Pod Insights WEAPONIZED with Jeremy Corbell & George Knapp Injured by UFOs - The Case-By-Case Medical Evidence About this episode Are close encounters with UFO/UAP technology dangerous for humans? The answer appears to be yes. A recently released study which reviewed decades of cases and research is raising important questions about how science and medicine have largely ignored the stories told by victims whose injuries occurred because they were in the proximity of advanced but unknown technology, and in at least one incident, the injuries appear to have been inflicted intentionally. In this episode of Weaponized, Jeremy and George are joined by UK physicist John Priestland, founder of the Unhidden Foundation, created to understand the nature of injuries caused by close encounter incidents, including often-serious physical, physiological, and psychological consequences. Priestland shares details about where and when such injuries occurred and why medical professionals are largely not interested in the cause of injuries to their patients. The paper his organization released days ago builds on research conducted by the DIA during its AAWSAP investigation and Priestland urges the US government to release the AAWSAP files so that science and medicine can understand the source of a wide array of health effects during close encounter incidents.
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1:00 George Knapp? These injuries, both physical, psychological, physiological, that are measurable, documented by medical professionals, they're not caused by clouds, or weather balloons, or swamp gas, or planets, or any other bullshit explanations that we get for UAP. They're caused by physical effects generated by some kind of a craft.
1:24 Speaker 03 The health of populations at scale, and particularly how we can build more resilience around possible disclosure, where arguably millions, if not hundreds of millions of people may be affected. And we'll need to prepare for that, perhaps like a pandemic.
1:39 Jeremy Corbell? One of the most curious about it as reading in your report was the cash landroom case. Really powerful case. We have what appears to be radiation poisoning. I was given a videotape by John Lear back in the day that I've never found online. And it's a, seems like just after the incident.
1:59 Speaker 05 After I, it wasn't completely fine. It, you know, my name? Yeah, we're both in play. It was totally fine. That's the best way I can describe it. It was a tonic damage.
2:20 George Knapp? This is Weaponized. Hope everyone had a pleasant and relaxing Labor Day holiday here in the U.S. I am George Knapp, a journalist in Las Vegas, joined by my friend and colleague, Jeremy Corbell, beaming to us from parts unknown. Jeremy, how's it going?
2:32 Jeremy Corbell? Pretty good, man. Labor Day, just relaxing.
2:35 George Knapp? You know, it's here in the desert. It almost felt like autumn today. I mean, that is from about 7:00 a.m. until 9-ish, and then the heat kicked in and we're back to normal. You can hear the air conditioning making noise in the background. How about you?
2:48 Jeremy Corbell? Yeah, man, it's scorching, man. It's scorched earth right now, but that's okay.
2:52 George Knapp? Today, we have the pleasure of helping to spread the word about a new, highly credible, hugely important paper, put together by an organization named Unhidden, but based on decades of very solid work by people we know, data collected by names we know, addressing the question, "Are UFOs Bad For Human Health?" And if that question sounds familiar, it might be, because it's one that we have raised on this program, Jeremy, many times before, and in other venues and platforms in the past, based largely on the excellent work that was done by OSAP, the Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program, which was hosted by the DEA. It's the largest acknowledged UAP-related investigation
3:35 George Knapp? ever funded by the U.S. government. They may have bigger ones, but they haven't admitted to those. OSAP is the biggest that we know of, and the most of that work was done for the DIA. A lot of it was done by an organization called BAS, a company based here in Las Vegas. And we have talked to two of the principal program managers, Dr. Jim Lekatsky, Dr. Colin Kelleher in the past, and they've shared some of that information with us. But most of the work that was done by OSAP for the DIA has never seen the light of day. It's still bottled up somewhere. There have been leaks or two here and there. And Jeremy, you and I both helped release some of these DIRDs, these Defense Intelligence Reference Documents, that were meant to be distributed, at least within the J.WIX and intelligence
4:19 George Knapp? community, but the public had never seen them until we made them public. But one of the focuses of that study, the OSAP program, was health effects of UAP, UFOs, on humans, correct?
