“The NSA Hired Me To Speak To Aliens!” -Sergeant Dan Sherman

October 17, 2025

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The NSA Hired Him to Speak to Aliens

In the early 1990s, Air Force Technical Sergeant Dan Sherman was sent to the NSA complex in Laurel, Maryland for routine continuing education in electronics intelligence. Instead, a captain he'd never met called him into a windowless office and told him something that would upend his understanding of reality: he had been genetically modified as a fetus to telepathically communicate with aliens.

Sherman's story, told in a remarkably calm and unadorned manner to host Jesse Michels on American Alchemy, is one of the most concrete and least histrionic accounts to emerge from the UFO whistleblower community. He served twelve years in the Air Force, has a verifiable service record, and was cross-trained into electronics intelligence—the field that analyzes enemy radar and communications signals. In the early 1990s, while attending a routine continuation course at the NSA complex in Laurel, Maryland, a captain he'd never met called him into his office and told him he was part of a program called Project Preserve Destiny.

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1 (00:24) **Project Preserve Destiny Revealed** - Captain White briefs Dan Sherman at the NSA complex, explaining he was genetically modified as a fetus for telepathic alien communication.
2 (04:42) **Sherman's Background & Path to the Air Force** - Sherman describes his childhood, military entry, and cross-training into electronics intelligence (ELINT).
3 (14:29) **Recruitment into Project Preserve Destiny** - Sherman is called to the NSA complex for a continuation course, but is instead briefed on PPD by a captain.
4 (41:13) **The Training: Tones, Sine Waves, and "Clicking"** - Sherman describes the initial training at an underground facility near the NSA complex.
5 (01:09:00) **First PPD Base: Communicating with "Spock"** - Sherman is stationed overseas and begins receiving communications from an alien he nicknames "Spock."
6 (01:41:00) **Second PPD Base: Communicating with "Bones"** - Sherman is transferred to a larger base (likely Offutt AFB, Nebraska) and communicates with a different alien, "Bones."
7 (02:18:00) **Moral Crisis and Exit from the Program** - Sherman becomes uncomfortable relaying data on abductions and seeks to leave the Air Force.

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Our American Alchemist this week is Dan Sherman. A former NSA electronic intelligence specialist who claims to have been part of a classified project called Project Preserve Destiny. A Cold War-era program designed to create Intuitive Communicators capable of relaying messages from non-human intelligences. Sherman reveals chilling details from his time inside NSA facilities: retina scans, blue vans, and underground “black box” rooms where soldiers were dosed, monitored, and trained to think in frequencies. His story winds from his mother’s reported abductions to advanced DARPA research in noise-cancellation technology, scalar physics, and remote-viewing experiments that blur the line between consciousness and code. Please join our Substack (New!) American Alchemy Magazine ➤ https://substack.com/@americanalchemymagazine | Dan Sherman | Book➤ https://www.amazon.com/ABOVE-BLACK-Preserve-Insiders-Government/dp/B0D9YDT8M8/ref=tmm_aud_sw | Thanks To Our Sponsors | MUDWTR: Start your new morning ritual & get up to 43% off your @MUDWTR with code [JESSE] at https://ambassadors.mudwtr.com/JESSE #mudwtrpod Qualia: Take control of your cellular health today. Go to https://qualialife.com/jesse and save 15% to experience the science of feeling younger. -------------------------- Instagram ➤ https://www.instagram.com/jessemichelsofficial TikTok ➤ https://www.tiktok.com/@itsjessemichels X ➤ https://twitter.com/AlchemyAmerican Spotify ➤ https://tinyurl.com/jessemichelsspotify Clips Channel ➤ https://www.youtube.com/@JesseMichelsClips Merchandise ➤ https://www.americanalchemymerch.com/ Media Inquiries ➤ [email protected] #NSA #AlienSignal #Contact #DanSherman Chapters 00:00 Intro 04:17 Above Black, “receiving” vs “downloading” 06:38 Chaotic childhood and early anomalies 08:55 SR-71 mentor and spark for patriotism 11:18 From Security Police to ELINT, Offutt AFB 13:43 NSA continuation course surprise detour 14:39 AD READ – Mudwater (energy without crash) 16:03 The black glass box at NSA Laurel 18:20 First classified briefing and retina access 20:44 Need-to-know culture, the onion layers 23:07 1960 alien-seeded program revealed 25:00 Mother’s abductions and “genetic management” 27:24 Tracking offspring into the military 29:47 Shock and silence, protocol over questions 34:53 AD READ – Cornbread CBD (dry January alt) 36:45 “Future event” mission for Intuitive Communicators 39:10 Blue van to secret school, elevator descent 41:37 Headphones, pills, and two consoles 46:21 The “click” – mind to screen becomes real 50:49 Belief versus physics in consciousness control 53:08 From tones to symbols and meaning layers 57:57 Carrier-wave model for consciousness signaling 1:01:05 AD READ – iRestore (laser cap) 1:07:18 Noise Cancellation Tech and DARPA ties 1:11:38 Scalar potentials and Hal Puthoff parallels 1:14:00 Remote viewing and time-agnostic perception 1:18:50 Overseas post and new black-site detachment 1:23:16 Dual vans and secret workstations 1:29:46 First li