– When and Where –

Join us Saturday, November 1st for another multi-subreddit livestream AMA with our guest Dr. Diana Pasulka in conversation with our host Leslie Kean. Link to Livestream HERE

The live AMA will occur on Saturday, November 1st, 2025, at 1pm EST / 10 am PST. This collaborative event will be live-streamed, reaching audiences across platforms including YouTube and Twitter/X. You can also stay up to date with us on Instagram and Twitch.

– How to Participate –

Due to the nature of coordinating a multi-subreddit AMA we will be collecting questions in advance. Simply drop a question here in this post or in any of the participating subreddits. The subreddits that are part of the Anomalous Coalition are r/Aliens, r/Experiencers, r/HighStrangeness, r/UFOB and r/UFOs.

Additionally we are proud to announce we have created a new community, r/AnomalousCoalition, so you can suggest future guests, talk about the livestreams and also ask questions there!

– Who –

The Anomalous Coalition –on the heels of our other successful multi-subreddit AMA’s– is proud to bring the opportunity for our communities to engage with our esteemed guests. Visit our YouTube channel for videos of our past events, @TheAnomalousCoalition.

Dr. Diana Walsh Pasulka

Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). Dr. Pasulka’s research focuses on religion, technology, and emerging religious movements - see her website here. She has authored a series of acclaimed books, including: “American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, and Technology” (2019), which explores the convergence of these themes, receiving critical acclaim from major publications like Vice, Vox, Fox News, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. “Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture”(2014), delving into Catholic traditions. “Encounters: Experiences with Nonhuman Intelligences” (2024), exploring the nature of unexplained experiences. And a forthcoming book, The Others: AI, UFOs and the Secret Forces Guiding Human Destiny (St. Martin’s Essentials, MacMillan, July 2026).

Beyond these books her published articles and book chapters delve into topics ranging from historical examinations of 19th-century Western American children’s literature about the afterlife. More info here.

Diana has appeared on popular podcasts (links to episodes included) like The Joe Rogan Experience, Lex Fridman, Mysterious Universe, and in the New York Times. She was the consulting producer for the Emmy nominated Amblin Netflix Series called Encounters movie in the franchise. Her insights were also featured in the J.J. Abrams-produced docuseries “UFO”.

Leslie Kean

Leslie Kean is an investigative journalist focused on bringing credible information about unexplained anomalies and “impossible” realities into the mainstream, while exploring what they mean. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record (Crown, 2010) and Surviving Death: A Journalist Investigates Evidence for an Afterlife (Crown, 2017), which was the basis for a 2021 documentary series on Netflix. Her over two decades of investigation and mainstream coverage of UFOs were profiled in The New Yorker in 2021. They broke the David Grusch story in The Debrief in 2023. Currently, Leslie is a contributing producer for the ongoing Nat Geo/VICE series “UFOs: Investigating the Unknown”. She is working with two leading New York producers on launching her play, A NEW KIND OF GOD, co-authored with William Youmans. Leslie has made presentations at the Explorer’s Club, American University, Rice University, and the Franklin Institute, and has been interviewed by Ezra Klein (2023) and Steven Colbert (2010).

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  • For Leslie: a few years ago you said on Kurt jaimungal’s podcast that you believe that we, humanity, would loose something in the near future that we are accustomed to for long. I wonder if you still believe this and if by Any chance you could give us more clues about this claim?

    This. I would UPVOTE this to oblivion if I could!

    I think a lot of us want some clarifications on this specific statement as some other prominent figures in the UAP space (pun intended), namely Lue Elizondo building a bunker, voiced similar concerns about the imminent eschaton future.

    This is exactly what I was about to post. This needs to be asked

    Can you please summarize what Leslie said? I've tried to find the video. It is now (annoyingly) marked private. I may be able to provide extra context.

    Thank you. It feels less like psychic prediction and more like an understanding of math, statistics and game theory. Her warning aligns with what I was told. However, I was told to see it as a positive. The system right now does not work. It will be replaced. After a period of chaos, world peace.

