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#398 - DARPA Scientist: Military Abductions, UFO Super Users & Satan | Bob McGwier

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#398 - DARPA Scientist: Military Abductions, UFO Super Users & Satan | Bob McGwier
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In this nearly five-hour conversation, host Danny Jones interviews Dr. Bob McGwier, a former NSA and CIA technical intelligence contractor who spent decades conducting classified operations in 72 countries and now serves as founder of satellite intelligence company Hawkeye 360. McGwier reveals he worked on some of the intelligence community's most sensitive programs from 1990 to 2010, earning the Intelligence Community Seal Medallion from CIA Director Tenet. The conversation takes a dramatic turn as McGwier describes two separate encounters with unidentified objects while aboard U.S. Navy vessels: a 'fast walker' moving faster than sound underwater near the USS Hampton in 1997, and a massive glowing craft larger than the 450-foot USS Blue Ridge that blocked rain during a 2008 typhoon in the Sea of Japan. McGwier's involvement with the UAP subject deepened in 2020 after visiting experiencer Chris Bledsoe, where he witnessed large orbs responding to mental commands and experienced what he describes as a miraculous healing—his cardiologist found his heart, previously damaged by four heart attacks and a quadruple bypass, was now 100% functional. The episode explores McGwier's belief that government insiders wage war over disclosure, his revelation that Carl Sagan was a cleared intelligence contractor despite his public persona, and his conviction that a non-human intelligence has been involved in human evolution and potentially in his own life trajectory. McGwier describes the stovepiped nature of compartmentalized programs, discusses missing Air Force scientist General Thomas McCaslin's likely fate under extreme non-disclosure protocols, and shares his work founding Hawkeye 360, a satellite company now valued at over $1.5 billion that he originally designed to detect alien implants in human bodies. He closes by describing his own miraculous recovery from severe depression using ketamine therapy and his belief that remote viewing, telepathy, and consciousness-based phenomena are real and terrify the government because they would make secrets impossible to keep.

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UFO & Paranormal

Scientist's Heart Damage Completely Reversed After UFO Contact at Bledsoe Property

After visiting experiencer Chris Bledsoe and witnessing large orbs respond to his thoughts in January 2020, McGwier's cardiologist found his heart—previously damaged by four heart attacks and a quadruple bypass—was now 100% functional with no damage. The physician was astonished, comparing it to a 30-40 year old athlete's heart. This unexplained healing led McGwier to abandon scientific objectivity regarding Bledsoe and become his friend and protector.

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Espionage

Scientist Claims Carl Sagan Was Cleared Intelligence Contractor Despite Public Anti-Security State Image

McGwier revealed that when he met Carl Sagan at NSA headquarters in the 1990s during a technology transfer meeting, Sagan wore a green-bordered contractor badge allowing unrestricted access to intelligence facilities. This directly contradicted Sagan's public persona as a critic of the national security establishment and suggests he maintained classified relationships throughout his career.

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Espionage

Former NSA and CIA Contractor Reveals Decades of Technical Intelligence Gathering Abroad

Bob McGwier disclosed his role conducting classified technical intelligence operations in 72 countries from 1990 to 2010, working for the NSA, CIA, and a joint activity called SCS. He revealed he operated overseas gathering human and signals intelligence, earning the Intelligence Community Seal Medallion from CIA Director Tenet. His most intense operation ran from October 2001 to April 2002, after which he needed a break, calling it 'not nice.'

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UFO & Paranormal

Intelligence Contractor Witnessed Unidentified Submerged Object Moving Faster Than Sound Underwater on Nuclear Submarine

In 1997 aboard the USS Hampton, a Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine, McGwier experienced what the crew called a 'fast walker'—an unidentified object moving faster than the speed of sound underwater without cavitation. He heard the loud racket and felt the submarine shake as the object passed. The crew refused to discuss it in his presence, suggesting classified knowledge of the phenomenon.

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UFO & Paranormal

Former Intelligence Officer Describes UFO Larger Than Navy Flagship Blocking Rain During Typhoon

In 2008, while aboard the USS Blue Ridge in the Sea of Japan during a typhoon, McGwier witnessed an unidentified aerial phenomenon larger than the 450-foot flagship hovering 100 meters above. It completely blocked rain from hitting the ship before shooting straight up into the typhoon's eyewall. Radar showed nothing. This was his second UAP experience involving a U.S. naval vessel.

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