Lt. Colonel John Blitch—former Green Beret, DARPA program manager, and cognitive psychologist—shares decades of personal anomalous experiences and professional insights at the intersection of military science, UFO phenomena, and non-human intelligence. He frames his story around the thesis that abduction experiences are the “elephant in the UAP room” driving government secrecy, and calls for “ontological relief” rather than shock, arguing that humanity should be told the truth and that experiencers deserve support, not suppression.
John’s Background and Credentials
Served in Special Forces, including Delta Force, with multiple command tours over seven years
Retired as a Lieutenant Colonel, returned as a GS-15 civilian to work at DARPA managing robotics programs, including a mission to lower robots into caves in Tora Bora in early 2002 to search for Osama bin Laden
Holds a doctorate in cognitive psychology; studied at the Colorado School of Mines
Was stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for three years and briefly served as a VP at SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) for about six months before being recalled to DARPA
Has never been read into any classified UFO program but has spent his career “always a bridesmaid, never a bride”—hovering around the perimeter of the phenomenon
Manifests a self-deprecating humor about expertise, quoting a professor: “X is an unknown quantity, and a spurt is a drip under pressure”
The Mountain Bike Incident (1995)
In 1995, shortly after the Oklahoma City bombing (where John volunteered and witnessed traumatic scenes including a woman’s body blown into rebar), he went for a mountain bike ride near Daniel’s Park southwest of Denver to meditate
The area was remote at the time and colocated with an ancient Native American burial ground; John has some Native American heritage through his great-grandfather
While walking his bike through the burial ground, he suddenly developed a gushing bloody nose with no physical cause—he wasn’t hot, wasn’t sweating, hadn’t fallen
He lost consciousness almost immediately, lying down on the ground
He woke up freezing and exhausted, with no memory of how much time had passed—his wife had called in a missing persons report and searched for hours with their daughters
He had a fuzzy memory of dragging his bike up toward bright lights, seeing what he thought was a fuel truck with a figure in a red plaid shirt in the cab, becoming terrified, and pedaling home as fast as he could
A police officer found him at a 7-Eleven, told him his wife had reported him missing, and gave him a ride home
John estimates at least five hours of missing time, far too long for sleep paralysis
The Praying Mantis Encounter
John had what he initially thought was a separate dream: a large bug-like entity—resembling a praying mantis or grasshopper with a triangle head and big eyes—came through the screen door of his third-story deck
The entity communicated telepathically, chastising him in a condescending, instructional tone: “Stop squirming around, this body is just a soul container, we can’t hurt your soul”
To demonstrate its power, the entity opened its jaws and tugged chunks of flesh off John’s face and shoulders, flinging blood—a simulated demonstration of violence meant to convey they could destroy his body but not his soul
John later underwent hypnotic regression with Leo Sprinkle and realized the “dream” and the mountain bike incident were the same event
The figure in the red plaid shirt was the same mantis entity wearing a uniform-like red covering on its back, over its grasshopper wings
All hypnosis is self-hypnosis, John notes—you cannot hypnotize someone who doesn’t want to be hypnotized; the regression sharpened details of an existing memory rather than implanting false ones
The 2013 Bruising Incident
Twenty years later, in 2013, John woke up with three bruises on the underside of his bicep and one on his tricep, with no memory of how they got there
The night before, he and his neighbor Andy had both witnessed a strange localized storm—a dark swirling cloud with an eye-like hole—hovering directly over their two houses, with clear blue sky visible a few miles in every direction
Both men exhibited what John calls “irrational ambivalence”—instead of going outside to discuss it together as they normally would, they both went inside and closed all drapes obsessively, taping them shut, checking and rechecking locks
John felt helpless, knew “they were coming,” and went to bed almost in resignation
Upon waking, he immediately grabbed a video camera he hadn’t used in five years and filmed his bruises—as if acting on a post-hypnotic suggestion to document before forgetting
He has no memory of the core experience that night
