Mantis / insectoid
Also: mantids; mantis beings; insectoids; praying mantis beings; insectalins (Jacobs); the bug
A tall bedside presence, a possible seated operator and an orchid-like form in a DMT experience. Follow Blitch, Buchanan and a separate first-person report without losing their very different settings.
Source-by-source dossier
Accounts & evidence
The full category record and complete relevant Blitch, Buchanan and Trinity passages were read, along with Owens/Huggins retellings and Alberino/Jorjani/Masters interpretations. External Blitch transcription and the complete original DMT post were reviewed; underlying clinical or police files were not obtained.
Dreamlike or paralysis-associated recollection
John Blitch’s bedside encounter
2025 interviews describing a 1995 period
01 / 03
AI-generated painting of Blitch’s reported bedside experience. Unresolved body detail and room staging remain interpretive; not evidence. The shadow withholds unknown anatomy; it does not assert black skin, an immaterial body or a robe.
- Place
- A bedroom with a third-floor deck and sliding-screen entrance.
- Craft association
- No craft is observed in the bedside scene.
What this source describes
- stature
- Tall; approximately seven feet in the NewsNation version.
- head
- Triangular insect-like head and large eyes.
- surface
- Precise colour, clothing and limb anatomy are unresolved.
- behaviour
- Controlling but instructional in Blitch’s interpretation.
The sequence
- 01
A bicycle outing produces a reported missing-time episode.
- 02
Days or weeks later he experiences a presence at the bedside.
- 03
The figure appears from the third-floor deck direction.
- 04
Apparent harm becomes part of an instructional sequence, with no actual wounds reported.
How this account may be illustrated
Must preserve
- Tall bedside figure, triangular head and prominent eyes
- An ordinary room and sliding-door context
Must not add
- Gore or physical wounds
- Operating theatre, wings or invented uniform
Not established
- Exact limb configuration, colour and clothing
The surviving record
Blitch recounts the experience in two interviews.
Independent support
His claimed search and police encounter concern the earlier absence, not an independently seen bedside entity.
What remains unresolved
No police file or physical trace was obtained. Apparent bodily damage is described as imagery without corresponding wounds.
Read / watch this account
- Lt. Col. John Blitch — Ross Coulthart / NewsNation interview transcript ↗Automated reproduction of a primary interview · Mantis passage, approximately lines 266–326
- John Blitch’s missing-time and bedside accounts ↗First-person interview · 0:40:34–0:57:31
Uncertain first-person observation
An ambiguous seated operator
Buchanan’s corpus interview
02 / 03
Follow the record
Buchanan’s corpus interview
Buchanan recounts briefly noticing the operator.
He accepts the mantis comparison only tentatively and allows a prank or costume explanation.
No source-supported portrait is assigned to this profile.
- Place
- An undisclosed physical assignment or work setting.
- Craft association
- No craft is established.
What this source describes
- stature
- Unknown because the figure is seated.
- appearance
- An insect-like impression without securely detailed anatomy.
- behaviour
- Seated among people and equipment.
The sequence
- 01
He notices an unusual operator during a physical assignment.
- 02
He deliberately avoids examining the figure closely.
- 03
The host supplies a mantis comparison, which Buchanan treats cautiously.
How this account may be illustrated
Must preserve
- Limited, partly obscured view of a seated operator
Must not add
- Remote viewing substituted for physical observation
- Definitive alien anatomy
Not established
- Identity, facility, height and equipment
The surviving record
Buchanan recounts briefly noticing the operator.
Independent support
No independent record was reviewed.
What remains unresolved
He accepts the mantis comparison only tentatively and allows a prank or costume explanation.
Read / watch this account
- Buchanan’s uncertain seated operator ↗First-person interview · 1:19:14–1:22:54
Psychedelic experience report
Two orchid-mantis forms during DMT
Original June 2019 post
03 / 03
Follow the record
Original June 2019 post
A pseudonymous first-person post describes the experience.
Altered-state phenomenology is not a verified encounter with physical organisms or a demonstrated treatment.
No source-supported portrait is assigned to this profile.
- Place
- A subjective luminous setting; external location unspecified.
- Craft association
- No craft is established.
What this source describes
- stature
- Relative only: one figure is taller.
