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Dan Sherman

contested military status · verified public figure

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Dan Sherman · 0:23:01

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American Alchemy · 2:38:46

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American Alchemy · 2:42:37

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Sherman says he was trained as an 'intuitive communicator' in a programme called Project Preserve Destiny and received messages from non-human intelligence while at an NSA site. No records support the account. The corpus interviews him.

Who

RoleFormer USAF electronic-intelligence specialist; author of Above Black (1998)
Sidemilitary
Statusverified public figure (does the person exist and hold the stated position — not whether their claims are true)

Interviews and appearances

Claims made

  • Sherman testified that at the NSA complex in Laurel a captain briefed him into Project Preserve Destiny: begun 1960 after 1947 contact, it 'genetically managed' fetuses — his mother abducted in 1963 — to produce intuitive communicators for a future event.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 0:23:01 “The NSA Hired Me To Speak To Aliens!” -Sergeant Dan Sherman · Dan Sherman
      t was called Project Preserve Destiny and um it was designed to
  • Sherman testified that the training involved mentally humming tones until on-screen sine waves 'clicked' under his influence, pills left on the table, two consoles, and a second student he was forbidden to speak to.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 0:44:57 “The NSA Hired Me To Speak To Aliens!” -Sergeant Dan Sherman · Dan Sherman
      When I saw the sine wave move, I went, "Oh, okay. Well, there's a mental disconnect there that that's not supposed to be happening.
  • Sherman testified that late in the program the traffic he decoded began carrying what he read as abduction telemetry — fields for 'potentiality for recall' and 'pain levels' — producing a moral crisis that ended with him forcing discharge by admitting bisexuality under Don't Ask Don't Tell through his non-program chain of command.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 2:37:46 “The NSA Hired Me To Speak To Aliens!” -Sergeant Dan Sherman · Dan Sherman
      they would report like uh potentiality for recall and and um pain levels
  • Sherman testified that about two years after 'Above Black' came out, within a minute of a Howard Stern producer's call, an unidentified caller told him 'Drop the story. Don't go on the Sahara Stern and stop talking about it' — and the Stern show never called back.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 2:59:44 “The NSA Hired Me To Speak To Aliens!” -Sergeant Dan Sherman · Dan Sherman
      Drop the story. Don't go on the Sahara Stern and stop talking about it.
  • Sherman testified that he never saw the entities he communicated with and that he pictures them with 'the same stereotypical view of an alien that everybody else has'.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 1:52:25 “The NSA Hired Me To Speak To Aliens!” -Sergeant Dan Sherman · Dan Sherman
      I never saw any visualization of of their what they look
  • Dan Sherman testified that while serving at the NSA he was read into 'Project Preserve Destiny', a 'gray project' concealed within a black project with its own funding line, in which he decoded telepathic alien communications.

    FACT contested 2025

    • 0:01:05 “The NSA Hired Me To Speak To Aliens!” -Sergeant Dan Sherman · Dan Sherman
      This program was called Project Preserve Destiny. Project Preserve Destiny's purpose
  • Project Preserve Destiny existed as an NSA program genetically engineering intuitive communicators — the world-claim of Sherman's case.

    SPECULATION contested 2025

    • 0:23:32 “The NSA Hired Me To Speak To Aliens!” -Sergeant Dan Sherman · Dan Sherman
      the genesis of it was in 1947. We came in contact with an alien species and in 1960 they started a a project.
  • Sherman testified that the signals he decoded for the NSA contained descriptions of alien abductions across the United States — locations and the pain levels of the abductees.

    FACT thin 2025

    • 0:01:05 “The NSA Hired Me To Speak To Aliens!” -Sergeant Dan Sherman · Dan Sherman
      Alien signals that seem to telepathically transmit descriptions of alien abductions across the United States.

Mentioned in the corpus

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Named in 10 uploads (automatic name matching, 25 mentions)

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Sources on this record

  • 0:23:01 “The NSA Hired Me To Speak To Aliens!” -Sergeant Dan Sherman · Dan Sherman
    t was called Project Preserve Destiny and um it was designed to
  • 0:44:57 “The NSA Hired Me To Speak To Aliens!” -Sergeant Dan Sherman · Dan Sherman
    When I saw the sine wave move, I went, "Oh, okay. Well, there's a mental disconnect there that that's not supposed to be happening.

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