#398 - “There’s 10 of Them” UFO Super Users Confirmed by DARPA Scientist
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◆Hot Take· 1
◆Hot Take1:48:00
His Verdict on Bob Lazar: 'He Had to Have Come From Inside'
Maguire gives his personal read on Bob Lazar's claims about reverse-engineering alien technology at Area 51, arguing that Lazar's ability to accurately predict when saucer test flights would occur is stronger evidence than his disputed academic credentials.
Maguire argues predictive accuracy implies genuine insider knowledge, regardless of the degree disputes.
References George Knapp finding Bob Lazar's name in a Los Alamos phone book despite denials.
Dismisses the MIT-credential controversy as beside the point.
“I cannot understand how he could not have been inside and gone out to the desert and told them where they could look and when…”
#bob-lazar#area-51#hot-take#disclosure
✶Explainer· 3
✶Explainer27:00
How HawkEye 360's Satellite Triangulation Actually Works
Maguire founded HawkEye 360, a satellite intelligence company using clusters of three small satellites to triangulate radio signals anywhere on Earth via time-difference-of-arrival, competing with billion-dollar legacy spacecraft built on older, flight-proven tech.
Three satellites in formation measure time-difference-of-arrival of a signal to pinpoint its location.
Small antennas achieve the sensitivity of antennas 'hundreds of meters across.'
Works from 50 MHz up past 10 GHz.
Now part of official US national technical means for geospatial intelligence, used to catch illegal fishing and track Chinese military buildups.
Currently around 60 satellites, targeting 120-128 total; launched via SpaceX and Rocket Lab.
“Time difference of arrival of things that are moving at the speed of light coming into a system like that... tells you where that thing…”
“it's now officially included in the US national technical means to do geospatial intelligence gathering from orbit as a commercial entity.”
Why No Single Person Understands the Full UFO Program
Maguire explains the deliberate structure of classified UFO-related programs: each cleared group ('stovepipe') only sees its own slice of information, sensitive data gets moved into unaccountable private contractors, and the people running secret programs deliberately stay below the rank (GS-15) that would force political accountability.
Information is siloed into 'stovepipes' that don't talk to each other.
Federally funded research centers (Mitre, Rand, Sandia, Oak Ridge) are technically private corporations with no oversight.
Secret-keepers stay at GS-15 rank so they remain career civil servants rather than politically appointed and removable.
Even senior insiders like Mitre's Charles Clancy likely don't have the 'full picture.'
“It's stove piped like you wouldn't believe and everybody in it can't talk to anybody out of it.”
“So it's GS-15 people that are controlling these secrets all over the government.”
What a 'Superuser' Is Inside the Intelligence Community
Maguire describes a rare category of cleared personnel called 'superusers' — fewer than ten people, by his account — who can access almost any classified program without first proving a specific need-to-know, and says he personally knows two of them.
Superusers have clearance-without-need-to-know, unlike normal compartmentalized access.
Maguire deliberately avoids asking them questions to protect his own life and relationships.
He references a claim from another guest that fewer than 10 people have the 'full picture.'
Says he doesn't know who, if anyone, superusers answer to.
“a superuser is a person that's cleared but hasn't has to can have access without first having need to know.”
“I never ask them questions. I do not want to be inadvertently dragged into something that utterly changes my life.”
First Encounter: The 'Fast Walker' That Passed His Nuclear Submarine
In 1997 aboard the USS Hampton, a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine, Maguire experienced an unidentified submerged object nicknamed a "fast walker" by the sonar crew — moving faster than the speed of sound in water, hundreds of meters down, with zero cavitation. He describes it as the moment he first understood something not built by any human technology.
Nickname 'fast walker' came from the senior sonar chief, not Maguire.
Object moved faster than the speed of sound in incompressible water without cavitation (turbulence).
Crew went silent and wouldn't make eye contact when it happened.
No one told him it was classified, so he considers himself free to tell the story.
“Sir, it's a fast walker. It's moving faster than the speed of sound in incompressible water, hundreds of meters below the surface.”
