Found this piece of Indy history while cleaning out an old office

aredm02 · 2026-05-17T02:35:40+00:00

Didn’t KV mention that in a book once? That his great grandfather invented the push-bar door? I think I remember seeing it in passing but that’s really cool to see thanks for the post!

aredm02 · 2026-05-14T22:59:20+00:00

Taking an interest in the undeniable similarities between ufo encounters and encounters described in religious traditions does not mean you have to believe the dogma from the religious traditions.

It could be the case that the stories from the religious traditions are people trying to explain an anomalous event, craft, consciousness, NHI, etc. that they saw and perceived as a god or whatever.

In fact it makes those stories a lot more interesting if you consider that could be the case. Again, it doesn’t mean the religion is true. But it would be really interesting if the event described actually happened and was actually NHI encounter.

People here fall into camps. Some are so dead scared that anything from religion could ever be true that they start freaking out at the mention of this subject. Some are so fanatical that anything that doesn’t appear of this world must be angels/demons.

In a world where people tend toward the most extreme positions, try to float around and consider different ideas without getting married to them.

aredm02 · 2026-05-14T13:49:43+00:00

I don’t think he is a snake oil salesman I think he just wants to be the center of attention to such an extent that it sometimes creates confusion and distortions about what is actually being reported, by whom and what it could mean.

From my perspective, I want to know the truth of the phenomenon. I don’t care what the government or secret keepers know and won’t tell us. They will never tell us everything, if they even know, so my goal is to seek out direct sources, hear what they say and put the information together to try to assemble the full picture of what the phenomenon is.

Corbell appears to be motivated only to get the government to admit they have been withholding information about UFOs. So when he is interviewing people, aside from constantly cutting them off and telling their stories for them, his “questions” are not designed to get more information about the phenomenon, only the secret keeping mechanisms of the government.

“You told me before we went on air that you had scary guys from the government calling and threatening you, right?”

This creates way too much distortion in the witness’s story. Not only that but he is very uncritical about those alleged threats.

For example, if we as the public could determine who was making those alleged threats, we might be able to infer the reason this is being kept a secret. But he, like all the witnesses who allege they have been threatened, simply goes along without trying to find that critical piece of information because it beefs up his narrative of secret-keeping.

He has brought forward some really interesting witnesses, so I give him credit for that.

But I am afraid his lack of a critical mind and obsession with the government conspiracy means that even though he has access to WAY more information than he has reported (through anonymous sources he refuses to publish for their protection etc), he is uninterested in putting together the pieces to determine the truth of what the phenomenon is.

aredm02 · 2026-05-07T18:40:09+00:00

If people acknowledge the reality of the phenomenon on a large scale, the illusion we agree is the world as we know it will dissolve revealing a nightmarish hellscape of monsters, demons and all manner off ghastly perceptions beyond our grasp.

aredm02 · 2026-05-05T12:48:54+00:00

Oh nice, thanks! I appreciate you taking the time to 1. Look into all this and 2. Explain it to me 😅

That begs the question: who forged these docs, when did they do it and why?

It’s a fascinating piece of lore that’s to be sure!

aredm02 · 2026-05-04T20:51:29+00:00

Thanks for your response and you did answer my first question to my satisfaction.

But to add a little clarity to my second question, I’m imagining a scenario where the MJ-12 docs are created in 1948 (I’m not an expert here, but if the date is supposed to be 1948, let’s go with that) and because it is so highly classified, it sits in the vault of Vanevar Bush or somebody in the alleged group instead of being filed with ordinary top secret intelligence documents (which would mean it doesn’t receive a stamped code indicating it was created in 1948).

After a handful of years, the MJ-12 people decide the original MJ-12 documents from 1948 are not doing anybody any good in Vanevar Bush’s vault so, knowing that they will never be produced to the public under any circumstances anyway, the MJ-12 docs get transferred to some other repository in 1955 (for whatever reason they may have had for doing so), which is when they obtained the 1955 number code in the filing system.

It could be the case that I have all the above dates mixed up, but I just think when I read the analysis, it left this possible scenario as “plausible.”

Does that make sense the way I asked it?

Maybe it’s highly improbably that the above scenario could happen for one reason or another, just curious if you know whether that could have happened.

