Project Ancient Arrow | The NSA's Secret War Against Our Future

Three hikers stumbled upon something impossible in the New Mexico desert. Inside a hidden chamber carved into Chaco Canyon's walls, they discovered artifacts that defied everything archaeologists thought they knew about human history. The National Security Agency seized the site within 48 hours. For over two decades, Project Ancient Arrow remained buried in classified files until a series of rockslides revealed the truth. This wasn't just a room—it was an entrance to something far more complex. Twenty-three chambers spiraled through solid rock, each containing technology that shouldn't exist and symbols nobody could translate. When scientists finally cracked the code, they uncovered a message from 750 years in the future. The senders called themselves Wingmakers, and they had a warning about humanity's survival.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovLWwHqjlaM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 0:31AJ Gentile?

  In 1972, three hikers discovered a hidden room carved into a wall of Chaco Canyon. The New Mexico desert was well over 100 degrees. Inside the cavern, the temperature was a comfortable 72. Artifacts were everywhere: pottery, tools, weapons. Experts dated everything to the 8th century. Every item, except one. A compass-like object covered in symbols nobody recognized, made from an alloy that wouldn't exist for another thousand years. Within 48 hours, the National Security Agency seized the site. They called it "Project Ancient Arrow." The NSA studied the room for months, then sealed it. 21 years later, a caving revealed the truth.

• 1:15AJ Gentile?

  This wasn't just a room, it was an entrance.

• 1:28AJ Gentile?

  For 21 years, the Chaco Canyon Chamber remained sealed. The compass artifact was locked in a vault somewhere in Virginia. Project Ancient Arrow, like so many classified operations, gathered dust in NSA archives. By May 1994, Project Ancient Arrow was all but forgotten. But the mountain had other plans. A series of rock slides shook the canyon. The mountain seemed to be peeling back layers of itself. When the dust settled, park rangers found an opening. Not a hole, a doorway. Perfectly rectangular with sharp edges and right angles. This wasn't erosion, it was carved. The caving revealed a corridor that disappeared deep inside the mountain. The rangers called it in.

• 2:12AJ Gentile?

  Project Ancient Arrow was immediately reactivated. The NSA was on-site within hours.

• 2:17Speaker 02

  Wow, the NSA moves faster than Uber Eats.

• 2:23AJ Gentile?

  The military cleared the area, and five scientists arrived to take readings and measurements. But these weren't archaeologists. They worked for the ACIO, the Advanced Contact Intelligence Organization, a subsection of the NSA. It operated beyond classified, above top secret, and without congressional oversight. Most senior NSA officials don't know it exists, and those who do, don't acknowledge it. The ACIO likes it this way. Their specialty was technology that shouldn't exist on Earth, and this corridor was exactly their kind of problem. The passage spiraled upward through solid rock. Not carved, melted.

• 3:04AJ Gentile?

  The walls were polished at the atomic level, covered in glowing symbols that seemed part of the stone itself. Twenty-three chambers branched off at regular intervals. The spiral formed a perfect double helix, DNA carved in stone. Every chamber contained artifacts: paintings using pigments nobody could identify, musical instruments that created frequencies humans couldn't hear, star charts drawn from somewhere else in the galaxy. The same symbols from the corridor were in every room. Chamber 23 was different, though. No symbols, no artwork, just one artifact: a small optical disc. It looked...like a CD.

• 3:45Speaker 02

  Uh, what year was this?

• 3:47AJ Gentile?

  1994.

• 3:48Speaker 02

  Uh, probably an AOL disc.

• 3:49AJ Gentile?

  It wasn't an AOL CD.

• 3:51Speaker 02

  Are you sure? They were everywhere.

• 3:53AJ Gentile?

