Full Transcript for I Wanted This to be Wrong | Project Blue Beam (Ep 220)

just a voice rising up from somewhere behind your own thoughts, 72 00:04:24,859 --> 00:04:31,260 so convincing you'd swear your God was speaking to you personally from the bottom of your 73 00:04:31,260 --> 00:04:33,019 own soul. 74 00:04:33,019 --> 00:04:34,019 Step four. 75 00:04:34,019 --> 00:04:35,820 The grand finale. 76 00:04:35,820 --> 00:04:40,660 Monast gave a few versions of this one, but the headline is the one you've been feeling 77 00:04:40,660 --> 00:04:41,660 coming. 78 00:04:41,660 --> 00:04:47,019 While everyone is still reeling from God coming down from heaven, the Earth gets hit with 79 00:04:47,019 --> 00:04:49,299 a fake alien invasion. 80 00:04:49,299 --> 00:04:53,980 A staged threat from the stars, frightening enough that the nuclear powers of the world 81 00:04:53,980 --> 00:05:01,220 throw up their hands and surrender to one global authority that promises to keep everyone 82 00:05:01,220 --> 00:05:02,220 safe. 83 00:05:02,220 --> 00:05:06,500 And according to Monast, the people running the show would never once have to wonder whether 84 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:08,619 that alien invasion was real. 85 00:05:08,619 --> 00:05:12,899 They'd know it wasn't, because they'd be the ones who staged it. 86 00:05:12,899 --> 00:05:15,260 So that's the plan. 87 00:05:15,260 --> 00:05:20,540 A sky full of false gods, a voice planted in every skull, and an invasion from outer 88 00:05:20,540 --> 00:05:21,540 space. 89 00:05:21,540 --> 00:05:27,179 Nobody up there ever launched all of it to scare the human race into surrendering to 90 00:05:27,179 --> 00:05:31,700 one government with one set of hands on the controls. 91 00:05:31,700 --> 00:05:32,700 It's gigantic. 92 00:05:32,700 --> 00:05:35,839 It's completely insane. 93 00:05:35,839 --> 00:05:37,579 But will it work? 94 00:05:37,579 --> 00:05:41,579 Well, let's start by checking it piece by piece. 95 00:05:41,579 --> 00:05:45,299 We'll start with the easy part, the part where Bluebeam falls apart. 96 00:05:45,299 --> 00:05:47,820 Monast had dates. 97 00:05:47,820 --> 00:05:55,179 He said the plan was set for 1983, and then it slipped to 1995, then 1996, then surely 98 00:05:55,179 --> 00:05:56,579 by the year 2000. 99 00:05:56,579 --> 00:05:59,299 Well, here we are. 100 00:05:59,299 --> 00:06:03,119 The year 2000 came and went, so did the next 26. 101 00:06:03,119 --> 00:06:07,820 And all that time, not one church has fallen, not one sky has cracked open with the face 102 00:06:07,820 --> 00:06:15,059 of God, and the dollar in your pocket, or lack thereof, is still, sadly, very much your 103 00:06:15,059 --> 00:06:16,940 earthly problem. 104 00:06:16,940 --> 00:06:22,059 Every deadline Monast ever gave us has come and gone with nothing to show for it. 105 00:06:22,059 --> 00:06:29,540 When a prophecy keeps moving its own finish line, that's kind of a big, bright red flag. 106 00:06:29,540 --> 00:06:32,980 Then there's the paperwork, or rather, the absence of it. 107 00:06:33,019 --> 00:06:38,859 Monast said that NASA, the United Nations, the militaries of the world, all of them were 108 00:06:38,859 --> 00:06:41,739 in on the plan for decades. 109 00:06:41,739 --> 00:06:45,739 A secret that big needs an army of people to keep it. 110 00:06:45,739 --> 00:06:50,619 The ones who built the holograms, and the ones who signed the checks, and in 32 years, 111 00:06:50,619 --> 00:06:55,100 not one of those people has ever walked out a door with a single document. 112 00:06:55,100 --> 00:06:58,100 Not a memo, not a blueprint, nothing. 113 00:06:58,220 --> 00:07:03,859 Now, I'll be the first to admit that the government can keep a secret when it wants to. 114 00:07:03,859 --> 00:07:06,100 The Manhattan Project, for example. 115 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:11,660 But a secret this big, with this many hands on it, for this long, and nobody breathes 116 00:07:11,660 --> 00:07:12,660 a word? 117 00:07:12,660 --> 00:07:15,339 That's just not how people work. 118 00:07:15,339 --> 00:07:17,260 Somebody always talks. 119 00:07:17,260 --> 00:07:23,299 Now, if you came in a believer, and you're feeling me chip away at all of this, give 120 00:07:23,299 --> 00:07:25,660 me a few more minutes before you click off. 121 00:07:25,660 --> 00:07:32,380 Because Bluebeam refuses to die for a reason, and it's a stronger one than any date on the 122 00:07:32,380 --> 00:07:33,380 calendar. 123 00:07:33,380 --> 00:07:35,299 We're getting there. 124 00:07:35,299 --> 00:07:40,420 But the question we need to tackle first is, where did Monast get his information? 