The Science of Abductions
John pushes back against skeptics who invoke sleep paralysis: it lasts seconds to minutes, not five hours; it doesn’t explain missing time corroborated by family and police, physical bruises, or independent witnesses
He cites cases like Travis Walton (five days missing, full beard on return) and Terry Loveless (cell phone health data showing he climbed six stories in under a minute in a one-story house) as incompatible with sleep paralysis
Hypnosis, when properly conducted, is a state of relaxed focus verifiable by EEG and neurophysiological measures; it allows the hippocampus to reconstruct fragmented memories
Hypnotically retrieved evidence is admissible in many US counties and has been used in death row convictions in Texas
John emphasizes the distinction between what he knows (verifiable events) and what he believes (interpretations), and assigns his belief in Jake Barber’s crash retrieval story at “three sigma”—roughly 99% confidence
Jake Barber and Crash Retrieval
John came publicly to support Jake Barber, a former Air Force combat controller who claims he was “sheep-dipped” into a classified program retrieving non-human craft—first an egg-shaped object, then an octagonal one
John met with Jake and his full team of four, using tradecraft to look for inconsistencies or deceptive cues; found none
He was deeply moved by Jake’s tears and his description of feeling overwhelming love emanating from the craft
John’s key takeaway: “ontological relief, not ontological shock”—society has lost faith in governments worldwide and is ready for this revelation
He speculates the craft themselves may be living beings, noting overlap between peer-reviewed literature and “woo woo” sources
Theoretical Physics and the Nature of the Phenomenon
John argues the Fermi Paradox is flawed because it assumes aliens want to reveal themselves; like Special Forces operating behind enemy lines, sometimes advanced entities choose not to be seen
He references the “Dark Forest” hypothesis from Liu Cixin’s Three-Body Problem—it may be adaptive for advanced civilizations to hide
Speculates about a possible “galactic IRB” (institutional review board) that prevents interference to avoid biasing the “experiment” of human development
Believes humans are likely part of a genetic experiment, citing the common abduction trope of gamete collection, tissue sampling, and sexual encounters—documented in cases from Betty and Barney Hill (1961) through large databases compiled by researchers like the late Edgar Mitchell
Personally experienced violent, terrifying encounters as a young man but now views them as gifts that woke him to the understanding that the body is a “soul-housing mechanism”
His childhood experiences included seeing small gray entities in his room, similar to what Gary Nolan described
Wright-Patterson AFB and Rumors
While stationed at Wright-Patterson, John was asked by an off-base doctor: “Have they let you see the alien bodies yet?” The doctor then claimed he was kidding, but told John about a two-star general who reacted with fury to the same question—“Don’t ever ask me anything like that again”—suggesting the question hit a nerve
John was never read into anything but notes the “smoke is very prominent and hot”
He references Barry Goldwater’s famous exchange with Curtis LeMay, who angrily shut down Goldwater’s request to see the secret room at Wright-Patterson
Randy Anderson’s Story
John vouches for Randy Anderson, a former Green Beret 18-Bravo weapons sergeant who was taken underground at Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane in Indiana and shown an orb levitating above a podium and a gauntlet emitting hieroglyphics
John finds zero inconsistencies in Randy’s story; the long elevator ride leading to a highly sophisticated underground facility is consistent with advanced weapons development infrastructure
The orb and gauntlet are consistent with Bob Lazar’s descriptions from 1988
Randy’s expertise as a weapons sergeant—including the “pile test” where he had to reassemble multiple weapons in total darkness—makes him a credible examiner of potential reverse-engineered technology
John notes that roughly half of crashed UFO accounts involve hieroglyphics, making this detail less random than it might seem
SAIC (where John briefly worked) is located next to Crane and has documented involvement in psychotronic and electrogravitics research; John was only there for about 30 days before being recalled to DARPA
DARPA Work and the Octopus Camouflage Program
John’s most mind-blowing DARPA project was a $70 million program to reverse-engineer cephalopod camouflage (octopus, cuttlefish, squid) for military stealth applications
He was inspired by a TED Talk from Roger Hanlon of Woods Hole showing an octopus instantly changing color and texture
