NSA Whistleblower: “I Cracked Alien Communication!” - A Deep Dive into Project Preserve Destiny

I just watched one of the most extraordinary interviews I’ve ever seen in the UFO space. Jesse Michels sat down with Dan Sherman, a retired Air Force sergeant who worked at the highest levels on classified projects in electronics and signals intelligence. What Sherman reveals is absolutely mind-blowing.

Sherman claims that in the early 1990s, while serving in the Air Force, he was recruited for an extremely classified NSA program called Project Preserve Destiny. The program’s purpose? To telepathically decode alien signals for the National Security Agency.

Yeah, you read that right. Alien signals that telepathically transmit descriptions of alien abductions across the United States.

Before you dismiss this as another crackpot story, consider this: Michels has thorough documentation of Sherman’s military records. His service is not something you can argue with, nor is his mental health. What makes this interview so compelling is how nonchalant Sherman is about the whole thing. This is the most matter-of-fact conversation about alien telepathic communication you’ll ever hear.

The Genesis of an Intuitive Communicator

Here’s where it gets wild. Sherman was told by the Air Force captain who read him into the program that he was given this telepathic ability by the aliens themselves. They abducted his pregnant mother in the early 1960s and altered his genetics while he was a fetus in her womb.

This genetic blueprint would allow him to grow into what the NSA called an “intuitive communicator.”

Sherman believes the NSA may have tracked him since childhood, monitoring his development until he was finally read into the program during his Air Force service.

The Training Process

The interview reveals that Sherman’s training took place at an underground facility near the NSA complex in Maryland. He was taken there in a nondescript blue van with blacked-out windows. The training involved:

• Listening to specific tones through headphones
• Mentally humming those tones without vocalizing them
• Learning to “click” with sine waves displayed on a computer screen
• Developing the ability to flatten the amplitude of these waves through mental focus alone

When Michels asked Sherman to describe the moment he first successfully controlled the sine wave with his mind, Sherman said: “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. That this is not possible.”

But it was happening. And it would continue happening for years.

Two Alien Contacts: “Spock” and “Bones”

Over the course of his involvement with Project Preserve Destiny, Sherman communicated with two distinct alien entities. He nicknamed them “Spock” and “Bones” after the Star Trek characters.

Spock was the first contact - logical, structured, linear in his communication style. Bones came later and communicated through more colorful imagery and emotions.

Sherman never saw visual representations of these beings. Instead, he perceived their communications as thoughts and concepts appearing in what he describes as a “tapestry” in his mind - a colorful, multi-dimensional space where information would come into focus.

The communications ranged from strings of numbers to vivid imagery: rocket launches, troop movements, grocery store scenes. And eventually - disturbingly - what appeared to be reports on alien abductions, including pain levels and “potentiality for recall.”

The Moral Crisis That Ended It All

It was these abduction reports that triggered Sherman’s crisis of conscience. “I felt morally compromised,” he told Michels. “Because I didn’t have any choice. There was no agency in this.”

He approached his contact officer, asking if he was participating in something nefarious. The captain couldn’t give him satisfactory answers. When Sherman said he wanted out, the captain told him: “I honestly don’t think that you’re going to be able to get out, like, even when your enlistment is up, you’re going to have to stay in.”

So Sherman made an ingenious end run. At the time, the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy was in place. Sherman, who was bisexual, wrote a letter to his regular chain of command - not the Project Preserve Destiny chain - admitting his sexuality. The discharge paperwork started, and he got out.

Why This Case Is Hard to Dismiss

Michels does excellent investigative work here. The evidence is compelling:

1. Military Records: Sherman has his DD-214 and documentation of his service, including his NSA training certificate for electronics intelligence.
2. FOIA Responses: When an independent researcher named Noah Hradek filed a Freedom of Information Act request about Project Preserve Destiny, the Air Force initially denied knowledge but then - remarkably - forwarded the request to the NSA, stating it “falls under the purview of the NSA.” The NSA then cited Executive Order 13526 (classified programs dealing with national defense) in refusing the request.
3. Noise Cancellation Technologies: Michels’ research team discovered that Sherman followed a mysterious white van from his training location to a company called Noise Cancellation Technologies (NCT) in Linthicum, Maryland. Public records show NCT had multiple contracts with DARPA and other government agencies in the early 1990s - exactly when Sherman was being trained.
4. Base Locations: Through research, the team identified Sherman’s first Project Preserve Destiny base as San Vito dei Normanni Air Station in Italy - a base that had the exact “elephant cage” antenna structure Sherman described and was shut down shortly after his time there.

