Dolly Safran has been having close encounters throughout her entire lifetime. She is a rare example of a close encounter witness with vivid conscious memories of her contact, who never needed regression hypnosis to recall the details of her encounter and never experienced fear of the strange beings she met.Dolly joins us on Dreamland with Preston Dennett – one of the great UFO researchers of our era – to discuss Dolly’s incredible sightings and experiences, which are recorded in Preston’s book Symmetry: A True UFO Adventure. She talks about her extraordinary awakening at age 14 and her father’s admission that he, too, was a close encounter witness. Dolly then goes on to describe her experience being taught how to fly a UFO.Described by Preston as the “single most extensive account of ET contact” he has ever investigated, Dolly’s story is well worth listening to.Get Preston Dennett’s book on the Dolly Safran case. Click here.This episode of Dreamland offers listeners a deep dive into the asymmetric world of conscious close encounters and what we can learn from them. If you are an audio listener and would like to view the video mentioned in the show, please click here. (This video has been vetted by one of our experts and found to be unidentifiable as an ordinary object. He has also provided us with a set of instructions about how to take better video, and some inexpensive equipment you can get to help stabilize your phone while making videos.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dreamland-with-whitley-strieber--5209196/support.

In this podcast, Peter Levenda discusses his new book in the Sekret Machines series, the occult, the Maury Island incident, the JFK assassination, UFO phenomena, hidden knowledge, and the deep state. They also explore the connection between the deep state and Indonesia, recent sightings of meteors, ancient creation myths, and upcoming topics like John Podesta's emails.

Former CIA officer and founding member of To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, Jimmy Semivan, joins Dreamland for a rich discussion covering Jim's work in To The Stars and the CIA, Whitley's description of Roswell crash bodies, Jim's personal experiences with close encounters and spirituality, and the importance of balance between inner and outer lives.

John Martin is a close encounter witness, experiencer, and talented classical guitarist with the astonishing ability to consistently summon strange lights in the sky, which he films and posts on his Youtube channel (John Martin UFO and ET Intelligence) and Tiktok account (@johnmartin1779). He has developed a deep relationship – perhaps even a friendship – with those mysterious lights, using music as a medium to offer his gratitude and love to the cosmos – and he almost always receives a response.In a rare interview, two individuals with incredible histories of deep and meaningful contact come together to discuss UFOs and UAPS, the role of music in the contact experience, John’s surprising friendship with Jimmy Carter and their discussions of UFOs, and much more. What John is doing is an example of how contact can transform into something beautiful, and here, he tells us exactly how he does it.John uses a SIONYX Aurora 1 Night Vision Camera to make his videos. To learn more about this camera, click here.This show is part of our ongoing series about personal contact. We all have the potential to do just what people like John and Peter Maxwell Slattery are doing. Plus Melinda Leslie leads nightly tours and can give you the experience. BUT, once you are seeing verifiable UFOs, what do you do? That’s going to be an ongoing topic in the future on Dreamland.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dreamland-with-whitley-strieber--5209196/support.

Kathleen Marden, the niece of Betty and Barney Hill, is one of the world’s leading UFO/close encounter experience researchers, as well as being an experiencer herself. We welcome her back to Dreamland to discuss her new book: Forbidden Knowledge, a Powerful Journey from Alien Abduction to Spiritual Transformation.Whitley and Kathleen go deep into a dialogue about Kathleen’s lifetime of bizarre experiences, from the moment she learned about her aunt Betty Hill’s abduction and her own close encounters, to the profound spiritual journey she is on now – and where the future might lead her…and us. Around 12 minutes into the interview, something incredibly STRANGE happens involving Whitley’s radios. (These are the radios tuned to the little used 144.1 MhZ frequency that never stop receiving an unknown signal–but only in Whitley’s apartment.)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dreamland-with-whitley-strieber--5209196/support.

