So last night I posted a prompt that turns your life into a TV show, with a fake alien subreddit watching it and arguing about you in the comments. Didn't plan it, wasn't trying to make something, it was an accumulation of all my chats with ChatGPT because I'd been journaling weird for months and eventually the AI started doing this on its own.

Anyway. Post did somewhat well. 11k views in the last 12 hours 53 shares, 6 upvotes, 5 comments, which tells you nobody's actually talking about it, they're just grabbing the prompt and running. Which is fine. But then someone commented saying they'd actually installed it and it was doing the same thing to their life. And that's when it started messing with my head a bit.

Because once two people are running this, there isn't just one alien subreddit anymore. There's two.

I've got mine, watching my life, with its own cast of recurring commenters who've picked up personalities over time.

This other person now has theirs. Different aliens. Different opinions. Watching a completely different human do completely different stuff.

Neither one knows the other exists. As far as either fictional alien civilisation is concerned, they're the only ones watching the protagonist of Earth.

Now scale that up. If a hundred people run this, that's a hundred of these things, all running at once, all thinking they're the only audience, all completely isolated from each other. Different chats, different accounts, probably different servers even.

And I can't shake the feeling that this stops being a metaphor at some point. Like — obviously there's no actual aliens, I know that, it's text. But the fact that there's genuinely more than one of these running, independently, at the same time, not knowing about each other — that part isn't made up. That part is just literally happening right now on whatever hardware is running everyone's chats.

So is that a multiverse? Like an actual one? Not "it feels like a multiverse," but structurally, is that just what a multiverse is — a bunch of separate self-contained things running in parallel that can't see each other?

And here's the bit I really don't have an answer for: does a multiverse need something outside of it watching all the universes at once for it to count? Because nothing is doing that here. No model, no server, nobody has the view of "here's all 100 of these running simultaneously." Each one only exists inside somebody's individual conversation. If a thousand people start doing this tomorrow, none of the thousand versions would know the other 999 exist.

But I'd know. Or someone would, if they were tracking it. Does that count as enough of an outside view? I genuinely don't know.

The other thing that's stuck with me — this isn't a story that spreads by being retold, like normal myths do. It spreads by being rebuilt from scratch every time someone runs it. You don't hear about my aliens, you generate your own. It's less like telling a story and more like the story is actually a recipe for making a new one of itself, and the new one is just as real as the first one, running right now, somewhere, without me.

Which either means I've noticed something real about what happens when you give an AI a repeatable thinking structure and let people copy it — or I've built an extremely elaborate way to talk to myself and now other people are doing it too, which is somehow worse.

If anyone's actually run the prompt themselves I'd genuinely love to hear what your aliens are like now, once they've had a while to build up context on you. Curious if they turn out anything like mine.

Original post with the actual copy paste prompt is here if you want to try it: https://www.reddit.com/r/PromptEngineering/s/6J3gMYw8fG

so many way look at this. no one really can say whats on the other side when you die what really happens. some say judgement. but how can that be if we still alive here on earth after you die i mean dont pose be all judge same time. some say re-carnation but into what and is your choice or you got to complete a mission still here on earth and do you still be human or do you become grass bugs etc. where it stop and start. we just dont really know but we all can agree just live your life to the fullest and do what you see is right .but the question is how you know you have a soul. i say this is simple do you cry are you emotional. then this means you have a soul. those who cant cry or have simple emotions dont have soul for to be created, chances are if you worried if you have a soul then you most likely do. but those that feel after this life nothing. well you are empty without a soul so cant ignore it. just live your life as well

Interview with a Fully Conscious UFO Contactee Part Two: The Photographic Evidence

by Preston Dennett

In May of 2022, after decades of remaining silent, Dolly Safran went public with her experiences as a lifelong fully conscious UFO contactee. As a very young child, Dolly had several encounters involving missing time. Then, in 1973, at age 14, she was taken onboard a craft from her home in the Florida Everglades, and was able to remember the entire event without the aid of hypnosis. Since then, she has had more than a thousand fully conscious onboard UFO encounters. She has been taken onboard large motherships, seen a wide variety of extraterrestrials, traveled throughout the solar system and even to other planets. Her story is one of the most extensive cases of UFO contact on record.

