Hal Puthoff

Referenced in 6 episodes

Definition

A physicist and parapsychologist known for his work in fields such as remote viewing and consciousness research, notably involved in government-sponsored studies during the 1970s and 1980s.

Related episodes

The Most Controversial Biologist Alive Breaks Down Telepathy

American AlchemyOct 31, 2026

Biologist Rupert Sheldrake argues that nature is shaped by invisible 'morphic fields' carrying a collective memory, which he believes can explain everything from how spiders know how to spin webs to telepathy between mothers and babies. He walks through experiments on dogs that know when their owners are coming home, the sense of being stared at, waking just before alarms, and rats that learned mazes faster across unrelated populations. The conversation also ranges into conscious plasma and a possibly conscious sun, the physics of angels, David Bohm's banished physics, and why mainstream science refuses to look at the evidence.

FS 7

Jay Stratton: Out of the Shadows

Somewhere in the SkiesOct 21, 2026

Former senior intelligence official Jay Stratton, who helped create the Pentagon's AAWSAP and AATIP programs and led the first UAP Task Force, has released his book 'Out of the Shadows,' claiming he has personally seen non-human beings and craft. Host Ryan Sprague breaks down Stratton's biggest claims, including 12 recovered craft allegedly held by Lockheed Martin and a nuclear submarine used as bait to lure UAP, along with Sean Kirkpatrick's sharp rebuttal. The episode also covers a memorial for Air Force witness Mario Woods, newly released files on orbs lured at White Sands, and a former Army sniper's story of soldiers fighting reptilian beings near Area 51.

FS 7

Can the Phenomenon Be Both Hardware & Consciousness?

Need to Know (Coulthart/Zabel)Oct 4, 2026

Richard Dolan and Bryce Zabel dig into the sixth government release of UAP files, highlighting 37 speculative OSAP science papers on warp drives and wormholes and a rare 1952 audio recording of Project Blue Book chief Edward Ruppelt. Zabel then recounts how a man claiming to be from the Office of Naval Intelligence crashed his 1996 Dark Skies premiere party and handed over a diagram he called the 'secrets of the universe: sound, light, and frequency.' The hosts ask whether the phenomenon is nuts-and-bolts hardware, consciousness, or both, drawing on remote viewing history and Brent Friedman's claim that former Reagan official John Harrington was briefed on aliens.

FS 6

Richard Dolan: USOs, PURSUE Files & Where UFO Disclosure Goes Next

Somewhere in the SkiesSep 28, 2026

UFO historian Richard Dolan returns to discuss volume two of his history of unidentified submerged objects (USOs), arguing that the 1970s was by far the most active decade for water-based UFO encounters. He walks through dramatic cases, including a glowing sphere disabling systems on the USS John F. Kennedy, Soviet divers allegedly meeting nine-foot beings in Lake Baikal, and a mysterious figure who reportedly walked through a bulkhead on the USS Saratoga to warn of an engine-room fuel leak. Dolan also weighs in on the PURSUE file releases, the Wall Street Journal's UFO hazing story, whistleblower waivers, and why he thinks a major data leak is more likely than official disclosure.

FS 7

Physicist Breaks Silence on Skinwalker Ranch and UFOs | Dr. Eric Davis

Third Eye DropsSep 1, 2026

Astrophysicist Dr. Eric Davis, a former Voyager mission researcher and advanced propulsion specialist, recounts his years investigating Skinwalker Ranch for Robert Bigelow's National Institute for Discovery Science, including a telepathic encounter with a black shadow that said "we are here, we are watching you." He describes the ranch phenomenon as a precognitive, sentient intelligence that anticipated researchers' moves and resisted documentation. Davis also claims the U.S. has a secret UFO crash retrieval program, says he interviewed insiders from an unnamed aerospace contractor who studied intact craft, and says he reviewed vetted intelligence on a foreign government's recovery of a downed craft with non-human bodies.

FS 8

Former Counterintelligence Agent Shares WILD Alien Encounters - Richard Doty | ep. 100

AREA52 Podcast (Chris Ramsay)Aug 21, 2026

Former Air Force OSI counterintelligence agent Richard Doty, infamous for the Paul Bennewitz disinformation operation, recounts decades of alleged involvement in UFO crash retrievals, abduction investigations, and deception campaigns against UFO researchers. His central claim is that a female Air Force sergeant at Kirtland AFB was repeatedly and violently abducted by insect-like extraterrestrials, and that a multi-agency surveillance sting captured audio of the beings and thwarted one abduction using a frequency-based technology. Doty also alleges Soviet infiltration of groups like MUFON and APRO, Carthusian monks used to communicate with captive aliens at Area 51, and a time traveler who vanished into a rock crevice near Sedona.

FS 9