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In 1994, the United States Air Force quietly started a classified program to build a machine
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that could throw a giant three-dimensional picture into the open sky.
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The paperwork called it a tool for special operations deception missions.
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That same year, a journalist in Quebec stood in front of a small crowd and told them the
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government was about to do something very specific.
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Project the face of God across the whole planet.
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Stage a fake alien invasion.
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Use the panic to take over the world.
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One of those two stories got filed under crazy.
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The other one got filed under classified.
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I'm Carol Ann.
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Welcome to The InBetween.
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That man in Quebec was Serge Monast, and in 1994, he gave the plan a name, Project Blue
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Beam.
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He said it had four steps.
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It was already underway, and when it was finished, every religion on Earth would be
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gone.
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Every government folded into one, and the whole human race would kneel before a face
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in the sky that wasn't real.
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It didn't happen.
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Not in his schedule, anyway.
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His deadlines came and went, and the sky stayed empty.
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So for 30 years, Blue Beam lived where stories like it usually live, in the back rooms of
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late night radio.
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And then, this past year, it strolled right out into the daylight.
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The government put up a website and started handing us its UFO files, and a whole lot
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of people who'd never heard the name Serge Monast started asking the same question he
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was asking 30 years ago.
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So here's what I want to do.
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I want to take Monast's plan seriously enough to pull it apart piece by piece and show you
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which parts are nonsense, which parts are real.
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Because crazy enough, some of them are.
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Then I want to get to the question that matters in 2026.
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Did Monast just get it wrong, or did he accidentally hand over the blueprint?
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Stick with me, because before I'm done, there's one man, and what happened to him I still
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can't explain, who spent his career standing next to every piece of this story.
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And somewhere in the middle of all of this, he walked out of his life.
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He was gone.
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But before we can talk about him, we have to talk about Serge Monast.
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So who was Serge Monast?
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Well, believe it or not, he was in some basement dwelling nut job.
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For most of his life, he was a working journalist and author in Quebec.
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He wrote poetry and essays, things that people actually liked to read.
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And then somewhere along the way, he went down a rabbit hole and didn't come back out
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for a long time.
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When he finally did, what he came back with was Project Bluebeam, a plan for the elites
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to take over the world.
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He laid out exactly how it would go down.
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Four steps.
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Step one.
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You break people's faith in the old religions, and you do it with archaeology.
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Monast claimed they'd trigger engineered earthquakes in exactly the right spots around the world,
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and out of the rubble, they'd pull faked discoveries, convenient new evidence proving that everything
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every church and every mosque ever taught you was wrong.
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You knock the floor out from under what billions of people believe all at once.
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Step two is the big one.
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The space show.
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Monast said they'd throw enormous three-dimensional images up into the sky that would look like
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God himself coming down from the heavens.
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Holograms with sound beamed to different parts of the planet.
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Here's the clever part.
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Each region sees its own God.
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Over a Christian country, the image of Jesus.
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Over a Muslim one, Muhammad, and so on.
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Every crowd handed its own savior.
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Then slowly, all of them melt together into one.
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A single God for a single new world religion.
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Step three.
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The voice.
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Monast said they'd use low-frequency waves to drop a voice straight inside your head.
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No speaker, no radio,
Load full transcript
just a voice rising up from somewhere behind your own thoughts,
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so convincing you'd swear your God was speaking to you personally from the bottom of your
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own soul.
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Step four.
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The grand finale.
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Monast gave a few versions of this one, but the headline is the one you've been feeling
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coming.
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While everyone is still reeling from God coming down from heaven, the Earth gets hit with
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a fake alien invasion.
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A staged threat from the stars, frightening enough that the nuclear powers of the world
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throw up their hands and surrender to one global authority that promises to keep everyone
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safe.
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And according to Monast, the people running the show would never once have to wonder whether
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that alien invasion was real.
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They'd know it wasn't, because they'd be the ones who staged it.
