
Dr. Diana Pasulka | American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, & Technology
Dr. Diana Pasulka, professor of religious studies at the University of North Carolina, reveals how Silicon Valley billionaires and elite scientists are treating the UFO phenomenon as a new global religion. Her six-year investigation, documented in the Oxford University Press book American Cosmic, details a secretive subculture of high-level academics and tech leaders who believe extraterrestrial intelligence is actively shaping human innovation. This research connects the Vatican Secret Archives to the New Mexico desert, suggesting that modern technology may be the result of inspiration derived from non-human artifacts. Jacques Vallée and a group of anonymous scientists known as the Invisible College operate in silos to study recovered materials, including a substance described as metallic frog skin found at a blindfolded research site. These figures, including a space program scientist pseudonymously named Tyler, claim to receive experimental breakthroughs through mysterious memories and signals shielded from public view. The investigation links the 16th-century ecstasies of Saint Teresa of Avila and the 17th-century bilocation of Maria de Agreda to modern abduction narratives, suggesting a functional identity between historical miracles and contemporary alien encounters. Following the 2017 New York Times disclosure of the Pentagon's AATIP program, institutions like Harvard University and NASA are now re-evaluating the academic legitimacy of these aerial phenomena. The human side of this mystery emerges in the New Mexico desert, where a research team discovered that a physical crash site perfectly mirrors a filming location for The X-Files, blurring the line between physical reality and Jungian mythology. Dr. Pasulka recounts the surreal experience of gaining access to the Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo alongside a billionaire-funded scientist who bypassed traditional academic credentials. The episode concludes with Greg Carlwood reflecting on the cycle of secrecy and the difficulty of whistleblowing within the cynical landscape of modern disclosure.



