“I understood immediately that nothing I knew about on Earth could ever do it. I knew it was not us.”
#submarine#navy#uso#intelligence-community
❝Story04:30
The Object That Blocked the Rain During a Typhoon
In 2008 aboard the USS Blue Ridge during a typhoon in the Sea of Japan, Maguire watched glowing lights hover roughly 100 meters above the 450-foot flagship, blocking rain from the entire vessel with no radar return, before shooting straight up and vanishing.
Happened inside the eye wall of a typhoon with 90-knot winds and 40-50-ft seas.
Object was larger than the ship itself and left no radar signature.
Visible vortices in the air as it shot straight upward before disappearing.
Second personal encounter after the 'fast walker' incident, 11 years apart.
“Whatever this was was huge.”
“Whatever it was was an unidentified aerial phenomenon larger than the flagship of the seventh fleet.”
#navy#uap#typhoon#unexplained
❝Story08:30
The First Time He Watched a 40-Foot Orb Appear Over the Trees
In January 2020, Maguire visited experiencer Christopher Bledsoe in North Carolina after hearing him interviewed by Richard Dolan. On the third night, a glowing, plasma-like orb roughly 40 feet across flashed into existence above the trees, moved erratically, and vanished — the encounter that pulled him fully into UAP research.
Maguire was already the administrator of the Richard Dolan online forum.
He went to see Bledsoe specifically after Dolan's four-part interview series.
The orb reportedly responded to an unspoken thought Maguire had ('I wish they would come out of the trees').
Bledsoe's son Ryan later witnessed a similar, even larger event.
“a gigantic 40-ft orb flashed into existence right above the trees and it moved around and moved around and moved in ways that nothing like…”
“They had read my mind and I knew it instantly.”
#uap#chris-bledsoe#orbs#experiencer
❝Story12:00
Something Followed Him Home From Bledsoe's House
Within two weeks of visiting Bledsoe, Maguire and his then-partner reportedly experienced unexplained squirts of water appearing out of thin air inside their own home — a phenomenon he calls a 'hitchhiker.'
Water hit him on the leg, chest, and head with no visible source.
His partner independently reported the same thing happening to her downstairs.
Maguire calls this kind of follow-home effect a 'hitchhiker.'
Led him to help Bledsoe prepare his first public talk at UFO Con 2020.
“It's called Hitchhiker. Within 2 weeks, oh yeah, within 2 weeks, we had weird experiences in our home.”
#uap#chris-bledsoe#poltergeist#experiencer
❝Story13:30
A Cardiologist Told Him His Damaged Heart Was Now 100% Functional
After four heart attacks and a quadruple bypass, Maguire's cardiologist ran a stress test and found no trace of heart damage — describing his heart as functioning like a 30-40-year-old athlete's. Maguire treats the episode as the moment he decided to stop trying to be objective about Bledsoe.
Test came shortly after he began spending time around Bledsoe.
Cardiologist said the results looked like an elite athlete's, not a bypass patient's.
Maguire calls it the moment he 'cannot be objective where Chris is concerned.'
He chose friendship over continued scientific study of Bledsoe.
“this stress test with all of the EKG we did show that you have a 100% functional heart... You don't have any heart damage.”
“I cannot be objective where Chris is concerned. I'm going to be friends with him and his family. I'm not going to be a scientist.”
#chris-bledsoe#healing#health#unexplained
❝Story45:00
The Day He Realized Carl Sagan Was a Cleared Intelligence Contractor
Summoned to NSA headquarters to explain how he'd decoded a Soviet Venus probe's data, Maguire found Carl Sagan and Arthur C. Clarke in the room — and noticed Sagan was wearing a green-bordered badge that only cleared intelligence contractors are issued.
Meeting was ordered under a Clinton-era tech-transfer initiative to SETI-affiliated scientists.
Sagan's badge had a green border, marking him as a cleared contractor with access to intelligence spaces.
Maguire says this contradicts Sagan's public 'outsider' persona.
He speculates this explains Sagan's later cooling on UFO topics.
