Episode Description
What if the biggest secret in UFO history isn’t alien… it’s angelic? Or demonic. Or somewhere in that awkward in-between where rockets and ritual candles share shelf space.
This week, we plunge headfirst into one of the strangest rabbit holes in modern conspiracy lore: the alleged “Collins Elite” — a rumored faction inside the U.S. government that supposedly concluded UFOs aren’t extraterrestrials at all, but deceptive spiritual entities. We unpack where the story comes from, what believers claim insiders discovered, and why some say disclosure could be less about little green men and more about theological shockwaves.
But that’s just the warm-up.
Did Allied intelligence really brush shoulders with a British occultist during WWII? Was Aleister Crowley pitching magical countermeasures against Nazi symbolism? And how does rocket pioneer Jack Parsons’ sex-magic rituals tie into the birth of the modern UFO era?
We explore the full fringe narrative — demons disguised as aliens, ritual “doorways,” Cold War psychic programs, and secret spiritual warfare in the Pentagon — while also laying out the documented history, the skepticism, and the very human tendency to mythologize the unknown.
Is this a hidden chapter of national security history… or a masterclass in how conspiracies evolve when secrecy meets symbolism?
Strap in. It’s rockets, rituals, remote viewing, and Revelation — this week on Hysteria 51.
Special thanks to this week’s research sources:
Congressional & Government Records
U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability. “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.” Hearing, November 13, 2024.
https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-exposing-the-truth/
U.S. Congress. “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.” 118th Congress Hearing Record.
https://www.congress.gov/118/chrg/CHRG-118hhrg57440/CHRG-118hhrg57440.pdf
Shellenberger, Michael. Written Testimony. U.S. House Oversight Committee, November 13, 2024.
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Written-Testimony-Shellenberger.pdf
Central Intelligence Agency. “STARGATE Collection.” CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/stargate
Central Intelligence Agency. “An Evaluation of the Remote Viewing Program.”
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00791R000200180005-5.pdf
Central Intelligence Agency. “Project MKULTRA.” CIA FOIA Reading Room.
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/06760269
U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. “Project MKULTRA, the CIA’s Program of Research in Behavioral Modification.” Hearing, August 3, 1977.
U.S. Department of Defense. FOIA Reading Room Release referencing MKOFTEN and related research.
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/FOID/Reading%20Room/NCB/02-A-0846_RELEASE.pdf
Collins Elite & Demonic UFO Claims
Redfern, Nick. Final Events: Demonic UFOs, Alien Abductions, the Government, and the Afterlife. Anomalist Books, 2010.
“Final Events.” Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Events
Milburn, F. “The Pentagon’s UAP Task Force.” BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,836, 2020.
https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/183-Milburn-study-final.pdf
Occult & WWII Context
Crowley, Aleister. Biographical overview.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley
“V sign.” Wikipedia (Crowley and WWII ‘V for Victory’ claims).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign
Parsons, Jack. Biographical overview.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons
“Sex-Cult Rocket Man.” JSTOR Daily.
https://daily.jstor.org/sex-cult-rocket-man/
Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. The Occult Roots of Nazism. NYU Press.
https://nyupress.org/9780814730607/occult-roots-of-nazism/
Media Coverage
Medill on the Hill. “UAP Hearing Coverage.” November 2024.
https://medillonthehill.medill.northwestern.edu/2024/11/uap/
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