As a child, a devastating head injury left John Seer in a coma and led to a powerful near-death experience. Years later, at just sixteen and serving in the Royal Navy, he witnessed a UFO tracked on radar and confronted by military aircraft. During the encounter, he received an astonishing message: “We are your children. Your children’s children. We are from the sea and the sky.”

But that was only the beginning.

Mark Booth returns to Dreamland for one of the strangest shows we have ever recorded.

Mark’s new book, The Secret History of the Universe, explores an ancient idea now reappearing at the edges of modern physics: that consciousness may be more fundamental than matter, and that the universe itself may be permeated by intelligence. Mark and Whitley follow this possibility into some extraordinary territory—quantum physics, mystical experience, the nature of nonhuman intelligence, Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung, the mysterious fine-structure constant, and the possibility that mathematical truths exist independently of the physical universe.

Then the conversation takes a darker turn.

This week on Dreamland, Whitley Strieber welcomes filmmaker Ron James, creator of Accidental Truth: UFO Revelations and its provocative sequel, Accidental Truth—Next: Beyond UFO Disclosure. Together, they move past the familiar arguments about unexplained objects and secret retrieval programs to confront the deeper questions: Who controls disclosure? What are they afraid to reveal? And could […]

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Disclosure is coming—but what happens when the truth is filtered through institutions that already fear it?

Retired government attorney and lifelong experiencer Jim Lough comes to Dreamland with an explosive warning: if political, military, intelligence, or religious authorities define nonhuman intelligence as demonic, experiencers could be branded as collaborators, corrupted witnesses—or even enemies.

We are not just in debate right now about whether UFOs are real. We are also in a battle for control of the story…and therefore also for the lives and well-being of the people who have experienced contact.

On this episode, monthly guest host James Faulk (host of the Neon Galactic podcast) interviews author Mike Fiorito on creativity, the alien, and inspiration, as well as the evident similarities between music, other sounds, and the deepest layers of reality.

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Could the close-encounter experience leave measurable evidence in human DNA?

This week on Dreamland, Whitley asks this provocative question of a molecular geneticist who thinks he can find the answer.

What if contact isn’t an isolated event—but a legacy carried through generations?

In this Dreamland episode, Whitley Strieber speaks with Laurie, a close encounter witness whose experiences reach deep into her family’s past—and continue into the present in ways that challenge everything we think we know about contact.

Her story begins long before she was born, with a lineage tied to ancient European traditions and a startling encounter in the 1940s, when a golden orb descended from the sky and examined her family before vanishing. From there, the experiences unfold across decades: the famous Kecksburg incident witnessed as a child, mysterious orbs outside her window, a massive hovering craft and missing time, and later, repeated visitations from small beings who appeared in her bedroom over a period of years.

A totally wild tale told by a gentle woman who has support from family members about what has to be one of the most revealing and amazing story of extreme experiences we’re ever going to hear. Plus, throughout the interview, Whitley keeps reporting bizarre experiences of deja-vu, a first in the entire history of Dreamland. He says, “when I first laid eyes on her, it was as if I had known her for years. Then it kept feeling like I had ALREADY DONE the interview, and was repeating myself. Very, very anomalous for me.”  This wonderful story reminds us of a truth that the powers that be would prefer we forget: we are MORE and WE are the mystery here!

This week on Dreamland, Whitley welcomes Ronnie Pontiac, writer, scholar of esoteric traditions, and longtime student of the hidden spiritual currents that have shaped human history. Ronnie’s new book, The Unobstructed Way, reopens the astonishing story of Stuart Edward White and Betty Grant White, whose early 20th-century communications with “the invisibles” offered a profound vision of consciousness, immortality, and the afterlife as realities present here and now.

On this episode of Dreamland, guest host James Faulk interviews Reddit moderator Oak Draíocht, also known as Conor Sisk, about his long experience of anomalous contact and his downloaded mission to establish a community for experiencers of the phenomenon.

Sisk is a founder and principle organizer of the largest online experiencer community, r/experiencers on Reddit.

We explore how Sisk first realized the reality of extent of his relationship with non-human intelligence, and came to understand what was at stake in terms of human evolution and the ongoing awakening of global consciousness. A message first received in childhood has unfolded over the years to deliver Sisk an important message about his role and responsibilities in fostering a supportive environment for those who’ve come into contact with the phenomenon.

We also discuss how experiencers are often pursued and commodified by corporate and governmental powers, and why Reddit has become a hot bed for disinformation.