“The only way you get a picture badge allowing you to roam around the intelligence community is to be a cleared insider. He was a…”
#carl-sagan#intelligence-community#nsa#history
❝Story39:00
His PhD Thesis Accidentally Decoded a Secret Soviet Venus Probe
While at the Institute for Defense Analyses, Maguire used his new nonlinear-filtering math to demodulate a mysterious signal brought by a visiting JPL scientist — which turned out to be data from the Soviet Vega Venus balloon probes, secretly recorded by the US despite an agreement not to.
Signal was weak and highly frequency-unstable; took about six weeks to demodulate on a supercomputer.
Data carried atmospheric measurements from balloon probes dropped into Venus's atmosphere en route to Halley's Comet.
The US had secretly recorded the signal despite promising the Soviets it wouldn't.
Results were hand-carried on paper, with gloves, from Princeton to JPL.
“we we recorded the signals anyway... If you don't say anything, we won't say anything.”
#nasa#venus#cold-war#signals-intelligence
❝Story1:03:30
The Retired Air Force General Who Vanished Without a Trace
Maguire discusses the disappearance of a retired Air Force major general connected to disclosure advocacy (via To the Stars Academy), including a 911 call from his wife that he finds strange, and his own theory that special-access-program non-disclosure agreements can be used to quietly relocate insiders whose faculties are declining.
Maguire has personally signed similar unacknowledged special-access-program NDAs with severe consequence clauses.
His theory: cognitive decline plus knowledge of deep secrets can trigger a managed disappearance.
He finds the wife's 911 call demeanor 'rehearsed' rather than distressed.
Notes the timing coincided with early Trump-era UFO document releases.
“With all these secrets in his head, he began showing signs of dementia. And so, he would be one that would be picked up and…”
His Remote-Viewing Session That Nailed a Sealed Target
Training under a former Stargate-program remote viewer, Maguire describes a session where he sketched flashes of a jungle, a pyramid shape, and red-and-yellow flags — which matched a sealed photo of a pyramidal structure in Indonesia surrounded by red and yellow survey flags.
Target was sealed in an envelope; the person who chose it didn't know its contents.
The revealed photo matched: a jungle pyramid in Indonesia marked with red and yellow flags.
He frames it as evidence that people and inanimate objects can exchange information by unknown means.
“I had gotten it exactly right.”
“what this says to me is an inanimate object and I can communicate with each other by some means.”
#remote-viewing#stargate#psi#consciousness
❝Story2:18:30
How Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Cured 18 Months of Depression in 3 Months
After retiring in 2020 amid COVID isolation, Maguire fell into 18 months of severe depression. A ketamine-based psychedelic therapy protocol — sublingual lozenges twice weekly paired with next-day cognitive behavioral therapy, tapering to weekly — fully resolved it within three months.
Administered as sublingual lozenges, roughly a 4-hour experience each session.
Started at 2 sessions per week, tapered down to 1 per week as treatment progressed.
Each ketamine session was followed the next day by a CBT session to retrain thought patterns.
Maguire reports zero bad trips despite severe depression going in.
He had to formally disclose the treatment to keep his security clearance.
“I went from wondering if I should go on living to completely cured in 3 months.”
“you would have the neuroplasticity work and then a day later you would have the cognitive behavioral therapy person tell you how to change your…”
#ketamine#mental-health#therapy#psychedelics
❝Story2:24:00
Waking Up Outside His Own Body During Blindfolded 'Mindsight' Training
While training in blindfolded perception techniques under mentors from the 'mind's eye' community, Maguire describes spontaneously leaving his body, seeing himself asleep next to his girlfriend, and panicking back into his body — his first remembered out-of-body experience, with no drugs involved.
Happened during blindfolded-seeing practice, not during any substance use.
He initially thought he could see through the blindfold before realizing what was happening.
Saw his own sleeping body from an external vantage point and panicked back into it.
Notes explicitly this occurred fully conscious, without drugs.
“I was out of my body looking at me next to my girlfriend and I panicked and I jumped back into the body and woke…”