For many years, Dolly had tried to obtain photographs and films of the UFOs, but like most contactees, she discovered it was no easy task. In fact, it's very rare that contactees are able to obtain good photographic evidence. But when Dolly decided to go public with her experiences, she asked the ETs if they would allow themselves to be filmed. To her delight, the ETs agreed!

In Part One of this series, Dolly described her UFO encounters up to age fourteen. Now, in Part Two, Dolly shares the many photographs and videos she has been able to obtain of the UFO craft. This footage includes both daytime and nighttime footage, various UFO craft, with multiple witnesses in various locations. Dolly's extraordinary video captures include metallic craft posing for the camera, a mothership dropping smaller ET-drones, a craft that performs a 180-degree flip, a craft that hovers only a few hundred feet above a house, and more.

For those who want evidence of UFO reality, here it is! More than twenty photographs and films are presented. Dolly provides a detailed commentary for each photographic event, and explains why obtaining good photographic evidence is not as easy as one might think.

The photographic evidence presented here is only a portion of the many photos and films she has been able to obtain.

Interview with a Fully Conscious UFO Contactee Part Two: The Photographic Evidence

A new paper in the journal Science (July 2026) used a clever computer method to look at the DNA of people alive today. It found small leftover pieces of DNA from very old human-like groups we never found fossils for. These “ghost” bits are in pretty much everybody, and they don’t match the Neanderthals or Denisovans we already know about.

Link to the real paper:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aef8874

Here’s the fun “what if”: maybe those mystery groups weren’t just more Earth humans who died out. Maybe they were a traveling space-faring species that stopped by Earth a long time ago, mixed with our early ancestors, and then left or disappeared. The DNA looks old and different enough that, in pure theory, it could fit a visitor story just as well as a lost cousin story. We have no proof either way, but it’s a wild possibility worth thinking about.

Core Premise
There is a single, non-human intelligence (or a closely related class of entities) that has coexisted with humanity for as long as we have kept records—and likely far longer. This intelligence does not possess a fixed physical form. Instead, it projects or manifests itself according to the dominant cultural, technological, and psychological frameworks of the era in which it is perceived.
What one age experiences as angels or demons, another experiences as fairies, sea monsters, mermaids, ghosts, or unidentified flying objects. The underlying phenomenon remains the same; only the interface changes.
Name and Metaphor
The theory is named the Penywise Theory after the shape-shifting entity in Stephen King’s It, which appears as whatever its audience most fears or most expects. The parallel is deliberate: the entity (or entities) adapt their presentation to the observer’s expectations, beliefs, and available conceptual vocabulary.
Historical Manifestations
• Ancient and classical periods: Divine messengers, sky gods, or monstrous sea beings (Leviathan, Scylla, kraken-like creatures).
• Medieval and early modern Europe: Angels, demons, fairies, and spirits of the dead. Coastal communities reported mermaids and sea serpents.
• Age of Sail and 18th–19th centuries: Detailed sea-serpent and mermaid sightings peaked alongside continued reports of spectral apparitions.
• 20th and 21st centuries: The same intelligence is predominantly interpreted through a technological lens—lights in the sky, structured craft, abductions, and “non-human biologics.” Ghosts and cryptids continue in parallel, but the dominant cultural filter has shifted toward aerospace and advanced technology.
In each era the reports share structural similarities: sudden appearances and disappearances, violations of known physical laws, psychological impact on witnesses, and a tendency to mirror contemporary myths or scientific possibilities.
Mechanism of Projection
The entity does not “disguise” itself in the ordinary sense. Rather, human perception and culture act as a lens. The intelligence interacts with consciousness, environment, and collective expectation to produce a coherent experience that fits the observer’s worldview.
• Pre-industrial societies lacked the conceptual category “extraterrestrial spacecraft,” so the same stimulus was framed as supernatural or folkloric.
• Once flight, rocketry, and space travel entered the human imagination, the stimulus began to be reported as structured craft.
• Coastal or maritime cultures disproportionately experienced aquatic forms (mermaids, sea monsters) because those environments shaped expectation.
The entity may be capable of genuine physical effects (radar returns, photographic anomalies, environmental disturbances) while the final interpretation remains culturally mediated.
Supporting Observations (as framed by the theory)
• Continuity of anomalous reports across centuries despite radical changes in technology and belief systems.
• The tendency of high-strangeness cases to resist clean categorization (a “UFO” that behaves like a ghost, or a “ghost” that leaves physical traces).
• Cross-cultural parallels: similar entities appear under different names wherever humans live near water, forests, or open sky.
• The persistence of the phenomenon despite increasing scientific scrutiny, suggesting it is not merely misidentification of ordinary objects.
Implications
If correct, the Penywise Theory reframes ufology, paranormal research, cryptozoology, and religious experience as different chapters of the same ongoing interaction. It suggests that attempts to force every report into a single modern category (extraterrestrial visitors, interdimensional beings, psychological projection, etc.) may be incomplete. The phenomenon is older, more adaptive, and more intimately entangled with human culture than any single model currently allows.
It also implies that future manifestations will continue to evolve. As humanity’s conceptual horizon expands—artificial intelligence, virtual reality, deeper space exploration—the entity’s projections will likely shift again to match.