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So that's the plan.
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A sky full of false gods, a voice planted in every skull, and an invasion from outer
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space.
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Nobody up there ever launched all of it to scare the human race into surrendering to
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one government with one set of hands on the controls.
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It's gigantic.
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It's completely insane.
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But will it work?
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Well, let's start by checking it piece by piece.
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We'll start with the easy part, the part where Bluebeam falls apart.
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Monast had dates.
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He said the plan was set for 1983, and then it slipped to 1995, then 1996, then surely
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by the year 2000.
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Well, here we are.
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The year 2000 came and went, so did the next 26.
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And all that time, not one church has fallen, not one sky has cracked open with the face
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of God, and the dollar in your pocket, or lack thereof, is still, sadly, very much your
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earthly problem.
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Every deadline Monast ever gave us has come and gone with nothing to show for it.
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When a prophecy keeps moving its own finish line, that's kind of a big, bright red flag.
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Then there's the paperwork, or rather, the absence of it.
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Monast said that NASA, the United Nations, the militaries of the world, all of them were
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in on the plan for decades.
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A secret that big needs an army of people to keep it.
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The ones who built the holograms, and the ones who signed the checks, and in 32 years,
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not one of those people has ever walked out a door with a single document.
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Not a memo, not a blueprint, nothing.
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Now, I'll be the first to admit that the government can keep a secret when it wants to.
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The Manhattan Project, for example.
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But a secret this big, with this many hands on it, for this long, and nobody breathes
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a word?
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That's just not how people work.
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Somebody always talks.
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Now, if you came in a believer, and you're feeling me chip away at all of this, give
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me a few more minutes before you click off.
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Because Bluebeam refuses to die for a reason, and it's a stronger one than any date on the
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calendar.
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We're getting there.
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But the question we need to tackle first is, where did Monast get his information?
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When somebody finally pinned him down on his sources, it wasn't a leaked file or a man
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on the inside.
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It was shortwave radio.
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Late night conspiracy broadcasts out of the states.
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The rest of his writing runs down the same worn groove.
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The same shadowy cabal secretly steering everything.
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In fact, one of his later works was openly patterned on the protocols of the Elders of
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Zion, a notorious forgery that has been used to smear Jewish people for over a century.
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Now, not interested in kicking a dead man, but it appears because it tells you about
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the type of story Bluebeam is.
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It's the oldest kind.
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The same grand conspiracy that gets recycled in every generation, just dressed up in newer
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technology.
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And there's one more thing about Monast himself, because the man's own story is part of why
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this won't die.
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He didn't get to grow old.
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In December of
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Now the believers will tell you a darker version.
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They'll tell you he was arrested, spent a night in a cell, and was dead within a day
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of getting out.
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Silence for getting too close.
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And I get why that story has legs.
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A man who says the government is faking God, dropping dead the moment they lock him up?
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That writes itself.
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But the story has a hole in it.
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That whole timeline traces back to basically one source, a single obituary, and that obituary
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got his age wrong by five years.
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When the one document holding up your martyr can't get the man's age right, it can't sell
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it to you as fact.
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What's true is quieter and sadder.
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He lost custody of his kids that fall, and a few months later, his heart gave out.
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What's also true is that a martyr is the best thing that can happen to a theory like this.
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Dead men don't walk back their claims.
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And Bluebeam has been leaning on his grave ever since.
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But the thing that really takes the wind out of Bluebeam's sails, the part I didn't see
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coming when I started digging, is where the plan actually comes from.
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It comes from Star Trek.
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I'm not kidding.
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Back in the mid-1970s, Gene Roddenberry, the man who created Star Trek, sat down to write
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the very first Star Trek movie.
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The working title was The God Thing.
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And the plot goes like this.
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A craft comes toward Earth claiming to be God.
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It can appear to people as whatever they expect their God to look like.