125 00:07:40,420 --> 00:07:45,859 When somebody finally pinned him down on his sources, it wasn't a leaked file or a man 126 00:07:45,859 --> 00:07:47,059 on the inside. 127 00:07:47,059 --> 00:07:49,899 It was shortwave radio. 128 00:07:49,899 --> 00:07:53,019 Late night conspiracy broadcasts out of the states. 129 00:07:53,019 --> 00:07:57,059 The rest of his writing runs down the same worn groove. 130 00:07:57,059 --> 00:08:00,299 The same shadowy cabal secretly steering everything. 131 00:08:00,299 --> 00:08:06,260 In fact, one of his later works was openly patterned on the protocols of the Elders of 132 00:08:06,260 --> 00:08:12,820 Zion, a notorious forgery that has been used to smear Jewish people for over a century. 133 00:08:12,820 --> 00:08:17,739 Now, not interested in kicking a dead man, but it appears because it tells you about 134 00:08:17,739 --> 00:08:19,899 the type of story Bluebeam is. 135 00:08:19,899 --> 00:08:22,140 It's the oldest kind. 136 00:08:22,140 --> 00:08:27,739 The same grand conspiracy that gets recycled in every generation, just dressed up in newer 137 00:08:27,739 --> 00:08:28,739 technology. 138 00:08:28,739 --> 00:08:34,900 And there's one more thing about Monast himself, because the man's own story is part of why 139 00:08:34,900 --> 00:08:36,900 this won't die. 140 00:08:36,900 --> 00:08:38,299 He didn't get to grow old. 141 00:08:38,299 --> 00:08:44,099 In December of

1996, at 51, he died of a heart attack at home. 142 00:08:44,099 --> 00:08:47,260 Now the believers will tell you a darker version. 143 00:08:47,260 --> 00:08:51,659 They'll tell you he was arrested, spent a night in a cell, and was dead within a day 144 00:08:52,179 --> 00:08:53,179 of getting out. 145 00:08:53,179 --> 00:08:55,700 Silence for getting too close. 146 00:08:55,700 --> 00:08:58,539 And I get why that story has legs. 147 00:08:58,539 --> 00:09:03,780 A man who says the government is faking God, dropping dead the moment they lock him up? 148 00:09:03,780 --> 00:09:05,539 That writes itself. 149 00:09:05,539 --> 00:09:07,260 But the story has a hole in it. 150 00:09:07,260 --> 00:09:12,739 That whole timeline traces back to basically one source, a single obituary, and that obituary 151 00:09:12,739 --> 00:09:15,979 got his age wrong by five years. 152 00:09:15,979 --> 00:09:21,419 When the one document holding up your martyr can't get the man's age right, it can't sell 153 00:09:21,419 --> 00:09:23,500 it to you as fact. 154 00:09:23,500 --> 00:09:27,340 What's true is quieter and sadder. 155 00:09:27,340 --> 00:09:32,580 He lost custody of his kids that fall, and a few months later, his heart gave out. 156 00:09:32,580 --> 00:09:38,140 What's also true is that a martyr is the best thing that can happen to a theory like this. 157 00:09:38,140 --> 00:09:40,820 Dead men don't walk back their claims. 158 00:09:40,820 --> 00:09:45,359 And Bluebeam has been leaning on his grave ever since. 159 00:09:45,359 --> 00:09:49,940 But the thing that really takes the wind out of Bluebeam's sails, the part I didn't see 160 00:09:49,940 --> 00:09:54,460 coming when I started digging, is where the plan actually comes from. 161 00:09:54,460 --> 00:09:57,140 It comes from Star Trek. 162 00:09:57,140 --> 00:09:58,340 I'm not kidding. 163 00:09:58,340 --> 00:10:03,380 Back in the mid-1970s, Gene Roddenberry, the man who created Star Trek, sat down to write 164 00:10:03,380 --> 00:10:05,859 the very first Star Trek movie. 165 00:10:05,859 --> 00:10:07,979 The working title was The God Thing. 166 00:10:07,979 --> 00:10:09,859 And the plot goes like this. 167 00:10:09,859 --> 00:10:13,580 A craft comes toward Earth claiming to be God. 168 00:10:13,580 --> 00:10:17,380 It can appear to people as whatever they expect their God to look like. 169 00:10:17,380 --> 00:10:22,659 It puts a voice in their heads, and it turns out the whole thing is a fraud, an imposter 170 00:10:22,659 --> 00:10:24,979 wearing the face of the divine. 171 00:10:24,979 --> 00:10:30,419 Captain Kirk literally ends up taking a swing at a fake Jesus. 172 00:10:30,419 --> 00:10:32,739 The studio passed on it. 173 00:10:32,739 --> 00:10:38,500 But pieces of that idea kept surfacing for years in the later movies and in an episode 174 00:10:38,500 --> 00:10:44,659 of The Next Generation where a con artist uses holograms and fake disasters to pose 175 00:10:44,659 --> 00:10:46,900 as a planet's

