UFO of Fraud

Is Chris Bledsoe lying about his UFO experiences, or is he being played by the Government?

Chris Bledsoe has some wild stories. In his book, “UFO of God” he talks about seeing UFOs up close, getting abducted by aliens, experiencing ‘lost time’, seeing bizarre creatures around his home, and working extensively with US Intelligence Agencies. Oh, and also, he has Jesus level healing powers. 

He doesn’t want to be called a prophet, but if you take his story at face value, Chris is a modern day Ezekial. The night before Easter 2012, Chris saw “The Lady”, a beautiful, barefoot, white gowned woman, floating three feet off the ground in his backyard. She telepathically told him that “when the star Regulus arises on the horizon in the gaze of the Sphinx, at that time there will be a shift in the knowledge of humanity.” Regulus will line up like that around Easter of 2026. Get ready, enlightenment is only 16 months away! 

If you’re not a saucerhead, you might only hear stories like this while sticking a dollar in a crazy dude’s paper cup as you walk around his shopping cart full of trash. That isn’t Chris though. He seems sane. He ran a successful contracting business and he has a wise, calm, southern grandfather vibe. He has pictures and videos of some of the weird things that happen around him. Most interestingly though, he repeatedly mentions the government agents and scientists he’s talked to, worked with, or who’s children he’s healed. 

There isn’t much evidence of Chris’s UFO experiences, but there is a lot of evidence that elements of the US Government are messing with him. I’m a little bit interested in if there is any truth to Chris’s stories, but what I really want to know is, why do parts of the Government take him seriously? 

If you set aside the most fantastical parts of the book and just dig into the verifiable details, it seems Chris hasn’t done basic fact checking about his own story. There are easy to check details that don’t add up, which then call into question the veracity of the rest of his story. 

“UFO of God” opens with a story of Chris and his wife going to Philadelphia “On Thursday, September 22, 2015” at the request of his “well connected” friend Larry Frascella to look into a potential threat against the Pope who would be visiting Philly soon. There, Chris engages in a remote viewing session with US Army Colonel John Alexander (The guy from “The Men Who Stare at Goats”).

In the session Chris sees mental images of, “water, bridge, highway, metal, boat ramp.” As a result of this, Chris reports that, “Security tightened on the Walt Whitman and Betsy Ross bridges, and vehicle traffic was completely shut down on the Ben Franklin Bridge.” He goes on to say: 

“Federal prosecutors ended up indicting a local man with plotting to assassinate the pope near the Ben Franklin Bridge. Whether this arrest had anything to do with us, I do not know. It was obvious though the serious attention that was given to what I had encountered only days earlier.” 

Chris is correct that someone was arrested for plotting to assassinate the pope. Chris says he doesn’t know “if it had anything to do with us”, but he should. The attempted assassin’s name is Santos Colon, and he was 15 years old when the Pope came to Philadelphia. Here’s the thing, Santos’s arrest could not have had anything to do with Chris’s remote viewing session. Santos was arrested in August 2015, one month before Chris traveled to Philly. 

From the DOJ’s website about Santos’s case:

“According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court, Colon, a U.S. citizen, admitted that from June 30, 2015, to Aug. 14, 2015, he devised a plan to conduct an attack during the September 2015 papal visit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The plot involved utilizing a sniper to shoot the Pope during his Papal mass and setting off explosive devices in the surrounding areas.

Colon engaged someone he believed would be the sniper, but in reality was an undercover FBI employee. Colon engaged in target reconnaissance with an FBI confidential source and instructed the source to purchase materials to make explosive devices. FBI agents arrested Colon in 2015.”

Unsurprisingly, Colon was reportedly suffering from mental illness during this period. I could write an entire book about why the FBI shouldn't entrap mentally ill children, but let’s leave that aside for a second. This wasn’t a serious plan, and there was not a grave threat to the life of the Pope. Is Chris lying or is he confused about this?  

If the story that opens his book is untrue, you’d have to be suffering from Gell-Mann amnesia to keep reading and expect the rest of it to be real. But let me poke at a couple other details of his story. 

During Chris’s appearance on the Danny Jones show, he shares pictures of him and his family with  a variety of NASA scientists and Intelligence agents. From one perspective, it’s impressive that these government folks are interested in him. But from a different perspective, it raises the question: Do shadowy government agents usually go to high school football games and take pictures with the people they’re studying? 

It’s difficult to believe that a dude who works on a super-secret government UFO program would go somewhere with hundreds of witnesses and take pictures with the person he’s studying. This is the behavior of someone who wants this picture publicized, not someone who’s trying to keep his identity hidden.

For a skeptic, the hardest part of Chris’ story to believe are his healing powers. He claims that as a result of his experiences, he can put his hands on a very sick person, or dog, pray over them, and they heal instantly. He talks about four instances where this happens. The first occurs when their family dog spontaneously starts bleeding from the neck. Chris puts his hands on the dog, prays, and the bleeding stops. It’s not clear if the bleeding stopped because he applied pressure to the wound, or because of powers, but okay.

In the second case, he prays over a woman and heals her cancer. Okay.