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It puts a voice in their heads, and it turns out the whole thing is a fraud, an imposter
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wearing the face of the divine.
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Captain Kirk literally ends up taking a swing at a fake Jesus.
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The studio passed on it.
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But pieces of that idea kept surfacing for years in the later movies and in an episode
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of The Next Generation where a con artist uses holograms and fake disasters to pose
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as a planet's
devil.
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So the four beats of Project Blue Beam, the false gods in the sky, the voice in the head,
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the fraud behind it all, were sitting in a Hollywood script almost 20 years before Manast
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ever stood up to give his talk.
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Which means either the New World Order borrowed its master plan from a rejected Star Trek
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movie or a man hunting for a grand conspiracy found one at the video store.
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I'll let you decide which is more likely.
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Even if you wanted to build the thing for real, the physics just say no.
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You can't paint a solid 3-dimensional picture onto clear daytime sky.
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There's nothing up there to catch the light.
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Every working version of this we've ever managed, the floating concert holograms, the laser
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tricks, all of them need darkness, a flat surface like a pane of glass or plastic, and
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only works if you're looking at it from one specific angle.
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The voice in the head effect is real.
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This is Jesus, kid.
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And you've been a very naughty boy.
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And we'll talk about that in a minute.
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But the honest version produces clicks and buzzes, not the sermon on the mount.
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To do what Manast described, over the whole planet, in daylight, in every language at
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once, you would need physics we simply don't have.
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So as a literal prediction on a literal timeline, Project Blue Beam is dead.
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The deadlines failed, the documents don't exist, and the plot was lifted from science
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fiction.
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If you came here for me to tell you that it's all coming true, I can't.
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So why am I still talking about it?
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Because Serge Manast, nutjob that he might have been, built his fantasy out of real parts.
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Once you see them laid side by side, Blue Beam stops being funny.
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The oldest fear in the book is this, that a government would stage a fake event to manipulate
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its own people.
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That's the part everyone waves away.
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They never do that.
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Except, they almost did.
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In 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest ranking military officers in the United States,
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signed off on a plan called Operation Northwoods.
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The goal was to manufacture a reason to build a war with Cuba.
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Fake terror attacks on American soil.
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Fake the shoot down of an American passenger plane.
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Pin it all on Castro.
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It was real.
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It was signed.
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The only reason it didn't happen is President Kennedy said, I don't think so.
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We know about it now because it was declassified in 1997.
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So the next time someone tells you that the government would never stage an attack on
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its own people to get what it wants, you can tell them it's already been typed up,
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signed, and filed.
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Now Northwoods got shut down.
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And maybe that's a warm fuzzy.
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The idea that somebody's always standing there holding the net.
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But the holes in that net are huge.
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Look at one that fell right through.
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The Gulf of Tonkin.
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August 1964.
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The Navy reported two attacks on American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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And Congress turned that into the vote that opened the Vietnam War.
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The first one was absolutely real.
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The second one, the one they leaned on the hardest, maybe not so much.
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Bad radar.
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Jumpy sailors.
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A storm.
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Everybody pretty much agrees this one almost certainly never happened.
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And the NSA's own files, declassified decades later, shows the intelligence got massaged
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just enough until a phantom attack looked solid.
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Historians will argue over whether that was a deliberate lie or a cover-up of an honest
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mistake.
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And that's a fair fight.
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But the result doesn't change.
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A war that killed millions started over an attack in the dark that never happened.
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Five years later, in 1967, a report floated an even stranger idea.
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That the best way to unite humanity and keep everyone in line would be to invent an outside
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threat.
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Specifically, an alien one.
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Now the author later said the whole thing was satire.
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A joke.
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But the genie was out of the bottle, and people in serious rooms kept circling back to it.
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Including, turns out, the most powerful man on the planet.
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In 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood up at the United Nations and mused out loud about
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how fast all of our differences would vanish if the world suddenly faced a threat from
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outside it.