The program was canceled a month later with no explanation, right after the 2000 presidential election; John initially attributed it to political retaliation but later saw a Katie Couric news clip showing a blob-like entity climbing onto a tank in Iraq, which he interpreted as evidence that someone had already achieved the technology
Cephalopods process over 70% of neural activity independently of their central nervous system—their skin essentially “thinks” on its own
John also participated in the NASA Haughton-Mars Project in the summer of 2001, simulating Mars missions with robots in the Arctic with scientists including Pascal Lee, Bob Zubrin, and Chris McKay
Mars, the Moon, and Anomalous Structures
John finds Richard Hoagland’s work on Mars structures (the Face, pyramids in Cydonia) increasingly vindicated, particularly regarding expanded Maxwell’s equations now being discussed by NASA and the National Science Foundation
References John Brandenburg’s books arguing that isotopic ratios on Mars are consistent with nuclear detonation, suggesting a civilization was eradicated by nuclear war
Notes the Apollo 12 mission’s deliberate crashing of the S-IVB booster, which caused the Moon to “ring like a bell” for hours—consistent with a hollow or partially hollow structure
References Carl Wolf, a senior Airman at Langley who claimed to have seen photos of structures on the far side of the Moon in a room with international scientists, and who died shortly afterward in a suspicious bicycle accident
The Moon’s size ratio to Earth (1/400) and distance ratio to the Sun (1/400), combined with the fact that we never see its far side, make it highly irregular compared to other moons in the solar system
Pre-Roswell Crashes and Radar
John has developed a theory that many pre-Roswell UFO crashes (including Cape Girardeau, Missouri in 1941 and the Lombardy, Italy crash) may have been caused by early high-power radar experiments
The Cape Girardeau case involved a craft crashing in a farmer’s field with small bodies, one reportedly still alive, attended by a priest
John notes that cranking up radar power to extend range could have inadvertently interfered with non-human craft, causing them to crash
He speculates that the military would have moved radar testing to remote desert locations like White Sands, and that a crash during a storm could have involved either lightning or radar interference
This theory connects to DARPA’s founding in 1958 (originally ARPA) and the involvement of figures like Thomas Townsend Brown, who was associated with both anti-gravity research and early radar/microwave work
Edgar Mitchell and the Astronaut Corps
John recounts a conversation with a NASA flight surgeon who suggested that Edgar Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell was ostracized by other astronauts after his return from the Moon, where he had a profound consciousness-expanding experience
The implication: there was an unspoken agreement among astronauts—“you don’t talk about Fight Club”—regarding what they had seen
Mitchell became a vocal advocate for UFO disclosure and consciousness research, founding the Institute of Noetic Sciences
Buzz Aldrin reportedly told his sister he saw UFOs en route to the Moon but backed out of a planned interview with documentary filmmaker James Fox at the last second
Fear Fighter: John’s Thesis and Call to Action
John has launched fearfighter.net to host his books, with 55% of proceeds going to PTSD treatment for veterans, law enforcement, and firefighters, and to support experiencers (especially military) with hypnotherapy and trauma care
His core thesis: abductions are the reason for all the secrecy—lights in the sky and even recovered craft aren’t scary enough to justify the harm done to military personnel, but the abduction phenomenon is
He calls on the government to admit it cannot protect citizens from abductors, comparing it to admitting the Santa Claus conspiracy was a lie—humans can handle the truth
He demands amnesty for whistleblowers and accountability for those who harmed service members (AFOSI, legacy programs) through compartmentation, reassignment, and worse
His message: “Fight fear through education”—the literature already contains enormous overlap between peer-reviewed science and experiencer accounts; you don’t need to be read into a program to understand what’s happening
The ultimate reassurance from his mantis entity: “We can’t take your soul”—life after death is real, and even if the body is destroyed, the soul persists
He believes the disclosure “faucet” is opening because reverse engineering efforts have progressed enough that the military can now claim defensive capability, making continued secrecy unnecessary
