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I’m Ben Schreckinger, a former POLITICO reporter who recently launched Paradigm.News (http://Paradigm.News) to investigate UFOs

I know “Whistling Mike” has been discussed here before. I've published his true identity along with some new details about his saga and his plans.

Mike is Michael Spicer, a Wichita-area businessman. He says that more than 20 years ago he encountered a quiet, roughly triangular, fighter-jet-sized craft hovering low over public land in Kansas. He says he subsequently spent years trying to reverse-engineer aspects of its technology and developed a system intended to detect the craft.

Those are Spicer’s claims. I have not independently established that the craft exists or that his conclusions about its technology are correct.

What I was able to establish is that in 2023, Spicer briefed members and staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee about his findings. During that process, he left them with a dark, dense, porous rock — raw material that Spicer says he mined after determining that the same material is used in the craft.

Three people familiar with the episode told me the committee kept the object for months in a safe inside the Hart Senate Office Building.

I also obtained and published a photo of the material.

There’s more in the piece about Spicer’s interactions with AARO, former acting AARO director Tim Phillips’ very skeptical account of him, an FBI referral, and Spicer’s plans to publicly present some of his findings next month in Colorado.

Full story: *“Whistling Mike” unmasked — Signs of Life #01* (https://www.paradigm.news/p/exclusive-new-ufo-whistleblower-unmasked)

Signs of Life, by the way, is a new weekly newsletter I've launched where I'll continue to provide original UFO reporting. You can subscribe for free at the link above.

Happy to answer questions.