Danny Jones Podcast
#287 - UFO Whistleblowers, NASA Time Travel & Psychic Soldiers | Jesse Michels
Mon, 24 Feb 2025
Watch every episodes ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Jesse Michels is an investor & journalist known for his YouTube show "American Alchemy," where he explores UFOs, physics, philosophy and the nature of reality. His YouTube channel features interviews with notable figures such as Jacques Vallée, Garry Nolan, Hal Puthoff, Eric Weinstein & Dave Grusch. In addition to his online endeavors, Jesse manages a venture portfolio on behalf of Thiel Capital. SPONSORS https://manscaped.com - Use code DANNYJONES to get 20% off plus free shipping. https://evening.ver.so/danny - Use code DANNY for 15% off your first order. https://hims.com/danny - Start your FREE online visit today. https://whiterabbitenergy.com/?ref=DJP - Use code DJP for 20% off GUEST LINKS Jesse's YouTube Channel: @JesseMichels https://whop.com/jessemichels https://www.instagram.com/jessemichelsofficial FOLLOW DANNY JONES https://www.instagram.com/dannyjones https://twitter.com/jonesdanny OUTLINE 00:00 - The 'GHOST' agent of the UFO world 07:12 - Thomas Townsend Brown 18:08 - Investing for Peter Thiel 23:30 - Paul Bennewitz story 27:32 - UFOs & nukes 35:26 - Why did CIA hire Bob Lazar? 45:14 - Jacques Vallee's obsession with angels & demons 48:23 - Alex Jones' secret genius 54:25 - Varginha & Roswell UFO crashes 01:01:31 - Why do UFOs crash? 01:06:05 - Whitley Strieber & experiments on children 01:16:43 - Rogue government with alien tech 01:24:37 - Tic Tacs causing nuclear communications outage 01:32:04 - How would society react to alien disclosure? 01:39:33 - Collapse of intellectualism 01:49:39 - Skeptics 01:55:21 - Jake Barber 02:13:09 - Risk of summoning aliens 02:24:55 - Mike Masters' alien evolution theory 02:35:46 - String theory is a limited hangout 02:54:25 - Counter-Intel & the UFO community 03:03:31 - #1 scariest alien & UFO theory 03:06:08 - Jesse's UFO experience 03:18:57 - Censorship of alien content 03:23:30 - USAID funding UFO disinformation 03:26:29 - How the CIA made Google Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the significance of UFO whistleblowers?
What's up, Jesse Michaels? What's up, Danny Jones? Like I just said to you, bro, you're going to have to pull me back into the believer. Make me a believer again, because the more I learn about UFOs, the more I am just out on this topic lately.
That's understandable. And I'm not here to bring you back. I'm not an evangelist. I do think... Damn it. I'm sorry. I do think if the question is, is the topic worthy of further investigation? And is there something very interesting at the bottom of all of this? you get to the final room, is there something interesting going on? My answer would be, I think yes.
But yeah, I don't want to evangelize. I think in many ways, interest in UFOs is maladaptive and a distraction for a lot of people and doesn't make sense.
Yes, yes. There's a lot of shit you got to cut through, bro. Not just the, if you want to talk about PSYOP stuff, sure, there's a lot of stuff you got to cut through with that. But then there's a whole nother layer of... of people monetizing this. There's a business, right?
We're doing a podcast in a spaceship about UFOs because my audience loves UFOs and I'm going to make money talking about UFOs. Half the books on that shelf are about fucking UFOs. So it's a huge business too, which muddies the water even more.
Yeah, it totally muddies the water and it's a weird dynamic. And I think when you have a topic that's kind of pointing at the sacred, you know, it might be the tip of the iceberg. It's not the rest of the iceberg. It's just an unidentified flying object is not necessarily what you're going for.
I think a lot of people that are into it are like ultimately meaning seekers and they want like kind of a... They want to understand the reality of religion. They want to understand metaphysics. And so I think UFOs are just a foray. They're just one kind of route in. But I think combining that with money is a very weird thing. I mean, it's like sort of the modern Catholic indulgences or something.
