The reddit post by rhea-15510 - "You wanted Disclosure.." can be found at:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1p92xe7/you_wanted_disclosure_i_am_a_whistleblower/
It pretty much talks about a council of aliens that discovered Earth millions of years ago (along with millions of other planets with life) and set up automated probes on the ocean floors that monitor our planet, conduct tests, etc.
Chris Ramsay's podcast Area 52 made a video about the reddit post by rhea-15510. The link can be found at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVAWPVcwV5g
Ramsay pretty much reads through the reddit post and discusses it with the audience. The debunking comment is one of the top comments.
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Past_Armadillo2398:
Another person commented on the Area 52, that Eridani is shown on Betty Hill's star map. So, I looked it up, and there are images of Betty's original star map, and others that show the map with the stars/planets named. And one of the stars is named Eridani. Anyone know what's that all about?
Here is an example link:
[Betty's star map] https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanMyths/comments/1kotacu/the_star_map_drawn_by_betty_hill_after_her/
Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1pwwhni/rhea15510_you_wanted_disclosure_post_was_debunked/nw6z833/
The we are legion books are good fun, highly recommend it.
Seriously great books
The audiobook performance is great. Same guy who does project hail Mary
Yep, I actually commented on the original post pointing out the similarities in plot. Same planet, same ant-like hivemind aliens in the series, same theme of gifting technology while trying to maintain distance... too many parallels for me not to think its influenced by the Bobiverse series.
I 100% knew it was a Larp. some "4chan larps" like the "i was a mormon bio chemist who dissected greys" sound very detailed and plausible. Others like the famous 4chan "ocean 3d printer" Larp had very obscure details which some ofnit bore out. But this "You want disclosure" post was clearly stitched together fan fic. Hell anyone whose seen the new Yorgos film Bugonia can recognize this lore.
His original post seemed more like fan fiction than a whistle blower to me. Completely different to the 4chan guy. I will say though, just because there is a book, it doesn’t mean it won’t happen. A great example is Wreck Of The Titan written in 1898, parallels the titanic sinking event in an unbelievable way. Or that book about the twin towers having planes flown into them by a terrorist group led by osama bin laden. I’m really just playing devils advocate here, I don’t believe him at all but there are examples of weird things like this.
She. Rhea is a she. She said as much in the comments of the original post in answering people's questions.
Epsilon Eridani and 82 Eridani are two different stars light years away. Rhea never said the Von Neuman probes came from 82 Eridani. I have read the book in question and it has nothing to do with what Rhea posted.
This is as lazy as people who said "duh it's Project Hail Mary".
Bobiverse is what I’ve meant by “YA authors/narratives”
This entire post might be psyop-adjacent, and if not then I would lean more toward this all being a “LARP/simulation/pocket realm shenanigans/children playing with Matrioshka brains”
There’s one book where there are super-high tech aliens that can destroy sensors/ships/weapons/tech just by being in the visual field even if lightyears away. The solution was to stop the aliens with a nuclear missile. Most immature and trite shit I’ve ever heard.
Makes me think of children holding grudges because their science fair project was worse than other childrens so they feel like they must prove their point. Insane. Unreal. It would be funny if it wasn’t so petty and pathetic. Throw in contradictory Christian “ethics” and it’s no wonder these people are requiring “blanket amnesty”.
And it is impossible it was exposed as a novel since it couldn’t be publicly. Back then. Just because the story is in print as fiction doesn’t garante it wasn’t the source of the story.
It doesn’t mean it must be true, but I don’t really see this as definite evidence.
> And it is impossible it was exposed as a novel since it couldn’t be publicly.
Pure cope.
Or exactly the kind of “muddying the waters” that the intelligence agencies have been known to do.
You make a good point. To add, if it was actually a LARP, you would think that the author Rhea would at least not use the same exact word Eridani.
So, maybe someone on the inside passed this info to Dennis E. Taylor, who got it out to the public via his science fiction novel.
Or maybe it's all made up lore that people keep passing around like it's fact backed by evidence. Maybe, just maybe, you don't have to believe what someone says because it makes some part of your brain feel good.
I’ve read the book a couple times, and it shares troupes but I didn’t recognize it as a 1:1 copy. It shares troupes with lots of sci-fi, not just We Are Legion.
I think it’s likely a LARP, but I wouldn’t frame that on the argument that it’s a word for word retelling of the Bobiverse book.
