I Attended 'An Inquiry Into Anomalous Experiences & The Phenomenon 2023'

I attended "An Inquiry Into Anomalous Experiences & The Phenomenon 2023," an event held on April 8 in a picturesque Tudor style building in Manhattan's Washington Heights district. The venue offered an intimate setting for a gathering of about 150 people or so to come and hear some of the top experts in the field speak on the subject of UFO disclosure.

Hosted by Jay Christopher King and James Landoli, it featured lectures by Daniel Ingram (MD EPRC),  Brandon Fugal (Skinwalker Ranch), James Fox (The Phenomenon) Lesli Kean (New York Times) and many others.  

After each presentation, the speakers would wander into the lobby and mingle with audience members to chat and take photos. Here was a very relaxed and casual atmosphere and a great way to get to know some of these folks who you are reading about almost on a daily basis in the media.

Former US Navy fighter pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves spoke on how his squadron encountered UFOs practically everyday while training off the U.S. coast. He described some hairy circumstances including a close encounter with a fleet of objects moving swiftly at 120 knots and a near collision with a cube inside of a sphere.

Graves currently leads an effort for increased reporting of UFOs in the military and is a strong advocate for the scientific study of UAPs [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena].

A big reason for me to attend the event was to see Peter Levenda in person. Incomparable writer of the Sinister Forces series and his most current series Sekret Machines, which he co-authors with Tom DeLonge.

Speaking of Tom DeLonge, Levenda spent the first half of his presentation defending DeLonge for a recent comment he made on Twitter. I haven't seen the tweet but it apparently garnered a backlash painting DeLonge as a shill for the military-industrial complex.

I'm not sure if DeLonge is too worried about this though as he is currently on a sold-out tour with his band Blink 182 and is scheduled to play Coachella this weekend. In other words, he's got a lot of irons in the fire.

Levenda dismissed these allegations in thorough fashion then proceeded to take us down the rabbit hole whilst discussing the strange connections between early UFO experiencers and the JFK assassination.

This was of course classic Peter Levenda and worth the price of admission in and of itself.

Unexpectedly for me, the most moving talk came from Elizabeth Krohn. Krohn is a near death experiencer who, after being struck by lightning began having prophetic dreams about, believe it or not, airplane crashes.

It was a chilling topic to be sure and was dramatically enhanced by a power point featuring photos of some of the specific crashes that she had dreamt of just prior to there occurrence and even in one case while it was happening in real time.

Krohn spoke of her out-of-body experience immediately after the lightning strike and how she was transported to a dimension where she encountered her grandfather, or an angelic god-like being assuming the guise of her grandfather. During this experience, which lasted about two weeks (though only two minutes in our own physical world), she tapped into an unlimited stream of knowledge where she was able to comprehend complex subjects like quantum physics and even see the future.

Another side effect of this lightning strike was that she could now see auras and she has an uncanny relationship with electrical devices, often causing them to malfunction.

I was immediately riveted when she began describing the first prophetic dream she had of an airplane crash back in 1996. She described it as such: she had seen a horrific crash in her dream and in the wreckage she made out the letters "W" and "A." There was the number 800 as well. Shortly after that, TWA 800 went down into the Atlantic off the coast of Long Island at Moriches Bay. This happened on July 17, 1996.

Now here is where it took a spooky and frankly personal turn. You see I had just been out there on Long Island not more than three weeks ago making a film no less about UFO crashes - the Southaven Park UFO crash of 1992 and the Moriches Bay crash of 1989.

During that trip, as we drove out to Moriches Bay to get video footage of the area, we came across the TWA 800 memorial. We had to pull in of course and take a closer look at it. Well it is an extremely moving outdoor memorial facing the ocean, overlooking the area where the fateful crash occurred.

Flags of all the nations of those killed in the crash stood blowing in the wind. Moving sentiments were etched into marble giving insight into the personalities of some of the victims. We stayed there for quite some time with the wind blowing and I thought to myself somehow this may fit in with my UFO investigation.

And then here at the UFO conference, Elizabeth Krohn brings it all around. It was a startling coincidence or synchronicity even. I still don’t know what it all means but somehow I feel as if I too have interacted with the Phenomenon as they call it. Something still quite indefinable yet intimate at the same time.

Later in the day, Leslie Kean, James Fox and Curt Jaimungal gave an intriguing discussion on the Phenomenon. Kean was back after that to moderate a discussion with Brandon Fugal, owner of the infamous Skinwalker Ranch, located in Ballard, Utah. The ranch is rumored to be infested with paranormal and UFO-related activities, not to mention skinwalkers, and has spawned its own TV show and countless media profiles.

Leslie Kean can be credited with bringing the whole UFO disclosure movement to the modern day forefront with her brilliant New York Times (with Helene Cooper and Ralph Blumenthal) expose on the DoD's $22 million dollar black budget program for the investigation of UFOs.

This led to last year's Congressional hearings on UAPs, the first of its kind in 50 years. During that hearing, the Pentagon admitted that they had received 350 new reports in the past two years concerning UFOs out of which 171 still remained "unknown."

There have been numerous video releases of Navy fighter jets encountering UAPs/ UFOs in the sky and more information is being leaked almost daily from whistleblowers via researchers such as Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp. This all appears to be leading up to something big and further congressional hearings this summer may eventually blow the lid off the UFO Phenomenon once and for all. Stay tuned.

Andrew Kim Arnett is a writer and producer. His work covers the paranormal, crime and unexplained mysteries. He has been published in Paranoia Magazine, New Dawn, Nexus, Konbini and Alien Buddha Press. Andrew Kim Arnett appears on Travel Channel’s World's Most Unexplained (currently streaming on Discovery +) discussing the Cecil Hotel, alien abduction and much more. He lives in Brooklyn, NY and hunts ghosts with the Brooklyn Paranormal Society. Twitter: @AndrewArnett ; Website: https://andrewkimarnett.wixsite.com/andrewkarnett