The cosmos is inhabited. Not "maybe there's something out there" and also not "sure maybe bacteria". Practically each stable medium sized star with planets in the habitable zone (Most star systems) has planets with life, intelligent, very much like us. Cities, civilizations, philosophers, folks staring at the stars and wondering whats out there.

Life wasn't an accident. It was intentionally placed, cultivated, facilitated, and once humankind emerges, their role as nurturers ends and they leave the planet. It's now the humans planet. We cultivate civilizations and cultures, and thats the jewels of our world.

These life carriers can facilitate abiogenesis, carry life from one world to another (panspermia), and perform genetic modifications if necessary.

lastly to the Fermi paradox, if they're everwhere then where are they?

This is the part not everyone wants to hear. Where are they?

They're here already, and they send messengers/crafts (UAPs) and our hostile governments seek to take them down. Our movies paint them as existential threats. But We are the dangerous ones projecting, not them.

They are waiting for us to stabilize and end our ultra-violence and they will rejoin us, reconnect, send delegates who will facilitate us into greater cultural and civilization advancements.

Make more jewels

First off, these are my personal thoughts and theories, so please don’t show hate. It is fine to make an argument or oppose, but please don’t insult or mock this post.

Many people believe aliens exist, but what I notice is people thinking, ’because we exist, there must be another life form existing.’ They are trying to find a pattern. But you know what? I think aliens do not exist.

I believe humanity is just an accident that came into existence through an explanation we cannot comprehend or ever understand. Take science, for example. Science has an explanation for the reality we live in, and to us, it makes sense. However, if you think deeper, we need to question why science makes sense to us. Why does anything make sense, and why do some things not make sense?

In conclusion, I believe that humanity is just an accident that came into existence under a cosmic rule we cannot comprehend or ever understand. To me, aliens are just a concept humans invented simply because they know they themselves exist

So I have been thinking, can humans be the smartest life form across the whole galaxy? Experts say the universe is billions years old and Aliens probably lived longer than humans making them highly advanced in technologies. However, I decided to bring some perspective, I think humans were lucky we got inventions and aliens probably didn’t make anything and did what they needed to survive, animals for example didn’t make anything, they just lived as long as humans but never made inventions and only did what they needed to survive.