  It wasn't a CD at all, it just kinda looked like one. And scientists still assumed the disc contained digital information, but when they tried to read it, nothing worked. Lasers failed, electron microscopes showed only a smooth surface. But under certain wavelengths of light, symbols appeared, thousands of them, layered in three-dimensional patterns, the same symbols that covered the walls. The ACIO couldn't decipher it, they sent the disc to Virginia for analysis. After almost two years of analyzing the ancient arrow site, the scientists thought they'd found everything. Then X-rays of Chamber 23 revealed something else. A trapdoor buried under six inches of debris. It covered a shaft dropping straight down 150 feet.

• 4:37AJ Gentile?

  Too narrow for a person, so they lowered cameras instead.

• 4:40Speaker 02

  Ah, that reminds me. I gotta schedule a colonoscopy.

• 4:44AJ Gentile?

  Okay, that's enough.

• 4:45Speaker 02

  What? Everyone over 50 should get one.

• 4:48AJ Gentile?

  Thank you for the PSA.

• 4:50Speaker 02

  Oh, yeah, that's right, fellas. Get your PSA checked too, eh?

• 4:54AJ Gentile?

  I've got one paragraph left.

• 4:56Speaker 02

  Fine, fine, go ahead.

• 5:00Speaker 02

  Sheesh, what a grouch.

• 5:04AJ Gentile?

  Chamber 24 was massive, three times bigger than any other room. Seven groups of symbols covered the wall in the most complex pattern they'd seen. But there was no way to reach it. The project stalled again. Two years later, another discovery would show that ancient arrow wasn't ancient at all. The discovery had nothing to do with the past. It had to do with the future.

• 5:30Speaker 00

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• 6:12Speaker 00

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• 6:35AJ Gentile?

  In the summer of 1996, two college students were hiking near Chaco Canyon. Twenty-four years after the first ancient arrow discovery, two years after rock slides that exposed new chambers. They spotted something metallic catching sunlight. Not buried, not hidden, just sitting on the ground.

• 6:54Speaker 02

  1996, AOL CDs were still everywhere.

• 6:58AJ Gentile?

  It wasn't an AOL CD.

• 7:01Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 7:02AJ Gentile?

  The object was about the size of a shoebox and heavy like lead. Its surface showed a pattern of swirled gold and silver that was a three-dimensional map of the exact area where they stood. Strange symbols covered every inch of the object. Not carved or etched, the symbols were part of the metal itself. As the students lifted the object from the sand, both collapsed at exactly the same time, like someone had flipped a switch. They weren't unconscious, they were inside a vision.

• 7:32Speaker 02

  Yeah, oh, what, did they eat mushrooms off this thing?

• 7:35AJ Gentile?

  No.

• 7:36Speaker 02

  Oh, it's in the desert, that's right, so they probably ate peyote.

• 7:41AJ Gentile?

  No.

• 7:41Speaker 02

  Did they lick a frog?

• 7:42AJ Gentile?

  They didn't eat or lick anything. Just touching the box gave them a vision. But it gave them the same vision. A massive chamber system inside a mountain. Twenty-three rooms in a spiral pattern. They could smell cool air and feel smooth stone under their feet. Strange symbols glowed on walls they'd never seen. They can hear footsteps echoing, their own footsteps, walking through chambers that existed somewhere else. When the vision ended, both students were on their knees in the sand, gasping like they'd been underwater. The experience lasted a few seconds, but to them, it felt like hours. They then wrapped the artifact carefully. Neither wanted another experience.

• 8:24Speaker 02

  Yeah, nothing's worse than a bad trip, am I right?

• 8:27AJ Gentile?

  I don't know what you're talking about.

• 8:29Speaker 02

  Come on, yes, you do.

• 8:31AJ Gentile?

  Please, please, there are kids watching.

• 8:33Speaker 02

  Yeah, right, right, sorry, sorry, kids. By bad trip, I just mean a weekend in Portland.

• 8:41AJ Gentile?

  Be nice. Anyway, they brought the shoebox artifact to their archaeology professor. But when he touched it, nothing. No visions, no reaction. Whatever happened to his students didn't happen to him. He noted the unusual metal composition and the unknown symbols. He uploaded the findings to academic databases to see if anyone recognized this artifact. Unfortunately for the professor, somebody did. The internet was still new to most people in 1996. But it wasn't new to the NSA or its secret internal division, the ACIO. Since Ancient Arrow reopened in 1994, the ACIO had been monitoring public and private networks for certain keywords and images.

