If the government released every UFO file tomorrow, we would still have a question those files couldn’t answer. Who gets to tell us what these encounters mean?

I’ve watched people come into the UFO community because they wanted to know what a pilot saw. A few years later, some of those same people believed that higher beings created humanity, that the old gods were coming back, and that the faith they grew up with was a misunderstanding of extraterrestrial contact.

I helped put some of those ideas in front of a large audience. That’s one reason I want people to look more closely at the influence of secret societies, intelligence veterans, and esoteric teachers on the disclosure movement. Follow the government records. Then follow the spiritual teachings just as closely. Ask where they came from, who put them in front of you, and what you’re being asked to believe.

What documented influence looks like

Start with P2. Italy’s parliament investigated a clandestine Masonic lodge with ties to military and civilian intelligence, politics, and the press. You can examine names, records, and findings. If someone says a secret society has infiltrated an institution, that’s the kind of evidence I want to see. Who belonged? What access did they have? What did they do with it?

In the United States, George H. W. Bush belonged to Skull and Bones and later ran the CIA. J. Peter Grace led the American Association of the Order of Malta while also chairing Reagan’s commission on federal cost control. William Casey’s ties to the Knights of Malta have been reported, and I’d still want to see the order’s own membership or investiture record. These cases show how private affiliations can overlap with public power. Connecting those affiliations to UAP policy would take records of specific decisions, funding, or people acting on an order’s behalf.

There’s a more direct example of intelligence officials trying to shape the UFO conversation. In 1953, the CIA’s Robertson Panel recommended using public education and debunking to reduce interest in UFO reports. It also suggested monitoring civilian UFO groups. The panel gave Cold War reasons for those recommendations. The record shows officials discussing how to influence public attitudes about UFOs more than seventy years ago.

Intelligence veterans were on the civilian side, too. Roscoe Hillenkoetter, the CIA’s first director, later sat on the board of the civilian UFO group NICAP. Decades later, retired CIA officer Jim Semivan co-founded To The Stars and contributed to Chris Bledsoe’s UFO of God. In his endorsement, Semivan said the “Invisible College took notice.”

I’d like to hear Semivan explain exactly what he meant. Who took notice? Who approached Bledsoe? What did they do, and in what capacity?

The Invisible College and the older beliefs inside disclosure

Robert Boyle used the phrase Invisible College in the 1640s. Historians have debated who belonged to his circle and how it related to the intellectual world that produced the Royal Society. Rosicrucian ideas circulated in that world. Centuries later, J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallée used the same name for an informal group of UFO researchers. Hynek had worked as an Air Force consultant, and Vallée published The Invisible College in 1975. Now Semivan uses the phrase in connection with Bledsoe. We know the name was reused. Whether Semivan meant a specific group and who belonged to it are questions he could answer.

The religious history is easier to trace in some cases. The Aetherius Society publicly teaches that beings it calls Cosmic Masters guide humanity. The later Order of the Solar Temple drew on neo-Templar and Rosicrucian traditions and taught that Ascended Masters were associated with Sirius. Its leaders claimed contact with those beings. Those are examples of older ideas about hidden masters and spiritual initiation finding a home in modern cosmic beliefs.

A thread on X by @toxictiramisu goes further. It claims French intelligence adviser Constantin Melnik attended rituals with a neo-Templar circle at Château d’Arginy and that the circle was part of Gladio. Melnik’s intelligence career is documented. The account of his participation in a ritual comes from later reporting, and I haven’t seen an operational record tying the circle to Gladio. If somebody has that record, I want to see it.

The Vatican comes up in these conversations, too. The OSS has a documented history of monitoring Vatican Radio during World War II. Jesuit astronomer Guy Consolmagno also has a public record of discussing extraterrestrial life and UFO beliefs. A claim that the Vatican directed a particular contactee case needs a record of who took part and what they did.

We can trace organized attempts to shape public attitudes toward UFOs back decades. We can trace some of the spiritual ideas being promoted in disclosure back centuries. What I want investigated is where those histories actually intersect, and whether people with access and influence have deliberately used disclosure to advance a religious agenda.

What was Chris Bledsoe “tapped” for?