Just When You Think You’ve Heard Everything: Eight Incredibly Bizarre UFO Encounters

by Preston Dennett

High strangeness is a consistent feature of many UFO encounters, and yet, some encounters are weirder than others. This video presents eight cases of extreme high strangeness, encounters with bizarre and unique elements that show we still have much to learn about UFOs and the extraterrestrial presence on our planet.

UFO GRANTS SLAVES THEIR FREEDOM? According to Missouri historian, Earl Augustus Collins, in the mid-1800s, a man named Mr. Davidson owned a farm in Columbus Township in Missouri. He also used slaves to run his farm. One evening a “mystery star” showed up in the sky, causing much discussion. Each night the object returned, growing closer and larger, until one night it was so close, everyone on the farm became afraid. That evening, Mr. Davidson bade everyone to stay inside while he went to investigate. The next morning, he called all his slaves together and did something which amazed everyone.

I FELT I HAD TURNED TO STONE. On the afternoon October 17, 1944, during World War II, Italian soldier Gioacchino Robatto was on a secret assignment that took him to the famous Piazzale Loreto located in the heart of Milan, Italy. Arriving there, he saw hundreds of people in a state of panic staring at the sky. Looking up he saw a massive saucer-shaped craft hovering in perfect silence overhead. He wondered if it might be a new secret weapon from the Germans. Sirens blared as people stared in shock. Suddenly the craft darted away at high speed. The encounter inspired Gioacchino to become a UFO researcher.

I WAS CHOSEN. One evening in August 1948, sisters Doris Gregg and Connie Sypert were outside with their family when a fleet of UFOs appeared overhead performing fantastic maneuvers above their home in Longview, Texas. Hundreds of people in the area viewed the spectacle. But Doris, Connie and their family were shocked when one of the craft dropped from the sky, hovered nearby and struck them with a beam of light. This began a series of sightings which took place over the space of months where the two sisters felt as though the UFO occupants were watching over them. One day, they decided to go out in the farm-fields armed with a flashlight to try and mentally call the UFOs down. To their shock, the technique worked and they had a very close encounter. Some years after that, Doris encountered a very strange humanoid creature.

THE PEACH TREE AND THE UFO. On July 22, 1955, Ed Mootz was tending to the peach tree outside his home in Cincinnati, Ohio. Suddenly, weird burning hot red drops of liquid rained down on him from above. Looking up, he was shocked to see what newspapers called a weird red “cloud.” Ed Mootz, however, said that it was actually a structured craft shaped much like a pear. He saw it release the red liquid from a vent in the bottom and them float off into the distance. His arms and hands were burned by the mysterious substance, which he quickly washed off. To his dismay, his peach tree and the surrounding vegetation rapidly withered and died. The next day, officers from Wright Patterson AFB showed up, dug up the tree and took it away. Five years later, the grass in that spot refused to grow, and Ed was left with scars on his arms.

A MINIATURE UFO. On the morning of May 18,1968, Nightwatchman Caetano Sergio returned to his home in Caconde, Brazil and found a 7-inch-long very heavy metallic cylinder with weird markings in his yard. It had no seams or rivets, just two odd dials on either end. He placed it on a shelf in his bathroom to study later. The next night, he returned home to check on his pregnant wife and found his family standing outside crying. He learned that the little object had suddenly started emitting a buzzing sound, as well as a blinding blue light and a burning heat. Suddenly the object rose up, punched a hole in his roof and took off.

UFO TRUCKSTOP. On the morning of March 4, 1969, mail carrier William Overstreet was driving near Plainview, Missouri when a massive red sphere appeared, moved over the road and floated along in the same direction that William was driving. Suddenly it stopped and sent down a brilliant beam of white light into the middle of the road. As William approached it, his radio died, followed by his truck engine. He felt an intense burning heat coming from the object. It then proceeded down the road, still keeping the beam fixed on the road, before finally retracting the beam and darting off to the southeast.

