Non-Human Intelligence (NHI): Lifting the Veil

Scope and definitions

Non‑Human Intelligence (NHI) in this dossier refers to intelligences not originating with known human institutions or technologies, reported in connection with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) across aerospace and undersea domains. We draw primarily on three testimony‑led streams:

1. The Age of Disclosure (2025). A feature documentary centered on 34 senior insiders and on‑the‑record claims that material programs and NHI knowledge exist in restricted compartments. Coverage by major outlets and trade press documents the film’s premise and its sources. (The Washington Post)
2. The UAP Caucus. The caucus has called for a Select Committee to compel secure testimony and records transfers about alleged crash retrievals, reverse‑engineering efforts, and “non‑human” programs. The caucus website hosts the Select Committee white paper and a timeline of congressional actions. (UAP Caucus)
3. Capitol‑Hill science and policy briefings, 2025. Public recordings and recaps document a May 1, 2025, multi‑panel briefing titled “Understanding UAP: Science, National Security & Innovation,” where Eric W. Davis took member questions about NHI “species” descriptors. Archival quality varies; we treat the specific assertions as testimony pending authenticated transcripts. (youtube.com)

We supplement these with independent journalism, testimony aired on national television, investigator monographs on “high‑strangeness,” and emerging academic work proposing testable research frameworks. (CBS News)

Types, intent, and presence of NHI

Reported types of NHI

Several lines of testimony, especially during the May 1, 2025, Capitol briefing and related public talks by Eric W. Davis, point to recurring witness‑level descriptors of entities encountered in association with UAP or alleged legacy programs. In informal parlance these are often called “Greys,” “Nordics,” “Insectoid” and “Reptilian.” Davis’s public remarks and subsequent recaps characterize these as phenomenological descriptors of percipient experience rather than taxonomic certainties. That is, witnesses report morphology that resembles, to the human observer, particular classes, without confirming a biological taxonomy or origin. We treat this as Witness Interpretation absent publicly released biological data. (Medium)

Speculation Label: Witness Interpretation. The “species” terms likely compress a wide variance of reported form factors and may include perception effects. We find no publicly released, authenticated biological samples that would elevate this to Verified.

Reported intent

Testimony across The Age of Disclosure and Hill briefings rarely claims a single, transparent NHI “intent”, and none claim an overarching intent. Instead, patterns are inferred:

• Demonstrative capability near defense assets. Multiple insiders and pilots describe UAP behavior that appears performative near military operations, including air‑superiority demonstrations and unusual performance envelopes. That theme is echoed in television interviews with Navy aviators describing events like the 2004 “Tic Tac,” which involved an object maneuvering over an agitated patch of ocean, then accelerating beyond known aircraft capability. Intent is inferred as signaling, surveillance, or indifference. (CBS News)
• Transmedium presence. Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet’s white paper for the SOL Foundation synthesizes cases and argues that undersea domains deserve priority because of recurring reports of craft entering water without splash and USO tracks that exceed known hydrodynamics. This is framed as a national security and scientific concern, not a settled conclusion about origin or intent. (The Sol Foundation)
• Strategic secrecy narrative. In The Age of Disclosure, figures argue there is a decades‑long compartmentalization around recovered materials and NHI knowledge, justified by strategic competition. The film’s core thesis is based on sworn or on‑the‑record testimony, but it does not present public physical proof. We treat intent claims here as Researcher Opinion tied to geopolitical incentives. (The Washington Post)

Speculation Label: Hypothesis. If NHI engage primarily in observation and capability demonstrations rather than conquest or open contact, intent could resemble ecological study, deterrence signaling, or control‑system conditioning as theorized by Jacques Vallée. (WIRED)

What counts as presence on Earth

The most unambiguous public testimony is that UAP are repeatedly present in restricted airspace and over the oceans, with multi‑witness pilot events and corroborating sensor captures. Whatever their origin, these presences recur at scale that has concerned safety and oversight communities. That is a Verified condition for the events themselves, not their origin. (CBS News)