4:32 Jeremy Corbell? Yeah, and you know, it was really interesting when the DIA report was finally put out to the public and everybody's looking at it and they're seeing that close proximity to UAP causes all of these electromagnetic effects, radiation effects. I think it really hit home. People were most interested in that. What is that that causes all of those injuries that have been well documented? And being that it was a DIA document and then released to the public, it really captured the imagination of the public. Also, this new report that was done, it also touches on the 2021 ODNI report confirming UAP is physical object posing aviation risk. So what was cool was that this new report really pulled from all the literature
5:13 Jeremy Corbell? and information that was out there and historical context and brought it into focus about, you know, these kind of negative health effects caused by close proximity to UAP. And if we can't get people's attention on UAP because of stigma, certainly we can get their attention on the documented negative biological effects of close proximity to UAP. So I thought this was really foundational. I thought it was really good that an outside group went and did this.
5:39 George Knapp? Yeah, and obviously, these injuries, both physical, psychological, physiological, that are measurable, documented by medical professionals, they're not caused by clouds or weather balloons, or swamp gas, or planets, or any other bullshit explanations that we get for UAP. They're caused by physical effects generated by some kind of a craft. And the guy who put this all together, that founded this organization, his name John Priestland, he's our guest today. He's a physicist and management consultant, began his career as a civil servant, working for a UK cabinet office, before moving into senior roles in engineering consultancy. He's a fellow of both the Institute of Physics and the Institution
6:24 George Knapp? of Civil Engineers. In 2023, he created the Unhidden Foundation to promote better care for people affected by UAP, with a particular focus on mental and physical health. And John Priestland joins us now. Hey John.
6:38 Speaker 03 Thanks for having me on. It's great to be here.
6:41 George Knapp? Jeremy, you want to start it off?
6:42 Jeremy Corbell? Yeah, look, I was just fascinated in little circles. This paper got out a few days early, or at least a couple of days early, and I received it and I was reading through it and I could see a lot of primary sourcing coming from the DIA document that was released, but also just the way you thought about it was very unique. And you brought in a few other things that were not kind of correlated into this topic. So I just wanted to know kind of first off is, you know, why did you start this process, this organization? And how did you come about? Is this the first thing you've put out as an organization?
7:14 Speaker 03 So we, our focus last year was on mental health and wellbeing. So we put out a report entitled "The Impact of Exceptional Experiences on Mental Health and Wellbeing", focusing on the stigma, focusing on the fact that people are frightened to go to their doctors and tell them what they've seen, which I think is a terrible thing. And this year, we focused on the second pillar of the health triple, if you like, for UAPs, which is physical health. And that came out last Monday. And the third pillar will be public health. That is the
7:54 Speaker 03 health of populations at scale, and particularly how we can build more resilience around possible disclosure, where arguably millions, if not hundreds of millions of people may be affected. And we'll need to prepare for that, perhaps like a pandemic. And certainly, to be prepared is a good thing. And that's where public health comes in. So mental health, physical health, and public health. And the organization Unhidden is trying to bring a robust medical and clinical approach to the UAP topic. So we have a medical advisory board, made up of some really very eminent practicing clinical medical professionals. We have a neurophysiologist and a psychiatrist,
8:36 Speaker 03 a pathologist. We have two general practitioners, which is the everyday medicine in the UK. So somebody reporting having seen a UAP incident would typically go to their GP. And we have two clinical psychologists, including the head of a major European psychology department at a university. And so they've taken the editorial decisions on our health effects report. I put the information together along with a number of other people, very well connected. And our methodology has been developed in conjunction with somebody you know well, Dr. Tim Lomas. Tim is wonderful in the way he weaves his different breadcrumbs
9:18 Speaker 03 together into papers like crypto terrestrials. And he helped us create a particular methodology for what this is. This is a literature review. It's not primary research. He calls it curated emergence, which is a lovely phrase. And effectively, it means unlike a traditional literature review where you give much, much more weight to peer reviewed academic sources. In this case, you cast the net wider because of the nature of the topic. And that's very clear in the methodology. It also shows the challenges and weakness of the report. And we argue that we need more research, more research from civilians, but also potentially more research from the military and intelligence side of the of the wire, doctors on the other
10:01 Speaker 03 side of that, brought into the civilian community, which you touched on in your introduction, George, with both the the ORSAT paper, anomalous acute and subacute field effects on human and biological tissue, which is the main source of the information for our report. But also the suggestion very much echoed in in your book, Skinwalkers at the Pentagon, that there's more that ORSAT did and more that could potentially come out to help civilian doctors.
10:29 George Knapp? That program ended 14 years ago. The dirt that you reference and and reference in the study has been made public, and we'll talk about that more. But the other stuff that was done, the other studies, the other individual cases has not been seen. It must be frustrating in the sense that we know these things are real. They're not imaginary things in the sky, clouds and such. These these injuries are real. That was sort of the the brilliance and the courageousness of that study is that it followed the evidence wherever it led, no matter how silly it may be dismissed by the critics. You were not worried about pursuing these these subjects because the injuries are so real, correct?
