Whitley Strieber

Claims made

• Strieber stated that Communion drew tens of thousands of letters from self-described experiencers, and that 4,000-5,000 of them are now curated at Rice University's Archives of the Impossible.

  FACT documented 2025

  • 1:58:36 "Aliens Live Among Us...I've Met Them!" -Whitley Strieber Tells All · Whitley Strieber ▶

    they're all four or 5 thousand of them are now at Rice University in a in an archive called the Archives of the Impossible, founded by Jeff Kriel.

• Strieber stated that a 1994-or-1996 removal attempt on the earlobe object was videotaped by Anne Strieber, that she called it 'a white disc', that it retreated from the doctor's probe into the earlobe, and that the doctor stopped, later saying he realized he was trying to remove an alien implant.

  FACT well-supported 2025

  • 1:24:30 "Aliens Live Among Us...I've Met Them!" -Whitley Strieber Tells All · Whitley Strieber ▶

    there's a video of the surgeon trying to remove it and the thing moving at its own like it's down into my earlobe.

• Strieber acknowledged on-camera that his Communion cover 'massively influenced' the modern depiction of the grays — 'if they finally land and come out and they don't look like that, I will experience the most profound embarrassment in human history'.

  FACT well-supported 2025

  • 0:02:42 "Aliens Live Among Us...I've Met Them!" -Whitley Strieber Tells All · Whitley Strieber ▶

    our modern depiction of the grays and how much that was massively influenced by by you and the book

• Strieber referenced the December 1985 cabin event itself only in passing in this episode: 'that night when I woke up in that room. My immediate thought was, my god, bugs. Huge bugs.'

  FACT contested 2025

  • 0:19:57 "Aliens Live Among Us...I've Met Them!" -Whitley Strieber Tells All · Whitley Strieber ▶

    that was that night when I woke up in that room. My immediate thought was, my god, bugs. Huge bugs.

• Strieber testified that in May 1989 he heard gravel crunch with no lights, found a woman and a man already inside his bedroom, heard a male voice outside say 'condition red', was pressed immobile into his pillow, and afterward found the alarm armed, the garage door open, the car full of static, and an alarm technician measuring a strong magnetic field that garbled the system records.

  FACT contested 2025

  • 1:30:47 "Aliens Live Among Us...I've Met Them!" -Whitley Strieber Tells All · Whitley Strieber ▶

    I hear the crunching of gravel in the driveway. Okay. I do not see any lights. There's a big gate.

• Strieber stated that he personally knows hybrid humans living in the Santa Monica area — nonverbal, fluently telepathic, extremely autistic, chain-smoking — and described a grocery-store encounter in which one read him and fled.

  FACT contested 2025

  • 1:06:43 "Aliens Live Among Us...I've Met Them!" -Whitley Strieber Tells All · Whitley Strieber ▶

    this woman is walking in in front of me and I hit I'm hit by a

• Strieber stated that since 2015 the implant activates around 3 a.m., that he interrogates it while writing, and that after his wife Anne died the words in his visual 'slit' slowed to read 'it's me'.

  FACT contested 2025

  • 1:47:35 "Aliens Live Among Us...I've Met Them!" -Whitley Strieber Tells All · Whitley Strieber ▶

    the words slow down and it says very clearly coming across, it's me

• Strieber stated that in 1952, aged seven, he was in an Air Force 'accelerated learning program' in San Antonio involving a Skinner box, that his immune system collapsed by October, that he received gamma-globulin at Brooke General Hospital, and that his sister later destroyed the 'absent due to illness' report card he asked for.

  FACT contested 2025

  • 0:35:17 "Aliens Live Among Us...I've Met Them!" -Whitley Strieber Tells All · Whitley Strieber ▶

    it involved the use of a Skinner box which I would assume my parents had no idea what that was but his parents did know and they said no