Jesse Michels
American Alchemy
independentDeep ingestAug 13

Probed ingest of: UFOs, Psychics and The Afterlife with PhD Jeffrey Mishlove

Jesse Michels interviews parapsychologist Jeffrey Mishlove about Ted Owens’ alleged psychokinesis and UFO forecasts, the SRI and PEAR research legacy, Robert Bigelow’s survival-of-consciousness essay competition, and Mishlove’s path from criminology to New Thinking Allowed. The episode also explores remote viewing, mediumship, Annika and Tristan, alleged psionic programs, plasma-consciousness theories, and the evidence gaps separating documented research history from extraordinary claims.

Structured source analysis of a public American Alchemy episode.

PROBED ASSESSMENT

Jeffrey Mishlove gives Jesse Michels an oral history of the consciousness side of UAP, spanning Ted Owens, SRI remote viewing, survival research, alleged psionic programs and plasma intelligence. His through-line is that UFOs, psi and life after death may reflect one mind-matter problem.

Key Takeaways
  1. 1.SRI handed Mishlove its Ted Owens files in 1976; eleven years of study centered on Owens’ advance forecasts of weather, lightning and UFO events, especially the Sonoma State sighting.
  2. 2.Owens alternated between claiming personal psychokinesis and crediting ‘space intelligences,’ making him the episode’s hinge between psychic research and UFO contact.
  3. 3.Puthoff, Targ, Puharich, Geller, the Nine, PEAR and Bigelow form a continuous network connecting remote viewing, human-potential research, UAP and survival studies.
  4. 4.Mishlove’s survival argument combines near-death experiences, mediumship, reincarnation, terminal lucidity and psi with the idea that the brain filters consciousness rather than produces it.
  5. 5.Michels pushes disclosure toward latent human capacities—UAP attraction, recruited psionic talent and Annika and Tristan—while Mishlove calls for neuroimaging and controlled experiments.
Why It Matters

Mishlove personally knew or interviewed many architects of this world, letting the episode reveal parapsychology as a hidden connective tissue running through modern UFO history.

Evidence Assessment

Government sponsorship of SRI and Star Gate, PEAR publications, Mishlove’s BICS award and Berkeley credential are documented. Owens’ powers, covert recruitment, extraterrestrial memories and conscious plasma beings remain mainly testimony or interpretation.

Open Questions
  1. 1.What does blind scoring of Owens’ complete archive show?
  2. 2.Will the proposed neuroimaging and UAP-attraction tests be preregistered?

Claims remain attributed to the source unless independently documented. Reviewed and edited by an editor.

Source Claims

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Source-attributed episode analysis
  • InterpretationAsserted

    The episode presents Jeffrey Mishlove’s interpretation that the physical and consciousness-related dimensions of UAP may be inseparable, while allowing that both physical craft and mind-mediated phenomena could exist.

    Mishlove’s central position is that the “nuts-and-bolts” and consciousness dimensions of the UFO problem may be inseparable.

  • Source reportedConfirmed

    The Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies confirms that Jeffrey Mishlove received the $500,000 first prize in its 2021 life-after-death essay competition for “Beyond the Brain.”

    Bigelow’s institute confirms that Mishlove won the $500,000 first prize for “Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death.”

  • Source reportedAsserted

    Mishlove says he investigated Ted Owens from 1976 until Owens’ death in 1987 and assembled files from multiple researchers concerning alleged psychokinetic, weather and UFO demonstrations.

    Mishlove then followed Owens until his death in 1987 and assembled records from several researchers.

  • Source reportedUnverified

    Mishlove reports that a December 1976 UFO sighting above Sonoma State College followed a forecast by Ted Owens and was seen, photographed and filmed by multiple witnesses; the episode does not provide the original records for independent review.

    The centerpiece was a December 1976 sighting above what was then Sonoma State College in Rohnert Park.

  • Source reportedContested

    Mishlove says Ted Owens warned him on Christmas Eve 1985 about the next shuttle launch, but he acknowledges no evidence connects Owens or an outside object to Challenger; official investigations identified solid-rocket-booster joint and O-ring failure as the cause.

    Mishlove says Owens called on Christmas Eve 1985 and warned him to stop the next shuttle launch, claiming his UFOs would destroy it.

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.

2026-08-13

Jesse Michels publishes Jeffrey Mishlove interview

The American Alchemy episode brings Mishlove’s Ted Owens archive, survival research and wider consciousness network into a single extended discussion.

2026-07-27

New Thinking Allowed completes Annika and Tristan series

The foundation published the tenth installment of its series presenting Annika and Tristan’s claims about identity, consciousness and mission.

2021

Mishlove wins BICS essay competition

The Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies awarded Mishlove its $500,000 first prize for his survival-of-consciousness essay.

1995

Independent review assesses Star Gate

The government-sponsored review found remote-viewing output too vague and unreliable for intelligence use and disputed whether a paranormal mechanism had been established.

1987

Ted Owens dies

Mishlove’s eleven-year period of direct study ended with Owens’ death.

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