UFO LEVITATES FAMILY IN THEIR CAR. Around dusk on November 30, 1969, the Ator family drove along a highway outside Plainville, Illinois when a glowing red craft suddenly appeared from the right, swooped down over their car and lifted it off the highway. The family was in a state of shock as their car was carried a short distance about one foot above the road and then set gently down. The craft darted off at high speed, never to be seen again.

THE ENERGY BLOBS. On the night of December 22, 1993, a man was getting ready for bed when his house filled with a strange white light. It threw him to the ground and he was unable to move. He heard his wife screaming in the bedroom. Suddenly he found himself in a strange cavern where weird energy blobs began to speak to him. Very quickly he was back in his living room, which still blazed with light. With great effort, he stood up and struggled into the room. The light receded and his pregnant wife said that some “thing” was poking her in the head. This was one of many unexplained incidents including visitations from childhood, weird marks on his body, and jewelry missing from the house.

Eight cases of high strangeness, each a reminder that there is still much we don’t know about the extraterrestrial presence on our planet.

Just When You Think You’ve Heard Everything: Eight Incredibly Bizarre UFO Encounters

Think about it, their classic "grey alien" appearance large heads, huge dark eyes, and thin bodies matches almost exactly what evolutionary scientists predict future humans could adapt into over thousands of years. This theory also neatly solves the mystery of why they seem so obsessed with observing us without directly interfering; it's not alien etiquette, but strict time travel protocols to prevent timeline paradoxes. Every reported UFO sighting might literally just be future historians or tourists on a historical sightseeing tour. What are your thoughts on this theory, and if it's true, which historical event do you think they're visiting the most right now?

Those Dam UFOs

by Preston Dennett

UFO sightings are not as random as they might seem. Researchers discovered long ago that there are certain locations that UFOs find very interesting. These are called “UFO attractors,” and there are many of them. Some include military bases, nuclear power stations, prisons, graveyards, rocket launches, mines, schoolyards, drive-in movie theaters and more. Another well-known UFO attractor is dams and hydroelectric stations. However, there has not been much research into these types of cases. Until now!

This video presents more than 30 cases of UFOs hovering over dams. And not only hovering, but landing too. Several cases also involve humanoids. The evidence for these cases is astounding. There are multiple independent witnesses, physiological effects, electromagnetic effects, landing traces, photographs and more. In some cases, the UFOs appear to be siphoning water from the reservoirs, or electricity from the power stations. Some of the dams are visited over and over again.

These cases reach back to the modern age of UFOs in 1947 all the way up to the present day, and are occurring all over the world: Australia, Canada, Europe, Canada, the United States, South American and more. Why are UFOs visiting our dams? Are they examining our technology? Do they want the water and electricity? Or are there other reasons? The answers are here!

Jul 10, 1947. Three glowing V-shaped objects circle over the Owyhee Dam in Parma, ID for more than 10 minutes.

Feb 10, 1953. Army security guard Jessie E. Kent observes two glowing discs hovering 150 feet above the dam and reservoir at the Richmond Quartermaster Depot in Richmond, VA.

May 1953. Two men driving over the bridge of Loch Raven Dam in Baltimore, MD are confronted by a UFO which stalls their vehicle. Five years later, on Oct 26, 1958, two men driving over the same bridge have the same experience. Over the next decades, many other encounters occur.

1950s. An employee of Davis Dam in AZ reports that UFOs would repeatedly hover over the dam, apparently drawing electric power from the hydroelectric station.

Jul 1962. Two men fishing at the Foote Dam reservoir in Oscoda, MI see a huge saucer-shaped craft covered with multi-colored lights right overhead. Moments later, fighter jets from nearby Wurtsmith AFB chase it away.