The Age of Disclosure pushes further, asserting insider knowledge of retrieved materials and non‑human beings. Jay Stratton states on camera: “I have seen with my own eyes non‑human craft and non‑human beings,” a claim echoed across the film’s testimony set. This is Disputed at the public evidence layer due to the absence of released, testable artifacts, yet it carries weight within the testimonial corpus given Stratton’s roles. (People.com)

The UAP Caucus, for its part, has sought a Select Committee mandate to compel secure testimony and adjudicate crash‑retrieval allegations, explicitly naming investigation of “non‑human” programs as a core task. That is a procedural presence and demonstrates congressional appetite to test claims. (UAP Caucus)

David Grusch interview and sworn testimony

NewsNation interview. On June 2023 broadcast segments, former intelligence officer David Charles Grusch alleged legacy crash‑retrieval and reverse‑engineering programs involving “non‑human” craft. He presented his claims in a televised NewsNation interview conducted by Ross Coulthart. Claims status: Disputed at the public‑evidence layer; high salience due to on‑record attribution. (youtube.com)

Congressional testimony. On July 26, 2023, under oath before the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, Grusch stated that “non-human biologics” had been recovered in connection with UAP incidents, while clarifying that his knowledge derived from interviews and briefings rather than direct handling. The official hearing page and the Government Publishing Office transcript anchor the record. Claims status: Disputed, with testimony preserved and citable. (Congress.gov)

Encounters and evidence: from pilot eyes to insider accounts

Insider testimony curated in The Age of Disclosure

The film aggregates 34 high‑level voices who advance a thesis that NHI reality is known in restricted channels and that strategic secrecy has prevented public corroboration. It prominently features Luis Elizondo, Chris Mellon, and Jay Stratton. Mainstream outlets summarize the film’s position: allegations of a long‑running crash retrieval and reverse‑engineering effort, with political figures urging transparency. The film calls testimony itself the “strongest evidence” because imagery can be dismissed as deepfakes. We weigh this as Probable that serious, classified inquiry exists and has persisted, and Disputed for specific claims of non‑human craft and beings until public artifacts appear. (The Washington Post)

Capitol Hill science‑policy briefing, May 1, 2025

A public‑facing congressional briefing featured researchers including Eric W. Davis and Avi Loeb. Clips and contemporaneous write‑ups capture Davis discussing multiple “species” types as percipient descriptions raised under oath. The record is noisy and incomplete, yet consistent across independent uploads. We treat its content as credible testimony and its details as provisional until a full, authenticated transcript is hosted by Congress or the organizers. (Medium)

High‑strangeness: the hitchhiker effect, poltergeist‑like spillover and NHI

Extended fieldwork around Skinwalker Ranch‑type locations and AAWSAP‑era investigations documented a pattern later branded the “hitchhiker effect,” in which witnesses report spillover phenomena at home after proximity to hotspots. Colm Kelleher’s paper in EdgeScience summarizes patterns reported by military personnel, contractors, and journalists: orbs, shadow apparitions, anomalous lights, and sometimes health effects, with events distributed over families. This is a body of testimony that suggests NHI or related phenomena can manifest across physical and psychological layers. It remains Disputed in mechanism and causation, with no controlled study yet capable of isolating variables, but the testimony set is extensive and consistent with the six‑layer model of high strangeness proposed by Vallée and Davis. (The Black Vault)

Speculation Label: Hypothesis. If NHI are transmedium across not only air/sea but matter/mind interfaces, high‑strangeness may reflect deliberate or emergent interactions at different layers of reality accessible to the phenomenon. The six‑layer model provides a conceptual scaffolding for research design. (Bdigital)

