UFO Explorations

CAN YOU SUMMON A UFO?

DECEMBER 2025 / JANUARY 2026

AI Generated Image of Author Manifesting a Craft

A small but notable group of people have publicly claimed that they can "summon" the appearance of a UFO and attract them at will. They state that they use telepathy, guided meditation, and even the invocation of spirits to achieve this. But what we are actually witnessing is the emergence of the latest UFO "fad". These people are either deluded or pranksters. The worst of them are money-hucksters. And several of these summoners will be called out for what they really are, here and now:

SHOW ME THE MONEY AND I'LL SHOW YOU A SAUCER

There are people who so desperately wish to see a UFO with their own eyes that they are willing to pay for it. And there are those who will take advantage of this wish, asserting that they can fulfill it.

JAKE BARBER AND SKYWATCHER

Jake Barber is a supposed decorated military Special Forces operator who has very recently come onto the UFO scene. He is best known for his release of a controversial video of a claimed military recovery of a a white, egg-shaped UFO dangling by wires as it's being lifted by what was presumably a military helicopter. It was shown by reporter Ross Couthart on the TV channel NewsNation earlier this year. The quality of the film, and what was depicted, left many skeptical. The true origin of this film and its provenance remains unknown to this day. If it were real, it makes no sense that no agency has arrested him for unauthorized release of what would obviously be a highly classified video.

After his first national exposure thanks to NewsNation, Barber established his fledgling "Skywatcher" organization where he has assembled a group of what he has termed "psionics". He explains that psionics are people who can "play within the consciousness field for desired outcomes" including mentally connecting with and summoning UFOs. He says that these psionics have a "predisposition to extratemporal abilities and sensitivities".

Although Barber portrays himself as having been recruited into an elite Air Force Combat Control Team (CCT) and claims a covert role in special operations, the truth is that Jake Barber was an aerospace maintenance mechanic, a journeyman. His found DD-214 confirms this. And he never even completed Combat Control training and coursework so he could never have held the position that he claims. See here for his DD-214.

He is associated through his Skywatcher organization with Mike Battista, a claimed former Green Beret who states he has psychic abilities to summon UFOs. Independent verification of his claim to have been a Green Beret using VA and DoD databases does not confirm this. His military status is based on personal statements and anecdotal acceptance of what he has said. In old YouTube videos that have since been deleted by him, Battista appears with confabulists Larry Warren (who made up stories about his involvement in the Rendlesham UFO affair) and "Dr." Dan Burisch (a phony Area 51 scientist).

Another individual who is a Barber "psionic asset" is 29 year old Jordan Jozak. Jozak admits that he was removed from public school and involuntarily placed in what his parents were told was a mental institution in 2008 at age 12. However, he also maintains that the "institution" was really a secret government facility to hone his and other children's psychic skills and to interact with ETs. His testimony on this can be seen in this little-viewed video: New from the Skywatcher Team - Jordan Jozak

Featured on the Skywatcher website is one Don Paul Bales, a former Police Officer, who was fired in 2014 from the Fort Smith, AR police department for endangering the life of a fellow officer.

Barber's organization is acknowledged to be funded through private means, specifically venture capital investment. Barber has apparently found this funding in a 30-something year old named Alexander Klokus. A multi-millionaire and founder of the SALT investment fund in New York, Klokus is listed as active in the Skywatcher organization. Promotion and operation of Barber's organization requires cash, and it appears Barber has latched on to a funder. To get where Klokus is in business he must possess intellect, which he has apparently lost in affiliating with this organization.

And remarkably, Barber has been able to attract Dr. Garry Nolan, Professor of Pathology at Stanford University, as an advisor. Nolan has been active in UFO investigations since 2012. It is clear that academic credentials do not always confer good judgment.

DR. STEVEN GREER

Steven Greer is an emergency medicine physician who has fashioned himself as a UFO researcher and disclosure advocate for many years. He makes a substantial income from paid lectures, seminars, ticketed live events, documentary films, and books. He is also the original "UFO Summoner" of Ufology.

Greer coined the term "CE-5" or "Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind". He defines this as a structured, human-initiated extraterrestrial contact that uses protocols that include non-verbal communication to induce the appearance of their craft. He also hosts "retreats" for a "CE-5 Contact Training Program". Often held in such New Age-influenced places as Sedona, AZ and Joshua Tree, CA, tuition for such a retreat has ranged from $800-$3,500. In addition to his "under the stars" events, he sells online training products.