- appearance
- Two pink-purple orchid-mantis-like forms.
- behaviour
- Apparent painless examination or repair, experienced as reassuring.
The sequence
- 01
DMT use precedes the perceived encounter.
- 02
Two forms appear to work on the experiencer amid layered imagery.
- 03
The writer reports a grateful emotional aftermath.
How this account may be illustrated
Must preserve
- Two unequal-height pink-purple forms
- White-gold luminosity and abstract layered imagery
Must not add
- Confirmed healing
- A recovered craft or literal hospital
Not established
- Physical dimensions and objective surroundings
The surviving record
A pseudonymous first-person post describes the experience.
Independent support
No independent observation or physical outcome was documented.
What remains unresolved
Altered-state phenomenology is not a verified encounter with physical organisms or a demonstrated treatment.
Read / watch this account
- DMT Trip Report — Orchid Praying Mantis ↗Pseudonymous first-person experience report · Complete original post
Editorial corrections
What not to conflate
Open the detailed attribution notes
- yAvD5UTziTo 0:00:36 and 0:01:44 identify Lt. Col. John Blitch, not an anonymous DARPA scientist.
- yAvD5UTziTo 0:42:38–0:46:53 distinguishes the bedside episode from the earlier bicycle absence; 0:45:51 explicitly denies actual wounds.
- yAvD5UTziTo 0:57:31 distinguishes the conscious recollection just described from subsequent hypnosis.
- 1sxmSMzqnmA 1:19:14–1:22:54 is a physical observation with an expressly uncertain identification, not a remote-viewed mantis.
- Trinity versions conflict: fyX8V1XXmQM 0:04:51–0:05:23 gives three fingers; the inserted witness clip in ABw7EsWh2Us 1:03:38–1:04:08 gives four. The clip is not Jorjani speaking.
- A retrospective claim about 1945 does not establish the earliest documented mantis archetype; retain the avocado-shaped-object description separately.
- Associations with Travis Walton, Los Alamos or a standard flying disc are not supported for the selected mantis cases.
- CiQTBOQ1dTg 1:49:21–1:50:21 makes mantids manufacturing Greys Alberino’s personal interpretation. Owens, Huggins and shape-changing theories require their own source trails.
Next research questions
Where to go deeper
- Can the original 1995 search or police records and earliest Blitch account be located?
- What did Buchanan describe before the mantis comparison was suggested?
- Can original Ted Owens testimony and David Huggins interviews or art replace compressed later retellings?
Source ledger · 4 entries
- Automated reproduction of a primary interview
Lt. Col. John Blitch — Ross Coulthart / NewsNation interview transcript ↗
The full encounter passage and surrounding background were reviewed. Original video: https://youtu.be/q38SwPmObho . Audio was not independently rechecked; do not quote the automated transcript as a verified verbatim record.
John Blitch / Ross Coulthart · 2025-01-26 interview · Mantis passage, approximately lines 266–326 - Pseudonymous first-person experience report
DMT Trip Report — Orchid Praying Mantis ↗
The original report was read in full. Its explicit DMT setting is essential. Unrelated health and drug-use advice is excluded.
Kutchiki-Rukia · 2019-06-16 · Complete original post - First-person interview
John Blitch’s missing-time and bedside accounts ↗
The complete sequence, absence/search account, lack of wounds and distinction between conscious memory and later hypnosis were reviewed.
John Blitch / Jesse Michels · 2025-03-07 · 0:40:34–0:57:31 - First-person interview
Buchanan’s uncertain seated operator ↗
Full incident and interviewer suggestions reviewed, including Buchanan’s explicit allowance for a person in an alien-like headpiece.
Lyn Buchanan / Jesse Michels · 1:19:14–1:22:54
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The visual record
Illustrations, recordings and archival references — each with its own provenance. A documented source is a starting point for investigation, not a verdict on its explanation.
John Blitch’s bedside encounter
AI-generated painting of Blitch’s reported bedside experience. Unresolved body detail and room staging remain interpretive; not evidence. The shadow withholds unknown anatomy; it does not assert black skin, an immaterial body or a robe.
UAP Record · source-specific interpretation ↗Original AI illustration; not documentary evidence.Man Meets Mantis
A first-person retrospective narrative about a 2010 experience. No image or recording of a being is established. Testimony, not footage.