devil. 176 00:10:46,900 --> 00:10:52,219 So the four beats of Project Blue Beam, the false gods in the sky, the voice in the head, 177 00:10:52,219 --> 00:10:57,820 the fraud behind it all, were sitting in a Hollywood script almost 20 years before Manast 178 00:10:57,820 --> 00:10:59,859 ever stood up to give his talk. 179 00:10:59,859 --> 00:11:05,940 Which means either the New World Order borrowed its master plan from a rejected Star Trek 180 00:11:05,940 --> 00:11:12,539 movie or a man hunting for a grand conspiracy found one at the video store. 181 00:11:12,539 --> 00:11:15,940 I'll let you decide which is more likely. 182 00:11:15,979 --> 00:11:21,179 Even if you wanted to build the thing for real, the physics just say no. 183 00:11:21,179 --> 00:11:25,580 You can't paint a solid 3-dimensional picture onto clear daytime sky. 184 00:11:25,580 --> 00:11:27,739 There's nothing up there to catch the light. 185 00:11:27,739 --> 00:11:32,900 Every working version of this we've ever managed, the floating concert holograms, the laser 186 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:38,440 tricks, all of them need darkness, a flat surface like a pane of glass or plastic, and 187 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:42,619 only works if you're looking at it from one specific angle. 188 00:11:42,619 --> 00:11:45,580 The voice in the head effect is real. 189 00:11:45,580 --> 00:11:47,859 This is Jesus, kid. 190 00:11:47,859 --> 00:11:51,219 And you've been a very naughty boy. 191 00:11:51,219 --> 00:11:53,200 And we'll talk about that in a minute. 192 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:58,820 But the honest version produces clicks and buzzes, not the sermon on the mount. 193 00:11:58,820 --> 00:12:04,940 To do what Manast described, over the whole planet, in daylight, in every language at 194 00:12:04,940 --> 00:12:08,900 once, you would need physics we simply don't have. 195 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:15,140 So as a literal prediction on a literal timeline, Project Blue Beam is dead. 196 00:12:15,140 --> 00:12:19,900 The deadlines failed, the documents don't exist, and the plot was lifted from science 197 00:12:19,900 --> 00:12:20,900 fiction. 198 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:25,059 If you came here for me to tell you that it's all coming true, I can't. 199 00:12:25,059 --> 00:12:28,200 So why am I still talking about it? 200 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:35,219 Because Serge Manast, nutjob that he might have been, built his fantasy out of real parts. 201 00:12:35,219 --> 00:12:40,880 Once you see them laid side by side, Blue Beam stops being funny. 202 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:48,840 The oldest fear in the book is this, that a government would stage a fake event to manipulate 203 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:50,200 its own people. 204 00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,679 That's the part everyone waves away. 205 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:54,640 They never do that. 206 00:12:54,640 --> 00:12:57,400 Except, they almost did. 207 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:03,960 In 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest ranking military officers in the United States, 208 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:07,039 signed off on a plan called Operation Northwoods. 209 00:13:07,039 --> 00:13:11,159 The goal was to manufacture a reason to build a war with Cuba. 210 00:13:11,159 --> 00:13:14,119 Fake terror attacks on American soil. 211 00:13:14,119 --> 00:13:17,119 Fake the shoot down of an American passenger plane. 212 00:13:17,119 --> 00:13:18,599 Pin it all on Castro. 213 00:13:18,599 --> 00:13:20,320 It was real. 214 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:21,479 It was signed. 215 00:13:21,479 --> 00:13:26,520 The only reason it didn't happen is President Kennedy said, I don't think so. 216 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:30,140 We know about it now because it was declassified in 1997. 217 00:13:30,140 --> 00:13:34,340 So the next time someone tells you that the government would never stage an attack on 218 00:13:34,340 --> 00:13:38,940 its own people to get what it wants, you can tell them it's already been typed up, 219 00:13:38,940 --> 00:13:40,500 signed, and filed. 220 00:13:40,500 --> 00:13:43,179 Now Northwoods got shut down. 221 00:13:43,179 --> 00:13:45,479 And maybe that's a warm fuzzy. 222 00:13:45,479 --> 00:13:49,340 The idea that somebody's always standing there holding the net. 223 00:13:49,340 --> 00:13:52,020 But the holes in that net are huge. 224 00:13:52,020 --> 00:13:54,739 Look at one that fell right through. 225 00:13:54,739 --> 00:13:56,900 The Gulf of Tonkin. 226 00:13:56,900 --> 00:13:58,659 August 1964. 227 00:13:58,659 --> 00:14:03,500 The Navy reported two attacks on American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. 228 00:14:03,500 --> 00:14:08,659 And Congress turned that into the vote that opened the Vietnam War. 229 00:14:08,659 --> 00:14:11,619 The first one was absolutely real. 230 00:14:11,619 --> 00:14:17,780 The second one, the one they leaned on the hardest, maybe not so much. 231 00:14:17,780 --> 00:14:18,780 Bad radar. 