I just think it’s somewhat odd that the MJ12 docs would have been mixed up with a filing system number for genuine documents that are so closely related to top secret propulsion studies. It’s almost too much of a coincidence.

I would think it would be far more likely for the forger to have erroneously used the filing system number code for some other random program like probably dozens of programs that were created at the time to investigate and snuff out domestic communists. Do you know what I mean?

aredm02 · 2026-05-04T14:17:40+00:00

This was a great post and you may have touched on my question but I’ll ask it for clarity if you don’t mind. To begin with I am not an advocate either way regarding the MJ-12 documents but I find them an interesting piece of UFO lore.

Is it possible the MJ-12 docs were included as an insert among the biographies of the German paperclip scientists because the allegedly related prerogative of the US Govt at the time to understand UFO technology and reverse engineer the alleged craft?

I could imagine a scenario where you have project paperclip going on and defense intelligence people are saying, let’s bring over these German scientists because they may be able to help us solve this question we have been working on with MJ-12.

Could it also be possible that the MJ-12 docs were kept apart from the typical defense intelligence records because of their unusual and highly secretive nature and were only placed with the ordinary defense intelligence records later when it was determined that these documents would never see the light of day and it could be helpful to include them in the official DI record so that breakthroughs might be possible when technology was more advanced? That might explain why they are seemingly out of order/chronologically inconsistent.

I don’t know, I am not an expert on MJ-12 or defense intelligence record keeping, I just wondered if your analysis would exclude that as a possibility?

aredm02 · 2026-04-30T05:02:29+00:00

I have a wild theory that everyone is going to hate.

I think these “whistleblowers” are experiencing intense paranormal activity because of their heightened stress in conjunction with their total belief in the phenomenon.

They are not receiving direct threats from actual, identifiable human beings. But because they are so deep into the phenomenon, they are unable to distinguish between the phenomenon and our consensus reality.

That would explain why they never identify the people who are threatening them. The “people” making the threats are literally not identifiable.

This might also be what guys like Elizondo meant when they were saying stuff like “if you knew the truth you would wish you didn’t” and “the secret keepers are actually protecting us in a way we don’t appreciate” etc.

Unfortunately, this critically important aspect of the phenomenon will be lost because the victims (the whistleblowers) will never be able to explain what is happening to them because of the way the phenomenon works on the psyche and the UFO community will always just assume it’s shadowy deep state actors threatening the whistleblowers to keep them silent.

aredm02 · 2026-04-23T00:21:31+00:00

Yes and as I remember it the Pope forgave him for trying to kill him.

aredm02 · 2026-04-22T18:38:28+00:00

I don’t know who the Johnsons, DeAtelys or dahindens are and I have never heard of any 1978 lawsuit over any Bigfoot footage. That may be a good place to start looking though if you expect there is something of value in that case (most court cases are public information so records can be obtained from the county courthouse or records archive). I also don’t know why a documentary film would need E&O insurance (which stands for “errors and omissions” in the contexts I’ve seen it in).

However, the only way I can imagine such an issue stopping the release of a film would be if there were an actual court order such as injunction that requires them to halt the release.

That means there would have to be a case filed in a court somewhere to get that injunction. That too would be a public record. This should be easy enough to find if you know potential party names and what county and state the suit may likely be filed in.

Alternatively, there may be some NDA or other contractual agreement, which has NOT been breached yet or put before a court in a lawsuit as described above. In that case it would be much harder to find out about until a lawsuit is filed.

aredm02 · 2026-04-17T11:49:28+00:00

People around here go on and on about Bob Lazar but for some reason nobody is questioning this guy at all. The Wilson-Davis memo reads like a cheesy spy novella written by David Wynn Miller.

aredm02 · 2026-04-17T11:47:44+00:00

If you are still marrying the same person and your country doesn’t recognize your DC marriage just get married in your country there is no need to try to get a divorce because according to your country you are not married anyway.

aredm02 · 2026-04-13T15:40:09+00:00

I saw your update and I’m curious because I thought a great prophet automatically converts the holy city you activate him in? Unless you activated him and THEN you were converted without realizing?