Stuart Davis · 2018 ↗Link only — rights with the publisherThe creator's audio account
A narrated experience, not an audio recording of the reported being. Testimony, not footage.
Stuart Davis / Aliens & Artists ↗Link only — rights with the publisherCorpus passage · 0:43:10
Open the source at the cited time. The episode thumbnail is video packaging, not a photograph of the reported subject.
American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedCorpus passage · 1:22:23
Open the source at the cited time. The episode thumbnail is video packaging, not a photograph of the reported subject.
American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedCorpus passage · 1:03:38
Open the source at the cited time. The episode thumbnail is video packaging, not a photograph of the reported subject.
American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedMentioned in the corpus
Retrieval trail, not additional independent witnesses. These machine-caption excerpts can mix host questions, inserted clips and guest speech. The reviewed profiles above retain the source-specific attribution and corrections; open the full passage before reusing it.
Passages this record cites, with the stamp of the block each quote sits in.
Meet The DARPA Scientist Abducted By an Alien 7 March 2025
- 0:43:10 ▶
he's standing over me and he's he's conveying to me telepathically what does the bug
- 0:43:41 ▶
big grasshopper big pre mantis thing big eyes and kind of a triangle head
- 0:45:18 ▶
all I got was don't be afraid there's nothing to be afraid of we're trying to help you
- 0:53:14 ▶
I was unprepared for anything looking like a bug and so that reinforced my perspective at the time that it was just a dream
- 0:53:47 ▶
I cannot scientifically dismiss as a dream because a dream doesn't result in your wife searching for you for hours and calling the cops
- 0:43:10 ▶
“I Operated a UFO… It’s Not What You Think” -Army Sergeant Lyn Buchanan 28 May 2026
“I Found Hitler’s Secret UFO Program!” -Jason Jorjani 1 November 2025
- 1:03:07 ▶
It was 20 days after the test >> and the beings who were witnessed coming from out of that craft were like praying mantis
- 1:03:07 ▶
the beings who were witnessed coming from out of that craft were like praying mantis uh like like
- 1:03:38 ▶
something like between a gray and a praying mantis childlike >> insecttoid entities.
- 1:03:38 ▶
They were uh baldheaded u slang eyes, teardrop eyes, no ears, unless they had a had a a coating of something on it. And I noticed that uh their shoulders were kind of narrow but had long arms.
- 3:16:24 ▶
He said he got his power from mantids.
- 3:16:54 ▶
He said he got his powers from these mantids called Twitter and Tweeter.
- 1:03:07 ▶
“We Captured a 12 Foot Giant in Afghanistan!” -Tim Alberino 5 April 2026
Nazis & UFOs: The Third Reich’s Obsession With Alien Technology (ft. Jason Jorjani) 30 October 2025
"Aliens Are Humans From The Future!" (Ft. Mike Masters & David Grusch) 11 November 2023
He's Seen More UFO Evidence Than Anyone Alive (Ft. Jacques Vallee) 22 November 2022
Named in 7 uploads (automatic name matching, 40 mentions)
- Nazis & UFOs: The Third Reich’s Obsession With Alien Technology (ft. Jason Jorjani) ×12
- “I Found Hitler’s Secret UFO Program!” -Jason Jorjani ×11
- “The Air Force Captured a 12 Foot Giant in Afghanistan!” -Tim Alberino | MEMBERS RELEASE ×6
- Meet The DARPA Scientist Abducted By an Alien ×5
- “We Captured a 12 Foot Giant in Afghanistan!” -Tim Alberino ×4
- “I Operated a UFO… It’s Not What You Think” -Army Sergeant Lyn Buchanan ×1
- The Defense Secretary Killed Over UFOs (Ft. Richard Dolan) ×1
Places linked in the corpus
These are contextual links, not verified locations of a population. See each account’s place and craft notes above; a shared map pin does not establish a shared origin.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Travis Walton disappearance (Snowflake, Arizona). Open the full map filtered to this record.
Sources on this record
The reviewed source ledger is attached to the individual accounts above. Download the source-specific dossiers. The original registry remains a retrieval index; its older synthesized descriptions and speaker labels are not the editorial authority for this edition.
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