I could be wrong it’s been quite a while.
The thing is it has nothing to do with Bobiverse or Project Hail Mary. People are saying "oh there's a star in Eridanus therefore the same" in both cases.
Rhea talks about 82 Eridani
Bobiverse is referring to Epsilon Eridani
Project Hail Mary is referring to 40 Eridani.
These are all DIFFERENT stars, many lightyears away from each other.
Beyond that there's no similarity in the stories and what Rhea mentioned.
Wouldn't surprise me. I thought we all knew that was bogus, except for a pretty small minority.
Small yes. But an extremely vocal minority. It's what makes me facepalm, people screaming from the rooftops about the dumbest obvious larps and if you mention about it being a hoax then you're a CIA plant or something. It's tedious to attempt to stop people falling for such obvious hoaxes but I feel compelled to
Maybe you think other people need to be fixed.
They sure do
Learn to love yourself even when you make a mistake and you'll never feel like you need to fix anyone again. :)
Not that you asked, just crossed my mind
Never! Perfection is absolute! :3
It was such a LARP, I can't believe it got the traction it did.
I don't have any conviction one way or another about the original story, but the thing that sticks with me is how we hear the truth would be impossible for humanity to handle and of all the reasons I can think of that people might actually get upset about, forced scarcity seems a winner by a long shot.
So I don't know if there was any truth to it at all, but this one facet seems so logical it's hard to dismiss outright. People don't care about aliens, or false religions, or even simulation. But if you tell them they've been struggling THIS much and it was all a split test? Freak out.
1 min into reading that shit and i knew it was fake.
Yeah I realized it was a lie almost immediately
Did area52 take it seriously or just discuss it?
Edit: 52 just presented it and didn't endorse it 👽👍
Before he reads through things that can be larps he warns the audience that what he's reading might not be true at all but encourages the audience to temporarily suspend disbelief for the sake of appreciating a good story.
He presents things like that for views. He seems to have a pretty good nose for BS, he just doesn’t call it out all the time because that leads to less interviews and makes people reticent to talk to him. If you watch him, he’ll come upon something suspect, and he will point it out like “hmm… I don’t know about this one guys”, but then he just moves on. He does get good interviews too though due to not being a dick.
He took it seriously but said it was likely a LARP and pointed out suspicious parts throughout the video. I think what caused him to decide to make the video was a moment of synchronicity he had while researching the post. That is, he randomly opened a book from a stack of books. And he never even opened the book before. And the page he randomly opened showed a star map with a planet named Eridani.
Eridani is not a planet, it's a name that belongs to many stars in the Eridanus constellation. He was amazed because 82 Eridani was on a map in the book he opened and that's the star system Rhea mentioned.
82 Eridani is not really mentioned in any popular sci-fi. It does however appear on the Betty Hill Starmap.
ok wow ,so it seems you know what you are talking about, so who named these stars? was it like NASA or astronomers?
i that is the case, and so if i am understanding this correctly, 82 Eridani is an actual named planet that Rhea was pointing out was the location where some humans were stored on,
i guess that makes sense, but i guess what is causing people to claim it to be a LARP is that allot of what Rhea is saying is similar to what;s int the book, and i guess especially chapter 14 Epsilon Eridani
Any thoughts on that?
The silver lining is that it was a fun read, haha. I ate that story like candy when the user posted it.
Ingot down items into oblivion for calling it fictional and it ended up being a rip off of one of my favorite fiction scifi serieses
Apt
Who was the other "whistleblower" who posted the day or hours before the rhea post? There was a very similar post everyone was talking about and seemed more convinced about as it shared less tropey details. Both were long posts with lots of attention. I'm seeing the rhea post talked about so much even though the original comments on her post were mostly saying hers was so unconvincing compared to the other post. So why isn't the other post being talked about more?
That person posted on UFOB hours AFTER the Rhea post blew up likely trying to ride coattails. The other post by someone who could barely spell, posted some AI generated images of antlike aliens as "proof" etc. It looked like someone trying to discredit Rhea's post after her account was banned by Reddit. That other person's account was not banned by Reddit. Draw your own conclusions.
The Rhea post has been discussed by Ross Coulhart, MSNBC, International Business Times and a bunch of Youtube channels so it's not surprising it's being talked about a lot.
