PIONEERTOWN, California - A place of intrinsic mystery and timeless curiosity. If you ask the first natural born citizen of the town, Danny, he will tell you all about it - and some of what he says will be true. But you will need to earn his trust first, and the story takes time and can’t be told over the course of your beer. It takes time in a celestial sense. And ultimately, you will need to look UP to understand.
In the desert of Pioneertown you are constantly reminded of just how young humanity is. You, and your tattooed arms and hipster clothes are in striking contrast to the ancient power and gravity of a 1,000 year old Joshua Trees and the picturesque landscape of Mars-like rock formations that took millions of years to emerge. Everything reaches for the sky out here, and everything worships the stars.
So it’s natural to place your back on the solid ground and look up to the sky to revel in the soft glow of the Milky Way Galaxy. And this is when it hits you. Immediately your mind shifts to a more simple time, a time when your ancestors lived by the light of day, and counted seasons rather than Instagram followers. Your awareness is flooded with BIG questions, and often you experience a moment of fear. A unique moment of identity cessation. You are quickly jolted by the physical realization of the vast expanse you stare upon.
Infinity feels like falling, but void of all resistance.
Suddenly a flash of light in the distance, and the mountains glow green and bright like daylight. It’s a split second, then a gentle hum and an impossible design of luminous somethings emanate and surround you. Your reality has been perforated by the sharpness of an experience you can’t explain. One that you can’t even categorize.
And so you let the moment go, and you try to forget all about it. You move on, but somehow you know that you will never be the same again.
The UFO problem is similar to an experience like this. It’s fundamentally illusive, yet transforming. By its very nature, it’s similar to the paradox of a sentient being who tries to study its own consciousness. It’s like staring into a mirror and expecting to see your image move before you do. Sometimes it feels like total insanity.
I’m not supposed to be “a prominent emerging voice in the world of UFOlogy”. In-fact, I’m not even supposed to be here. But here I am.
I was a Jujitsu student and Sensei for the majority of my life. I began training the Warrior path since the age of nine, and I never thought I would do anything else in my life. But that all changed when I contracted Valley Fever and suffered a series of fevers and illnesses that took me down a different road.
I had a brief stint [in cosmic time] as a mixed-media artist that still clings to my animus like a nickname gifted by those who love you. You accept it, but it might not feel quite representative of who you have become. I was uncomfortable in my own skin for many years. I have not arrived at this conversation yet, but I would guess old-timers [like Danny], would suggest I was still finding myself.
And then my new life crept up on me. Somehow I became the subject of a documentary film on my work as an artist. As I gazed into the unflinching eye of the lens and confessed my deepest hopes, dreams and fears… I quickly realized the power of an un-judging observer. Faster than the Roadrunner escaping Wile E. Coyote I was off filming the greatest mysteries life had not answered for me. The bigger the mystery, the deeper I thrust my camera into the abyss of the human experience. I was seeking satisfaction from the mundane ideas threatening to subjugate and program my mind into submission.
And faster than a Snapchat, my entire existence, identity, path and persona had been erased. And I just had to accept it.
I was now a UFO Road Warrior. Hunting for the commodity of truth, in whatever mutilated form it takes.
It had become my self-proclaimed job to debunk the frauds, and amplify the voices of those who truly were sought answers to the questions that picked at their very existence like a scab that would not heal. Within seven years time [which is nothing in the world of Danny], I was able to achieve a number of notable things in the wild world of UFOlogy.
I was extremely fortunate to find a mentor [and a comrade in arms] within my new chosen filed of Investigative Journalism. George Knapp [Peabody Award Winning Journalist with 28 Emmys for Excellence in Journalism] took me under his wing and continues to teach me the methods, ethics, pitfalls and tactics of powerful and righteous reporting. I’m grateful for his guidance in such a fascinating labyrinthine and mine-field laden area of investigation. In the sea of conspiracy, navigation is key.
I met and filmed with a childhood hero, the infamous Cosmic Whistleblower, Bob Lazar. In a surreal moment of readiness and destiny, he gave me an extremely rare interview for my film that was so compelling… it became a short film of its own. I believe the only footage more rare would be the 42 seconds of film footage captured in 1933 of the last Tasmanian Tiger in captivity before the total extinction of the specie. For those readers who don’t know the story of Bob Lazar, In 1989 Lazar revealed to the public the fact that he had been hired by the United States military to back-engineer Alien Spacecraft from another world at a secret base called SITE 4 (near the infamous Area 51). Thus, the Area 51 craze began and has shown no signs of quieting down.