232 00:14:18,780 --> 00:14:19,780 Jumpy sailors. 233 00:14:19,780 --> 00:14:21,500 A storm. 234 00:14:21,500 --> 00:14:26,940 Everybody pretty much agrees this one almost certainly never happened. 235 00:14:26,940 --> 00:14:33,460 And the NSA's own files, declassified decades later, shows the intelligence got massaged 236 00:14:33,460 --> 00:14:38,099 just enough until a phantom attack looked solid. 237 00:14:38,099 --> 00:14:43,419 Historians will argue over whether that was a deliberate lie or a cover-up of an honest 238 00:14:43,419 --> 00:14:44,419 mistake. 239 00:14:44,419 --> 00:14:45,419 And that's a fair fight. 240 00:14:45,419 --> 00:14:47,580 But the result doesn't change. 241 00:14:47,580 --> 00:14:54,979 A war that killed millions started over an attack in the dark that never happened. 242 00:14:54,979 --> 00:15:00,979 Five years later, in 1967, a report floated an even stranger idea. 243 00:15:00,979 --> 00:15:06,479 That the best way to unite humanity and keep everyone in line would be to invent an outside 244 00:15:06,479 --> 00:15:07,479 threat. 245 00:15:07,479

--> 00:15:10,020 Specifically, an alien one. 246 00:15:10,020 --> 00:15:13,340 Now the author later said the whole thing was satire. 247 00:15:13,340 --> 00:15:14,340 A joke. 248 00:15:14,340 --> 00:15:23,179 But the genie was out of the bottle, and people in serious rooms kept circling back to it. 249 00:15:23,179 --> 00:15:27,700 Including, turns out, the most powerful man on the planet. 250 00:15:27,700 --> 00:15:33,859 In 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood up at the United Nations and mused out loud about 251 00:15:33,859 --> 00:15:38,859 how fast all of our differences would vanish if the world suddenly faced a threat from 252 00:15:38,859 --> 00:15:40,340 outside it. 253 00:15:40,340 --> 00:15:41,340 From aliens. 254 00:15:41,340 --> 00:15:48,820 I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an 255 00:15:48,820 --> 00:15:52,299 alien threat from outside this world. 256 00:15:52,419 --> 00:15:55,739 He's had versions of that same idea more than once. 257 00:15:55,739 --> 00:16:01,539 The leader of the free world, at the world's podium, describing the exact psychological 258 00:16:01,539 --> 00:16:04,979 trick at the heart of Manast's Step 4. 259 00:16:04,979 --> 00:16:09,760 No wonder underground bunker sales are off the charts. 260 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:15,099 And then there's the technology, which is where it stops being funny. 261 00:16:15,099 --> 00:16:16,820 Remember the voice in your head? 262 00:16:16,820 --> 00:16:20,059 The microwave auditory effect is real. 263 00:16:20,059 --> 00:16:23,460 It's been in the scientific literature since the early 1960s. 264 00:16:23,460 --> 00:16:28,619 Pulse a microwave at a person's skull just right, and they hear a sound that seems to 265 00:16:28,619 --> 00:16:30,979 come from inside their own head. 266 00:16:30,979 --> 00:16:37,059 By the 1970s, researchers had pushed it far enough to send simple, recognizable words 267 00:16:37,059 --> 00:16:38,059 that way. 268 00:16:38,059 --> 00:16:44,580 And the United States Air Force holds patents, real patents with real numbers, on using that 269 00:16:44,580 --> 00:16:50,419 effect to, in their words, audibly communicate speech to a person. 270 00:16:50,419 --> 00:16:52,539 A voice in your skull. 271 00:16:52,539 --> 00:16:54,739 No radio required. 272 00:16:54,739 --> 00:16:57,460 Somebody owns that patent. 273 00:16:57,460 --> 00:16:58,700 Remember the god in the sky? 274 00:16:58,700 --> 00:17:03,940 I told you at the top about that 1994 Air Force program, the holographic projector built 275 00:17:03,940 --> 00:17:06,140 for battlefield deception. 276 00:17:06,140 --> 00:17:10,060 That part's real, and the Washington Post reported it. 277 00:17:10,060 --> 00:17:15,619 During the first Gulf War, somebody at the Pentagon seriously pitched projecting a giant 278 00:17:15,619 --> 00:17:21,800 image of Allah over Baghdad to tell Iraqi soldiers to lay down their weapons. 279 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:27,900 They shelved it, partly because the hardware was impossible, and partly because, and I 280 00:17:27,900 --> 00:17:33,079 love this, nobody could agree on what Allah was supposed to look like. 281 00:17:33,079 --> 00:17:37,900 But somebody pitched it, out loud, in a planning meeting. 282 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:43,420 Right about here in my research, he started to feel like Rowdy Roddy Piper in They Live. 283 00:17:43,420 --> 00:17:46,619 You remember the 1988 John Carpenter movie? 