An October clip shared by @ParaN_rmal attributes a claim to Bob “Science Bob” McGwier that Chris Bledsoe had been “tapped” by a family McGwier associated with the Knights Templar. McGwier also spoke about his own involvement and a focus on the divine feminine. That’s where some of the posts calling Bledsoe a Masonic Knight Templar came from. The circulated account doesn’t identify a York Rite commandery, and I haven’t seen Bledsoe publicly confirm membership or initiation.

I’d ask @chrisbledsoeufo and @BobMcGwier_N4HY directly. Who made the approach? What group did they say they represented? What did they ask you to do?

We can also examine a connection in Bledsoe’s own words. He says Robert Gilbert helped him make sense of Egyptian imagery in his experiences. Gilbert publicly taught Rosicrucian and Holy Grail traditions. Bledsoe has also said the figure he calls the Lady told him she had been known as Hathor in Egypt.

I’d like to see a timeline of what Bledsoe said before he met the people who helped interpret his experiences, what they brought to the conversation, and which ideas the audience heard first. I would ask those same questions about my own story. By the time you hear an account on your fifth podcast, an original experience and years of interpretation can sound like they happened on the same night.

Why I felt compelled to write this

In February, a prospective investor came to my home. He identified himself as a 33rd-degree Mason and a high-level Templar. I thought we were talking about my entertainment business. By the end of the night, he told me I was part of a centuries-old Masonic prophecy and that I was Jesus reincarnated. Other adults were there and can speak for themselves about what they heard.

That conversation stuck with me because of things I’d heard before. Some people who presented themselves as connected to esoteric groups or military intelligence described the beings as the old gods. They talked about contactees as oracles through whom those beings could speak. I’d spent years in a community publicly discussing extraterrestrials. In private, some people in that same community talked about who could speak for their gods.

Around 2019 and 2020, people I believed were military contacts proposed regular interviews and medical examinations for my family. They also wanted to spend time with my children without us there. I refused. Later, people who used the name Oracle Project told me about what they described as a program involving contactee families, intelligence interests, universities, and people associated with secret societies. I can tell you what was proposed to my family and what I was later told. I’ve yet to see program records establishing who ran it or connecting those accounts.

In my MKULTRA article, I explained why I started questioning memories I’d once taken as proof of what happened to me. The Senate record establishes that the CIA conducted behavioral experiments on unwitting people. A 2026 House hearing revisited a researcher’s claim that false memories could replace real ones. That history is why I take questions about conditioning seriously. I’ve asked whether children could have been conditioned for roles they would take on as adults. The claim that thousands were programmed and later “activated” for disclosure goes beyond the evidence I’ve seen. If someone gives you a number that large, ask where it came from and what records link those children to the program.

Look at what you’re being asked to believe

Who created us? Who will save us? Which gods are returning? Who was chosen to speak for them?

Those are religious questions. When parts of the disclosure movement start giving people answers to all of them, I believe we’re watching a religion take shape. You can see it in what people are taught to expect, whose messages they’re told to trust, and what they’re encouraged to give up along the way.

I know how easy it is to go along with it. I did. Some people told me that my material helped lead them away from Christianity. Since returning to Christ, I’ve had to reckon with the fact that I helped spread teachings I would reject today.

If you’re new to disclosure, or you’ve been in it for years, take one belief you picked up along the way and trace it back. Read the earliest account you can find. Look up the affiliations people claim. When three guests tell the same story, find out whether all three got it from the same person.

Then ask yourself whether you would have accepted that teaching if someone had brought it to your door without the UFO story, the intelligence credential, or the claim that they’d been chosen.

Apply that to what you heard from me, too. You’re free to investigate these encounters and take your time deciding what they mean. Your curiosity about UFOs doesn’t give anybody authority over your faith.

Sources to look up

• Italian Chamber of Deputies parliamentary inquiry into the P2 Masonic lodge
• CIA historian Gerald K. Haines, CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90
• Jacques Vallée, The Invisible College (1975)
• Chris Bledsoe, UFO of God, and his interview on The Why Files
• Vesica Institute biography of Robert J. Gilbert
• Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, “Order of the Solar Temple”
• U.S. Senate MKULTRA hearing, August 3, 1977, and U.S. House MKULTRA hearing, June 30, 2026

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