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From aliens.
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I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an
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alien threat from outside this world.
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He's had versions of that same idea more than once.
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The leader of the free world, at the world's podium, describing the exact psychological
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trick at the heart of Manast's Step 4.
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No wonder underground bunker sales are off the charts.
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And then there's the technology, which is where it stops being funny.
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Remember the voice in your head?
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The microwave auditory effect is real.
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It's been in the scientific literature since the early 1960s.
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Pulse a microwave at a person's skull just right, and they hear a sound that seems to
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come from inside their own head.
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By the 1970s, researchers had pushed it far enough to send simple, recognizable words
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that way.
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And the United States Air Force holds patents, real patents with real numbers, on using that
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effect to, in their words, audibly communicate speech to a person.
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A voice in your skull.
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No radio required.
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Somebody owns that patent.
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Remember the god in the sky?
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I told you at the top about that 1994 Air Force program, the holographic projector built
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for battlefield deception.
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That part's real, and the Washington Post reported it.
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During the first Gulf War, somebody at the Pentagon seriously pitched projecting a giant
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image of Allah over Baghdad to tell Iraqi soldiers to lay down their weapons.
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They shelved it, partly because the hardware was impossible, and partly because, and I
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love this, nobody could agree on what Allah was supposed to look like.
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But somebody pitched it, out loud, in a planning meeting.
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Right about here in my research, he started to feel like Rowdy Roddy Piper in They Live.
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You remember the 1988 John Carpenter movie?
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Our guy friend finds a pair of sunglasses, slips them on, and suddenly the billboards
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stop selling him vacations and start screaming, obey, and consume, and the people running
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things turn out not to be people at all.
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Excuse me.
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You know, you look like your head fell on the cheese dip back in 1957.
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Carpenter meant it as a goofy B-movie.
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The problem is, half the stuff I just listed has a patent number or a declassified stamp
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on it.
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Those sunglasses don't feel quite so silly anymore.
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Anyway, back to the list.
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There's even the upper atmosphere piece.
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Up in Alaska, there's the facility called the High Frequency Active Auroral Research
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Program, or HAARP, that pumps energy into the ionosphere, literally making the sky
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glow.
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A faint, artificial green light, visible from the ground.
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Not a face, not a word, but a man-made glow in the sky, made on purpose.
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So what do we have so far?
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A real plan to stage a fake war.
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A serious backroom proposal to invent an alien threat.
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A sitting president throwing the idea at the walls of the U.N. to see if it sticks.
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Patents for a voice inside your head with no speaker, and a classified program for a
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deceptive picture in the sky.
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Take any one of them alone, and it's a curiosity.
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Stack them all up next to a 1994 conspiracy theory, and the hair on your arms starts to
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lift.
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Because every ingredient in Monast's recipe turns out to be real, with a paper trail somewhere.
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Now here's where reality is knocking on the door.
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Real doesn't mean assembled.
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A patent for a voice effect isn't a
planet-wide loudspeaker.
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A glowing patch over Alaska isn't the Sermon on the Mount hanging over six continents at
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once.
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The pieces are real.
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The finished machine Monast described is still science fiction.
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But if you ask me, the pieces being real at all is creepy enough.
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Now we reach the part that keeps Bluebeam alive in 2026.
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Because everything I just walked you through, Monast was dreaming up in 1994, with no internet
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and a shortwave radio budget.
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And believers have a list.
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For years now, just about every strange light in the sky has gotten the Bluebeam label slapped
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on it.
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In 2009, a glowing spiral unrolled over northern Norway, and the internet ran with it.
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Turned out to be a failed Russian missile spinning as it burned out.
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In 2011, a ball of light dropped down over the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, one of
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the most sacred spots on the planet, and the videos raced around the world overnight.
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That one was a flat-out hoax.
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Fake footage, a couple of cameras, and some editing.
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No projector, no hologram.