284 00:17:46,619 --> 00:17:51,140 Our guy friend finds a pair of sunglasses, slips them on, and suddenly the billboards 285 00:17:51,140 --> 00:17:57,459 stop selling him vacations and start screaming, obey, and consume, and the people running 286 00:17:57,459 --> 00:18:00,780 things turn out not to be people at all. 287 00:18:00,780 --> 00:18:01,780 Excuse me. 288 00:18:01,780 --> 00:18:06,979 You know, you look like your head fell on the cheese dip back in 1957. 289 00:18:07,060 --> 00:18:09,619 Carpenter meant it as a goofy B-movie. 290 00:18:09,619 --> 00:18:15,619 The problem is, half the stuff I just listed has a patent number or a declassified stamp 291 00:18:15,619 --> 00:18:16,619 on it. 292 00:18:16,619 --> 00:18:20,380 Those sunglasses don't feel quite so silly anymore. 293 00:18:20,380 --> 00:18:23,060 Anyway, back to the list. 294 00:18:23,060 --> 00:18:25,780 There's even the upper atmosphere piece. 295 00:18:25,780 --> 00:18:31,380 Up in Alaska, there's the facility called the High Frequency Active Auroral Research 296 00:18:31,380 --> 00:18:37,300 Program, or HAARP, that pumps energy into the ionosphere, literally making the sky 297 00:18:37,300 --> 00:18:38,300 glow. 298 00:18:38,300 --> 00:18:41,540 A faint, artificial green light, visible from the ground. 299 00:18:41,540 --> 00:18:48,739 Not a face, not a word, but a man-made glow in the sky, made on purpose. 300 00:18:48,739 --> 00:18:51,099 So what do we have so far? 301 00:18:51,099 --> 00:18:53,859 A real plan to stage a fake war. 302 00:18:53,859 --> 00:18:57,859 A serious backroom proposal to invent an alien threat. 303 00:18:57,859 --> 00:19:03,500 A sitting president throwing the idea at the walls of the U.N. to see if it sticks. 304 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:07,619 Patents for a voice inside your head with no speaker, and a classified program for a 305 00:19:07,619 --> 00:19:10,900 deceptive picture in the sky. 306 00:19:10,900 --> 00:19:14,140 Take any one of them alone, and it's a curiosity. 307 00:19:14,140 --> 00:19:20,500 Stack them all up next to a 1994 conspiracy theory, and the hair on your arms starts to 308 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:21,739 lift. 309 00:19:21,739 --> 00:19:28,260 Because every ingredient in Monast's recipe turns out to be real, with a paper trail somewhere. 310 00:19:28,260 --> 00:19:32,459 Now here's where reality is knocking on the door. 311 00:19:32,459 --> 00:19:34,979 Real doesn't mean assembled. 312 00:19:34,979 --> 00:19:39,060 A patent for a voice effect isn't a

planet-wide loudspeaker. 313 00:19:39,060 --> 00:19:44,420 A glowing patch over Alaska isn't the Sermon on the Mount hanging over six continents at 314 00:19:44,420 --> 00:19:45,420 once. 315 00:19:45,420 --> 00:19:47,060 The pieces are real. 316 00:19:47,060 --> 00:19:51,579 The finished machine Monast described is still science fiction. 317 00:19:51,579 --> 00:19:57,699 But if you ask me, the pieces being real at all is creepy enough. 318 00:19:57,699 --> 00:20:02,579 Now we reach the part that keeps Bluebeam alive in 2026. 319 00:20:02,579 --> 00:20:08,660 Because everything I just walked you through, Monast was dreaming up in 1994, with no internet 320 00:20:08,660 --> 00:20:11,540 and a shortwave radio budget. 321 00:20:11,540 --> 00:20:13,900 And believers have a list. 322 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:18,819 For years now, just about every strange light in the sky has gotten the Bluebeam label slapped 323 00:20:18,819 --> 00:20:19,819 on it. 324 00:20:19,859 --> 00:20:28,140 In 2009, a glowing spiral unrolled over northern Norway, and the internet ran with it. 325 00:20:28,140 --> 00:20:32,099 Turned out to be a failed Russian missile spinning as it burned out. 326 00:20:32,099 --> 00:20:37,780 In 2011, a ball of light dropped down over the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, one of 327 00:20:37,780 --> 00:20:44,339 the most sacred spots on the planet, and the videos raced around the world overnight. 328 00:20:44,339 --> 00:20:47,020 That one was a flat-out hoax. 329 00:20:47,020 --> 00:20:50,140 Fake footage, a couple of cameras, and some editing. 330 00:20:50,140 --> 00:20:52,859 No projector, no hologram. 331 00:20:52,859 --> 00:20:57,780 Just a convincing video and millions of people who wanted to believe it. 332 00:20:57,780 --> 00:21:01,180 And if that sounds familiar, it should. 333 00:21:01,180 --> 00:21:06,979 Because that's the whole theory in miniature, and it happened 15 years before anybody had 334 00:21:06,979 --> 00:21:09,180 the tools we've got now. 335 00:21:09,180 --> 00:21:11,859 Just look at what's on the shelf today. 336 00:21:11,859 --> 00:21:12,859 Drone swarms. 337 00:21:12,859 --> 00:21:15,020 Not a handful of drones. 