11:09 Speaker 03 Well, that's right. And when one looks across the range of UAP cases, ones that we're all familiar with, many people will look at them as a set of technologies or a curiosity about what the craft or the cause is. Doctors would look at them as a really unusual set of medical cases, the sort of things that would get written up in the British Medical Journal, where a doctor says, I had a curious case the other day. I mean, there's enough, if you look across some of the cases that we covered, you know, Valensol, Vulcan Lake, if you look at Rendlesham, you know, Vulcan Lake has this very curious burn pattern on
11:50 Speaker 03 Stefan Michalak's chest. Where did that come from? You know, the mitral valve, mitral valve that failed with John Burrows in 2012, long time after the radiation exposure at Rendlesham. I mean, it's a fascinating case study for doctors. I mean, it would be a whole season on House MD. We need to get Hugh Laurie looking at some of this. But the doctors look at it a different way. And yet, people and their health issues are in the background. You know, they're seen as maybe collateral damage. And we think people matter. And we think that it's another reason, a third reason why people in Congress and policymakers should take this topic seriously. Clearly, there's national security, clearly
12:34 Speaker 03 there's safety of flight, but there's also health. And if Congress people are listening, then their citizens are being affected, their mental health and potentially their physical health is being affected. So come and have a look at what UAPs are all about.
13:20 George Knapp? Jeremy, you want to take it?
13:22 Jeremy Corbell? Yeah, I wanted to ask you, a couple of the ways you arrived to this conclusion is looking at specific cases and the health effects from those cases. One of them I was curious about as reading in your report was the Cash Landrum case. Really powerful case, we have what appears to be radiation poisoning. I was given a videotape by John Lear back in the day that I've never found online and it's a, it seems like just after the incident.
13:49 Speaker 05 Like I say, it wasn't completely diamond shaped, you know what I mean? Yeah. It wasn't perfectly pointed. That's the best way you can describe it, it's a tonic diamond shape. They got out of the car and I got him and get fresh inside the car. And so we leave and Toby Lee tried to run. And I grabbed him and held on to him and pushed him back to the car. He walked through the front of the car and I thought he was gonna get my nuts. If I hadn't had Toby with me, I probably walked quicker.
14:25 Speaker 05 We've got pictures where I had a bad spot all over me and I was in the bed for two weeks.
14:34 Speaker 05 I was just sick. My, uh, the, my hands peeled off completely. You know, like my fingernail, I mean, the whole thing peeled off, it's the nigger piece, it's the size of my nigger.
14:50 Speaker 05 But you can't ask, you know, it's part of the horse and you jerk my head around, you need to remember, the body, not the baby, I don't know. I think we were just at the wrong place with the wrong time. It was something, I believe that the government was escorting or something that got him to go all by the truck.
15:09 Speaker 05 I mean, they're supposed to protect people. But it's a shame that the handful of government officials in Washington DC can do anything they want and get fired with.
15:23 Speaker 05 Even commit murder and never be punished. But now they're handful of officials in Washington DC, they think they can do anything.
15:36 Speaker 05 And their place was clean. They don't have to answer or be respectful of nobody. Not even for themselves.
15:44 Jeremy Corbell? Um, I don't know their direct origin, but it was given to me by Lear and she's talking about the burns and talking about the hair falling out and all of these things. Out of all the cases you looked at for your report, i- is there any that really sticks out to you and why?
15:59 Speaker 03 Well, I think that one is is particularly concerning because as you say, a child was involved and it's just such a common everyday occurrence. People driving across the country and then whatever the cause was, it absolutely devastates their their their lives. I suppose I have a particular soft spot for Rendlesham and John Burrows, partly because that's a British case. And you know, we get the commentary over here that, hey, um, if UAPs were real, they wouldn't all be in America, you know, some of that absolute nonsense. And so where we point to cases like like Rendlesham, that's very good. And I think John Burrows um has been such a stalwart campaigning for better care
16:43 Speaker 03 and support for for veterans and and others affected.
16:47 Speaker 06 What the heck was going on out there that would draw this much attention from the the agencies involved to this day? What would still be classified? And if it is, what did we have or what will we be dealing with that would still remain silent today? Almost every weapon we've ever developed back in that timeframe has been exposed that we're aware of. And yet today, this is still classified and we can't even receive medical treatment for it.
