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  • American Alchemy with Jesse Michels

    BREAKING: Brazil’s Defense Minister Says They’ve Had Alien Contact [Exclusive Interview]

    11/06/2026 | 2h 40 mins.
    Our Alchemist this week is Brazil’s former Minister of Defense, Aldo Rebelo.

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    Brazil's former Defense Minister and current presidential candidate Aldo Rebelo confirms the country has had contact with non-human intelligence dating back to at least the 70’s. He says that in 1977, in Colares, UFOs were injuring civilians in the Amazon with burns, puncture wounds and blood loss serious enough to trigger a classified military investigation. In 1986, six fighter jets were scrambled against 21 unidentified craft detected by radar – the objects were flying at Mach 20+ and making right angle turns, maneuvers well beyond the capabilities of the most advanced craft today. He also confirms that the 1996 Varginha UFO crash occurred, that non-human beings were encountered, and says he fully believes the neurosurgeon who came face to face with one of them in a hospital bed. He also confirms the American military would have had an immediate strategic interest in the case. Rebelo says there is more classified information about these cases and others, and that they should be released alongside America's. Rebelo’s confirmation of the events at Varginha is the equivalent of former Defense Ministers in the United States like Robert Baker or Jim Mattis saying Roswell happened; its world history that can’t be walked back. And it ends decades of condescension and gaslighting from top ranking officials on this topic.

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    0:00 - Introduction

    0:00 - Introduction

    4:30 - Sponsors (Shopify, Cowboy Colostrum)

    6:38 - Guest Introduction

    8:08 - Rebelo's First UFO Interest

    10:10 - Brazil's Three Major UFO Cases

    11:02 - Colares: Chupa Chupa Attacks

    14:14 - Operation Prato Still Classified

    16:48 - Theories on Colares

    19:53 - Disclosure and National Secrets

    23:13 - UFOs, Religion, and Brazil

    27:41 - Sagan, Science, and Fiction

    31:01 - Brazil's Night of UFOs 1986

    36:27 - Were UFOs Man-Made?

    41:46 - Would Rebelo Open the Files?

    50:12 - Varginha 1996: The Crash

    55:56 - The Varginha ET

    56:59 - Dr. Venturelli's Testimony

    1:01:52 - US Military at Varginha

    1:07:54 - Inside Brazil's Defense Ministry

    1:11:11 - Rebelo Confirms Varginha Was Real

    1:12:01 - Alien Bacteria and Soldier's Death

    1:22:12 - Researcher Shot at Investigating Varginha

    1:26:39 - Why Politicians Ignore UFOs

    1:29:18 - Rebelo the Philosopher-Politician

    1:38:04 - AI, Harari, and the Vatican

    1:42:05 - US Reverse Engineering Programs

    1:45:42 - Why Disclosure Is Happening Now

    1:51:54 - Ubatuba UFO Metal Fragment

    1:54:22 - Communist to Nationalist: Rebelo's Journey

    2:02:24 - BRICS and Brazil's Future

    2:05:56 - Party Controversy and Candidacy

    2:07:08 - National Unity Vision

    2:14:06 - Brazil, US, and China

    2:20:09 - Brazil's UFO Reporting Mandate

    2:23:01 - UFOs and Rare Earth

    2:29:10 - Brazilian Soccer and Neymar

    2:35:21 - Closing Remarks

    2:37:02 - Outro

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  • American Alchemy with Jesse Michels

    “If You Knew What I Knew!” -Jeremy Corbell UNLEASHES On Jesse Michels | EARLY RELEASE

    07/06/2026 | 3h 5 mins.
    Our American Alchemist this week is Jeremy Corbell. Check out Weaponized Podcast at https://www.weaponizedpodcast.com and Sleep Dog at https://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Dog-Michael-Lazovsky/dp/B0GW4JT9X1

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    Jeremy Corbell spent two decades building a network of credible witnesses into classified congressional testimony. He was in the room when David Grush first whispered his ICIG complaint to George Knapp at a bar in Huntsville, Alabama, and he is one of the journalists the CIA was specifically targeting. Here is what that operation looked like: ODNI's Director's Initiative Group presented itself as a protected channel for whistleblowers. Corbell and Knapp fed it sources in good faith over nine months. Every person they brought in had their phones, computers, and communications surveilled by CIA. ODNI then fabricated a claim that Dylan Borland had drawn a classified sensor system in his testimony, a lie designed to expose him to a treason charge carrying the death penalty. When confronted, ODNI backed down. A CIA agent who ran the DIG came before Congress days before this recording and admitted the surveillance. The CIA's response was that he was not authorized to speak. That is not a denial.