It doesn't really work.
Right. Yeah, totally, man. So we were just talking before we started rolling.
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Chapter 2: Who is Thomas Townsend Brown and what are his contributions?
Right, which I think I thought that that might have been the reason that that video got completely...
blasted off the face of YouTube because of him talking about him right because if I'm that guy yeah and I have all these connections that he allegedly has yeah I could probably make a call or send an email to somebody on YouTube being like nuke this thing totally yeah well that's what and Bledsoe even says in the story that Tim Taylor gives him a whole brief about UFOs
And then he says, you can't send this to anybody. And then he like sends the email or something to his wife or like, I don't know, somebody very close and immediately gets a call from Tim being like- Knowing that he forwarded it. Yeah, like he fucked up, yeah. And so, you know, who knows if that's like a test and like, you know, they're sort of being psyoped or, you know, I don't know.
I think even Bledsoe thinks that, you know, maybe he was being messed with initially when he sort of entered his life. And even when he was, I think he was giving him a tour of like Kennedy Space Center, you know,
oh yeah he said he said when you walk through the security yeah when you walk past the security tower he goes just play a song in your head yeah so they can't access your thoughts so they can't access your thoughts right yeah and i asked him like what yeah i'm like who's in there yeah and he he was very he didn't know he's like mind readers i don't know i don't know if they're aliens or humans but they they read your minds yeah and then he also said some that i'm like i don't even know if i want to say on camera but he like say it danny
He told me some stuff. Okay. Essentially I'll make it, I'll dumb it down. So it's not too technical, but he basically told me that this fella showed him a real life men in black neuralyzer. No way. That wipes your memory. No way. This is what he told me.
How can you know if it's a neuralyzer?
We actually cut the segment out of the podcast because I was like, there's no way I'm putting this on the podcast. It was like a five. It was like a 10 minute chunk of that Bledsoe podcast where he explains everything about it, how it works, where they got it from.
No way.
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Chapter 3: How are UFOs connected to nuclear weapons?
Yeah, bro.
why didn't they neuralize him after they described the whole that would seem like you would think they would want to do that right yeah but like that is like essentially is like one of the explanations for the missing time stuff and he had another story about like missing time where they were like walking through a forest yep i don't know if you're familiar with that one but like they were walking him and tim were walking through a forest with somebody like looking for something and then all of a sudden that like they started over
Whoa. Like they almost like started back to where they were an hour ago with like, like in an instant, like almost, it was like a loop, like they looped through time or something.
It's fascinating. I don't know. Well, I just, you know, we were talking earlier about, I did a piece on this guy, Thomas Townsend Brown, who I think is just a fascinating character.
One of the best documentaries I've ever seen.
Thank you, man.
It was incredible.
Appreciate that. Yeah, well, he's amazing. He's, I think, like a forgotten hero in American history. I think he made all sorts of breakthroughs in the world of gravity. But in general relativity, gravity and time are related. So the kind of subplot of his whole biography, it's a great biography called The Man Who Mastered Gravity by a guy named Paul Shatzkin. Recommend you all read it.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of alien technology in government?
The subplot is that he's obsessed with time travel. He talks about time travel constantly with his wife, Josephine, his daughter, Linda. And here's where it gets really weird. Apparently, Tim Taylor told Chris Bledsoe that he was part of a secret time travel group in Nassau in the Bahamas. And the president of that group was Thomas Townsend Brown.
Now, I would think that was totally I would dismiss that out of hand. I would be like, that's, you know, that's sort of, you know, madness. But I know from my own research, independent research on Thomas Townsend Brown, he spent a ton of time in Nassau, in the Bahamas. And he was just extremely interested in time travel.