17:12 Speaker 03 Uh, and he wrote a very persuasive article about two months ago in in the Roswell Daily News about the importance of this topic. So I think Rendlesham stands out and also links with some of the research that was done in the UK by the Ministry of Defence in the in the nineteen nineties.
17:31 George Knapp? Uh, one of the great parts about this report is it starts off with a bang with the Jacques Balle reviewing the literature, the work that he has done. I mean, he was an instrumental, a key figure in that whole OSAP program. And and I think it's hi- his part that notes how people are reluctant to report these injuries. There's there's no way really to estimate how many other people out there have had them because they they're embarrassed to to report it. Or when they do report it, they don't describe the actual circum- circumstances, right?
18:00 Speaker 03 Absolutely. So Jack wrote the foreword. He's an ambassador to Unhidden and he's spent quite a lot of time with our medical advisory board because he's had so many first-hand experiences, not of the craft or the objects themselves, but first-hand interviews with people who've had those experiences. And he writes, as you say in the foreword, he says, "Witnesses have sometimes told me that they did not dare tell doctors what had happened to them, so they made up a story to account for their complaint." And that also echoes the account of somebody else we feature in the report, a man called Paul Sinclair.
18:39 Speaker 03 Paul is an experiencer based in Yorkshire. He's the author of a book called Night People, which is very moving. And he talks about an evening in 1997 and the morning after where he wakes up remembering some vague sense of there being grey figures clustered round his bed. And there are three deep puncture wounds, ash-filled puncture wounds in his back. There's a picture, he took a Polaroid of it. There's a picture in the Unhidden report, and also a record from his case notes when he went to the hospital. And the case officer, the casualty officer, obviously asked him, "Well, what happened?" And Paul
19:23 Speaker 03 recalls that he would prefer to be regarded as a liar than to be thought of as mentally ill. So instead of explaining what happened, he said, "I don't know." Isn't that terrible? We're supposed to be able to go to our doctors because it's a pillar of our relationship with our medical system. We're supposed to be able to go and tell our doctors everything, intimate, embarrassing, they need to know, to coin a phrase. But not with this topic. The stigma around UAPs is so great, people would prefer to be regarded as a liar than to run the risk of a diagnosis of mental health. And one more point on this, which is there's a professor in France, a professor Thomas Rabayron from the University of Lorraine,
20:10 Speaker 03 Wonderful work setting up a counselling service for people who've had exceptional experiences. It's called Sursay. And he wrote a paper in two thousand and twenty three where he came up with a word for this, pathologisation. And he says that there's this double whammy of the experiences seeing something frightening, something in the sky that they can't explain. And then the the impact when they try and talk to their friends and families, they're ridiculed. And when they try and access the medical system, they're pathologised and potentially go down the road of a mental illness diagnosis. They're no more mentally ill than you, me and the and the gatepost. They've just seen something frightening and the medical system can't digest that.
20:52 Speaker 03 So a key reason for putting this report together is to be able to engage with the medical community, the professional bodies, the government departments. We're going to send a copy to Robert Kennedy Junior, N O H and the Surgeon General to engage with them and say, this is real. The information needs to flow down the chain so that if somebody comes in and says, I've seen something strange or I saw a blue orb in my bedroom to coin the what happened to the Axelrod family in Skinwalker at the Pentagon, George, then they're taken seriously. And it is not a diagnosis of mental illness that would naturally follow. Some people have delusions, that's part of the challenge of this topic.
21:34 Speaker 03 But most people have just seen something strange and frightening and they need care and compassion, not ridicule and shame.
21:41 George Knapp? In general, can you say whether these injuries are intentional? I know it's hard to make that generalisation, given all the breadth of what you cover in this report. But the only case I ever had was familiar with that where it seemed intentional was Kalaras, which you do reference in this report. I was there in the recent past. We've tracked down many of the people who were there. Many of the public perceptions about Kalaras and what happened are way off off base. According to the witnesses who had these injuries, they said these things weren't laser beams. They seem to be some sort of a sampling operation. They get stuck with some kind of a filament and a ball of light and blood is taken out of them.
22:22 George Knapp? Can you talk about Kalaras and whether or not that is the only injury, mass injury case where it seemed intentional?