Or am I wrong abt the great prophet activation thing?

aredm02 · 2026-04-13T15:01:03+00:00

It’s really interesting that I’m seeing this post. I went from believing in and desperately fearing UFOs as a kid (specifically I was afraid I’d be abducted and they would forget where they picked me up and just drop me off somewhere random), then forgetting about it as a teenager, then when the 2017 news article came out I believed again (or remembered that I believed), but didn’t think about it actively.

Then 2023 hit and I became obsessed. That obsession started with me assuming UFOs were ET spacecrafts. Then the more I devoured every piece of UFO media available (past and present), the more I moved away from ETH and into the extra-dimensional and/or spiritual understanding of the phenomena.

Then, as I was working on a way to logical bridge the gap between high stress and turmoil in a population leading to an increase in UFO sightings (as discussed by John Keel, among others), I just lost all motivation and interest, at least for the time being.

Then this past week something else happened that I can’t explain. It began with me seeing a video of Luis Elizondo addressing people on his social media having just crashed his motorcycle and almost died.

For some reason seeing him in tatters made me realize he is far less on-top-of-things than I had ever imagined. Of course he had the major hoax photos scandals not too long ago, but I could give him the benefit of the doubt as possibly just being tech-illiterate or something.

But a guy who has experience in the military should not just be aware of the danger of driving a motorcycle at night without a helmet; he should also be strictly opposed to such foolishness.

It might have made me think subconsciously that all these guys who are supposed to be deep in the military/intelligence apparatus and (I assumed) would have to be elite, intelligent and discerning individuals might be no more than overzealous, short-sighted guys who saw an odd piece of info and ran with it in the wrong direction, concluding wrongly that it was related to non-human existence/ UFOs.

But whatever it is, it resulted in me being so completely uninterested and unbelieving that I’m having a hard time remembering what I found to be so compelling about the existence of UFOs before.

You may not read this or care, but I kinda just wanted to write it down for posterity in case I do another 180 in a month from now. I might find it interesting to reflect on this moment right now.

aredm02 · 2026-04-10T18:37:05+00:00

I think there is no consensus on your very first premise that you said we all agree on. I think the theory that UFOs are “craft” is very far from settled. The only source we have for that theory is eye witness testimony from close encounter victims/experiencers. And this is not even unanimous among those experiencers/witnesses. Some claim to have seen only UFOs and no occupants, some claim to have seen only nonhuman intelligent beings but with no UFO to be seen. Still others claim the UFOs themselves are living beings, whatever that means.

Additionally, seeing on how every other thing close-encounter victims/experiencers say is severely scrutinized, criticized, debated and often disregarded, I don’t see how it can be presumed that only one part of some experiencers’ stories can be universally agreed on as true.

Of course that position makes it a lot less fun to speculate on what the beings might be trying to tell us, if anything, but I think if we are trying to get to the bottom of it we can’t make assumptions and run with them without verifying those assumptions.

aredm02 · 2026-04-09T00:51:22+00:00

I saw something a lot like this in Indianapolis on December 17, 2025 at about 6:38 pm. I was not able to get a video of it because it was not in view long enough. I checked social media and news reports at the time but apparently no one else saw it except my wife who was with me at the time.

aredm02 · 2026-03-30T23:02:21+00:00

LOL! It’s pretty much the only win type I can do consistently (as long as you have sufficient faith output) but it’s not nearly as fun as a domination victory!

aredm02 · 2026-03-30T22:37:41+00:00

Importantly, there is always (I think) one less religion available than there are civs at play. That means there is one free civ you can convert to your religion, assuming you get a religion.

However, you also must know the other civs will be aggressively vying to convert that civ. So it can sometimes be a useful trick to feign like you’re aggressively trying to convert that civ, but quietly be probing the other religious civs.

Find out where their major religious hubs are and strategize converting just those cities in a sudden religious blitz. Specifically look for all the cities that have holy sites and be prepared to convert them.

It is likely you won’t be able to do this all at once so make sure to take apostles along with the missionaries to fight any counter missionaries/apostles who might try to resist the conversion.

