Inquiry with Kelly Chase

Something has shifted dramatically in the last few years. The institutions and information structures we were trained to trust have failed in ways that are now difficult to ignore, producing a kind of generalized mistrust that makes it hard to think, hard to act, and hard to know what a good life even looks like anymore.

In this episode, Kelly sits down with philosopher and author James Madden to examine what it means to navigate belief and meaning when the ground beneath shared reality has already given way. Jim is the author of Unidentified Flying Hyper-Object: UFOs, Philosophy, and the End of the World and Thinking About Thinking: Mind and Meaning in the Era of Techno-Nihilism, the cohost of The Great Dangerous Books Podcast, and a longtime thinking partner whose refusal to offer easy answers has made him a favorite among listeners of Kelly's previous work.

They talk about the complacent indifference that has settled over people in the wake of seemingly endless waves of institutional scandal and revelation. They talk about conspiracy thinking as a cognitive response to the collapse of trusted authority—and why the fact that some conspiracies turn out to be real makes the situation harder to navigate, not easier. They talk about why generalized epistemic mistrust is such an effective mechanism for preventing meaningful action. And they talk about what it means to keep trying to live well when you can no longer trust the information you would need to do it.

Topics explored: epistemological collapse | conspiracy thinking as cognitive response | institutional trust failure | the "big other" | generalized skepticism as paralysis | information warfare | the psychology of indifference | epistemic mistrust and political action | radical self-reliance | faith and probability | living well under uncertainty | Žižek | Lacan | Plato's Republic

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Referenced In This Episode


Unidentified Flying Hyperobject: UFOs, Philosophy, and the End of the World, James Madden


Thinking about Thinking: Mind and Meaning in the Era of Techno-Nihilism, James Madden


Republic, Plato


The Agnostic Inquirer: Revelation from a Philosophical Standpoint, Sandra Menssen & Thomas D. Sullivan

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The Great Dangerous Books Podcast

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TIMESTAMPS04:50 Indifference and Partisan Filters

06:03 Frozen by Mistrust

07:41 Ontological vs Epistemic

09:33 Medical Trust Breakdown

13:13 Sheep Bandits Skepticism

18:23 Conspiracy Comfort Trap

22:07 Secrecy and Leaks

26:00 How Conspiracies Operate

28:32 Black Budgets Disinfo

30:57 UFO Skepticism In Principle

34:34 Portal Claims and Psyops

35:56 Trading Obscurity for Obscurity

38:43 Counting Humans Knowledge Limits

41:32 Good Life in Uncertainty

44:09 Moron Idiot Imbecile Framework

46:14 Radical Self Reliance and Trust

50:16 Skepticism Without Denial

55:29 Faith, Doubt, and Jesus

01:01:09 Keep Seeking Do Good

01:02:17 Credits and Where to Listen

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Something has been building quietly in the UFO space for the past few years. The Overton window around non-human intelligence has shifted. Insider sources are whispering about a contact event in 2026 or 2027. And a very old theory—that a fake alien invasion could be engineered to manufacture consent—is surfacing again in places Kelly can no longer dismiss as fringe. In this Field Notes episode, she doesn't tell you what to believe. Instead, she runs the thought experiment: if someone were preparing the public for something, how would it unfold, and what would it accomplish? The scenario she constructed is fiction. The mechanisms it describes are not.

Read the transcript on Substack.

🗒️ About Field Notes

Field Notes are short-form episodes where Kelly thinks aloud—tracing patterns, chasing questions, and working through ideas that haven't yet reached their conclusion. The path of inquiry is messy and non-linear, and Field Notes is where that process lives out loud. For access to the full archive of written Field Notes, visit inquirywithkellychase.substack.com.

Topics explored: Project Bluebeam | staged contact events | belief engineering | psychological operations | UFO disclosure narratives | epistemic collapse | information warfare | AI-assisted surveillance | blockchain identity systems | consent manufacturing | the Overton window | insider testimony | thought experiment as inquiry method

Inquiry with Kelly Chase is brought to you by SpectreVision Radio.Produced in partnership with Voltage.fm. 

Referenced In This Episode


UFO Revolution: Season 2

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TIMESTAMPS00:49 Patterns Behind The Post

01:28 Overton Window Shifts

01:59 Contact Dates And Grooming

02:27 Fake Invasion Narrative

04:23 Project Bluebeam Explained

05:56 Why Run The Thought Experiment

07:02 Scenario Begins The Sky Event

08:15 Reality Corruption And Babel

10:19 The Proposed Solution Clearinghouse

10:43 Verification Architecture And Control

11:49 Outro And Where To Follow

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After years immersed in the deep end of ufology, one question has proven impossible to shake: how is it that certain factions of the intelligence community—people who possess more evidence than most that consciousness survives death, that the soul is real, and that we are more than our physical bodies—so consistently engage in profound acts of moral evil?

This Field Notes episode explores the contradiction at the heart of anomalous research: the same fundamental knowledge about non-material reality that tends to moralize everyday experiencers, deepening their compassion, ethical sensitivity, and sense of consequence, appears to have the opposite effect in certain institutionalized contexts. Why? And what does that divergence reveal?

Kelly argues that the answer isn't hypocrisy, isn't power, and isn't institutional pressure alone. It's theology—not in the formal religious sense, but in the deeper sense: the set of assumptions a person holds about what is real, what matters, and what counts. Every action presupposes a theory of reality. And when someone is willing to deceive, coerce, and harm others in service of a greater purpose, that willingness is not an operational detail. It's a theological commitment.

