
A veteran CIA-funded physicist and longtime Pentagon extraterrestrial advisor has publicly claimed that the United States government has recovered bodies from at least four different extraterrestrial species in crashed UFO incidents.
Dr. Hal Puthoff, 89, a Stanford-trained quantum physicist who previously led remote-viewing programs for the CIA and advised the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), made the explosive assertion during an appearance on Steve Bartlett’s “The Diary of a CEO” podcast this week.
“People who have been involved in recoveries have said there are at least four types. Four separate types,” Puthoff said. “Now I have not had direct access to that, but I believe the people whom I talked to — four separate types of life.”
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Puthoff’s longtime collaborator, Dr. Eric Davis, another former AAWSAP insider, previously identified the four species as Grays, Nordics, Insectoids (also called Mantids), and Reptilians.
According to Davis, all four are humanoid in appearance with two arms, two legs, and a basic human-like body plan.
He describes them as follows:
- Grays: Small, hairless beings with massive black eyes.
- Nordics: Tall, human-looking entities resembling people from Northern Europe.
- Reptilians: Scaly, lizard-like creatures that walk upright, often with tails.
- Insectoids/Mantids: Bug-like humanoids that resemble praying mantises.
The claims echo 2023 congressional testimony from former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch, who stated under oath that the government possesses “non-human biologics” recovered from multiple crash sites as part of a long-running secret retrieval program.
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