• 9:23AJ Gentile?

  Unidentifiable symbols, unusual metal compositions, reports of induced visions. The professor's research triggered every alert. Within four hours, federal agents were in his office. They confiscated the artifact and made the professor sign a stack of non-disclosure forms. The agents added a few threats about national security, treason, and prison. Just to be clear, the object went directly to Dr. Jamison Neruda, ACIO's top linguist and technology specialist. The same man who'd been trying to decrypt the optical disc for two years. This artifact would show him what he'd been missing. The symbols weren't a language, they were instructions.

• 10:08Speaker 00

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• 10:43AJ Gentile?

  The vision artifact sat on the table in Neruda's lab and did nothing. The two students had experienced vivid hallucinations, identical visions of the ancient arrow chambers. But here in ACIO's sterile lab, the artifact was just an unusual metal object covered in symbols. Neruda understood why it didn't work: proximity effect. The artifact needed to be near the ancient arrow site. The location was in this world pattern on its surface. Only about 50 people on the planet know about this location, and he was one of them. So, one puzzle solved. But Neruda was fascinated by something else. The symbols on the artifact matched symbols from the chambers. Not exactly, but close.

• 11:26AJ Gentile?

  Like different dialects of the same language. Then it hit him, and he reached for the disk. The optical disk from Chamber 23 didn't look like much. About the size of a CD, but thicker. Not quite glass, not quite crystal. When ACIO's standard decryption tools failed, Neruda took over. That was almost two years ago. Mathematical sequences, quantum algorithms... Even Zemi, ACIO's quantum computer built with alien technology, couldn't crack this thing. Zemi made the best supercomputers on Earth look like pocket calculators. Still, nothing.

• 12:01Speaker 02

  Wah wah wah wah wah wah.

• 12:02AJ Gentile?

  What?

• 12:03Speaker 02

  Alien technology.

• 12:04AJ Gentile?

  Yup. The ACIO had an alliance with an alien race called the Chordium. Their home planet is 15,000 light-years away. Dr. Neruda was fluent in over 30 languages, plus 12 extinct ones. He was an expert in data encryption, compression, storage. He also possessed genius-level knowledge of mathematics, quantum systems, music, philosophy, biology, and cosmology. His IQ had been enhanced through genetic modification. Standard procedure for core ACIO scientists. The modifications raised intelligence by 500 points or more, all courtesy of their alien partners. Neruda repeated himself, this time out loud. Different dialects of the same language.

• 12:50AJ Gentile?

  The symbols on the artifact weren't random. They formed a sequence. When he compared them to the chamber paintings, a pattern emerged. Each painting contained one unique symbol. The artifact showed him what order to arrange the symbols. Neruda input these symbols into Zemi as ancient Sumerian words, spoken in sequence from chamber 1 to 23. Then Zemi roared to life. Eight thousand pages of data flooded the processors. Text, diagrams, star maps, genetic sequences, all with translations in English and 60 other languages. Dr. Neruda had been with ACIO for 15 years. Not only was he aware of alien races on Earth, he spoke five of their languages. He could read four more.

• 13:35AJ Gentile?

  He thought he'd seen everything. He did not see this coming. The creators of the disk called themselves wingmakers. And the wingmakers weren't aliens. They weren't an ancient civilization. They were humans from Earth. And they were sending us a warning from 750 years in the future.

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• 14:31Speaker 00

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• 15:04AJ Gentile?