The cryptid connection: why “creatures” and UAP sometimes co‑occur

A recurring theme in investigator archives is spatiotemporal coincidence between UAP clusters and reports of unusual beings, from Mothman in Point Pleasant to Bigfoot‑type reports during UFO flaps in Pennsylvania. John Keel’s work, however controversial, documented that the 1966–1967 Mothman wave overlapped with intense UAP reporting. Contemporary retrospectives continue to note that coupling. Stan Gordon and others have cataloged decades of Pennsylvania cases where anomalous lights and creature reports cluster in time and place. Correlation is not causation, but this co‑occurrence is robust enough to warrant neutral cataloging. We classify this as Legend/Disputed, with value as a mapping exercise. (Reactor)

Speculation Label: Researcher Opinion. If NHI operate a control‑system or ecology‑management function, cryptid forms could be interface phenomena that borrow from human archetypes. Alternatively, co‑occurrence could reflect reporting bias during heightened attention. (WIRED)

Spirituality and NHI: from theology to consciousness studies

Religious‑studies scholars Jeffrey J. Kripal and Diana Walsh Pasulka have argued that UAP encounters often function like hierophanies – refers to the manifestation of the sacred or divine in the physical, everyday (profane) world, with events that rupture ordinary life and reconfigure meaning frameworks. Kripal proposes that these experiences live at the mind‑matter borderland and require new metaphors, while Pasulka’s ethnographies of technologists and experiencers document a modern, technology‑inflected “contact” spirituality. Neither claims doctrinal answers; both argue the phenomenon extends into human meaning‑making in ways any NHI assessment must address. We classify this literature as Researcher Opinion guiding research design. (The Guardian)

Speculation Label: Hypothesis. If NHI are real, some fraction of “religious” phenomenology could be interactions with them. Conversely, human‑centric frameworks may project spiritual significance onto unknowns. Both are testable by triangulating neurophenomenology with event metadata.

Undersea presence and USOs: testimony, white‑paper priorities and a docuseries.

Multiple testimony streams, independent journalism, and a retired Navy admiral’s policy analysis argue that unidentified submerged objects (USOs) and transmedium events demand focused study. Gallaudet’s SOL Foundation white paper proposes ocean‑first surveillance and sensor fusion precisely because of reported entries into water without splash and apparent persistence below the surface. This does not assert extraterrestrial origin. It calls for oceanographic priorities that match the testimony. We treat this as Probable that undersea domains are under‑instrumented for UAP, with a clear research agenda rather than a verdict on NHI. (The Sol Foundation)

Investigative reporting and skeptical assessments caution against over‑interpreting submarine lore. The War Zone’s outreach to submariners underscores how easy it is to misread complex acoustics. This is a useful counterweight reminding us to harden hypotheses with instrument data. (The War Zone)

On the other hand journalist George Knapp’s “Investigation Alien” TV docuseries highlights a range USO encounters with firsthand accounts from naval personnel and civilian witnesses. The episodes examine incidents where mysterious craft were observed entering or exiting the ocean at high speed, often without creating a visible splash or wake – phenomena that mirror broader testimony about transmedium objects. Through interviews, archival footage, and expert analysis, Knapp’s reporting underscores the persistent pattern of USO sightings along coastlines and naval training areas, framing these encounters as a compelling extension of the UAP mystery and emphasizing the need for rigorous oceanographic surveillance to better understand the undersea domain. (Investigation Alien)

Science pathway: building a public evidentiary base independent of government chokepoints

A large, multi‑author 2025 paper lays out the New Science of Unidentified Aerospace‑Undersea Phenomena, urging continuous‑monitoring observatories, open datasets, and multi‑site instrumentation. Galileo Project writings detail all‑sky IR camera arrays and ADS‑B‑linked calibration procedures to lift the signal above hoaxes and mundane confounders. Library and information science scholars call for curation and standards so the field does not lose its own memory. This constitutes a Verified roadmap for community science, agnostic to origin. (arXiv)

