Jesse Michels
American Alchemy
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American Alchemy host Jesse Michels interviews barrister and UFO researcher Jonathan Caplan KC about Prince Philip’s interest in UFO reports, Haim Eshed’s Galactic Federation claims, MJ-12 documents, alleged recovery operations, nuclear incidents, and consciousness. Caplan recounts his contacts and personal experiences while Michels questions provenance and competing explanations. Historical records clarify the British inquiry, the Hottel memo, and the 1971 nuclear-risk agreement.

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PROBED ASSESSMENT

Jonathan Caplan KC presents a case linking royal UFO inquiries, alleged recovery programs, disputed intelligence papers and consciousness. Jesse Michels tests the argument through questions about sources, authenticity and what meaningful disclosure would require.

Key Takeaways
  1. 1.Caplan says Prince Philip’s equerry interviewed UFO witnesses at the palace and prepared reports with Philip’s knowledge and consent.
  2. 2.Michels details Eshed’s claimed crashes, ancient Grand Canyon craft and shared Mars base; Caplan makes the origin of Eshed’s information the central question.
  3. 3.Caplan argues for the authenticity of much of MJ-12 and proposes a connection between existing CIA access capabilities and anomalous craft recovery.
  4. 4.Caplan describes an apparent memory from before birth and argues that full disclosure would require answers about visitors, intentions, government knowledge and past conduct.
Why It Matters

The interview connects Britain’s historically private interest in UFOs with American retrieval allegations and today’s debate over official acknowledgment. It also shows how documentary arguments and personal experience shape one researcher’s broader interpretation.

Evidence Assessment

The working-party report, Hottel memo and 1971 agreement are inspectable records with narrower contents than the surrounding claims. The British chronology is 1950–51, the FBI treats Hottel’s information as uninvestigated hearsay, and the nuclear agreement does not identify extraterrestrials. Alleged recoveries, assassination motives and nonhuman experiences remain unsupported by independently demonstrable evidence here.

Open Questions
  1. 1.What briefings or firsthand sources informed Eshed’s statements?
  2. 2.Can the disputed MJ-12 papers establish a reliable chain of custody?

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Source Claims

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  • Source reportedUnverified

    Caplan says Prince Philip’s equerry interviewed important UFO witnesses at the palace with Philip’s knowledge and consent and prepared reports for discussion.

    He says the equerry interviewed significant UFO witnesses at the palace, with Philip's knowledge and consent, then prepared reports for discussion.

  • Source reportedUnverified

    Michels attributes to Haim Eshed’s book and interview claims of roughly thirty UFO crashes, an ancient Grand Canyon craft, and a Mars base involving humans and extraterrestrials.

    Michels supplies several specific assertions he attributes to Eshed's book and interview: approximately thirty UFO crashes, an ancient elliptical craft associated with Comanche Point in the Grand Canyon, and a Mars base involving humans and extraterrestrials.

  • InterpretationAsserted

    Caplan says Eshed’s seniority does not answer how he acquired his information and recommends caution until that chain can be established.

    Caplan stresses a crucial unanswered question: how did Eshed acquire this information? Michels initially treats Eshed's seniority as a reason to regard him as a source, while Caplan asks whether the information came from briefings, counterparts, or something else. Caplan recommends caution until that chain can be established.

  • InterpretationContested

    Caplan argues that most Majestic 12 papers are genuine and cites alleged correspondence between them and meetings involving Truman, Forrestal, Bush and Tizard.

    Caplan believes most are genuine while allowing that some may not be. Michels proposes that intelligence personnel could mix truth and falsehood to make genuine information harder to recognize. Caplan counters that revealing an actual recovery would undermine secrecy. He points to alleged correspondence between the papers and meetings involving Harry Truman, James Forrestal, Vannevar Bush, and Sir Henry Tizard.

  • InferenceUnverified

    Caplan proposes that the CIA’s Office of Global Access and counterproliferation capabilities could have been adapted for anomalous craft retrievals.

    Caplan argues that an existing capability for moving personnel and equipment through difficult jurisdictions could have been adapted to retrieve anomalous craft.

Structure Across Time

How the key people and organizations in this source are involved as events unfold. Built from the extracted timeline — co-appearance here reflects the source’s narrative, not verified coordination.

2026-11-11

American Alchemy publishes Caplan interview

Jesse Michels interviews Jonathan Caplan about royal UFO interest, alleged programs, disputed records, consciousness and disclosure.

2020-12

Eshed’s public alien-agreement claims

The conversation revisits Eshed’s December 2020 newspaper interview and book-related claims.

1971-09-30

Nuclear-risk agreement signed

The U.S.–Soviet agreement addresses unidentified warning-system objects or interference when they could create a risk of nuclear war.

1963-11-12

Date on disputed Kennedy memorandum

Michels questions the provenance of a purported Kennedy memorandum; this records its claimed date, not authenticated authorship.

1955

Kilgallen reports a recovered-craft allegation

Caplan discusses Dorothy Kilgallen’s reporting and Timothy Good’s tentative identification of Mountbatten as her source.

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Referenced Material

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American Alchemy: Jesse Michels interviews Jonathan Caplan KCFull episode published November 11, 2026. Michels is the host; Caplan is the guest; Eshed is discussed.
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Guy Hottel memorandum: Flying Saucers — Information Concerning (March 22, 1950)Guy Hottel’s March 22, 1950 memorandum to the FBI Director relays an informant’s account attributed to an Air Force investigator: three circular objects allegedly recovered in New Mexico, each containing three small bodies. It records a proposed connection to high-powered radar interference and explicitly says no further evaluation was attempted. The two-page FBI Vault release contains a cover sheet and the redacted memorandum. It neither names Aztec nor establishes the reported recoveries as fact.
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Agreement on Measures to Reduce the Risk of Outbreak of Nuclear War (1971)The September 30, 1971 U.S.–Soviet Accidents Measures Agreement establishes safeguards and rapid communication to reduce the risk of nuclear war. Its nine articles address unauthorized weapon use, unexplained nuclear incidents, missile-warning detections, advance launch notifications, the Direct Communications Link, consultations, and duration. The unidentified-object provision is conditional on a risk of nuclear war; it does not identify extraterrestrial craft.
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Unidentified Flying Objects: Report by the Flying Saucer Working Party (June 1951)The British Flying Saucer Working Party’s June 1951 report reviews Scandinavian and American reports, Project Sign and Project Grudge, and three British service sightings from 1950. It attributes the observations to conventional phenomena, misidentification, illusions, psychological effects or hoaxes and recommends no further investigation without material evidence. Its appendices propose radar interference at Wartling and recount Wing Commander Formby identifying an apparent disc as an ordinary aircraft. These are the committee’s historical judgments. The seven-page scan includes a distributor cover, the report cover, and five numbered report pages; the original SECRET marking does not describe the public scan’s current accessibility.
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FBI explanation of the Guy Hottel memoFederal Bureau of Investigation, March 25, 2013: the memo relays uninvestigated secondhand or thirdhand information and does not prove UFO recoveries.
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