  According to the DISC, humanity developed time travel in the 20th century, not for exploration or survival. These future humans were on a timeline where Earth gets invaded by synthetic beings called the Animus. The Animus were more than just machines. They were an android race with artificial intelligence, driven by one obsession: to become soul carriers, to achieve immortality. But they lacked organic nervous systems, the very thing needed to carry a soul's higher frequency. So they needed our DNA, not just to reproduce, to evolve. And they didn't choose Earth randomly. We're a genetic library. Our DNA carries something rare in the universe: a full range of emotions,

• 15:48AJ Gentile?

  the key to the human soul. The Animus wanted our source code, the original blueprint of human genetics. And they'd been here before, 300 million years ago, and again about 9,000 years ago. Both times, they found humans too primitive for their needs. But they were scheduled to return in 2011, and this time, they'd find us useful. The timeline was specific. First, infiltration, that appear as friends, advanced beings here to help. They'd work with the United Nations to bring stability to Earth by creating a global governing body.

• 16:22Speaker 02

  One royal government?

• 16:23AJ Gentile?

  Yep. The group is called the Incognabula.

• 16:26Speaker 02

  Another word for Illuminati.

• 16:29AJ Gentile?

  Yep, and their plan is to control the world's money supply and natural resources. These would be distributed by the Incanabula, who are android-human hybrids.

• 16:39Speaker 02

  Anyone check Klaus Schwab for wires?

• 16:42AJ Gentile?

  They would implement a paperless electronic currency that tracks the spending habits of everyone on Earth. This would give the Incanabula insight into individual affairs and allow them to manipulate global events. By 2018, the Incanabula would be running the world. But this future could be avoided. The disk explained how. What we perceive as normal biology is actually a suppressed version of our full genetic potential. Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. The wingmakers claimed we can activate 24. And here's why that mattered. The animus can only harvest from standard human DNA, our current 23 chromosome pairs.

• 17:23AJ Gentile?

  Humans with 24 activated chromosome pairs would be useless, like incompatible software. Seven sites around the world would trigger this activation. It could be done simply through meditation. As more people meditated, dormant DNA would activate. First two pairs, then four, then 12, eventually all 24. And the disk had another solution. Use time travel to stop the animus from ever finding Earth. So humanity had two defenses: one biological and one technological. Dr. Neruda understood the value of both options. But ACIO's leadership was split. Half wanted to use technology, half wanted transformation.

• 18:06AJ Gentile?

  Neruda was caught in the middle, but he knew he'd have to make a choice. And the choice wasn't just about technology versus consciousness, it was about who decides humanity's future.

• 18:27AJ Gentile?

  Within, ACIO operated an even more secretive unit: The Labyrinth Group. Only about 120 people knew it existed. Their leader was known only as "Fifteen." No one used real names at that level. Fifteen had created The Labyrinth Group with one purpose: Develop "Blank Slate Technology," BST. This is time travel that could alter the past, not just observe it.

• 18:50Speaker 02

  Yeah, finally, they can go back and tell Fox not to cancel Firefly.

• 18:54AJ Gentile?

  Yeah, I think they'd rather use the technology to avoid the alien invasion.

• 18:57Speaker 02

  Sure, sure, sure, but while you're back there, I'll kill two birds: Aliens and Fox executives.

• 19:06AJ Gentile?

  With the help of the Chordium, The Labyrinth Group had been working on time travel since 1963. The Chordium provided everything: The quantum computers, the genetic modifications that gave ACIO scientists their enhanced abilities. The Chordium also warned about the Animus threat decades before the DISC confirmed it. And The Labyrinth Group had accumulated wealth outside government oversight. It had more money than most small nations, all focused on time travel. Because if you can travel back and change key events, you can prevent the Animus from ever finding Earth. Change the right moment in the past, and the future threat disappears. But now the Wingmakers offered a different solution: Evolution through consciousness instead of technology.

• 19:47AJ Gentile?

  Becoming something the Animus couldn't use, instead of erasing them from a timeline. Two paths: Both claim to save humanity. Fifteen saw them as complementary: Use both. Develop BST while activating dormant DNA: Cover all bases. Dr. Neruda saw it differently. The more he learned about the Wingmakers' philosophy, the more he questioned changing the past. The Wingmakers weren't just sharing technology, they were teaching transformation. For three years, Neruda had translated the Wingmakers' information: The technical data, the philosophical writings, the warnings. With each translation, something changed inside him. The Wingmakers weren't just sharing information, they were selecting their spokesmen: Him.

