Dan Sherman's Project Preserve Destiny recruitment
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Contents 9
| Date | 1 January 1997 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Dan Sherman |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 127 |
| Year | 1997 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1997 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 8 |
Dan Sherman, a former U.S. Air Force electronic intelligence specialist, says in his self-published 1997 book Above Black that the National Security Agency recruited him into "Project Preserve Destiny", a program to train "intuitive communicators" who would receive telepathic messages from extraterrestrial "Greys".[1][2]
Air Force career
According to an account of the book by military writer Blake Stilwell, Sherman joined the Air Force in 1982 in the Security Police, served in Korea, and later cross-trained into electronic intelligence (ELINT). He went to technical school in 1990, was posted to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, and then returned to Korea. He served until 1994.[1][2]
Recruitment
Sherman says that in 1992, when he was sent to Fort Meade, Maryland, for an intermediate ELINT course at the NSA, he was ordered on his first day to report for what he expected to be a brief introduction. There, he says, he was told that the government had been trying to communicate with the Greys since the early 1960s, and that his mother had been genetically altered before his birth so that he could receive their transmissions.[1]
Training
Sherman says he was driven in a van with blacked-out windows to an unknown site, given two pills, and taught to move waves on electronic screens with his mind. He says his ordinary ELINT training served as cover for the program.[1][2]
Later claims
In 2014 Michael Salla's Exopolitics news site argued that leaked NSA slides about hiding sensitive programs under less sensitive ones supported Sherman's account. The slides did not mention Sherman or any alien program.[2]
Assessment
Sherman is the only source for Project Preserve Destiny, and no other participant or document has confirmed it.[1][2]
People and topics
- Dan Sherman — Former Air Force sergeant who claimed in Above Black that he was trained to communicate with aliens.
- National Security Agency — The U.S. signals intelligence agency, which holds UFO-related intercepts.
- Project Preserve Destiny — The alleged NSA program Dan Sherman says trained him to communicate with aliens.
- Above Black — Dan Sherman's 1997 book.
On the Timeline
- Prudence Calabrese and TransDimensional Systems (1997) — Prudence Calabrese starts a medical remote viewing organization.
- Corso's doubts about autopsy reports (1997) (13 January 1997) — Philip Corso tells Vallée he may have received disinformation about alien autopsies.
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References
- Blake Stilwell, "This airman claims his top secret official duty was to talk to aliens", We Are The Mighty (updated Apr 2021) · wearethemighty.com · archived copy
- Michael Salla, "NSA document supports whistleblower claim of alien UFO communication program", Exo News (Oct 2014) · exonews.org · archived copy
- This airman claims his secret duty was to talk to aliens — We Are The Mighty · wearethemighty.com · archived copy
- Dan Sherman collection — Anomaly Archives · anomalyarchives.org · archived copy
- Dan Sherman, Above Black: Project Preserve Destiny (1997) · barnesandnoble.com · archived copy
- Dan Sherman on Coast to Coast AM, Nov 1997 · artbellarchive-org.pages.dev · archived copy
- Above Black: Project Preserve Destiny (Dan Sherman) — Goodreads · goodreads.com · archived copy
- 'The NSA hired me to speak to aliens': Sgt. Dan Sherman — American Alchemy · podcastrex.com · archived copy
Further reading
- UFO documents — NSA · nsa.gov · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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