22:31 Speaker 03 We wanted to include cholera because of the wounds. So just in terms of the structure of the report, section two is around UAP cases and drawing out the the medical aspects of them. Section three is a more detailed review of the the different mechanisms. So electromagnetic radiation, wounds, autoimmune infections. And section four is is on the the psychology and the mental health aspect. So we wanted to include cholera, but mainly because of the suck-suck, the the wounds that people have. But I think one of the things that is important from a medical perspective of UAPs, George,
23:13 Speaker 03 is that the doctors are much less interested in the in the cause than the than the treatment. And that that is that is the that is the case in in medicine generally, is what does this patient need and what can I do for them, rather than back up the chain in terms of what caused that wound or what caused that injury. That's for others, for investigators, for the police in civilian matters. And in this case, it's for ufologists. And Jack Vallée came and talked to our medical advisory board and he said, he said that the ufologist interviewing an experiencer will ask a series of questions to try and understand more about the experience, what they've seen and the nature of UFOs and reality, up to the point where was the alien wearing a hat?
23:58 Speaker 03 What was was there a badge on the hat? What colour was it? But a medical person will only ask those questions that are helpful and relevant to the the person and the patient. And there have been cases Jack was talking about where a doctor starts to put a patient into some sort of regression or some sort of hypnosis. They find out a little bit about what the experiences are and then they stop because they realise it's not to the advantage of the patient. Now, both of those approaches, the ufologist going one way and the doctor going the other way are legitimate. Unhidden is on the second of those. We're here to try and help raise the profile of care and to help that care when it's needed.
24:43 Speaker 03 It's for others, for ufologists, to to judge what's happening and the reasons for it.
24:51 Jeremy Corbell? There was a case you brought up in your report that I was less familiar with. It's Valensol, France, 1965, the French farmer Maurice.
25:00 Speaker 03 Yes.
25:01 Jeremy Corbell? Yeah, so what was interesting to me about that was that he, like a lot of people that don't want to go public, he talked about seeing a being and like a little child sized being. There's even a drawing of it that I found online. And essentially the the being walked up to him and and used this like a kind of pointed rod to paralyze him. And it's something that we've heard a lot about in UFO lore. Can you tell me anything about that case or what you found interesting about that?
25:31 Speaker 03 Yes, so Maurice Mass was a lavender farmer and he was out early in the morning. And he encountered a craft and a a small sort of four foot high being. He pointed, as you say, some sort of rod at him. And his symptoms were exhaustion. He had a change in sleep patterns and behavioral changes. And he largely refused to to talk about the some of the key aspects of it. He wanted to keep it to himself. And there is a film that's been made, a movie that's been made of that that will be out in the in the autumn, which I think will bring a lot of it to to life.
26:12 Speaker 03 Maurice Mass had been a distinguished member of the Resistance, as I recall, so was was very well regarded. And his testimony was seen with a huge amount of credibility of people in the in the village. But more than that, I can't say, but some of those symptoms start to overlap. And we don't have a a cause and effect here with some of the symptoms connected with with seizures. And there are different parts of the brain connected with different seizures. And so one of the things that's interesting is that Gary Nolan talks a lot about the chordate putamen as the region of the brain that may be affected. I think there are other aspects, the temporal lobe, the parietal lobe, that may also be affected.
26:56 Speaker 03 And it's possible that some of the symptoms that Maurice Mass had at least overlap with seizures, which may suggest certain aspects of the brain were affected.
27:06 George Knapp? The the report looks at physiological and psychological effects, and I don't know which category this falls into, but as you mentioned, Axelrod, who had encounters at Skinwalker Ranch, goes home and things start happening to he and his family in their home on the other side of the United States, and continued to happen for a number of years. You know, people who had those experiences, intelligence officers, scientists, who go to Skinwalker Ranch, are there to investigate whatever is going on, have had what has been called the hitchhiker effect. Is that psychological? Is it, could it be, do you have any theories on whether it is a side effect of technology?
27:48 George Knapp? You know, they see creatures that don't exist, and which leave physical marks, and what they face is not just skepticism, but absolute scorn and ridicule, and I'm amazed that any of these stories ever surfaced to begin with. But can you elaborate on whether you think that falls into a psychological or physiological side effect of encountering some strange technology, or do you even have a theory?
28:12 Speaker 03 It's very hard to say, isn't it? And the stigma around it and the initial approach to it, I mean, when one hears a story about the hitchhiker effect, when one is relatively new to the topic, it goes into that, I can't compute, that cannot be right bucket, and it's only when you really understand the integrity and the reputation of the people who are experiencing this, you know, extremely distinguished, very, very brave, courageous, battle hardened, intelligence community and military figures, that you go, oh, this must be a must be a real thing. So we really don't know.