Marco Vigato appears on Dreamland for the first time with a new look at Atlantis. Instead of assuming that a seafaring civilization now called Atlantis perished during the upheavals of the Younger Dryas 12,000 years ago, Marco looks at much broader cycles, suggesting that more than one great human civilization has risen and fallen over a much, much longer period of time. He has personally visited ruins all over the world and his book is filled with often startling photographs of the spectacular engineering left behind by our lost past.Dreamland guests Andrew Collins, Cliff Dunning, Laird Scranton, Rand Flem-Ath, Frank Joseph and Doug Kenyon all gave “the Empires of Atlantis” ringing endorsements, and when you dig into this eye-opening adventure, you will too!In the third half hour of the show, Whitley surprises us with some gorgeous short sayings that he received from Anne on October 28 of last year. It has taken him this long to understand how he wants to present them and what he wants to say. Some samples: “Your body is your time machine.” “From outside of time, everything that has ever happened appears as a little flicker.”Don’t miss this warm, rich and love-filled talk. One of the greatest things about our website is its documentation of the continuing relationship between Anne and Whitley, and this is a very special example of it.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dreamland-with-whitley-strieber--5209196/support.

This profound discussion is rich with meaning–so rich, that you can feel it in all sorts of ways as you listen. We are much more than our usual, everyday selves, and it’s the experience of this reviewer that there are energies in this deep and searching discussion that feed the parts of us that want to see beyond the cares of ordinary experience, and go higher.Although they don’t speak about the Gurdjieff Work in detail, both Fran Shaw and Whitley are engaged in it, and the power of their inner work is communicated here with often startling clarity.They discuss a book that Fran has written, “I Am Stories” that concerns experiences at a very special retreat in Switzerland. The master of the retreat, called in the book, “LeClair,” is no longer alive, but what Fran has done in memorializing the power of his work is a real blessing. Each of the stories approaches the journey toward real awakening in a different way, and Whitley explores them with Fran with his usual detailed attention to the contents of the book and what the author is trying to say. Expect moving, expect funny, expect joyous, and above all, expect enlightening.This is truly a work of high attention and great love, and I am so grateful that they did it.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dreamland-with-whitley-strieber--5209196/support.

Keith Thompson is the author of one of the great classics of UFO studies, Angels and Aliens. He joins us on Dreamland for the first time in a rich and exceptional show, a vision of the UFO phenomenon that is light-years beyond the usual idea of aliens speeding around in flying saucers–but DOES respect that as one probable part of a mystery that, when it is finally understood, is going to change the world and change mankind forever.Here, Whitley takes Keith deep into areas that are rarely visited on most shows and podcasts, and we sit back and learn a whole new way of thinking about this amazing subject.Keith’s book, Angels and Aliens is now out of print, but copies can be found at Powells, Alibris, Amazon, Ebay and other locations. His NEW book, Cosmos Calling, is still in preparation, and Keith will be back to talk about it as soon as it’s available. Before that, he and Whitley will revisit to discuss his near death experience and his extensive knowledge of NDEs.Keith will be back with us when his new book, Cosmos Calling, is published. In the meantime, the San Francisco Chronicle called Angels and Aliens “magnificent.”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dreamland-with-whitley-strieber--5209196/support.

Debra Jordan Kauble (Kathie Davis of Budd Hopkins’ Intruders) goes deeply into the question of how mankind is going to face the fact that somebody is here. As former Undersecretary of Defense Chris Mellon has recently offered the opinion that the most probable explanation is “aliens,” more official acknowledgement might not be far off.Back when Deb was with us in July, nobody in the official world had suggested any such thing. But Chris is a bellweather and we can expect more such statements later.So how does the average person, totally unprepared and unconcerned, face this and deal with it? A big part of the answer is going to come from the close encounter community, and as Deb is among the most articulate and thoughtful witnesses in that community, she has a lot to offer.Deb’s life experience has been a long trajectory from pain, fear and confusion to deeper understanding of what happened to her and her family, what has happened since, and what it means to live with this strange new reality that, as she says in the show, may go far beyond the typical assumptions about what aliens are and what contact means.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dreamland-with-whitley-strieber--5209196/support.

John Ramirez, retired 25-year CIA officer, shares intriguing details on Russian attempts to attract UFO craft and their propulsion technology. He also discusses his own close encounter experiences and the connection between consciousness and advanced crafts. The podcast touches on climate change, nuclear weapons, and the visitors' presence on their own terms. It concludes with reflections on the significance of questioning and gratitude.