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Just a convincing video and millions of people who wanted to believe it.
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And if that sounds familiar, it should.
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Because that's the whole theory in miniature, and it happened 15 years before anybody had
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the tools we've got now.
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Just look at what's on the shelf today.
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Drone swarms.
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Not a handful of drones.
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Light shows made of 10,000, 11,000 coordinated drones drawing sharp, moving pictures across
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the night sky.
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People film them constantly and post them as UFOs.
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Because what else would you think?
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Artificial video.
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The AI tools that have landed in the last couple of years can spit out fake footage
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so convincing that a watchdog group called NewsGuard found one of them producing believable
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fake news clips around 80% of the time.
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Fake video of Jesus in the clouds.
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Fake UFO footage.
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It's already out there, already pulling in millions of views.
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And then, just this past winter, we got a live test of the whole idea, and nobody had
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to build a single hologram to run it.
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Back in late 2024, thousands of mysterious lights started turning up over New Jersey
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and the East Coast.
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For weeks, nobody in charge could give a straight answer about what they were.
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A congressman went on TV, said they were drones, and blamed an Iranian mothership parked off
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the coast.
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The internet lost its mind.
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It was the Ghostbusters speech come to life.
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Dogs and cats living together.
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Mass hysteria.
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And the search term Project Bluebeam, this 30-year-old theory, went viral for the first
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time in its life, pulling millions of searches in a single weekend.
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Eventually, the government gave us the boring truth.
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Hobby drones.
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Regular planes.
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A few misidentified stars.
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Take that for what it's worth, but here's what I want you to notice.
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There was no Bluebeam over New Jersey.
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No projector.
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No master plan.
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No machine.
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And it still worked.
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Take a jumpy country, add a few lights it can't explain, give it a feed to pour
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everything into, and inside a weekend, millions of people are convinced something engineered
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is hanging over their heads.
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You don't need the conspiracy to get the panic.
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The panic is already built into the world we live in.
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Which brings us, finally, to right now.
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To the website.
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In May of 2026, the Pentagon, which this administration renamed the Department of War, opened a page
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at war.gov slash UFO.
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And on it, they started releasing the government's own files on unidentified objects in our skies.
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Photos.
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Videos.
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Old NASA imagery.
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Hundreds of files.
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After 70 years of insisting there was nothing to see, the site pulled over a billion visits.
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For a lot of people, this was the day they'd waited for their whole lives.
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The day the truth finally started coming out.
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And I want you to hold two things in your head at the same time.
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The first is that this is genuinely remarkable.
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And most of it is probably exactly what it looks like.
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Old sighting reports finally seeing the daylight.
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The second is quieter.
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And it's the one Monast would have pointed straight at.
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After 70 years, the official position was that there was nothing to tell you.
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Now, all at once, the government is the one deciding what gets told, and when, and how
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it's framed.
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The files are curated.
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The timing is theirs.
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The story arrives pre-packaged.
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None of that means there's a false messiah behind the curtain.
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Every official review still says there's no sign of little green men.
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But it does mean something simple and a little scary.
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Whoever controls the reveal controls the story.
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We just handed that job to the very people who spent 70 years swearing there was no story
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at all.
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Now, if you've been with us a while, something here might be tugging at you.
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Because not long ago, we spent a whole episode on a list of names.
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More than 10 scientists, engineers, and one retired Air Force general who, in the span
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of about three years, either walked out their front doors and were never seen again, or
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turned up dead with no good explanation.
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People who worked behind fences on some of the most hush-hush projects ever, like rockets,
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nuclear weapons, and anti-gravity.
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Now, the branch I'm about to walk out on is mighty thin.
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But when has that ever stopped me before?
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A plan like Monast's, if it were ever real, would need to stay buried.
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And the people most dangerous to it would be the ones who could spot the trick, because
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they helped build the parts.
