On the UFO fringes – Jesse Michels, David Grusch, and the CIA's latest claims
Sinking deeper into disclosure.
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- Jesse Michels and Jason Samosa alleged a Panama-registered group manages a global UFO cover-up.
- David Grusch’s new documentary appearance connects UFO disclosure with Catholic questions, but critics cite a lack of physical evidence.
- Jim Semivan said UFO truths may be psychologically difficult and described personal experiences that shaped his views.
- The claims show UFO disclosure debates moving beyond evidence into religion, intelligence secrecy, and public trust.
Key Takeaways by nexos.ai, reviewed by Cybernews staff.
This week, back on the fringes, investigative host Jesse Michels, whistleblower David Grusch, and former CIA officer Jim Semivan have added so many new claims that the UFO iceberg could sink under their weight.
UFO disclosure has moved from the fringes of late-night radio shows to being talked about in the halls of Congress. This week, however, we look at what’s been happening on the periphery.
Another corporate cover-up claim
Jesse Michels hosts niche science and subculture podcast American Alchemy, and this week had researcher Jason Samosa on the show, where they discussed the claim that the global UFO cover-up is administered by a secret society registered in Panama called the World Commerce Corporation (WCC).Posting on X, Michels claimed:
“It was born from a secret 1944 meeting in Paris where the Nazis, seeing the war was lost, planned to smuggle their scientists, technology and gold out of Europe.”
Guest Samosa also claimed the alleged secret network inspired a fictional conspiracy in a series of UFO novels by Blink-182 co-founder Tom DeLonge.
The novels portray a powerful organization that secretly controls knowledge of UFO technology, which Samosa says mirrors the WCC’s role.
The chilling twist in the timeline is that McCasland went missing from his home in late February 2026, shortly after President Trump announced he was to order the declassification of the UFO files. McCasland hasn’t been found since.
🚨BREAKING🚨: The UFO cover-up is controlled by a secret society, founded in 1945 by the American and British spymasters who ran Allied intelligence in WWII, funded by dynastic banking money and built on the Nazi technology they smuggled out of a collapsing Europe.
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The conversation also tackled claims that some intelligence officials in the 1950s believed UFOs were "demonic" rather than extraterrestrial.
According to the theory, religious factions inside the intelligence community worked to suppress UFO research because they believed the phenomenon was inherently evil. There have been echoes of the otherworldly in other places, most notably with Vice President JD Vance, who wove religion into the UFO narrative back in April.
Could religion explain non-human intelligence?
Speaking of religion, the new documentary Not of This World: Catholic Faith in the Age of Disclosure (slated for release in late 2026) features whistleblower David Grusch. As a practicing Catholic, Grusch sparked intense theological debate by stating in the trailer:
"As a Catholic, I actually have more questions than answers and I would like the Church to lead on this."
The trailer showcases several witnesses of heavenly-style spacecraft in the sky, and it also links this religious theme to a conspiracy theory centering on a Vatican UFO claim regarding a rumored 1933 crash in Magenta, Italy.
Whistleblowers allege that Pope Pius XII learned about the recovered alien craft, secretly backchanneled the information to the US, and ultimately helped the US acquire the object at the end of World War II.
David Grusch: “As a Catholic, I actually have more questions than answers and I would like the Church to lead on this”
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New UFO documentary “Not of this World: Catholic Faith in the Age of Disclosure” investigates the intersection between Catholicism and the Phenomenon. pic.twitter.com/9pdZuexkD6
Back in May, Grusch warned against speaking of angels and demons too much into disclosure and accepted spiritual interpretations, but concluded it “theologically premature” to employ a theological framework when talking about aliens.
Despite his bold claims, some in the UFO community are growing skeptical of Grusch's lack of physical evidence, with Reddit user mcmiller1111 writing, "His whole thesis is basically 'some people told me this and showed me some documents and I believed them.'"
The frightening “indigestible” truth about UFOs
Former 25-year CIA Senior Intelligence Service officer Jim Semivan has pulled back the curtain on the profound psychological and operational realities of dealing with the phenomenon, warning that the truth might be too heavy for human society to easily carry.
Appearing on the Engaging the Phenomenon podcast, Semivan warned of a fragile, quantum-based reality, one in which "the real world actually... doesn't exist unless you observe it, you know, as quantum mechanics will say," leaving open the wild possibility that "we could all still be figments of each other's imaginations."
As an experiencer himself, Semivan's quest for answers is deeply personal, driven by mysterious, high-strangeness physical encounters in his own home:
"I want to know why they came... I want to know why they damaged my wife. I wanted to know why they damaged me,"Semivan revealed.
Semivan recalled how former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Christopher Mellon, who had full access to the military's most secret portfolio, was "unsettled" to discover that, despite his rank, the actual UAP program "was being run out of a different place."
Addressing rumors of sinister human factions placing tracking implants in UAP abductees, Semivan proposed a different, psychological theory: "Do they [the entities] basically make you see, you know, human beings involved in it to... confuse you, or who knows, abuse you, or maybe even make you feel more comfortable?"
