The Man Who Controls a UFO Fleet With His Mind

August 13, 2026

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Jeffrey Mishlove, the only person in the world with an accredited Ph.D. in parapsychology, spent eleven years studying a man named Ted Owens. Owens claimed to be in telepathic contact with “space intelligences” and said he could point his finger and make lightning strike where he aimed. On Christmas Eve 1985, he called Mishlove and said, “You have to notify the U.S. government not to send up the next space shuttle because if they do my UFOs are gonna knock it right out of the sky.” Mishlove ignored him. A few weeks later, the Challenger exploded.

The PK Man and His Demands

Ted Owens, known as “the PK man” (for psychokinesis), published a book in 1969 called How to Contact Space People. He claimed that beings he called “Twitter and Twitter” — named for the high-pitched squeaky sound of their telepathic communication — had been watching him since childhood. They told him he had the most powerful nervous system of anyone they had encountered since Moses, and they arranged for him to have a series of odd professions (jazz drummer, bullwhip artist, knife thrower) to make his mind flexible enough for contact.

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1 The Man Who Controls a UFO Fleet With His Mind
2 American Alchemy with Jesse Michels
3 (03:06) **Introducing Jeffrey Mishlove** - Jesse introduces his guest, a pioneer in parapsychology and host of New Thinking Allowed, discussing his unique doctoral degree and decades of research at the fringe of consciousness studies
4 (03:49) **Robert Bigelow's Essay Contest** - Mishlove explains how the billionaire shifted from UFO research to funding a competition on the strongest evidence for survival of consciousness after death
5 (08:41) **Who Was Ted Owens?** - Mishlove introduces the "PK Man," a figure who claimed telepathic contact with space intelligences and demonstrated psychokinetic abilities including weather control and lightning strikes
6 (11:14) **The Drought Prediction That Changed Everything** - Mishlove recounts how Owens proved himself to skeptical SRI researchers by ending a California drought with strange weather and UFO sightings
7 (18:11) **The Challenger Warning** - Mishlove describes the most chilling prediction: Owens called him on Christmas Eve 1985 and warned that his UFOs would knock the next space shuttle out of the sky

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