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    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introduction

    2:24 - Sponsors (Dose)

    4:05 - Corbell's Background

    6:28 - David Grusch First Contact

    17:11 - Why Insiders Resist Disclosure

    18:48 - The Legacy Program Explained

    22:35 - Jim Lacatski Inside a UFO

    36:39 - How Corbell Got Started

    42:01 - Sponsor (iRestore)

    42:57 - From Illness to Filmmaking

    52:13 - Meeting Bob Lazar

    59:59 - Sponsor (Quo)

    1:01:41 - Corroborating Lazar's Story

    1:07:25 - Getting Lazar on Rogan

    1:12:47 - Who Is Dylan Borland

    1:15:23 - Borland's Triangle Encounter

    1:19:44 - Retrofitting Non-Human Tech

    1:21:06 - Project Rubiks Cube

    1:33:54 - Corbell's First UFO Sighting

    1:41:16 - Baghdad Phantom Released

    1:43:40 - AARO Was a Honey Trap

    1:47:41 - CIA Ties to AARO

    2:07:09 - Shaping the UAP Narrative

    2:15:40 - Matthew Sullivan's Death

    2:19:33 - Witnesses Ready to Testify

    2:23:25 - ODNI's Entrapment Attempt

    2:27:58 - CIA Red-Teaming

    2:30:30 - How Matthew Brown Got Exposed

    2:38:14 - Reporting a Sighting

    2:41:24 - Matthew Brown's Worldview

    2:45:35 - What Corbell Hopes For

    2:54:54 - Personal Toll

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  • American Alchemy with Jesse Michels

    MIT Scientist: “Your Brain Evolved To Ignore Aliens – They’re Everywhere!”

    02/06/2026 | 3h 24 mins.
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    Donald Hoffman spent 40 years building a mathematical framework he calls the recursive trace logic. It starts with one assumption: consciousness is fundamental, not physics. From there the math takes over. He can already derive time dilation, length contraction, and quantum wave functions from these hidden markov matrices. He has nine open conjectures that, if proven, would subsume both general relativity and quantum field theory as trivial special cases of a more general theory of observation. John Wheeler cited his 1989 book on observer mechanics in the It From Bit paper. Nima Arkani-Hamed and Nobel laureate David Gross are arriving at the same conclusion from the physics side: spacetime is doomed.

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    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introduction
    2:04 - Sponsor (Factor)
    3:30 - Fitness Beats Perception
    7:00 - The Desktop Interface
    13:26 - Near-Death & Remote Viewing
    20:42 - Disembodied Consciousness
    30:13 - Sponsors (Superpower, Qualia)
    35:20 - Hacking Perception
    46:15 - The Hard Problem
    58:13 - Wheeler, Leibniz & Observers
    1:01:13 - Recursive Trace Logic
    1:15:12 - UAP & The Trace Logic
    1:28:23 - Consciousness As Primitive
    1:33:25 - Space-Time Is Doomed
    1:39:12 - AI, Minsky & Mike Levin
    1:47:02 - UFOs At Exit Points
    1:53:46 - The Amplituhedron
    2:06:41 - Quantum Interpretations
    2:21:37 - Higher Intelligences
    2:28:06 - Unity of Consciousness
    2:34:05 - Do You Believe In God?
    2:44:13 - The Table Doesn't Exist
    2:52:13 - Infinite Alien Intelligences
    3:01:07 - Trace Logic As AI
    3:18:38 - Outro
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  • American Alchemy with Jesse Michels

    “I Saw a Mantis Alien At THIS American Military Base!” -Army Sergeant Lyn Buchanan