28:53 Speaker 03 There are an interesting set and a broad range of symptoms and health issues around Skinwalker, aren't there? And I say again, George, draw attention to your excellent book, and make the point that arguably, yours is the definitive book on UAP medicine, because there is no other, and there is more. More about UAP medicine in that book than than than anything else. We've got orbs, we've got autoimmune conditions. There's a whole series of things and I think people should want to know. Uh, Skinwalker is a great case study of a whole series of symptoms, which as our report shows are echoed to some extent in many other cases.
29:38 Speaker 03 And I think uh, we want to know and we need to know because it could be somebody close to you, somebody close to me who's affected or a first responder. At Vajania, it was a first responder in terms of Marco Eli Cherezzi, who was affected. Uh, it's not only military and intelligence community people. Uh, civilians are affected and I think we want to know what uh, what happens.
30:03 Jeremy Corbell? I want to ju- jump into a couple cases just because I I think our audience. I was unfamiliar with some of the details. So I want to just, you know, kind of go through a reporting in your paper on Falcon Lake nineteen sixty five. I just want our audience to know kind of what we're talking about. So a few lines here on on twentieth of May nineteen sixty seven. There was an industrial mechanic, Stefan Michalak. And he was prospecting in Canada and he looked up and saw two cigar shaped UFOs with like a reddish glow hovering about forty five meters away. And then one descended, landing in close proximity, taking on more of like a disc shape, which is really interesting.
30:44 Jeremy Corbell? Goes from the cigar shape in the sky all the way down when it's landing to more of a disc shape. The the morphology, the changing of shape is interesting. So the other craft remained up in the air for a few minutes and then flew off. And he went closer um, to this like smooth metal ship. It had no seams. There was a bright doorway he saw on the craft, but he reached out and he touched the craft. Which then later it melted the fingertips of his prospecting gloves. And and shortly after that moment, he was struck in the chest by a blast of like, I guess, hot air or gas. They pushed him backward and I I hear he was really um, in disarray after that and had burns.
31:26 Jeremy Corbell? There's these famous pictures of him in the hospital with this grid like pattern of burns. So this is a different kind of interaction or negative health effect that I'm hearing about. He got so close and there was heat involved. Um, I'm glad you. I'm glad that you you put that into your your report. It's one of those iconic UAP encounters where someone had like physically been harmed by getting close to one of these machines. I don't know. What do you make of that?
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32:53 Speaker 03 Well, you've described that very well. I think one would write it very differently as a medical case report. One would focus less on the shape of the craft and more one would talk about the symptoms, those being nausea, burns, obviously the grid-like pattern which resolved to the grid-like
33:14 Speaker 03 position over a few days. So it wasn't initially like that. Mitchell Ak had diarrhea, headaches, blackouts. So a doctor would look at that side of things and go, well, what can this be? And there is a paper referred to in the ORSAT report by a man called Mac Campbell from 1973.
33:36 Speaker 03 Which goes a little bit further into some of the mechanisms. It's also even more definitive than the OSAT report about the proportion of UAP-related injuries that can be attributed to radio frequency electromagnetic radiation. And it even comes up with a rather bizarre mechanism for how the grid-like pattern could be formed using from electromagnetic radiation. So all roads lead back in McCambles view to electromagnetic radiation. We go, there must be other things, wounds, infections and the like.
34:16 Speaker 03 But the dominant mechanism of injury does seem to be between 400 megahertz and 2 gigahertz, which is in the ultra-high frequency in the microwave range.
34:26 George Knapp? That photo, Jeremy, it looks like a checkerboard chessboard on the guy's chess. It's pretty famous all over the place. There was a case that OSAT, you can continue asking him about the other ones you had on your list if you want. Go ahead.
34:39 Jeremy Corbell? Yeah, so I mean, just because I'm not sure how familiar, you know, we all learn these cases over time. We've seen images of them, but Rendlesham, you said, was close to your heart. That was 1980s. That was Airman First Class John Burrows, and he was stationed at RF Woodridge. And so it was December of 1980. And that case was really kind of interesting because that is a documented UAP case by our own military. There's multiple witnesses from audio recordings on. And I think with John Burrows, the thing was, was that he had what appeared to be a heart issue that was caused by that close encounter. And we actually had him in 2013 at the citizen hearing on disclosure put on by Ruben Langdon,
35:23 Jeremy Corbell? the unsung hero of the citizen hearing. And it was a big event. It was like 40 witnesses over almost a week. And we had him testify. And when Burrows testified, there's great footage of that. The five congresspeople and one senator that were up there were saying, this is ridiculous. How can you not get medical benefits when they've admitted that these events happened? Well, they wouldn't admit that he was there. I think that was the problem with his service. So we got everybody there to write up to John McCain and say, hey, this is a veteran. He needs surgery. This is because of a UAP exposure. And sure enough, I remember the day it happened where he got authorized for full medical benefits and could get a life-saving surgery.