I started to be known as a sort of repository for Cosmic Confessions.
As I treaded water with one foot firmly anchored to the shore of sanity, I was invited to document an extraordinarily talented and government-funded NanoTechnologist. A scientist, who I call Nano Man, exploring the fundamental flaws of accepted Newtonian Physics by building experimental propulsion devices that siphon power from fields and dimensions yet to be explored by humankind.
I have been given access to military bases and academies with contingencies of NASA employees willing to look at anomalous [potentially off-world] meta-materials, sampled from alleged UFO landing sites.
I have become known as a journalist that “obtains and releases” military filmed and Pentagon confirmed UFO footage to the public. Footage that seems to have altered the landscape for our debate about these pesky UFO things that traverse our restricted airspace with impunity, globally. Machines, of unknown origin that outpace, outmaneuver and outperform our greatest weapons or aerospace platforms built by humanity.
It’s safe to say, “We ain’t in Kansas no more Toto.” Or as my Mom will tell you, “Jeremy… his dick’s in the peanut-butter… he’s fucking nuts.” Which I would think was funny, but get’s less so every time my friends repeat it to me.
What I can say for sure is that my curiosity has been weaponized - and if yours hasn’t - you just haven’t been paying attention to the modern emerging narrative regarding UFOs.
But yet I refrain from drinking the proverbial Kool-Aid. I refuse to accept more than one healthy serving of the bizarre at any given time. I keep my balance as I leaned to do in my Martial Arts days. Clarity is king, and I’m in this for the long haul.
Slowly but surely my friends and family [and even my Jujitsu students] have been won over by the sheer mystery of it all. And there IS a mystery here. But I’m not going to try and convince you of anything. It’s up to you to ask the right questions. It’s kinda like our pal Danny back in Pioneertown will tell you, “If you don’t know what to ask, silence might allow you to hear a little better.” Or at least I believe that’s what he’s thinking when he doesn’t answer me.
So as you might be able to tell, Investigative Journalism and the UFO subject chose me. I certainly did not choose it. My camera became my passport into the extraordinary lives of excessively private people. People burdened by questions and massive secrets. Secrets have a funny way eating at your soul if you don’t let them bleed out from time-to-time.
My personal allure to the subject matter is due to the fact that "The Phenomenon” [as I like to call UFO related experience], is one of the most intriguing mysteries of our time. With a cursory look into the history of the UFO experience, you will find that millions of trained observers since the beginning of recorded human history, have been experiencing contact with non-human intelligences globally. That it has been documented, both militarily and in cultural records. It sounds extraordinary, and that’s because it is.
But being extraordinary does not make it any less true.
Let’s get to the point of this story, as you can consider this article your gateway drug into UFOlogy. On the deepest level, I don’t know what we’re dealing with. The visitors could be “ExtraTerrestrials”, they could be “ExtraDimensionals” or even “ExtraTemporals”. What I DO know is that there are non-human intelligences engaging humanity, and even influencing the course of human history. I know that there is a very real and physical reality to “The Phenomenon". That there are hard physical craft, discs, flying saucers and even pyramid shaped UFOs traversing our airspace with impunity at all times. The US Military [and most global powers] know, and have been aware of the UFO problem for quite some time. They take the matter seriously, and study it continually and currently. Our government, or a sub-group within our government, tried to reverse-engineer craft originating from off-world. If you think about it, any nation would kill to have propulsion technology with capabilities displayed by many of these craft of non-terrestrial origin. But don’t take my word for it, investigate it for yourself.
I’ve been fortunate enough to be in touch with sources of high military status, who have held positions that gave them access to some of the most exotic black-budget programs on the planet. I’ve been a trusted documentarian and confidant for them.
They are here. Who THEY are, and what they want… those are the big questions. And for those, I have only theories. But consensus reality must begin to match actual reality - or we will remain in the dark.
