– 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 Diana: You’ve written about technology itself as a kind of sacred medium. What do you think about the prospect the phenomenon might utilize tools such as AI as a direct interface or conduit for contact?

    For Leslie: Vallée has talked about how the phenomenon does not seem to make any distinction between physical and psychological effects, blurring them together as if they had the same causative mechanism. What are your thoughts on this aspect, and how we might approach it in public discourse about the subject?

  • For whomever: With regard to ontological shock, how has your faith and spirituality been tested/destroyed/remodeled through your study in this topic?

    For Diana: You’ve had the incredible privilege of visiting the Vatican Archives, and you’ve made some astonishing discoveries hence. It has been said that the Catholic Church is the oldest intelligence agency in the world. How do you predict the Papacy will respond to full disclosure? Do you believe there is already a plan in place?

    For Leslie: The conversations around disclosure seem to wax and wane. During those doldrums when revelations are fewer and talking heads go silent, where should disclosure advocates focus their attention? Public engagement, political advocacy, research/study, self-actualization, etc. – what should we do when the progress slows?

  • Question for Diana, in an interview you had mentioned going to Jacques valle's house where he recommended a book on the devil. Can you please give the actual name of the book and author so I can read it?

    No way! Hey thank you.

  • Hi, a somewhat, longer question for Dr. Pasulka. Given informal suggestions that certain, let's call it ceremonies: like Magick, religious services (of whatever denomination) etc. can influence reality in some way.

    Given your observations that this was used (historically) to try to increase the successful launch of vehicles / objects. By the technical people involved.

    If there are indications where this was applied. Versus possible evidence of launches where the technicians involved took a more lets call it a "non-believing" approach. Like they obviously hoped their work was successful. Which in itself might have some influence. But no ceremonies, just a no-nonsense, sober way.

    Has anyone ever, given with all the myriad of things that can go wrong with a launch. Looked for evidence (even just anecdotes) that the directed ceremonies did work. Possibly resulting in less problems, more successful launches.

    Just to be up front, the format doesn’t accommodate long questions like this. We’d have to shorten it to a sentence or two. If you want to take another stab at it please do, otherwise we’ll still provide the question and she can choose whether to answer it outside of the AMA (this is something we always do).

    Hi Mantis, you are welcome to shorten it. Or someone else from the team may shorten it, as far as I am concerned. Strangely enough I DMd about this with ToxicToy. Made a question at her request. And she didn't remark onto said question being too long. Just thanked me.

    Writing briefly in English as a non-native speaker myself. Is sometimes difficult, if a question needs additional explanation.

  • What is her opinion on hitchhikers phenomenon? My GF and I are experiencers

  • Diana just last week at the Sol Symposium you did a brand new presentation that has not been released to the public. We would love to know what you said in that talk.

  • What unexplained phenomenon do you wish deserves more discussion?

    Is there phenomenon that isn't experienced in the West?

    Or is it all common human experience regardless of culture?

    Thanks!

  • Hi I'm experiencing very strong phenomena and would like to share my story.

    Hi - this is an AMA for Diana Pasulka. Do you have any questions for her?