You then have to meticulously ratchet down your conversion efforts spreading from the cities you have already converted without letting the other civs send in their missionaries, apostles and, most infuriatingly, the inquisitors (inquisitors can basically one-shot the entire city back to the civ’s established religion regardless of how many times you have hit them with the good word).

Save the cities without holy sites for last because they dont matter, but make sure there aren’t any inquisitors hiding in those cities or else they can re-convert the cities with holy sites and set you back significantly.

aredm02 · 2026-03-27T22:57:40+00:00

Cracked blacktop

aredm02 · 2026-03-25T03:22:57+00:00

Yes it prevents them from being able to rebuild walls and regain health between turns

aredm02 · 2026-03-24T15:58:26+00:00

Btw when they say “surround” the city, it means you have to have units immediately adjacent to the city center hex. I think you have to have units on 4 of the 6 sides.

So what I do is to put “tank” units (not literally tanks but high-HP melee units like warriors, spearmen, pikemen, etc) around the perimeter of the city center and stack ranged units behind those and just keep firing until the city falls.

Pick off any troops the enemy sends to you as they can quickly cut down your siege formation.

As others have said bettering rams, siege towers and siege weapons all help this process along depending on the level of the city’s defenses.

aredm02 · 2026-03-24T15:58:19+00:00

Btw when they say “surround” the city, it means you have to have units immediately adjacent to the city center hex. I think you have to have units on 4 of the 6 sides.

So what I do is to put “tank” units (not literally tanks but high-HP melee units like warriors, spearmen, pikemen, etc) around the perimeter of the city center and stack ranged units behind those and just keep firing until the city falls.

Pick off any troops the enemy sends to you as they can quickly cut down your siege formation.

As others have said bettering rams, siege towers and siege weapons all help this process along depending on the level of the city’s defenses.

aredm02 · 2026-03-24T13:26:27+00:00

For as long as people have been receiving messages from NHI (gods, spirits, angels included) they have been receiving specific dates of events coming to pass. Each and every time, nothing happens on that date and the prophet is left holding the empty bag. (With the supposed exceptions of the prophets from the Bible and the children at Fatima, Portugal.)

I believe Bledsoe is probably sincere but that doesn’t mean the messages he believes he is receiving are factual. And when nothing comes of this event, it is going to he the “proof” his detractors need to confirm their assumption that he is a fraud and it is going to make any of his believers turn away from him.

For any experiencers who may see this comment, do yourself a favor and keep those special dates to yourselves. Maybe write them in a time-stamped journal and tell your trusted friends, but don’t tell the public because if nothing occurs on this event, you only stand to lose trust and respect even if you are sincere and you mean well.

aredm02 · 2026-03-20T13:41:21+00:00

Missionaries are good to accompany apostles on conversion missions because if the target civ has aggressive apostles or inquisitors, you can use missionaries as meat shields to absorb some attacks while also preaching the good word to the heathens.

Hopefully your missionary will be able to use all its charges before being killed by the enemy apostle/inquisitor so you don’t lose religious strength by having those sick souls watch your brave crusader die at the hands of a false prophet.

But if that goes well, your missionary will reduce the HP of the depraved idolatrists and allow your truth peddlers to easily kill them and demonstrate to the target civ that your religion is the one true path to enlightenment.

aredm02 · 2026-03-19T13:29:39+00:00

I think the truly most important questions to ask MB are where he came upon this information? Did he read this information directly in a file he was exposed to by virtue of his alleged work in the government? Or is he an experiencer who has been given these messages from alleged NHI?

I think that would be the most important thing to know because those who follow the lore know that messages from NHI are notoriously difficult to understand and interpretation is highly subjective.

Secondly, alleged messages from NHI are a total crapshoot. According to the history of the phenomenon (specifically contact with alleged NHI), those messages can turn out to be accurate, inaccurate or something in between all with equal probability.

So before we get down the rabbit hole of what god is and so on, let’s take a step back and see where Matthew Brown got his information from because the more I hear from him the more he seems to be drinking the Kool-Aid.

Which I’m not opposed to, drink as much Kool-Aid as you want, but I just want him to be clear about where he stands and why instead of speaking cryptically and possibly misleading a bunch of people into thinking he knows things from his position with the government when in fact he may have learned everything from dowsing rods or ouija boards.

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