338 00:21:15,020 --> 00:21:21,900 Light shows made of 10,000, 11,000 coordinated drones drawing sharp, moving pictures across 339 00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:23,579 the night sky. 340 00:21:23,579 --> 00:21:26,819 People film them constantly and post them as UFOs. 341 00:21:26,819 --> 00:21:29,380 Because what else would you think? 342 00:21:29,380 --> 00:21:30,380 Artificial video. 343 00:21:30,380 --> 00:21:34,540 The AI tools that have landed in the last couple of years can spit out fake footage 344 00:21:34,540 --> 00:21:40,339 so convincing that a watchdog group called NewsGuard found one of them producing believable 345 00:21:40,819 --> 00:21:44,699 fake news clips around 80% of the time. 346 00:21:44,699 --> 00:21:47,060 Fake video of Jesus in the clouds. 347 00:21:47,060 --> 00:21:48,060 Fake UFO footage. 348

00:21:48,060 --> 00:21:52,819 It's already out there, already pulling in millions of views. 349 00:21:52,819 --> 00:21:58,660 And then, just this past winter, we got a live test of the whole idea, and nobody had 350 00:21:58,660 --> 00:22:01,439 to build a single hologram to run it. 351 00:22:01,439 --> 00:22:06,219 Back in late 2024, thousands of mysterious lights started turning up over New Jersey 352 00:22:06,219 --> 00:22:07,699 and the East Coast. 353 00:22:07,699 --> 00:22:12,540 For weeks, nobody in charge could give a straight answer about what they were. 354 00:22:12,540 --> 00:22:18,540 A congressman went on TV, said they were drones, and blamed an Iranian mothership parked off 355 00:22:18,540 --> 00:22:19,780 the coast. 356 00:22:19,780 --> 00:22:22,660 The internet lost its mind. 357 00:22:22,660 --> 00:22:25,060 It was the Ghostbusters speech come to life. 358 00:22:25,060 --> 00:22:27,300 Dogs and cats living together. 359 00:22:27,300 --> 00:22:28,420 Mass hysteria. 360 00:22:28,420 --> 00:22:34,060 And the search term Project Bluebeam, this 30-year-old theory, went viral for the first 361 00:22:34,060 --> 00:22:39,219 time in its life, pulling millions of searches in a single weekend. 362 00:22:39,219 --> 00:22:43,219 Eventually, the government gave us the boring truth. 363 00:22:43,219 --> 00:22:44,219 Hobby drones. 364 00:22:44,219 --> 00:22:45,219 Regular planes. 365 00:22:45,219 --> 00:22:47,339 A few misidentified stars. 366 00:22:47,339 --> 00:22:51,699 Take that for what it's worth, but here's what I want you to notice. 367 00:22:51,699 --> 00:22:53,819 There was no Bluebeam over New Jersey. 368 00:22:53,819 --> 00:22:54,819 No projector. 369 00:22:54,819 --> 00:22:55,819 No master plan. 370 00:22:55,819 --> 00:22:57,339 No machine. 371 00:22:57,339 --> 00:22:59,540 And it still worked. 372 00:22:59,540 --> 00:23:03,939 Take a jumpy country, add a few lights it can't explain, give it a feed to pour 373 00:23:03,939 --> 00:23:10,400 everything into, and inside a weekend, millions of people are convinced something engineered 374 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:12,699 is hanging over their heads. 375 00:23:12,699 --> 00:23:15,579 You don't need the conspiracy to get the panic. 376 00:23:15,579 --> 00:23:19,380 The panic is already built into the world we live in. 377 00:23:19,380 --> 00:23:23,140 Which brings us, finally, to right now. 378 00:23:23,140 --> 00:23:25,140 To the website. 379 00:23:25,140 --> 00:23:31,140 In May of 2026, the Pentagon, which this administration renamed the Department of War, opened a page 380 00:23:31,140 --> 00:23:34,380 at war.gov slash UFO. 381 00:23:34,380 --> 00:23:40,739 And on it, they started releasing the government's own files on unidentified objects in our skies. 382 00:23:40,739 --> 00:23:41,739 Photos. 383 00:23:41,739 --> 00:23:42,739 Videos. 384 00:23:42,739 --> 00:23:45,339 Old NASA imagery. 385 00:23:45,339 --> 00:23:46,579 Hundreds of files. 386 00:23:46,579 --> 00:23:53,780 After 70 years of insisting there was nothing to see, the site pulled over a billion visits. 387 00:23:53,780 --> 00:23:58,260 For a lot of people, this was the day they'd waited for their whole lives. 388 00:23:58,260 --> 00:24:01,579 The day the truth finally started coming out. 389 00:24:01,579 --> 00:24:05,219 And I want you to hold two things in your head at the same time. 390 00:24:05,219 --> 00:24:10,099 The first is that this is genuinely remarkable. 391 00:24:10,099 --> 00:24:13,339 And most of it is probably exactly what it looks like. 392 00:24:13,339 --> 00:24:17,459 Old sighting reports finally seeing the daylight. 393 00:24:17,459 --> 00:24:19,579 The second is quieter. 394 00:24:19,579 --> 00:24:23,780 And it's the one Monast would have pointed straight at. 395 00:24:23,780 --> 00:24:28,939 After 70 years, the official position was that there was nothing to tell you. 396 00:24:28,939 --> 00:24:35,339 Now, all at once, the government is the one deciding what gets told, and when, and how 397 00:24:35,339 --> 00:24:36,739 it's framed. 