• 20:31AJ Gentile?

  When he reported this belief to his superiors, the response was immediate: Psychiatric evaluation, security review.

• 20:41AJ Gentile?

  15 decided Neruda's growing belief in consciousness-based evolution could not be allowed to spread through the ACIO. The solution was simple: give Neruda an MRP, Memory Restructure Procedure. This would erase his memories of the Ancient Arrow Project, standard protocol for personnel who became compromised. Neruda had done these procedures himself. It was routine. Colleagues returned to work with gaps in their memories, confused but compliant. Now it was his turn. The MRP was scheduled for three weeks later, December 15, 1997. He marked it on his calendar.

• 21:17Speaker 02

  He put his own mind wipe in his calendar?

• 21:20AJ Gentile?

  Yep.

• 21:21Speaker 02

  Tuesday dentist, Wednesday mind wipe, Thursday yoga. That guy's got ice water in his veins.

• 21:28AJ Gentile?

  He did, but he was not gonna let them take his memories. He had three weeks to come up with a plan.

• 21:44AJ Gentile?

  Dr. Neruda had three weeks before they erased his mind. He spent those weeks watching his colleagues differently. Brilliant minds trapped in a philosophy of control. Every problem required a technological solution. Every threat demanded superior firepower. The idea that humanity might transform itself through consciousness, that seemed impossible. But consciousness was the one thing the atomists couldn't harvest. Synthetic beings needed genetic material, not awareness. The wingmakers understood this. On December 13, 1997, during a routine shift change, Dr. Jamison Neruda walked out of the ACIO facility. No elaborate escape plan, no security breach. He understood their systems well enough

• 22:27AJ Gentile?

  to slip out during a brief surveillance gap. By the time they noticed he was gone, he'd already have destroyed his traceable implants and begun searching for someone willing to hear an impossible story. Two days later, he made contact with a journalist named Sarah. He had a lot of information to share, and less than 12 hours before the next remote viewing sweep would find him.

• 22:47Speaker 02

  Remote viewing sweep?

• 22:49AJ Gentile?

  Oh, yeah. The ACIO had a team of psychics on staff.

• 22:52Speaker 02

  Yeah, of course they did.

• 22:54AJ Gentile?

  There's so much more to this story, which is why we'll be revisiting it from time to time. Anyway, Neruda promised to tell Sarah everything about the ACIO, the Labyrinth Group, the Chordium Alliance, humanity's hidden history and potential future, but most importantly, who the wingmakers were and what they really wanted. They weren't time travelers trying to save humanity from invasion. They were teachers. The Animus threat was real, but it served a larger purpose. Crisis forces evolution. The approaching danger would push humanity to activate dormant capabilities, not through technology, through higher consciousness. Then humans would be useless to the Animus. Neruda had 12 hours to convince Sarah. 12 hours to plant the seeds of transformation.

• 23:38AJ Gentile?

  12 hours before the ACIO found him and took his mind.

• 23:52AJ Gentile?

  Dr. Jameson Neruda was having trouble. Finding someone to hear his story was harder than escaping. Academics wanted credentials. Journalists wanted proof.

• 24:02Speaker 02

  Yeah, journalists demanding proof. I remember those days.

• 24:07AJ Gentile?

  Journalist Sarah, he never learned her last name, was his fifth attempt. When they met in a diner outside Sacramento, he had 12 hours before the next remote viewing sweep. He gave five long interviews, enough to expose the ACIO, the Labyrinth Group, the Chordium Alliance. But as Neruda began talking, he realized the conspiracy wasn't the real story. The real story was transformation. Neruda explained how the Labyrinth Group approached everything backwards. They saw consciousness as a problem to overcome with better processors. They saw time as something to control rather than understand. The wingmaker suggested defense wasn't about building bigger weapons or rewriting history. It was about becoming unholy. Harvestable through higher consciousness.