Think about it this way, it only takes one sighting or encounter for “The Phenomenon" to be real. After all the cases throughout human history - after all the witness who have been vetted - you can say that the evidence becomes weighty for a reality much more complex than at first glance. In-fact, I have found that the people who reject the notion of visitation are usually uninformed. More often than not, they simply have not looked at the available evidence. It’s sad actually… you can’t simply ignore evidence [radar reports, multiple witness encounters, landing cases, crash retrievals, cosmic whistleblowers and government insiders coming forward under oath to testify and corroborative visual evidence filmed by our military]. As a reporter, this makes you negligent and a vehicle for ignorance. It’s simply unscientific to cherry-pick facts or deny evidence such as what I have listed. We need to look at ALL the evidence, and not just mold information to fit our preconceived notions of how we want the Universe to be.
People might not know the details of the UFO issue, simply because they have not been exposed to the information. Usually it takes a personal experience before we begin to care about these bigger questions associated with visitation. It’s a lack of imagination really… and that’s a problem. It’s easier to label someone or some idea “crazy”, then to look at the reality of the situation. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a HUGE signal to noise problem when studying the UFO problem. And mostly it’s self-generated. But if we can get away without polarizing or politicizing the issue, we might be able to unite towards the common goal of truth and knowledge.
It’s imperative to alter the dialogue and to mesh the data with our current understanding of the nature of reality. Mathematically speaking the Universe is teeming with intelligent and technologically advanced space-faring civilizations far beyond what humans have achieved on Earth. Within the last 10 years we have been able to identify that the Universe is homogenous with life-nurturing elements and environments, and have conclusively discovered hundreds of Earth-like ExoPlanets in habitable zones. We have also realized that the Universe is MUCH more populated with stars and planets than we ever imagined. So where does that leave us? It thrusts us towards an uncomfortable humility. It forces us to the realization that... we are NOT alone. This answers a question humans have grappled with since we began looking up into the skies of Pioneertown, and began wondering what we were seeing.
Ultimately the UFO phenomenon is either REAL or FICTITIOUS. And once you actually look into it with a sober-minded and empirical approach, the answer becomes clear as a green flash. As General Nathan Twining [US Air Force, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] so famously wrote in an official military memo on the subject of UFOs, “The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious.”
After what I have experienced, I no longer have the luxury of disbelief.
As I move forward I continue to earn the trust of my subjects, repeatedly, consistently and over time. I have never revealed a source who wanted anonymity, and I have never betrayed the trust of a subject. I seek stories and follow leads, but now it’s a two-way street. People come to me. Access is always equated with confidence. The more confidence a source has in you to handle or contain their story or confession, the more access you will receive. Simple as that.
Keeping secrets in this business is just as important as exposing them.
As my mentor in journalism George Knapp has taught me, “You need to vet every source.” My approach is to separate the wheat from the chaff very early on. I only take on cases that I can verify some element of reliable factual truth. And then once I get my hooks into something, I don’t let go till I’ve uncovered a new truth. I take it all the way. I go in deep and immerse myself. Even if it takes years. My promise is that if I find out you’re lying, I will expose you. If can prove or document compelling evidence in support of your story, I will amplify your case to the public, and help you expose the truth.
My work is like a modern day Twilight Zone, except that every story is absolutely real. Myth, illusion, and scientific fact merge into one, and create a unique portrait of reality. I want the questions I ask in my films, the experiences I have on camera, to translate into getting you so disturbed that you become a participant... not just an observer. I want to agitate you. The way I see it is that our brains are like old-world radio receivers. And if you spend time fine-tuning your awareness, it’s astounding what you can experience.
If I do my job right, we will all learn more about the extraordinary nature of reality. If we allow each other the room to be open and to construct our own architecture of understanding, our revelatory experiences may become a more permanent facet of our character. So I encourage you to “Investigate the unexplained, rather than explain the un-investigated.” [as George Knapp often says.]
Ultimately my films are a testament to the power of curiosity and, I hope, a blueprint of how to weaponize it.
Back in Pioneertown [sitting with Danny over beers], I began to noticed that for weeks, two planets have been dancing in our sky. Each night they have been getting closer and closer to one another, in a ballet that makes you feel as if they’re going to collide. But tonight, finally, Jupiter and Venus appear to stand side-by-side like a luminous pair of watchful eyes. One brighter than the other, the duo resemble a mischievous wink. Like a cosmic trickster tipping his hat, as if he acknowledges your wonder like a cosmic Cheshire Cat.
Weaponize your curiosity,
Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell
Creator, Extraordinary Beliefs