It gave a very plausible reason why the coverup has persisted so long which no one had every put forward before so it was new in an area where we seldom get anything new.
It's sad that some people would read that post and not be confident, within a couple of sentences, that it was bullshit.
Wait did people actually think Rhea was a whistleblower? What are you, like 12 years old or something? We live in base reality not some action scifi blockbuster movie. Give yourhead a shake if you thought any of that was remotely true
She's as much of a whistleblower and the 4chan guy. What is really telling though is how even mainstream media jumped on the story, IBT, MSNBC, Ross on NewsNation. I don't recall the 4chan leak getting that much attention so quickly. Nor do I remember people going out of their way to try to debunk the 4chan leak. Where there is smoke there's fire. Rhea's account was deleted by Reddit immediately.
I like Chris's (Area 52) production, but the content is mostly click-bait fantasy.
Another person commented on the Area 52, that Eridani is shown on Betty Hill's star map. So, I looked it up, and there are images of Betty's original star map, and others that show the map with the stars/planets named. And one of the stars is named Eridani. Anyone know what's that all about?
Here is an example link:
[Betty's star map] https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanMyths/comments/1kotacu/the_star_map_drawn_by_betty_hill_after_her/
I think I was the one who commented that. I have on other videos on Youtube about the Rhea leak.
oh great,,,do you have any idea who added the names of the stars and planets to betty's star map?
The Betty Hill Starmap was made by a scientist from the Oak Ridge national laboratory named Marjorie Fish who was working with Betty Hill. This is why it's sometimes called the Hill-Fish Starmap. I actually have viewed the correspondence between them which is available in the University of New Hampshire's Hill Collection: https://sites.usnh.edu/archivalanalysis/hill-collection-overview/
As for your other question. Stars names often come from a variety of sources, usually various catalogs and in the case of some of the brighter stars, proper names given in the time of ancient Arab or Greek astronomers. Most stars have multiple names as they appear in multiple catalogs
82 Eridani is from the Flamsteed Catalog, which assigned stars a number and used the constellation name they belonged to.
ok thanks so much, i think i got it, so Majorie Fish, who worked at that lab, pretty much looked at Betty Hill's map and figured that it pretty much lined up with a known constellation (not sure if that is the right word, but pretty much her star map lined up with already known and identified planet/stars)
and i get how 82 Eridani is a different planet than Epsilon Eridani, and even if they were the same, it doesn;t matter as the sci-fi novel was used the name of a real planets in his book...
But what about everyone's post on how what Rhea is saying is pretty much what was in the book? Is that true?
and i guess even if it was, getting back to Ramsay's point, the author of the book may have gotten info from an insider, and that was the only way of getting it out, kind of like the same tactic that Jake Barber used for his DOPSR review, when he wrote a "fiction" book and submitted it for review
also, i think you should write a seperate post, becuase i think you are making some really good points, but iit s only visible in comment section of this post
Even if you accept Betty Hills star map as a faithful and accurate reproduction of the local stars around Sol. It would have been impossible for anyone to successfully label the stars as so many of the local stars, which would have been known to star travelling aliens, were unknown to us. This is because most common star type, red dwarfs, are not very visible. An example of this is Proxima Centauri. But you could also have Bernards Star, and Wolf 359. I have no idea how anyone could have pattern matched Hill's star map and ignored these obvious errors.
This is because Marjorie Fish limited her physical models to F-G-K (Sunlike) stars as they were thought to be the only ones capable of supporting life in the 1960s.
yeah that's why it confused me. and the star map of Betty Hill with the names on it was similar to the one Chris Ramsay spotted in some random book that he showed in the video Any idea who added the names to the stars and planets of betty's map? any chance that Betty Hill learned about the names through hypnotic regression?
It’s always LARP. FWIW I’m a believer.
People got got again
Its a monthly occurrence now almost weekly.
YouTubers have to make their weekly content and fill the space. But most of the people called out the OP for the post as a whole overly imaginative fiction.
Area 52 has become increasingly problematic this year (I subscribed at the start of 2025). A handful of genuinely mind-expanding interviews are getting buried under a mountain of low-effort, credibility-free content that seems to get a pass simply because it generates views and revenue.
Watching him interview these people is becoming just as frustrating. You can even see it on his face after he repeatedly gets his line of questions shutdown by the guest that he just rolls over and lets them finish their insane tirade.