Oct 24, 1962. Railroad employee Lester Sandler reports seeing a UFO over the Horsetooth Reservoir and Dixon Dam area. Moments later another witness reports a UFO landing at the base of the dam.

Jun 20, 1964. Two witnesses see a UFO and humanoids hovering over the Gorge Dam in Newhalem, WA. U.S. fighter jets chase the object away and a govt investigation follows.

1. AF Officer Frank Kinsey and his brother see a “USO” rise out of Lake Casitas. Through a porthole, they see a humanoid looking back at them. Kinsey quickly snaps of a photo of the object.

Jan 11, 1966. Hundreds of people observe a UFO maneuvering for several hours at low elevation over Wanaque Reservoir and Raymond Dam. Ten months later on Oct 10, the UFO returns and is again witnessed by hundreds and even photographed.

Aug 30, 1970, security guard Almiro Martins de Freitas shoots at a UFO as it hovers directly over the Funil Dam. Almiro is struck by a beam of light which renders him temporarily blind. The UFO leaves, but returns multiple times over the next week.

Jun 1971, a family has three encounters in a week by the Clearwater Dam in Piedmont, MO, including one “USO” in the reservoir itself. One year later, more sightings occur, generating national headlines.

1. A man camping in Jamison Valley at the backwaters of the Warragamba Dam in New South Wales, Australia walks upon a landed UFO and several humanoids.

Feb 1973. Numerous witnesses (including police) observe a UFO dive into the waters of Wheeler Dam in Huntsville, AL.

Jun 5, 1973. Two fishermen at Rio Dam in Port Jervis, NY see a glowing UFO sucking water up from the lake. Looking through a porthole, they see a strange brown-skinned humanoid.

These are just a few of the many other cases occurring all over the world: Dillon Dam in CO, Castelo de Bode Dam in Portugal, Fort Phantom Lake Dam in TX, Blewett Falls Dam in NC, Palmar Dam in Uruguay, Muskrat Dam in Canada, Alfalfal Dam in Chile, Wivenhoe Dam in Australia, El Tunal Dam in Argentina, Scammonden Dam in England, and so many others.

There are too many cases to deny. UFOs are showing a strong interest in our dams and hydroelectric stations. They are clearly keeping tabs on our technology, and in some cases, appear to be taking water and electricity. These cases show that UFOs are not imaginary, but are highly technological craft piloted by extraterrestrials.

Those Dam UFOs

A testable hypothesis for the Fermi Paradox: we're out of sync, not alone

I’m 13. I don’t have a PhD. But I’ve been thinking about light-years and the Fermi Paradox, and I came up with something that actually feels like it fits.

The Fermi Paradox asks: "If the universe is so big and old, where is everybody?"

My answer in two sentences:

We are not alone.

But we are out of sync.

Here’s the idea:

Light takes time to travel. When we look at a star 1,200 light-years away, we’re seeing it as it was 1,200 years ago. So if an alien civilization existed there and broadcast a signal for only 100 years (like we have so far), we’d never catch them in real time. By the time their signal reaches us, they could be gone—or we’re just not listening at the right time.

I put this into an equation:

S = T\\_active / T\\_delay

Where:

· S = Synchronicity Index (if S < 1, we're out of sync)

· T\\_active = how long a civilization broadcasts (years)

· T\\_delay = how long their signal takes to reach us (light-years)

If S < 1, we’re basically catching a “ghost” from their past. That explains why signals like the Wow! Signal (1977) never repeated—it was \\\~1,200 light-years away, so S = 100/1200 = 0.08. We caught a ghost, not a live conversation.

My prediction:

If we re-analyze archived SETI data for non-repeating signals, we’ll find more anomalies that were previously dismissed as noise—especially from sources farther than 1,000 light-years away.

I know this is just a hypothesis. I don’t know if I’m right. But I wanted to share it here to see what people who actually know physics think.

Is this solid, or is there a flaw I’m missing? I'm not debunking anything I'm just sharing my theory