    Who told you this

    I heard it directly from the nonhumans. I released a documentary a few weeks ago about my experiences with the Lady and the Others.

    Long story short: in 2023 I wrote a movie based on delusions/visions I had while sick with Long Covid. I watched as the visons came true. Forced me to admit maybe the Lady was real. Then I discovered Chris Bledsoe and others.

    Well I can’t say I believe you, but if what you say comes true I’d be happy

  • For Leslie: If something truly catastrophic is coming in 2027, don't you have a duty as a journalist to disclose what that event would be? "Don't make plans" isn't exactly substantive or constructive.

    To Diana: Do you still think the phenomenon represents a religious movement? Do you believe that your catholicism has been shaken or shaped by believing the phenomenon is actually the "reason" behind many ancient sightings, or do you take a religious view of the phenomenon? Aka it's all angels and demons.

  • Dr. Pasulka, have you made any new discoveries or insights in your recent work that you feel bring you closer to “connecting the dots” in your broader research?

  • Leslie, approximately what date do you plan on going into your bunker?

  • For Diana, do you believe the lense of angels and demons is helpful in today’s context? To me these terms ring of superstition and old world beliefs not to mention overly simplistic.

  • For Diana: you have been friends of the Bledsoe family and they speak highly of you. I was curious what your interpretation of The Lady has been. Is it another long line of Marian apparitions or do you believe there is something more substantial that has warranted the intense scrutiny of Chris Bledsoe by various security services? Thanks.

  • For dr Pasulka: how does tim Taylor from nasa feel about disclosure? And do you think we’ll ever hear from him? 

  • For Leslie:

    First of all, thank you for the awesome work you have done for disclosure this far !

    There is a rumor, that after the last UAP hearing and the ones before, you invited all the witnesses and people involved to your home for a dinner. Rumor says also that the topic that night made everyone really sad because something ahead in the future is really worrying.

    You also said in an interview you don’t make plans for life for more then 8 years of if I remember correctly, why is that ?

  • In Child Hoods end the race of over lords are in the image of “the devil”. How close to this do you think the phenomenon really is? Would ontological shock be because we would see a likeness akin to our worst nightmares?

  • For Diana: Do you believe that some souls truly go to hell after death, and is that the reason why the U.S. government has involved you in the disclosure process?

  • To diana pasulka, you have framed religious institutions as massively shaping and limiting perceptual bandwidth to the detriment of humanity, and you have expressed lack of faith towards the "density based model" of the universe, often times relying on institutional religion and ritual to explain the nature of the universe as a whole from a notable limited persective, why is this so?

    I miss you my friend. Thank you for asking good questions!

  • Dr. Diana Pasulka- Hello and good day! ~Question~ Many (including myself) subscribe to the theory that the 'alien' presence has been here since before the dawn of man. Quite possibly that they infact had a direct hand in our creation through genetic manipulation. How does that play into the idea that Dr. Vallee seems to believe that while the face of the phenomena changes, the phenomena itself stay the same? Is it possible that the powers that be have been able to keep a lid on a separate race of beings living underneath us all along? I.E. Reptilians?

    Also, food and water supply for approximately how long?

  • To Diana: In your research on religion and extraordinary experiences, do you see a correlation between ESP abilities and the Catholic concept of charisms?

    And do you think the Vatican holds documented evidence of verified extraordinary human abilities, such as levitation, bilocation, or prophetic insight?

    Thanks 😊.

  • Why is there such a harsh rejection of the relatively simple idea of extra terrestrials from other planets? It seems like we are bombarded with rather fanciful explanations on a constant basis such as inter dimensional beings, ultra terrestrials etc etc. Why is the notion of extra terrestrial life so firmly rejected when it posits perhaps the simplest explanation?

  • To Leslie: Based on your research into survival of consciousness and your personal engagement with these phenomena, how certain are you that self-awareness continues beyond physical death?

    Do the latest studies suggest genuine survival of the individual mind, or a seamless continuation of experience in another state?

    Could "death" be an awareness finaly realizing it was never confined to the body in the first place and what we shed is the ego, the awake state?