There’s a threshold every platform crosses where its reputation shifts from a place of thoughtful inquiry to a mouthpiece optimized for attention and money. I’m concerned Area 52 is now at, or very near, that point.
Relying on the audience to act as a “bullshit meter” isn’t responsible. That’s the host’s job. If one argues that it isn’t, then what’s really happening is unfiltered nonsense being funneled straight from the ether. And if that’s the goal, I could just read /x/ or any number of fringe subreddits instead.
“You decide” media is often framed as open-mindedness. In practice, it is a refusal to adjudicate quality or truth. That posture is not harmless. It carries consequences.
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Nah, most people called it out as a fictional story. You can see that from the post comments.
Right? Lol why do folks make weird generalizations like this on the internet when ya can literally just open another tab and see that they're making shit up 😬🤣 it got called out pretty quickly with most other peeps saying they thought it was a fun read but weren't buying what Rhea was selling lol
I feel like Chris is catching shit for this even though he takes breaks through out to point out how fake it is and even taking a break to rant about how obvious ai copy is..
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I've read the same kind of plot of “Rhea-15510” story, back in 2005, when I was in arts school. One of our professors assigned us a solo sci-fi, multicultural pitch. I still remember a guy, a hardcore Star Wars fan and UFOs research, came up with something very similar to this.
Epsilon Eridani and 82 Eridani are two different stars light years away. Rhea never said the Von Neuman probes came from 82 Eridani or Epsilon Eridani. I have read the book in question and it has nothing to do with what she posted. Any star in the Eridanus constellation has the name Eridani.
This "debunk" is just as bad as the original "debunk" that Rhea ripped off Project Hail Mary which many commenters said had nothing to do with Rhea's story. Bobiverse doesn't either.
I've read both Project Hail Mary and the Bobiverse stuff and Rhea's story has nothing to do with either other than both has stars in the Eridanus constellation but neither is 82 Eridani.
Whole thing reeked of 4/chan edgelord teen vibes. With the grammatical, spelling, and vocabulary of a high school dropout. With the amount of people who believed the LARP we don't deserve discloser...🤷♂️
Upside it also works as a litmus test. If they believe the Rhea stuff, they don't know the 70+ other years' worth of lore and aren't worth anyone's time in discussion because they believe in an intergalactic federation of tankies and space lice...🤦♂️😂
Wasn't happy with Area52 pushing the LARP at face value. He makes it pretty obvious he thinks it's a LARP but he dances around it the entire time. Sure, fun in jest but people are susceptible and he's pushing actual garbage for money on the vulnerable, full stop. His entire narrative is about getting down to the truth, facts, whatever he can say to get you to "suspend your beliefs", maybe become a member or a Patreon subscriber so you can get the "extra information" or his "real thoughts"...
Grifter behavior...
Edit: Also, funny he gets a pass when Jesse doesn't. They literally work together, have gone into business together, go on vacations together, and promote each other channels exclusively with merch. Did y'all miss they both had set redesigns within a month of each other? Did you not notice they were built by the same contractors? Did you not notice the matching close ups, camera angles, and music queue? They literally hired the same production company and PR firm...🤦
If it's written too well it's AI, if there are grammatical errors it's a high school dropout. Got it.
MSNBC and Ross Coulhart on NewsNation even did stories on the Rhea leak with Ross Coulhart mentioning he doubted (giving it credibility in my eyes) and that scalar weapons are real and the U.S. and Russia have them.
Orion has been a thorn in our ass for at least 100 000 years. I published an article about it. The Greeks and Indigenous cultures reference Orion The Hunter.
https://medium.com/@nicholaslee.canada/the-sisters-of-the-stars-and-the-visitors-of-the-sky-4b45fba7d831
So it is a proven larp that Chris went on trying to defend? Come on Chris this is a bad look my friend.
He didn't try to defend. He just read through. And he pointed out a lot of suspicious stuff with it.
I think what caused him to even make the video was a moment of synchronicity he had while researching the post. So, he randomly opened a book from a stack of books. And he never even opened this book before. And the page he randomly opened to showed a star map with a planet named Eridani.
So, I think that is what caused him to even go through with the video.
Reddit believed rhea because he said capitalism bad and communism good.
She (Rhea is a woman) didn't say that at all. She said that US officials in the 1940s likely viewed the Erids society as communism and that was the reason for the coverup of their existence.