What happens when the U.S. Military hires you to be a psychic spy? In this episode, former U.S. Army analyst, Paul H. Smith, shares his unbelievable story of being recruited into the government’s secret parapsychology program, better known as Project Stargate. From reading sci-fi books to scoring off the charts on classified aptitude tests, he walks us through what it was really like inside the military’s remote viewing program. We dive into: • How he was recruited into the top-secret ‘ps...

Is the Pentagon hiding a joint military operation right above our heads?In this episode, we sit down with legendary Canadian UFO researcher Chris Rutkowski to expose the truth about how Canada and the US are secretly tracking anomalous objects together. While the world looks at Roswell and Area 51, the real secrets might be hiding north of the border. We dive deep into classified NORAD files, the joint US-Canada shoot-downs over the Yukon, and why the Canadian government has a complete record...

In 1985, a night after Christmas in an isolated cabin in upstate New York, author and experiencer Whitley Strieber’s life changed forever. He awoke to find himself in a room full of non-human intelligence, an event that shattered his reality and ignited a lifelong, complex journey into the heart of the phenomenon. In this episode, Dan sits down with Whitley to discuss his abduction experience, the profound, often harrowing reality of life as an experiencer, and how he has navigated the...

The ‘Collins Elite’ is one of the most polarizing terms in the UFO community, often used as a blanket explanation for why high-ranking officials want to keep the truth in the dark. But what if the reality is much more tactical than we’ve been led to believe? At the world’s biggest UFO conference (Contact in the Desert), Dan sat down with researcher Jason Samosa, who shares his journey from studying for the ministry to uncovering the geopolitical and religious intersections of the UFO phenome...

This week on The Signal, Dan, Roz & Dale are joined by Kelly and Sam from Frightday for a wide-ranging live conversation about UFO disclosure, Contact in the Desert, Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, and one very suspicious light in the desert sky. The crew breaks down the latest push from David Grusch, lawmakers, journalists, and researchers calling for the U.S. government to declassify what it knows about UAP, non-human intelligence, biologics, legacy programs, and crash retrievals. Is this a...

What if human perception is far more flexible than we realize? This week, Dan sits down with mindsight teacher and consciousness researcher Dalia Burgoin to explore a world where blindfolded people learn to read, identify colors, navigate unfamiliar environments, and even develop new ways of perceiving reality. Dalia shares her unlikely journey from stay-at-home mom to one of the most talked-about voices in the consciousness community. Al...

With Disclosure Day coming to theaters, Steven Spielberg is finally delivering the culmination of a lifelong obsession. From a $500 home movie shot in an Arizona backyard to the biggest blockbusters in cinema history, Spielberg hasn’t just been making sci-fi, he’s been building a massive, interconnected puzzle. What if his alien movies were never actually about what’s “out there”? In this video, we trace the entire evolution of Spielberg’...

In this special combined episode of What It Means to Be Human, Dan sits down with screenwriter, author, and paranormal researcher Richard Hatem for a wide-ranging conversation that explores some of the deepest questions at the heart of the phenomenon. Best known as the screenwriter behind The Mothman Prophecies and host of Richard Hatem’s Paranormal Bookshelf, Richard shares his personal journey into the world of the u...

Is the UFO phenomenon a hardware problem or a consciousness problem? For 20 years, Nick Cook was the aviation editor for Jane’s Defence Weekly, breaking stories on secret weapons and black budget projects. But his investigation into the “Hunt for Zero Point” led him somewhere he never expected: a realization that our understanding of reality is incomplete. In this episode, Nick reveals the startling theory he developed over a poetic journey wh...

The first tranche of government UFO files has finally arrived, and the wall of silence may finally be cracking. In this episode, Dan digs through the files, AARO’s unresolved sightings, and Apollo-era transcripts to ask whether this is real disclosure or just a more polished version of the same old maze.