What kind of belief system allows someone to acknowledge the reality of the soul while treating human beings as expendable? What does it tell us about the UFO coverup that the people closest to the truth appear to have constructed a secret theology that quietly authorizes evil?

This is one of the most important questions in ufology—and almost no one is asking it.

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🗒️ About Field Notes

Field Notes are short-form episodes where Kelly thinks aloud—tracing patterns, chasing questions, and working through ideas that haven't yet reached their conclusion. The path of inquiry is messy and non-linear, and Field Notes is where that process lives out loud. For access to the full archive of written Field Notes, visit inquirywithkellychase.substack.com.

Topics explored: UAP disclosure | consciousness and survival of death | anomalous experience research | intelligence community secrecy | moral philosophy | secret theology | FREE Foundation data | PSYOP doctrine | the ethics of the coverup

Inquiry with Kelly Chase is brought to you by SpectreVision Radio.Produced in partnership with Voltage.fm. 

Referenced In This Episode


Beyond UFOs: The Science of Consciousness & Contact with Non Human Intelligence by Reinerio Hernandez J.D., Rudy Schild PH.D., Jon Klimo PH.D.

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TIMESTAMPS00:00 Welcome to Field Notes

00:48 The Question That Haunts Me

01:51 What Experiencers Report

04:09 The Intelligence Contradiction

04:48 Everything Is Theology

06:42 Belief Shapes Behavior

08:18 Why Knowledge Diverges

10:04 A Secret Theology of Ufology’s Elite

10:24 Closing and Credits

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The world feels like it's coming apart at the seams—and it's not your imagination. In the span of just a few months, the Epstein files have exposed elite networks of abuse that were mocked as conspiracy theory for years, the U.S. government has confirmed Havana Syndrome and openly acknowledged its directed energy weapons program, UFO disclosure has moved from fringe forums to executive directives, and AI has advanced to the point where visual evidence can no longer be trusted.

Each of these stories is destabilizing on its own. Together, they produce something else entirely: a collective epistemic crisis. The shared map we've been using to navigate reality is disintegrating in real time—and almost nobody seems to know what to do next.

In this inaugural episode, Kelly Chase introduces the premise of Inquiry: why the anomalous experience community—people who have spent years navigating the collapse of their own models of reality—may be the most prepared guides we have for this moment. She traces how knowledge is built, why it's more fragile than we're taught to believe, and what it actually means to ask better questions when the ground is shifting beneath your feet.

Topics Covered

epistemic collapse, UAP disclosure, the Epstein files, Havana Syndrome and directed energy weapons, AI and the crisis of evidence, anomalous experience, the philosophy of knowledge, and what it means to inquire honestly in a post-consensus world.

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Produced in partnership with Voltage.fm. 

Referenced In This Episode


Through The Looking Glass [Pt 1]: My Initiation in the Anomalous 


Cosmosis: Origins

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TIMESTAMPS

01:21 Epstein Files Shockwave

03:51 Directed Energy Revealed

05:52 UFO Disclosure Tease

06:53 AI and Epistemic Crisis

10:48 Why Everyone Feels Frozen

14:21 Cutting Through the Maze

16:23 Meet the Experiencers

19:51 My Worldview Breaks

23:07 What Happened in 2021

27:16 From UFOs to Inquiry

29:21 How Knowledge Is Built

35:12 Population Count Paradox

39:49 Experiencer Resilience

42:24 What This Show Will Do

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Welcome back to The UFO Rabbit Hole. 

Today we return to the old podcast stomping grounds for the long-awaited part 3 of the Through the Looking Glass Series. In this episode, we follow Tom Matte as he heads to the Institute of Noetic Sciences in search of answers about his strange psi ability that he calls Upsight. What the team of scientists, working on chief scientist Dean Radin, found once that got him the lab was nothing short of groundbreaking. Could this help Tom finally get the answers he’s looking for? And what does all of this imply about the future of human consciousness?

Today we dive back into the deepest part of the rabbit hole to find out.

REGISTER HERE to attend Kelly and Tom’s free online talk hosted by IONS this Friday, February 6th at 11 AM PST/2 PM EST

If you aren’t caught up on parts and 1 & 2 of this series, you’ll want to start there. You can find the full episodes here:


Through the Looking Glass [Pt 1]: My Initiation in the Anomalous


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Apple Podcasts


Through the Looking Glass [Pt 2]: The Strange Tale of Tom Matte & Upsight


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Apple Podcasts

Referenced in this episode:


Investigating the Brain Processes Underlying an Unusual Visual Experience: A Case Study


The Institute of Noetic Sciences


Tom Matte’s Website


The 8 Stages of Upsight Vision [Free Download]


Dave Rossi’s Interview on Jess Michel’s podcast, American Alchemy

TIMESTAMPS01:34 Recap of Previous Episodes

02:31 Upcoming Live Event Announcement

03:19 Introduction to Tom Matte and Upsight

05:13 Tom's Journey to Scientific Validation

07:29 The IONS Study and Its Findings

11:24 Understanding Brainwave Patterns

20:27 Implications and Future Directions

26:16 Tom's Personal Upsight Readings

31:44 Exploring Non-Local Consciousness

33:11 Challenging Current Models of Reality

39:10 The Filter Hypothesis and Anomalous Experiences

46:03 Scientific Insights from Non-Human Intelligence

49:22 The Broader Pattern of Anomalous Experiences

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