The third and fourth involve “a prominent family” in Washington DC. They have a son who suffers from a Mitochondrial DNA disease, where his body doesn’t digest food. According to Chris, this boy’s condition is incurable and he doesn’t have long to live. This connected family is so desperate that upon hearing about Chris’s powers they beg him to come help. So Chris flys up to DC, prays over the boy, and miraculously, he’s healed! Years later Chris and his family get invited to this boy’s Bar Mitzvah and during the reception, one of the guests has some undefined health emergency and falls unconscious. Wouldn’t you know it, Chris steps up and revives this guy too, in front of an entire Bar Mitzvah reception full of Washington luminaries like “Mike Morell the deputy director of the CIA.”

The details about the bar mitzvah guest are pretty sparse, but I mean, come on! Was this an old guy? Were they drunk? Overdosed on narcotics? People faint all the time for a million reasons. It does not take Jesus powers to revive someone who lost consciousness, it takes a minute, or maybe less if you happen to have some smelling salts handy. 

To really disprove the claims about his healing powers you’d need to look at the medical records of the people he’s supposedly healed, talk to his ‘patients’ and witnesses, and go case by case looking at their labs and medical history before and after Chris prays over them. I don’t have the time to do all that, but I don’t think you need to to call bullshit on this. If Chris really could cure incurable diseases, why isn’t he just touring the country healing people? Would he be willing to do it in a clinical setting with doctors observing? If there really was something here, wouldn’t it stand up to medical scrutiny? Think about how much money we could save on healthcare costs as a country if instead of spending trillions on Medicare we could just call Chris to come in and heal people. 

The phony Pope Assassination attempt, the not-so-secret secret agents who pose for pictures with him, and the questionable healing powers add up to a less than convincing resume. Why should anyone care about Chris Bledsoe’s story? This is a loopy subject, talked about on loopy youtube channels. There are plenty of outrageous UFO stories on the internet, but this more than any other I’ve come across stinks of some kind of government plot. 

If it wasn’t already obvious, the Federal Government lies, deceives, and obfuscates to advance its own priorities, or cover up its mistakes. In just the past fifty years, consider:

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident

The Mai Lai Massacre

COINTELPRO & all of the other programs exposed in the Church and Pike Commissions

The Iran - Contra Scandal

The 9/11 Hijackers having Saudi Government support

Iraqi “Weapons of Mass Destruction” as a cause for war

COVID-19

These are instances where the government’s deception has been conclusively proven after the fact. Depending on how conspiratorially minded you are, there are dozens of additional scandals like the Franklin Scandal, TWA Flight 800, or the Jeff Epstein madness which seem similar. It’s becoming clear that UFOs are part of this pattern too. But the Government doesn’t just lie and deceive for the fun of it. What would an Intelligence Agency get out of gaslighting the public about UFOs?

Four years ago a podcast came out called “Wind of Change”. Here’s the description:

“It’s 1990. The Berlin Wall has just come down. The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse. A heavy metal band from West Germany, the Scorpions, releases a power ballad, “Wind of Change.” The song becomes the soundtrack to the peaceful revolution sweeping Europe — and one of the biggest rock singles ever. According to some fans, it’s the song that ended the Cold War.

Decades later, New Yorker writer Patrick Radden Keefe hears a rumor from a source: the Scorpions didn’t actually write “Wind of Change.” The CIA did.” 

This is an awesome pod, and worth listening to (after you’ve listened to the UFO stuff). Here’s how it relates to the UFO topic: in episode 7, the host “Patrick starts to fear that this entire podcast could be CIA propaganda.” He explains that “the CIA has an official liaison to Hollywood” that the CIA consulted on the movie “Zero Dark Thirty,” and that they have a longstanding history of working to shape public opinion about the agency. It’s useful for the Agency to bolster its reputation, and put fear, uncertainty and doubt into the minds of its adversaries. 

The scope and scale of the CIA’s myth-making program is understandably opaque. But it stands to reason that if the CIA does propagandize on it’s own behalf in pop culture it may do so in other ways too. Creating the impression that the agency is in control of otherworldly intelligence would fit that pattern.

The problem is, the CIA is an agency in a Democratic government. Governments can deceive the public for a while, but all governments, even the US, are predicated upon trust. The more dishonestly the government behaves, the more quickly public trust erodes. In any country, when the public completely loses trust in institutions the government collapses. It would be one thing if it were just Intelligence Agencies and just the UFO topic that citizens were being gaslit about, but it happens again and again in many parts of the Federal Government.

Government deception subverts the democratic process. The way a democracy should work is that if the government does things the citizens dislike, the citizens can throw out that government and bring in another one. Deception like the CIA is engaged in interferes with this core function of Democracy. If the government fucks with its citizens, it becomes much more difficult to organize, and vote against, and ultimately cast off unpopular policies. If the people don’t understand what the government is up to because the government is lying to them, then it will descend into being a Democracy in Name Only. This is dangerous, and should be resisted anywhere it pops up.

Whatever is actually going on with Chris, US government agencies, especially the CIA loom large over just about every aspect of his story. This is the real problem. Paranormal phenomena are impossibly difficult to understand, either because they’re a scam, or because they are touching parts of reality that we don’t have the tools or senses to understand. However difficult paranormal events are to understand in their own right, governments make it even harder. It is an atrocity that the US Government lies to its citizens like this. 

Is Chris Bledsoe being truthful about his paranormal experiences? I don’t know. But the government certainly isn’t. They are lying, obfuscating, and gaslighting, like they do about a lot of things. This lying will eventually have horrible consequences. Not just for depressed teenagers who are being catfished by the FBI, for everyone. You don’t have to believe in aliens to believe that.