36:07 Jeremy Corbell? That was the one good physical practical thing that came out of the the citizen hearing, which is a mock congressional hearing. And here we are after 50 years of a dry spell. We're probably on our third or fourth UFO hearing. We got one coming up. It's pretty exciting. But John Burrows, from what I understand, he got his medical ability to get the surgery. And in fact, I believe this to be correct. I heard from his lawyer that during the surgery, right before the surgery, they got a call in the hospital, if I remember correctly, from a military doctor that knew exactly what they needed to do in this surgery, which signaled to us that there is a known problem with close proximity to UAP. And it seems to be electromagnetic effect based.
36:50 Jeremy Corbell? But they told them exactly what to do to repair the heart injury. And I always found that fascinating. So is there anything I'm missing there on the the Rendlesham case? I just want our audience to understand what happened that day.
37:04 Speaker 03 I think the only thing I would add is that there were reports from here in the UK, including the Condyne report, which acknowledged enhanced levels of radiation at Rendlesham in 1980, which supported John Burrows' case and led to the change of view and the fact that the Veterans Association would then support him. But I'd also add, and we include some academic research that supports the link between.
37:36 Speaker 03 Electromagnetic radiation effects and heart defects. And it's interesting to note too, isn't it, that one of the various symptoms that Jake Barber talks about in his various interviews with Jesse Michaels and with Ross Coulthard is a heart valve defect. So it's going back to the methodology of the paper. It's a question of piecing together the little bits of evidence to find the major mechanisms of action. And then what follows on from that is, is how you share that with doctors, including civilian doctors, so that they know what to do and that there are treatment pathways, including to specialists. I think your example of needing to know how to treat the, the heart valve in surgery
38:21 Speaker 03 is a really good example. What if that was a civilian and the civilian doctor didn't know what to do?
38:27 George Knapp? We're talking about various health effects from encounter cases where people get too close, not to beat a dead horse too much, Kolarus, back to Kolarus. It was widely believed by the public, including the UFO public, that deaths had been caused by these ships that came out of the river, came out of the sky, fired these beams of light and, and it killed people. That, that had been reported. I, I couldn't find any documentation that supported that during our trip to Kolarus and, and the NIDS or the Bas guys who went down, I think they didn't come to that conclusion either. Do you have any cases in this report or in future reports where you can attribute UFOs caused a death?
39:08 Speaker 03 The, the doctor in the, in the Kolarus case suggests that two people died. That's in our report, but that's not what she said to the Brazilian authorities. And one may wonder quite what reliance may be given to that. But that's the only example I think we can think of where there is a, there is a statement of death related to one of the UAP incidents. But there may well be others and that's too, too many.
39:39 Jeremy Corbell? So you have these different types of effects that people get. Some of them seem intentional. So you go to Kalaras and people are, you know, hit with like a fiber optic kind of thing that George investigated in his Netflix series. And he heard the real story of that. So that's a real determined, like these objects are shooting things down onto people's chests and they're attaching. But there's the whole other thing, which is just accidental. It seems like just people close to the triangles, like Burroughs was, where he had these negative effects. They're two separate things. It's like the cause is intentional in some and other ones, they just seem like aftermath.
40:20 Speaker 03 One of the people who was generous with his time for the report was Whitely Strieber. So we had an hour with him and he shared some private correspondence with his neurologist, particularly around the white matter around his cordate puterman, which was interesting. And we've included that in the document. But I think he's a very thoughtful and balanced individual when it comes to the question of intent. He talks about some very intrusive procedures that he recalls from his experiences. And he's very balanced as to whether they meant to do it or whether they didn't know what they were doing. And I think the question of intent is particularly difficult, isn't it?
41:06 Speaker 03 When we don't know who the entities or the organizations who may be carrying this out. Back to the point around the medical interpretation of this, which is whatever the patient needs and that being the priority, it's not the cause, it's the effect and the consequence of that effect.
41:25 George Knapp? Are there other documentable brain effects that are considered in your report, your paper?
