The Alien Exchange Program - Project Serpo

Summary

Chris Ramsay begins a multi-part reading of Len Kasten's 2013 book Secret Journey to Planet Serpo, which claims 12 American military personnel boarded an alien craft at the Nevada Test Site in 1965 and lived for 13 years on a planet in the Zeta Reticuli system. He first walks through the book's backstory, which runs from alleged Nazi flying saucers and an Antarctic base through Roswell, a surviving alien kept at Los Alamos, and a 1964 landing at Holloman Air Force Base approved by President Kennedy. Ramsay openly notes that the story originated in anonymous 2005 emails later linked by researchers to disinformation agent Richard Doty, then reads the chapter on how the crew was selected and trained.

Key takeaways

• 1The Serpo story began on November 2, 2005, when former U.S. government employee Victor Martinez forwarded emails from 'Anonymous' to his private UFO mailing list. Anonymous claimed to speak for six people tied to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and to draw on a 3,000-page debriefing and the team commander's diary.
• 2British subscriber Bill Ryan built Serpo.org in December 2005. He stepped down as webmaster on March 5, 2007, saying the releases contained disinformation.
• 3The British research group Reality Uncovered traced the emails to former Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) agent Richard Doty, who denies it. Doty was central to the 1980s Paul Bennewitz disinformation case.
• 4The book draws on Vladimir Terziski's unverified claims of Nazi Haunebu anti-gravity disks, including a Haunebu IV supposedly sent on a one-way flight to Mars that crash-landed in January 1946. It also claims Operation Highjump (1946-47) was sent to destroy a Nazi base in Neuschwabenland, Antarctica.
• 5According to the book, a surviving alien, EBE-1, was held at Los Alamos until 1952 and helped repair a communication device. Engineer Arthur Stansel (pseudonym 'Fritz Werner,' interviewed by Raymond Fowler) signed an affidavit about a May 1953 crash near Kingman, Arizona.
• 6The story claims Eben craft landed on April 24, 1964: one near Socorro and one west of Holloman Air Force Base, in front of 16 U.S. officials. Kennedy's real NSAM 271 (November 12, 1963) is cited alongside a disputed CIA UFO-review memo that William Lester said he obtained by FOIA in 2011; the Kennedy Library found no record of that memo.
• 7The alleged crew of 12 (code-numbered, e.g., commander 102) was 'sheep-dipped,' meaning their identities were erased. They reportedly trained at Camp Peary ('The Farm'), Tyndall Air Force Base, and Ellsworth Air Force Base, and endured five days buried in a box as a confinement test.

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July 16th, 1965, the Nevada test site about 80 miles north of Las Vegas. A craft comes down, and 12 Americans in military uniform walk aboard it. It leaves, and they only come back 13 years later. Well, some of them. That's what this book says happened. It's called Secret Journey to Planet Serpo. Written by Len Kasten in 2013, and I'm going to read it to you. Well, part of it, including the training, the voyage, the arrival, the 13 years on the ground. I'm going to start at part two because that's where, you know, the real meat and potatoes are. But part two doesn't make any sense if you haven't read part one. So I'm going to try to get through the first 100 pages in a bit of a synopsis here for you guys. It also helps you understand why anyone would agree to this. And so strap yourselves in, like this video, subscribe. Let's get into it. So this book comes 20 years after the story, and the story starts with emails. November 2nd, 2005. Victor Martinez, a former U.S. government employee, ran a private UFO mailing list. He forwarded something out to his subscribers from an anonymous sender who said that he was a retired government official. The email describes an exchange program. American personnel sent to a planet in the Zeta Reticuli system, and the planet was called Serpo. Then he sent another one, and then more through the rest of 2005 and into 2006, 2007, and then again in 2011 after, like, a long break. And he was only known as anonymous. So Martinez's list was pretty important. It wasn't just a random subscriber list. It wasn't a public forum either. The subscribers included people with intelligence and defense backgrounds. ...

Excerpt from AREA52 Podcast (Chris Ramsay), Sep 18, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.