398 00:24:36,739 --> 00:24:38,699 The files are curated. 399 00:24:38,699 --> 00:24:40,660 The timing is theirs. 400 00:24:40,660 --> 00:24:43,780 The story arrives pre-packaged. 401 00:24:43,780 --> 00:24:47,500 None of that means there's a false messiah behind the curtain. 402 00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:51,540 Every official review still says there's no sign of little green men. 403 00:24:51,540 --> 00:24:56,699 But it does mean something simple and a little scary. 404 00:24:56,699 --> 00:25:01,140 Whoever controls the reveal controls the story. 405 00:25:01,140 --> 00:25:07,140 We just handed that job to the very people who spent 70 years swearing there was no story 406 00:25:07,140 --> 00:25:08,140 at all. 407 00:25:08,140 --> 00:25:13,660 Now, if you've been with us a while, something here might be tugging at you. 408 00:25:13,660 --> 00:25:18,219 Because not long ago, we spent a whole episode on a list of names. 409 00:25:18,219 --> 00:25:23,859 More than 10 scientists, engineers, and one retired Air Force general who, in the span 410 00:25:23,859 --> 00:25:28,300 of about three years, either walked out their front doors and were never seen again, or 411 00:25:28,300 --> 00:25:31,780 turned up dead with no good explanation. 412 00:25:31,780 --> 00:25:38,300 People who worked behind fences on some of the most hush-hush projects ever, like rockets, 413 00:25:38,300 --> 00:25:39,979 nuclear weapons, and anti-gravity. 414 00:25:39,979 --> 00:25:47,219 Now, the branch I'm about to walk out on is mighty thin. 415 00:25:47,219 --> 00:25:49,099 But when has that ever stopped me before? 416 00:25:49,099 --> 00:25:54,380 A plan like Monast's, if it were ever real, would need to stay buried. 417 00:25:54,380 --> 00:25:58,859 And the people most dangerous to it would be the ones who could spot the trick, because 418 00:25:58,859 --> 00:26:01,459 they helped build the parts. 419 00:26:01,459 --> 00:26:07,500 Maybe one or

two of them got too close to what the disclosure was really for, or just 420 00:26:07,500 --> 00:26:10,140 knew too much about one piece of it. 421 00:26:10,140 --> 00:26:13,380 Now, hear me loud and clear. 422 00:26:13,380 --> 00:26:15,699 This is speculation. 423 00:26:15,699 --> 00:26:16,699 Capital letters. 424 00:26:16,699 --> 00:26:17,699 Speculation. 425 00:26:17,699 --> 00:26:21,380 I don't have the evidence to back it, and I'm not going to pretend to. 426 00:26:21,380 --> 00:26:23,660 We're not making that claim. 427 00:26:23,660 --> 00:26:29,619 The threat is just there, sitting next to a much sadder possibility that some of these 428 00:26:29,619 --> 00:26:33,979 are private tragedies with nothing to do with any of this. 429 00:26:33,979 --> 00:26:37,380 But one name keeps drawing me in. 430 00:26:37,380 --> 00:26:38,380 General Neil McCaslin. 431 00:26:38,380 --> 00:26:45,380 A retired two-star who spent his whole career inside the Air Force's most classified research. 432 00:26:45,380 --> 00:26:51,619 And the reason that I can't shake him is what that career was actually made of. 433 00:26:51,619 --> 00:26:56,420 Because if you wanted to build the machine that Monast described, the real one, you'd 434 00:26:56,420 --> 00:26:58,140 need three things. 435 00:26:58,140 --> 00:27:02,739 Something in orbit that can put energy and images where you want them. 436 00:27:02,739 --> 00:27:07,859 A way to get classified hardware up there without anyone asking questions. 437 00:27:07,859 --> 00:27:13,420 And research into how the human mind takes in what it's shown. 438 00:27:13,420 --> 00:27:16,939 McCaslin stood next to all three. 439 00:27:16,939 --> 00:27:22,180 He worked the space-based laser program and commanded the lab at Kirkland Air Force Base, 440 00:27:22,180 --> 00:27:26,060 the beating heart of the Air Force's directed energy work. 441 00:27:26,060 --> 00:27:31,099 He spent close to a decade inside the National Reconnaissance Office's special projects, 442 00:27:31,099 --> 00:27:35,819 the office that launches the payloads with no names. 443 00:27:35,819 --> 00:27:43,219 And when he ran the Air Force's research laboratory, the 711th Human Performance Wing, the people 444 00:27:43,219 --> 00:27:48,060 who study human cognition itself, answered to him. 445 00:27:48,060 --> 00:27:52,260 One career rushing against every leg of the tripod. 446 00:27:52,260 --> 00:27:58,939 And his name turns up in the leaked emails of the people pushing for UFO disclosure. 