And he was spending a lot of time with this guy, William Stevenson, who was James Bond's super spy. Or sorry, he was the inspiration for James Bond. He was Winston Churchill's super spy. But he was Ian Fleming's inspiration for James Bond. He's just fascinating. He's coordinating a lot with Wild Bill Donovan, early OSS.
or a late OSS, you know, early CIA, involved in the formation of the CIA, was working out of the Rockefeller Center in New York and kind of calling a lot of interesting shots as, you know, almost part of like a shadow government, if you will. So he's close with Thomas Townsend Brown. They're in the Bahamas a lot.
And then you have, you know, Ryan Bledsoe saying that Tim Taylor told his father that he's part of the secret time travel group with Thomas Townsend Brown. Just very, very interesting. And then... You know, we were talking about this before the show. You said, you know, that Tim Taylor told Chris Bledsoe that the Adjustment Bureau was like, you know, his life or whatever.
And that's all about like changing one little variable. Like it's like if I were to freeze this room and like, I don't know, move your mic like a little bit. And you get this butterfly effect style multiplicative effect down the line or whatever of like. changing timelines. It's madness. It sounds kind of crazy.
It's complete f***ing madness. Science fiction.
It is. It's sci-fi. And I'm not proposing that that's a real thing, but it is fascinating that there are some connections there. And then the final thing, the final connection I made is Townsend Brown's daughter is an amazing woman.
She was in the documentary, right?
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Chapter 5: Why do UFOs crash and what does it mean?
more tapped into that in a in sort of a weird way well that's what this guy tries to do right he's trying to tap into this this other thing he's trying to get these downloads that she's in her new book she talks about like yeah all these diana pasolka in her new i forget the name of her new book she taught in that one she talks about encounters yeah that's great awesome book um shout out to diana um
All these protocols that he goes through every day by not drinking coffee and like going outside and getting sunlight and all this stuff in the morning and like trying to download some sort of cosmic shit so we can make more patents.
Yeah, it sounds so woo-woo and wild. And like, you know, I don't know what to say about it. I think that's more how thinking works than the average person realizes. You know, I'm a big fan of the transmission theory of consciousness. When you're daydreaming, you're not actively producing those thoughts, right? It's like you're like a receptacle for the thoughts.
And so I think it's this like, it's an important kind of epistemological question is are we locally producing the content in our minds or are we somehow downloading them from elsewhere? I think that is probably going to be proven by some sort of, you know, scientific model of the future. Right now, electromagnetism
as we know it, decays and attenuates over space-time, so we don't have a good model for how that transmission might occur, like neutrino information transfer. But increasingly in vogue is this extended electrodynamics model, which NASA and not the DOE, the National Science Foundation and NASA just launched this podcast
And like how put off and all these interesting like kind of figures in UFO world, but also with some pretty impressive bona fides just in science as well. You got a former skunk works guy, you know, some Navy scientists.
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Chapter 6: What is the relationship between UFOs and psychological phenomena?
If you are a private aerospace corporation and you pick this stuff up, it is restricted for you too. So it's like born classified. So you have all this evidence that there's this kind of like DOE atomic research UFO thing. That's been going on for a very long time. And I think that's where you have to start this coherent picture. And then, yeah, there's psyops, there's weird shit.
But I think what people don't understand is that if there are psyops around a thing, it means the thing is more likely to be real. How many Bigfoot psyops do you know? None. Yeah, because nobody would fucking believe it. Right. PSYOPs are 95% true and 5% false, and the 5% that's false matters a ton because it throws you entirely off the trail. It's 95% true and 5% false?
Yes.
Oh, really? That's what people don't understand about PSYOPs. I thought it was the opposite. Sure. They think that it's 95% false, but you dismiss it out of hand. If it was 95% false, you'd be like, oh, it's Bigfoot. Fuck them. I'm not going to believe that. UFOs are standard deviations more charismatic than any other... If it's the PSYOP...
Well, Bigfoot's more believable than a fucking alien coming here from another universe, right? It's a hominid. There's a big hominid.