41:32 Speaker 03 Well, we go into some detail around the neurological effects and the work of Dr Gary Nolan, which is interesting, as you'll know, around the crossover between the patients and the cases who presented with Havana Syndrome and the patients who presented with UAPs. And of the 100 or so brain injuries that Dr Nolan and his team looked at, was it eight? Was it 12? Who were UAP encounters? It was a relatively small number. And that white matter in the Chordate Pewterman that Dr Nolan studies produces is interesting too, isn't it, in terms of some of the wider work that's going on around things like,
42:17 Speaker 03 to slightly use the euphemism, intuition, human potential and the like. And we're very clear in the report, the areas that we don't cover. So we explicitly exclude Havana Syndrome. That's not an area we want to look into. We explicitly exclude issues around consciousness. And I think it's good to be clear about that. And we also exclude some of the aspects around human potential and the telepathy tapes. But we suspect that these issues will converge. And in a book on UAP medicine in 2040, who knows what will be in that? Hopefully, there will be such a thing and UAP medicine will be taught at medical school.
42:59 Speaker 03 And as Jack Vallée says in his foreword, at the moment, there is no job description as a UAP symptoms and complications specialist. We hope there will be specialist roles in the various health systems for people who are particularly knowledgeable about UAP injuries, UAP medicine and UAP treatment.
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44:19 George Knapp? I have one more question for our guest, Jeremy, and then you can take it away wherever you want to go. But Jeremy asked you in the beginning, John, how you got started. We heard the when, it was 2023. But I want to go back to the why. I mean, you're a physicist. You do civil engineering projects. That doesn't normally lead to studying the health effects of people who encounter UFOs. Was there an event? Did you have a personal event or a series of articles? What got you down this road?
44:50 Speaker 03 So the personal dynamic is not being an experience here. I was very moved by the talk by Paul Sinclair, which I've already talked about. And I think it's a horrendous thing that the stigma exists around this topic so much. People go and lie to their doctors. That is a real dynamic. My personal introduction was I do a certain amount of work in the nuclear industry. And I was intrigued as to how the objects knew where the nuclear facilities were. Because if, as conventional physicists are supposed to believe, it's all swamp gas, all lightning to planet Venus, how do they know where the nuclear facilities are? Because that sounds like intelligent control.
45:33 Speaker 03 And what I found was, not that that was the interesting thing, but when I tried to share that with friends, colleagues, other physicists, you get that look, John, you've gone all conspiracy theory on us. And this stigma and shame around the topic is horrendous. Yingling and Yingling in a paper from last summer, August 2024, report that 69% of university academics are fearful of carrying out any research related to UABs because they're worried about ridicule and shame. So the research doesn't happen and and hidden was set up initially to try and encourage
46:14 Speaker 03 better conversations to roll back on the stigma and the shame. So you can have the conversation when you need it with your friends, with your family, and if you need to with your doctor. And our initial aspirations were quite low. And if we could help a few people, that would be great. I think we've done rather more than that. We're creating an impact. We're getting health and UAPs right up the agenda. And Unhidden's mission can be summarized in two simple words, which is people matter. And too often, that's neglected in and around the UAP topic.
46:48 Jeremy Corbell? Thank you so much. I appreciated reading your paper. I really suggest that everybody get their hands on it. We'll put a link in the show so people can read it. And I think reading the DIA version and then reading kind of how you've moved the ball forward with your organization. I think that's a really nice comparison of people should read both. I also encourage people to read the, what is it, the ODNI report from, you know, just basically about the preliminary summary on UAP and the importance of safety. Anyway, thank you so much. I really appreciate it. I look forward to seeing what your organization puts out as your third pillar.
47:27 George Knapp? Thank you, John. Thank you very much. We'll be talking to you soon.
47:30 Speaker 03 Bye bye.
47:31 George Knapp? That's a great report. You're right. We should share that with the public. People should read this. And I hope members of Congress read it before next week because there's a there's a big date on the on the calendar, right?
47:43 Jeremy Corbell? That's right. And one week from today, there's going to be a new UFO hearing. And there's no formal announcement that has been made out of all the people that were brought to them. But I know that a number of people have gone through the process successfully, meaning we'll see if there's an announcement made prior. But yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
48:05 George Knapp? We should probably be there.
48:07 Jeremy Corbell? Oh, we'll definitely do that.
48:09 George Knapp? All right, Jeremy. Talk to you soon.
48:10 Jeremy Corbell? All right. Thanks, George.
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