Project Blue Beam: The Fake Alien Invasion
In 1994, Canadian journalist Serge Monast claimed that NASA would use holograms and other technology to stage a fake religious event and alien invasion, so that a world government could take control. No evidence has ever been produced, and the dates he gave came and went.
Verdict: Unproven. The sources below do not establish this claim. That is not the same as proving it false. How we rate stories
The Story
In 1994, the Canadian journalist Serge Monast published a book called 'Project Blue Beam (NASA).' In public lectures, and in a follow-up called 'Les Protocoles de Toronto (6.6.6),' he described what he said was a secret plan to take over the world.
According to Monast, NASA and its accomplices would carry out the plan in four phases. First, fake earthquakes and phony archaeological 'discoveries' would undermine the major world religions. Second, holograms would be beamed into the sky around the world, convincing people that a great spiritual event was under way. Third, technology would project voices into people's minds. Finally, staged chaos would let a 'New World Order' step in and take control.
Monast first said the plan would start in 1983, then moved it to the mid-1990s. Nothing happened either time.
HowStuffWorks notes that verifiable details of Monast's life are hard to come by. It says he died of a heart attack in 1996, having spent the night before his death in jail after an arrest on unspecified charges.
The Skeptic points out that Monast had first linked the plan to 1983. When nothing happened, he said it had been delayed to the mid-1990s, and nothing happened then either. The theory survived him anyway. When drones were reported over New Jersey and elsewhere on the U.S. East Coast, social media posts linked the sightings to Project Blue Beam.
None of the sources here reports any document, whistleblower or physical evidence of a NASA program by that name. HowStuffWorks also notes that in 2010 the blogger Christopher Knowles pointed out striking similarities between Monast's plot and 'Devil's Due,' a 1991 episode of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.'
Origins
According to HowStuffWorks, Monast published 'Project Blue Beam (NASA)' in 1994 and expanded on it in public lectures and a follow-up, 'Les Protocoles de Toronto (6.6.6).' He died of a heart attack in 1996.
The Claims
- NASA is running a secret program called Project Blue Beam.
- Fake earthquakes and archaeological 'discoveries,' holograms in the sky and voices beamed into people's minds will stage a global spiritual event.
- A staged crisis will let a 'New World Order' take control.
Key Evidence
- Supporters point to unexplained lights in the sky, most recently drone sightings in the eastern United States, as signs the plan is under way.
The Evidence Against
- None of the sources here reports any document or physical evidence of such a program.
- The Skeptic notes that Monast first tied the plan to 1983, then said it had been pushed back to the mid-1990s. Nothing happened either time.
- HowStuffWorks notes that a blogger found striking similarities between Monast's plot and the 1991 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' episode 'Devil's Due.'
Documents & Sources
- AnalysisProject Blue Beam: A Conspiracy Theory Straight out of 'Star Trek' (HowStuffWorks, 6 February 2025) science.howstuffworks.com ↗
- AnalysisProject Blue Beam is finally happening... as long as you cherry pick very carefully (The Skeptic, February 2025) skeptic.org.uk ↗
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