    28/05/2026 | 3h 7 mins.
    Our American Alchemist this week is Lyn Buchanan

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    Timestamps:
    0:00 - Introduction
    2:47 - Meeting Lynn Buchanan
    4:44 - Poltergeist Kid Origins
    5:34 - Frying $50 Million in Computers
    8:16 - Recruited by General Stubblebine
    13:39 - History of Psychic Warfare
    17:20 - Remote Viewing Saddam Hussein
    17:51 - Sponsors (CAPE)
    26:21 - Men Who Stare at Goats
    30:20 - Weather and Earthquake Weapons
    33:28 - Deep State and One World Government
    36:05 - Sponsors (ZBiotics)
    43:08 - Alien Bases on the Moon and Earth
    52:45 - Remote Viewing Gorbachev
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    1:01:37 - The DNA Chart That Says Other
    1:10:40 - Walking on Mars
    1:15:50 - Worm-Like Beings on Mars
    1:27:56 - The UFO Control Panel
    1:31:20 - Rendlesham Forest Craft
    1:49:07 - Buchanan's Own Abduction
    2:15:10 - Remote Viewing Jesus and God
    2:29:13 - Predictions Through 2050
    2:39:12 - Predicting Chernobyl
    2:55:26 - Outro (Join Our Substack!)
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  • American Alchemy with Jesse Michels

    Why The Pentagon Tried To Censor This UFO Book

    21/05/2026 | 1h 41 mins.
    Our American Alchemist this week is Jake Barber’s Sentinels of Ether.

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    Timestamps:
    0:00 Inside the black UFO program

    1:13 The May 8 Department of War UFO drop

    4:19 NASA's astronaut sightings problem (Gene Cernan)

    6:55 Who is Jake Barber?

    8:21 Sentinels of Ether: the book the Pentagon redacted

    9:13 What this episode covers

    10:56 Sponsor: Incogni

    12:32 The Toughbooks operation

    14:52 EMP weapons and downed aircraft

    16:09 Using DOPSR redactions as a discovery tool

    17:37 Coyame, Mexico: Mexico's Roswell

    20:38 The novel begins — Alex McEwen's extraction

    22:03 Refugees as psionic cargo

    23:24 The ambush and execution

    26:26 JSOC and the Secretary of Defense

    28:30 F-18 chase through the canyon

    31:46 Sponsor: Plaud

    33:23 The mountain that swallows aircraft

    37:20 Jake at Greer's National Press Club event

    38:45 Michael Herrera's Indonesia testimony

    42:05 Harvesting psionic assets abroad

    43:57 Who guards the crash sites?

    45:02 Is the mountain a hologram?

    48:13 Sponsor: MUD\WTR

    49:46 Foglets and programmable matter

    55:41 Smart dust, Ben Rich, and buried tech

    58:45 Psionics: summoning UFOs with the mind

    1:00:33 How to call a craft (CE5 / coherent thought)

    1:05:02 The dark side: drugged, chipped "pink assets"

    1:07:24 The human mind as a psychic joystick

    1:08:47 Lockheed insiders on mind-controlled flight

    1:10:55 John Norseen and biofusion

    1:15:38 Norseen's mysterious death

    1:17:12 The Lockheed lineage continues (Charles Chase)

    1:18:56 DARPA N3, Battelle, and Brainstorms

    1:20:34 The Salvatore Pais Navy patent

    1:21:21 Three layers: interface + craft + psionic

    1:22:06 Sedona and Bradshaw Ranch

    1:24:41 The tunnel and deep underground bases

    1:26:21 Skinwalker Ranch

    1:28:52 Remote viewers and a network of mountain bases

    1:30:23 The breakaway civilization thesis

    1:32:57 The real secret: hiding us from ourselves

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Welcome to the American Alchemy hosted by Jesse Michels. Tune in for new videos WEEKLY highlighting the most heretical thinkers/ideas of our time. 👽 Grab Your Alchemy Merchandise! https://www.americanalchemymerch.com Instagram: @jessemichelsofficial Twitter: @alchemyamerican Sponsor Inquiries: sponsor@jessemichelsmedia.com
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