangers investigating Bigfoot and skinwalkers, stigmata, Lourdes healings, Charles Lindbergh's phantom cockpit companions, and the state of UFO disclosure.

4 Geniuses Decode the UFO and Consciousness Mystery | Hoffman, Kripal, Kastrup & Gallimore

Third Eye DropsJul 24, 2026

This compilation episode of Third Eye Drops brings together four thinkers (Donald Hoffman, Jeffrey Kripal, Bernardo Kastrup and Andrew Gallimore) to explore whether the UFO phenomenon is fundamentally tied to consciousness rather than nuts-and-bolts spacecraft. The guests compare UFO encounters to ancient religious visions, near-death experiences, Neoplatonic daimons and DMT entity contact, and suggest the phenomenon may communicate through symbolic masks. Hoffman argues that if space-time is just a 'VR headset' created by consciousness, UAP technology that seems to break physics becomes possible, while Kastrup says he is disgusted by what he sees as misinformation in the current UAP disclosure scene.

The Untold Story of Childhood UFO Encounters w/ Michael Huntington (SITS CLASSIC)

Somewhere in the SkiesJul 16, 2026

Host Ryan Sprague and UFO researcher Michael Huntington explore a frequently overlooked side of the UFO phenomenon: encounters witnessed by children. They trace cases from the 1917 Fatima apparitions through mass school sightings in Australia, Florida, Wales, and Zimbabwe, along with landing and creature reports in West Virginia, California, and the Soviet Union. The conversation asks why so many children, often in large groups, report remarkably similar craft and beings, and whether perception, hysteria, or genuine contact explains it.