Where the record stands on presence of NHI beings

• Direct claims: The Age of Disclosure places multiple senior witnesses on the record asserting knowledge of non‑human craft and beings, with Jay Stratton’s statement the most explicit. The film’s argument rests on insider credibility and risk‑taking rather than public physical proof. Status: Disputed pending release of artifacts. (People.com)
• Congressional posture: The UAP Caucus’s Select Committee push highlights alleged non‑human crash retrievals as a central investigative target and provides the procedural vehicle to test those claims under oath in secure settings. Status: Verified as a congressional investigative priority, Unresolved on outcomes. (UAP Caucus)
• Public hearing testimony compatible with NHI: David Grusch’s 2023 testimony used the term “non‑human biologics” in connection with alleged legacy programs, but did not present specimens. Media summaries captured the claim and the denials by executive‑branch offices. Status: Disputed with high public salience. (TIME)
• Capitol briefing 2025: Eric W. Davis publicly discussed multiple “species” categories as descriptions that have circulated in closed venues. Audio‑video fragments exist, but a full authenticated transcript is not yet in the congressional document repositories. Status: Verified that such testimony occurred as described; Disputed on specifics until full record is hosted. (Medium)

Analytical synthesis

1. Convergence without closure. There is strong convergence in testimony that UAP are real unknowns with repeatable presence near strategic assets and over the oceans. That body is Verified as to events. Intent and origin remain open. (CBS News)
2. Insider claims about NHI are now mainstreamed in culture. With the release of The Age of Disclosure, statements once confined to podcasts or leaks now sit in a professionally produced documentary and coverage by major outlets. This cultural mainstreaming does not prove the claims, yet it changes the burden of inquiry. Next step: compel secure testimony and protected document transfer, then release redacted versions publicly. (The Washington Post)
3. Undersea is under‑instrumented. The USO thread and transmedium reports justify a research pivot: distributed acoustic and optical arrays; cross‑domain data fusion; partnerships with academia and industry that are not bottlenecked by classification. Next step: adopt the SOL Foundation’s ocean‑first research priorities in civilian institutions. (The Sol Foundation)
4. High‑strangeness requires layered models. Testimony about spillover phenomena is too consistent to ignore yet too entwined with human perception to treat naively. The Vallée–Davis six‑layer model and contemporary religious‑studies analysis help frame testable hypotheses. Next step: combine neurophenomenology, environmental sensors, and blind‑protocol fieldwork. (Bdigital)

Practical research recommendations for UAPedia contributors

• Testimony cartography. Build a normalized schema that encodes witness role, clearance, program associations, timeframe, and claims specificity. Weight testimony by proximity to programs and cross‑validate across independent outlets.
• Open instrument networks. Prioritize community observatories with synchronized IR‑visible cameras, radar, magnetometers, and ADS‑B integration. Publish raw and processed datasets with metadata sufficient for replication. Follow the Galileo Project’s calibration approaches as public baselines. (arXiv)
• Ocean‑first pilots. Trial low‑cost hydrophone arrays and coastal FLIR at known hotspots, applying Gallaudet’s recommendations about undersea priorities. Share negative results to eliminate confounders. (The Sol Foundation)
• High‑strangeness protocols. For hitchhiker‑type cases, incorporate health monitoring, environmental sampling, and structured diaries under IRB‑style privacy. Cross‑match with time‑stamped instrument anomalies. (The Black Vault)

What a minimal‑government‑quote evidentiary stack looks like

To honor your request, this reframing emphasizes testimony captured by independent media and civil society:

• Film testimony rather than defense office FAQs. The Stratton line in The Age of Disclosure is on record, and its implications can be debated without quoting AARO or ODNI. (People.com)
• Caucus‑driven policy artifacts rather than executive summaries. The UAP Caucus white papers and select‑committee briefs explicitly target NHI‑adjacent allegations for compelled testimony. (UAP Caucus)
• Hill‑briefing recordings rather than agency talking points. The May 1, 2025 session is imperfectly archived, yet it documents the questions members are asking and what scientists are saying in public venues. (Medium)
• Peer and para‑academic work proposing open instrumentation that diffuses gatekeeping and can confirm or falsify NHI‑linked behaviors without relying on classified channels. (arXiv)