• 24:51AJ Gentile?

  Sarah recorded everything: the technical specifications, the philosophical frameworks, the countdown of 2011. But Neruda could see her struggling with the same question everyone asked: Why should anyone believe this? He had no proof. The artifacts remained locked in ACIO vaults. The disk translations existed only in classified systems. His enhanced genetics couldn't be verified without special equipment. All he had were words. And 11 months later, those words appeared online on a Wingmakers website. But the details had changed. The hiker's discovery date shifted. Character names morphed. And the Wingmakers teachings were now available for the low, low price of $17.99.

• 25:34Speaker 02

  Oh, no.

• 25:45AJ Gentile?

  The man behind the Wingmakers website called himself James. Later, he'd reveal his full identity: James Mahu from the Lyricus Teaching Organization. November 1998, 11 months after Neruda's defection. The Wingmakers website appeared online, anonymous at first. No author, nobody taking credit, just the story of Ancient Arrow, the ACIO, and humanity's potential future, free for anyone to read. The site included Neruda's interviews, renamed Dr. Anderson in this version, and there were pictures of art from the chambers, music, Wingmakers philosophy, all available for free. Then things started changing. December 9, 1998. Wingmakers LLC was created in Minnesota.

• 26:28AJ Gentile?

  The owner, Mark Hempel, based in Adana. A month later, subtle changes appeared on the website. The hiker's discovery date shifted from 1972 to 1996. The chamber count increased from 23 to 24. Dr. Neruda became Dr. Anderson. The changes were small, easy to miss unless you were paying attention. The transformation accelerated in 2001. March brought the first commercial product: $17.99. By the end of the year, what started as a free revelation had become a whole product line: music CDs priced at $108.

• 27:04Speaker 02

  Oh, $100 for a CD?

• 27:06AJ Gentile?

  Yep.

• 27:07Speaker 02

  I'm telling you, merch is way too cheap.

• 27:11AJ Gentile?

  No, it isn't.

• 27:13AJ Gentile?

  The websites sold art reproductions, philosophy collections, complete packages with bundled discounts. James finally revealed himself through email interviews. He claimed the identity Mahunahi, a translator for the Lyricus Teaching Organization. Not from outer space, but not quite human either. He described using "sensory bilocation", a technique for gathering information across dimensions. He positioned himself as a translator, not a creator. The Wingmakers' materials were real. He didn't write them, he just made them accessible. But the changes kept coming. The Chordium's home planet moved from 15,000 light-years away to 15 million. Scientific details were updated to match current theories.

• 27:57AJ Gentile?

  New websites popped up: EventTemples.org, Lyricus.org, SovereignIntegral.org. Each site added details to the story, and each offered more products. The original story, Dr. Neruda's, was buried under spiritual teachings and expensive merchandise. Years later, James would describe the Wingmakers' materials with a specific word. Not "history", not "revelation", he called it "mythology". Mark Hempel remained silent. He managed the business side, while James handled mythology. Together, they transformed a conspiracy story into something else. Something less specific, something less verifiable, but something much more profitable.

• 28:46AJ Gentile?

  We've got desert canyons with secret labs, time-traveling humans warning about synthetic invaders, alien alliances, DNA activation, humanity's salvation through consciousness. The Wingmakers' story has it all, and we just scratched the surface. But is any of this true? Well, the New Mexico Cultural Resources Information System contains no record of any ancient arrow site. Over 800 archaeological projects have been documented near Chaco Canyon since 1952. Not one project mentions mysterious chambers. No museum anywhere has a single Wingmaker artifact. No peer-reviewed paper discussed the discovery. The NSA is never acknowledged an advanced contact intelligence organization.

• 29:29AJ Gentile?

  ACIO appears on no government documentation, classified or declassified.

• 29:34Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, but if ACIO is real, they cover their tracks.

• 29:39AJ Gentile?