447 00:27:58,939 --> 00:28:04,619 In February of 2026, he walked out of his house on foot, left his phone behind, and 448 00:28:04,619 --> 00:28:06,380 was gone. 449 00:28:06,380 --> 00:28:11,900 Eight days after the president told the Pentagon to start releasing the files. 450 00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:16,660 I'm only giving you the order things happen in. 451 00:28:16,660 --> 00:28:18,619 What you do with that is yours. 452 00:28:18,619 --> 00:28:20,380 Food for thought. 453 00:28:20,380 --> 00:28:22,660 So where does that leave us? 454 00:28:22,660 --> 00:28:28,660 Well, the truth is, Project Bluebeam, as Serge Monast wrote it, isn't real. 455 00:28:28,660 --> 00:28:33,300 It's a 30-year-old fantasy that missed every deadline it ever set, left behind not one 456 00:28:33,300 --> 00:28:38,660 shred of paper, and turns out to have been written first as a Star Trek movie. 457 00:28:38,660 --> 00:28:43,459 If you came here wanting me to tell you that the fake messiah arrives next Tuesday, I can't 458 00:28:43,459 --> 00:28:44,459 do it. 459 00:28:44,459 --> 00:28:50,099 The literal plan is dead, and I'm not going to dig it out just to fan the flames. 460 00:28:50,099 --> 00:28:55,739 But here's what 30 years did to Serge Monast's crazy little theory. 461 00:28:55,739 --> 00:29:00,060 It didn't come true, but it did come closer. 462 00:29:00,060 --> 00:29:05,699 Every piece of what he was raving about in 1994 is more real now than it was when he 463 00:29:05,699 --> 00:29:06,939 said it. 464 00:29:06,939 --> 00:29:09,300 The deception programs are documented. 465 00:29:09,300 --> 00:29:12,219 The voice-in-the-skull patents exist. 466 00:29:12,219 --> 00:29:14,660 The drones are up there by the thousands. 467 00:29:14,660 --> 00:29:19,180 The fake video is good enough to fool your own eyes, and the government is now sitting 468 00:29:19,180 --> 00:29:24,520 at the controls of the one thing Monast cared about most. 469 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,199 The reveal. 470 00:29:26,199 --> 00:29:31,880 What you get shown, when it's shown, and wrapped inside which story. 471 00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,439 And that's the point. 472 00:29:34,439 --> 00:29:37,280 The thing I really want you to carry out the door. 473 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:45,040 Serge Monast was afraid of one giant switch, thrown by one hidden hand, one evil plan cooked 474 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:47,640 up by one secret room. 475 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:51,319 He had it exactly backwards. 476 00:29:51,319 --> 00:29:56,020 The real danger in 2026 is the opposite picture. 477 00:29:56,020 --> 00:30:01,599 Every tool he described, the drones, the fake video, the voices, the curated disclosure, 478 00:30:01,599 --> 00:30:08,359 is loose in the world all at once, scattered across a thousand different hands. 479 00:30:08,359 --> 00:30:13,359 And you can't tell anymore, at a glance, whether the strange thing in the sky is real or just 480 00:30:13,359 --> 00:30:16,319 somebody's idea of a Tuesday. 481 00:30:16,319 --> 00:30:21,020 You don't need a Project Bluebeam to get a Bluebeam world. 482 00:30:21,020 --> 00:30:24,300 You just need a population that can't tell the difference. 483 00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:30,060 And whether or not Serge Monast ever understood what he was looking at? 484 00:30:30,060 --> 00:30:36,579 That is the part he got right. 485 00:30:36,579 --> 00:30:39,160 And here's where I'll leave it. 486 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:44,180 The next time a light shows up where it shouldn't, or a face turns up in the clouds, or a folder 487 00:30:44,180 --> 00:30:49,780 full of long buried files lands in your lap right on schedule, do the one thing that Serge 488 00:30:49,939 --> 00:30:52,619 Monast never quite managed. 489 00:30:52,619 --> 00:30:55,260 Ask who's holding the projector. 490 00:30:55,260 --> 00:30:59,099 And ask why they're showing it to you right now. 491 00:30:59,099 --> 00:31:03,619 If you want to see what happens when the people who know those secrets start disappearing, 492 00:31:03,619 --> 00:31:07,339 I pulled that whole thread apart in another episode. 493 00:31:07,339 --> 00:31:09,900 And you can watch it right here. 494 00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:12,339 Be careful out there. 495 00:31:12,339 --> 00:31:17,219 And I will see you here again on The InBetween. 496 00:31:17,219 --> 00:31:20,060 Thanks for tuning in to the Inbetween Podcast. 497 00:31:20,060 --> 00:31:24,260 Enjoy the full visual experience with me over on YouTube. 498 00:31:24,260 --> 00:31:27,739 Just search for @TheInBetweenTales. 499 00:31:27,739 --> 00:31:35,540 I'm Carol Ann, and until next time, be careful out there.