The Fascinating Details Nobody Talks About

What struck me most watching this interview wasn’t just the extraordinary nature of the claims - it was Sherman’s reluctance to talk about them. He’s not selling anything. He’s not touring the conference circuit. He clearly just wants to live his life.

“The mystery is what people are attracted to,” he told Michels. “I mean, obviously, you know, we want to know the truth. But I know the truth. So my mystery, the mystery aspect of it has vanished.”

Sherman says he’s tried to reconnect with the alien contacts since leaving the program. Nothing. “It’s like it was closed off,” he explained.

He’s also developed some unusual abilities since his time in the program:

• Extreme sensitivity to electromagnetic energy (he can sense when a TV is turned on in another room)
• Possible precognition of earthquakes through sensations in his ear
• Heightened senses across the board (smell, hearing, touch)

When Michels asked if he’d testify under oath before Congress, Sherman didn’t hesitate: “Oh, definitely. I would give any information that I have.”

The 2025 Italian Connection

Here’s where things get really weird. In 2025, an Italian outlet called L’Espresso published an article claiming that Trump’s inner circle has been in closed-door meetings with Pentagon officials about moving certain special access programs - including Project Preserve Destiny - out of Pentagon oversight and directly into the White House.

According to the article’s anonymous sources, Trump sees the UFO issue as a chance to brand himself as the president who finally tells Americans the truth about aliens.

The article describes six levels of secrecy - exactly what Sherman describes in his book “Above Black.” A black budget cover mission, deeply compartmentalized, but above it, a gray program core dealing with the alien issue.

How does an Italian weekly magazine know about Sherman’s project? That’s the million-dollar question.

What the Aliens Revealed

Some of the most fascinating parts of the interview are when Sherman discusses what he learned from Spock and Bones about the nature of reality:

• On time travel: You can’t really go back and forward in time because time is relative. But you can “go around time” - whatever that means.
• On the sun: The aliens have a reverence for our sun that we don’t understand. They indicated we’ll eventually understand its true value.
• On humanity: They always referred to us as “water vessels” or “water beings,” suggesting they’re made of something different.
• On their presence: They’ve been here a long time, and it became harder to maintain distance once our civilization advanced and different societies started communicating with each other.
• On religion: We’re part of the same creation as the aliens. There are two types of creation - intelligent and non-intelligent. If you have intelligence, you have what Sherman interpreted as a soul or “internal knowing.”

My Take

I’ve watched hundreds of UFO interviews. This one is different.

Sherman isn’t on the conference circuit pushing his story. He wrote a book years ago (“Above Black”), but he’s not actively promoting it or seeking attention. He explicitly told Michels this would be his “clearing house” interview - the one comprehensive conversation where he puts everything on record, and then he’s going back to his normal life.

There’s a resignation in his voice that’s impossible to fake. Not excitement. Not grandiosity. Just the simple, matter-of-fact recounting of an experience he never asked for.

The evidence backing up his story is stronger than almost any other UFO whistleblower case I’ve seen. Military records check out. FOIA responses are telling. The company connections are documented. The base locations match.

And the stuff he describes - the sine wave training, the tapestry of consciousness, the different communication styles of the two aliens - it’s too specific, too detailed, too internally consistent to be made up.

Do I believe him? I do.

His story is too specific, too detailed, too corroborated by independent evidence to dismiss. The man served his country with distinction. His mental health is sound. His documentation checks out.

Project Preserve Destiny may or may not still exist. The aliens Sherman spoke with may or may not still be in contact with human intuitive communicators. But one thing seems certain: Dan Sherman’s story is one more piece of evidence that we are not alone, and that certain elements of our government have known this for a very long time.

Watch the full interview on Jesse Michels’ channel. It’s three hours long, but every minute is worth it. This is the kind of testimony that changes how you think about what’s possible.