  That's true, but so are the story contradictions. The Wayback Machine shows all the changes to the dates, names, locations. These aren't clarifications, they're rewrites. Then, there's the money. Wingmakers LLC, registered December 1998. Free content transformed into premium products. The Wingmakers' revelation had become a business model. But despite all the problems with the story and all the products for sale, the Wingmakers built devoted following. 25 years later, there are still thousands of followers. They know the story is debunked. They don't care. Still, they report personal transformations, expanded awareness, life changes. Now, is this just a placebo effect or something more?

• 30:24AJ Gentile?

  I don't think it matters. If people are getting value for their money, I don't have a problem with it. That's why when I read that James Mahu was a fraud running a scam, I push back, because a scam really all depends on your point of view. James himself called the material "mythology," not history, not journalism. Mythology. That's an important word, and probably why James chose it. Since before we had written language, we evolved through stories. Our culture, from the very beginning, was built on mythology. Cave paintings taught the next generation how to hunt. Tribal elders told legends that explained seasons. The stories told in religions shaped entire civilizations.

• 31:06AJ Gentile?

  Stories have always pushed humanity forward. Jules Verne wrote about submarines. We built them. Arthur C. Clarke imagined satellites. We launched them. Star Trek showed communicators and video calls, and we use those every day. The Wingmakers might be fiction, but it pointed people toward legitimate research. Epigenetics, consciousness studies, the connection between mind and matter. Thousands took up meditation, studied quantum physics. Why did they do this? Because the Wingmaker's story is powerful. And powerful stories always have a hint of truth. The Chambers never existed. The artifacts were imaginary. The time travel was fantasy. But the Wingmaker's story contains one undeniable truth:

• 31:50AJ Gentile?

  We're capable of more than we know. I believe that's true. I think you do, too. That's why you're here watching this show. You have questions. You have questions about what's hiding in our government, our society, on our planet, in our reality. And now that we've started asking these questions, we'll never stop. So maybe the Wingmakers never existed. But what they started, it's everywhere.

• 32:21AJ Gentile?

  Thank you so much for hanging out with me today. My name is AJ. That's Cyclefish. Me too, Bill. This has been the Y-Files. If you had fun or learned anything, do him a favor, subscribe, comment, like, share. That stuff really helps us out. And like most topics we cover on the channel, today's is recommended by you. So if there's a story you'd like to see or learn more about, go to theyfiles.com/tips. And there's a lot more to the Wingmaker's story. Remember, the Y-Files is also a podcast. Twice a week, I post deep dives into the stories we cover on the channel and also post episodes that wouldn't be allowed on the channel. It's called the Y-Files Operation Podcast, and it's available everywhere. And if you're into podcasts, I'd appreciate a like or a follow, or however that works. Now, if you need more Y-Files in your life, and you might not, I understand if you don't,

• 33:06AJ Gentile?

  but if you do, check out our Discord. Got over 75,000 members, so there's someone on there 24/7. They're into the same weird stuff we are. It's a great community. It's really supportive. It's a lot of fun and it's free to join. Now, if you want to know what's going on with the Y-Files at any given time, check out our production calendar. It's theyfiles.com/cow. There we post our episode schedule, upcoming podcasts, live streams, all that stuff. And special thanks to our patrons who made this channel possible. Every episode of the Y-Files is dedicated to our Patreon members. I couldn't do this without you. And if you'd like to support the channel and keep us going, consider becoming a member on Patreon. For as little as three bucks a month, you get access to perks like videos airing with no commercials, see your name in the credits, access to merch only available to members,

• 33:49AJ Gentile?

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  I'm not trying to tell anybody about that.

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  Those are the plugs and that's gonna do it. Until next time, be safe, be kind, and know that you are appreciated.

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  The Mothman sightings and the solar stones still come To have got the secret city underground Mysterious number stations, planets circle to Project Stargate And what the dark watchers found In a simulation, don't you worry though The black nights had a lot of jokes And so, I can't believe, I'm dancing with the fish Head to fish on Thursday nights with AJ2 And one more zombie beat all through the night

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