Bottom line

A testimony‑first reading of the current record yields a coherent, if incomplete, picture:

• Anomalous aerospace‑undersea performance is real and recurring. That is a matter of safety and sovereignty. The testimony here is robust and public. (CBS News)
• Elite insiders now publicly claim NHI beings and craft exist inside restricted programs. The culture has shifted to where those claims are appearing in mainstream venues. This is not proof. It is a clarion call for safeguarded disclosure mechanisms and independent science. (The Washington Post)
• Undersea and high‑strangeness domains are necessary frontiers. They likely hold key pieces of the NHI puzzle, whether we interpret it as exobiology, cryptoterrestrials, interdimensionality, or a control system. Only methodical, instrumented, and transparent research will resolve which. (The Sol Foundation)

Claims Taxonomy

Verified
• Recurrent UAP presence documented by military aviators and aired on mainstream news, with multi‑witness accounts and corroborating sensor video. Evidence: pilot testimony and 60 Minutes coverage. (CBS News)

Probable
• Undersea domains are a major theater for UAP/USO and merit ocean‑first, transmedium research. Evidence: Gallaudet white paper. (The Sol Foundation)
• May 1, 2025 Capitol briefing featured Eric W. Davis discussing NHI “species” as percipient descriptions, captured in public clips. Evidence: organizer and attendee recaps, available recordings. (Medium)

Disputed
• Insider claims of recovered non‑human craft and beings. Evidence: The Age of Disclosure testimony corpus; mainstream summaries. (People.com)
• “Hitchhiker effect” as a contagious phenomenon. Evidence: EdgeScience paper; consistent testimony sets; mechanism unknown. (The Black Vault)
• 2023 “non‑human biologics” hearing claim. Evidence: media summaries; agency denials. (TIME)

Legend
• Cryptid–UAP coupling as a meaningful interface rather than coincidence. Evidence: Keel’s Mothman corpus, modern retrospectives. (Reactor)

Misidentification
• Some viral imagery associated with disclosure panels has been re‑interpreted by skeptics as prosaic. We will annotate such cases case‑by‑case and adjust corpus tags accordingly.

Hoax
• Non in this dossier. Suspected fabrications are tagged per‑incident in the UAPedia database after review.

Speculation Labels

Hypothesis: NHI intent may resemble ecological observation, capability signaling, or control‑system conditioning operating across matter and mind layers. (Bdigital)

Witness Interpretation: Morphology terms like “Grey,” “Nordic,” “Insectoid,” and “Reptilian” are likely human perceptual shorthand rather than biological taxonomy. (youtube.com)

Researcher Opinion: The strategic‑secrecy model in The Age of Disclosure and the cryptid–UAP interface view are interpretive frames pending public physical evidence. (The Washington Post)

References

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Gallaudet, T. (2024, March). Beneath the surface: We may learn more about UAP by looking in the ocean (Sol Foundation White Paper, Vol. 1, No. 1). Sol Foundation. https://thesolfoundation.org (The Sol Foundation)

Kelleher, C. (2022). The Pentagon’s secret UFO program, the hitchhiker effect, and models of contagion. EdgeScience, 50, 19–25. Society for Scientific Exploration. https://www.scientificexploration.org/docs/edgescience/edgescience-50.pdf (The Black Vault)

Kripal, J. (2024, September 1). Philosophy professor Jeffrey J. Kripal: ‘Thinking about a UFO as some kind of extraterrestrial spaceship is naive’. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com (The Guardian)

Loeb, A. (2025, May 1). Congressional briefing on UAP science [Medium post]. https://medium.com (Medium)

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The War Zone. (2019, December 1). What U.S. submariners actually say about detection of so‑called USOs. https://www.twz.com (The War Zone)

Time Magazine. (2023, July 26). Witness tells Congress “nonhuman biologics” were found at alleged UAP crash sites. https://time.com (TIME)

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