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Maybe one or
two of them got too close to what the disclosure was really for, or just
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knew too much about one piece of it.
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Now, hear me loud and clear.
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This is speculation.
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Capital letters.
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Speculation.
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I don't have the evidence to back it, and I'm not going to pretend to.
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We're not making that claim.
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The threat is just there, sitting next to a much sadder possibility that some of these
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are private tragedies with nothing to do with any of this.
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But one name keeps drawing me in.
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General Neil McCaslin.
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A retired two-star who spent his whole career inside the Air Force's most classified research.
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And the reason that I can't shake him is what that career was actually made of.
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Because if you wanted to build the machine that Monast described, the real one, you'd
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need three things.
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Something in orbit that can put energy and images where you want them.
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A way to get classified hardware up there without anyone asking questions.
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And research into how the human mind takes in what it's shown.
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McCaslin stood next to all three.
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He worked the space-based laser program and commanded the lab at Kirkland Air Force Base,
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the beating heart of the Air Force's directed energy work.
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He spent close to a decade inside the National Reconnaissance Office's special projects,
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the office that launches the payloads with no names.
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And when he ran the Air Force's research laboratory, the 711th Human Performance Wing, the people
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who study human cognition itself, answered to him.
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One career rushing against every leg of the tripod.
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And his name turns up in the leaked emails of the people pushing for UFO disclosure.
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In February of 2026, he walked out of his house on foot, left his phone behind, and
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was gone.
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Eight days after the president told the Pentagon to start releasing the files.
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I'm only giving you the order things happen in.
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What you do with that is yours.
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Food for thought.
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So where does that leave us?
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Well, the truth is, Project Bluebeam, as Serge Monast wrote it, isn't real.
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It's a 30-year-old fantasy that missed every deadline it ever set, left behind not one
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shred of paper, and turns out to have been written first as a Star Trek movie.
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If you came here wanting me to tell you that the fake messiah arrives next Tuesday, I can't
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do it.
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The literal plan is dead, and I'm not going to dig it out just to fan the flames.
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But here's what 30 years did to Serge Monast's crazy little theory.
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It didn't come true, but it did come closer.
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Every piece of what he was raving about in 1994 is more real now than it was when he
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said it.
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The deception programs are documented.
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The voice-in-the-skull patents exist.
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The drones are up there by the thousands.
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The fake video is good enough to fool your own eyes, and the government is now sitting
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at the controls of the one thing Monast cared about most.
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The reveal.
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What you get shown, when it's shown, and wrapped inside which story.
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And that's the point.
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The thing I really want you to carry out the door.
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Serge Monast was afraid of one giant switch, thrown by one hidden hand, one evil plan cooked
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up by one secret room.
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He had it exactly backwards.
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The real danger in 2026 is the opposite picture.
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Every tool he described, the drones, the fake video, the voices, the curated disclosure,
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is loose in the world all at once, scattered across a thousand different hands.
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And you can't tell anymore, at a glance, whether the strange thing in the sky is real or just
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somebody's idea of a Tuesday.
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You don't need a Project Bluebeam to get a Bluebeam world.
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You just need a population that can't tell the difference.
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And whether or not Serge Monast ever understood what he was looking at?
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That is the part he got right.
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And here's where I'll leave it.
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The next time a light shows up where it shouldn't, or a face turns up in the clouds, or a folder
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full of long buried files lands in your lap right on schedule, do the one thing that Serge
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Monast never quite managed.
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Ask who's holding the projector.
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And ask why they're showing it to you right now.
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If you want to see what happens when the people who know those secrets start disappearing,
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I pulled that whole thread apart in another episode.
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And you can watch it right here.
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Be careful out there.
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And I will see you here again on The InBetween.
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Thanks for tuning in to the Inbetween Podcast.
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Enjoy the full visual experience with me over on YouTube.
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Just search for @TheInBetweenTales.
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I'm Carol Ann, and until next time, be careful out there.