Right, right, right. Which is why, and I actually, I'm more in the Jacques Vallée, Diana Pasolka line of thinking where I don't think, you know, little green men from Zeta Reticuli is the answer to like what we're seeing in, you know, the airspace. Shout out to Mike Masters. Shout out to Mike Masters.
We'll talk about that.
I love Mike Masters. And he does some really important work.
My favorite. He's amazing. Yeah.
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Chapter 7: How does society react to potential alien disclosure?
1990?
87.
87? Yep. So, like... Apparently, he was the guy who first came to Area 51, blew the whistle on Area 51. But then I think this was all part of your documentary. Was this a part of your Townsend Brown documentary?
It was, yeah.
So I think one of the questions you asked in the Townsend Brown documentary, which was brilliant, was why would the CIA – let a guy come in who has this crazy history. Yep. Right. He, I think, and another thing that happened was I think he like recently gotten a divorce with a, with his previous wife who then like, killed herself. I didn't know that.
She, she, she like went in her car, in her garage and let her car run until like she suffocated. This was like a week after they got a divorce. Oh no. I think Bob also owned a strip club in Vegas. Yeah, I know that. Yeah, yeah, he did. And then what were the, I think a brothel.
Oh, it was a brothel. Yeah, yeah, yeah, in a brothel.
So the CIA is going to go out and find it. And to think they're not going to do a background check and find that kind of stuff if it's the CIA at their most top secret facility in America.
Well, you've seen Oppenheimer, right?
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Chapter 8: What are the controversies surrounding Bob Lazar?
And maybe this Billy Myers sports model that he worked on was real. I don't know. Maybe Gravity A and Gravity B are high-level frameworks that if you are working on a secret UFO program, you need...
some initiate you know stem student to start to develop an entry an interest in but you need to protect this from getting into adversary hands so you put it out through these kind of this quacky person who is discreditable in bob lazar and so it's kind of this limited hangout of a person where you can always retract it you can always point to you know say he faked his mit you know educational credentials yeah
And you could say, you'd say all this stuff about Bob, you'd say the, the, the, the brothel thing, but maybe there are elements of it that, you know, are, are, are very real. So I think it's this incredibly intriguing story. And what I want to be clear about is I think like the Corbell and George Knapp reporting on it are awesome.
Like, I think it's, we should be looking into this stuff, but to me, if you're not thinking about it through a, a meta lens of like, the CIA probably wanted elements of this out. I think you're losing the plot. You know, I think you're going to fall for your, you can't take the thing at face value. You need to understand that it's being pushed for some reason.
And I think there's even a John Lear interview where I believe he says a guy named, I think it was like an Admiral McClellan. He says that this guy who was part of like legacy UFO efforts, uh, told him that he needed to leak the Lazar story because he knew that it was discreditable, but that it was mostly true, but also discreditable.
And so there's literally a Lear interview, because Lear was clearly kind of unhinged and a little crazy himself, where he's just saying what I'm telling you now, which is that The Lazar story, again, there could be elements of truth, but it was put out because it was discreditable. And I think that's the way a lot of this stuff works. So what was the benefit of putting it out?
Was it to recruit new talent? Oh, tons. It's, it's, yeah. So it's like, if you want to throw the adversary off the trail or like keep things fundamentally protected, but have initiates, you know, develop intrigue and want to be recruited or whatever, like it's
the perfect way to do it yeah um so it's like tech protection it's adversary signaling it's recruitment it's increasing the surface area it's if you expect a leak in the future you can manage that leak because you're like conditioning people and like softening the blow for something you expect to leak in the future anyways there's so many reasons to get in front of and do something like that and ben rich who was you know president of of uh lockheed skunk works you know their most secretive you know advanced aerospace aircraft division at the time
responsible for, you know, the SR-71 and, you know, U-2. He was complaining at the time how he was basically saying, like, you know, I have to spend tons and tons of money on tech protection because the F-117A, which was there for a stealth fighter, had just crashed in Bakersfield in 1986.
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