    Thank you 😊.

  • For Diana:
    1. In an interview with Jesse (post Hereticon) you both shared a laugh after he asked you about meeting Jesuits with Tyler (Peter Gupel specifically) and their thoughts on Templars, you declined to comment on them and their thoughts on the Templars.
    Hoping you can expand on why you wanted to avoid commenting about the Jesuits and why there was a laugh involved :)

    1. The book on John Dee was spoken about but seems to have gone quiet, is there a reason for this or is it still coming? People have speculated online that you may have got the tap on the shoulder to stop this line of research but I'm not sure that really happens.

    I would love a new deep dive on Dee's work in the wider context of NHI/Angels/Demons and our current understanding of these things as opposed to some of the older biographies on Dee and his work.

    PS - a quick story about my somewhat mystical experience triggered by your book
    American Cosmic is a modern classic, I've recommended it to many friends, only a few have read it but those who have, all had the same reaction to me which was, its an incredible read which has a spirit to it which brings the reader out of the cave, so to speak.

    While reading the American Cosmic book i had a series of very unusual synchronicities / impulses and images appear to me mentally - to share quickly, I had a symbol appear which days later would be a design on a menu for a restaurant I'd gone to for a music industry business meeting which served to re-affirm the decision working with this new group was a good one.
    It turned out to be a great choice which to me, was affirmed by an image which came to me mentally while reading your book which i scribbled down mid sentence. It had me spooked and led to a long line of inquiry into this and the experience below, I had to laugh out loud on seeing this symbol on the menu after having drawn in days earlier mid sentence on strange impulse. I think on trying to explain this to the others in the meeting left me looking slightly insane but fortunately they were on level with me and understood to a degree.

    Secondly and to a different degree, not long after the symbol popped into my head, I had this impulse, again mid sentence, to look at JG Frazer's - The Golden Bough which I'd picked up second hand a few days earlier. At the end of the chapter I was reading I opened to the first page to see,
    "Chapter 1 - 1 Diana and Virbius.-..."
    On seeing your name as the first word of the text triggered a 10/15 minute long feeling of something opening mentally, there really isnt words to describe the short experience but it was a spiritual buzzing through my whole body and being, almost like shivers of the mind and body and a feeling of unity and comfort - strangely similar to altered states/drug high (not that i'd know ;) ) while being stone cold sober.
    Strange stuff but i got the feeling my pursuits in certain areas were being affirmed by 'something' / these synchronicities.

    For wider context i had finished an album and was meeting with the record label to finalise the artwork and direction of the project as it rolls out, I had doubts but I got the feeling I was being given the nod from 'something else' that the people i was working with and the visual artists were perfect for the project and i would be safe to collaborate with these artists. I then gave over my full trust to them and it was absolutely worth it in the end and with the final result / creative product.

    The book had triggered something which is maybe achieved through great dialectic / Platonic / mystical pieces as awakening or eye opening experiences.
    I'm not sure this can be done on purpose, that may be considered some sort of magic however, for any sort of creative work or text to trigger this sort of emotion and feeling and visceral reaction is about as good as it gets for the author / artist trying to express something larger than the words on the page or piece of music itself.
    So a thank you and congrats, I look forward to your future books

  • What do you think is necessary to achieve “disclosure,” and what timeframe do you think it might happen in (eg, next five years, next 10 years, never, already happened)?

  • Allegedly, one of the primary reasons for keeping (recovered or reverse engineered) UAP tech from the public is national security, in that the technology may be weaponized. However, nuclear power plants exist using technology that also could be applied to weaponry. If, alternatively, the threat is collapse of the fossil fuel industry, didn't nuclear power and electric cars already start that shift? Couldn't UAP tech be rolled out in a secure manner?

  • Dr. Diana: Chris Bledsoe/The Lady foresee a new knowledge coming in 2026. Should divine or anomalous revelations occur, do you expect a collapse of traditional religion or rather a modernization or unification with new nomenclature (i.e. from God to Source)?