Grave concerns about the authenticity of his CE-5 events have arisen:

On July 27 2015, Greer held a CE-5 event in Vero Beach, FL. Observers saw and photographed gold-colored orb-like lights. However, the lights were actually flares dropped by a nearby aircraft. The "orbs" drifted slowly and the burn time of the lights aligned with typical commercial flares. To top it off, the time and location precisely matched known flare dropping operations by training aircraft in the area. See photo below:

On August 14 2015, at a CE-5 event in Liberty, MO in front of a gathering, Greer pointed out a solid light that was maneuvering strangely in the skies above. It was later determined that the object was actually the International Space Station (ISS) passing overhead. We can extrapolate that Greer knew beforehand of this flight path. NASA had a website that allowed people to track and spot satellites and the Space Station, giving notifications and visibility schedules. Today this is available as an app.

For a time, Greer's website included a picture that he said was taken during one of his midnight "UFO vectoring" sessions. But what Greer claimed was an extraterrestrial light being (or perhaps the spirit of a deceased loved one) was actually an illuminated common woodland moth:

It is also telling that Jake Barber and his team (described above) are publicly supportive of Steven Greer's "efforts". It is a common hallmark of hucksters to "give props" to one another as it benefits all of them.

CHRIS BLEDSOE

Chris Bledsoe is a relatively recent entrant into the world of UFOlogy. He claims to operate "in the name of God" and to have ongoing interaction with "angelic entities" and an ability to call out for orbs to manifest in the air. He likens these to summoned UFOs. He first appeared publicly with these claims in a 2023 episode of the History Channel TV show "Beyond Skinwalker Ranch".

This past September, Bledsoe was featured as the "lead guide" at the XPERIMENT small group retreat in Northwest Wisconsin. Bledsoe's fees are a comparative bargain to what Greer charges. For $636.00, participants were treated to Bledsoe's "contact training", prayer and intention workshops, and drum circle ceremonies aimed at facilitating contact with aliens. Bledsoe likes to invoke spirit to coax the entities and their craft. But if anything of substance ever materialized at this event, it was not reported by the press and participants did not share any video or photos of the summoned craft.

CARNIVAL BARKERS OR UFO SUMMONERS?

The act of "summoning" has the air of a performance. The summoners always specify the date, time and place of the summoning. They never summon spontaneously on-the-spot. There is always preparation. This allows the summoner to stage the event in advance and confer with confederates, obtain the balloons, flares or drones, or coordinate the event with the overhead passing of known paths of satellites, spacecraft, or celestial bodies. Gather enough paying customers and put on the show. They play into the fact that their audience is often credulous and needy to see the phenomenon, and they know that this will cloud their audience's ability to discern. And of course, if such "UFO Summoning" were a genuine ability, we would rightfully expect that by now there would be evidence in the form of dozens of clear videos of anomalous objects attributed directly to the psychic efforts of the summoners. There are not.

I BID IT TO APPEAR!

The other two categories of summoners are those who want to make themselves known for something because they have nothing real to offer, so they hoax. These types also seem to obtain a perverse pleasure in doing so. Another kind of summoner, somewhat more low-key, also does not charge to demonstrate their "power" and may actually believe that they can summon ET when they are really misinterpreting the coincidental passing of a celestial body, satellite or aircraft.

PROPHET YAHWEH

"Prophet Yahweh" (real name Ramon Watkins) passed in 2017. But in 2005, he became known for his YouTube videos where he "manifested" the appearance of UFOs in public for a local news reporter in the Las Vegas area using his "biblical knowledge". He may be one of the earliest examples of the UFO Summoners. The video of this "summoning" can be seen here: Prophet Yahweh Summons UFO for ABC News

This author has learned that Prophet Yahweh was, earlier in his ministry in Miami, obsessed with giving children balloons to be released aloft into the air as a symbol of a soaring spirit:

Not coincidentally, many of the Prophet's manifested craft had the appearance of white balloons.

ROBERT BINGHAM

Robert Bingham is known for holding UFO summoning events in California, and claims telepathic contact with UFOs. In 2013 in Las Vegas, Bingham summoned orbs in view of a group of onlookers. However, a local NBC news team had sighted the release of large helium balloons a mile away, being sent up by someone who was likely Bingham's friend. The balloons eventually drifted over the area due to wind direction and were presented to the crowd as genuine UFOs. The news team later even successfully replicated the sighting by releasing their own balloons from the same spot.

Today Bingham is addled, as can be seen in this video where he shows what it is obviously a heart-shaped balloon, passing it off as a UFO: A Heart Within A Heart | UFO Robert Bingham, The Summoner

ASKING THE ALIEN

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What has been detailed in this article does not negate that there is very likely a "consciousness" component to UFO phenomena. Some accounts mention that observed UFOs can seem to "respond" to thought. And there is no doubt that a significant sighting can impact a person mentally. Indeed, the psychological impact experienced by some witnesses may be purposely generated by the intelligence behind the craft. But this is a far cry from being able to actually summon a UFO to appear before people's eyes on demand. The fact is that we see these objects, not because we want to see them, but because the intelligence behind the craft allows us to see them.

Anthony Bragalia's

Original Research. Independent Reporting.