"Wayne", the excavator extraordinaire from Anjali's trapped-aliens-in-a-mountain story, has stepped forward to speak out. He is one of four witnesses to Anjali's experience whom she claims excavated a tunnel to an alien base and took her there to meet the aliens on January 21, 2018.

However, Wayne's account of events boils down to something quite different: Anjali got high, her daughter called for a wellness check, and a friend drove her home because she was not sober. How disappointing.

Wayne appeared on Truthseekers with Steven Cambian on March 12:

• Link to podcast
• Read the transcript

Fresh off of her extraordinary Brooklyn UFO sighting, which was some sort of sign from her beautiful beings, Anjali appeared on the same show the next day. Things got off to a bad start and went downhill, and the interview only lasted a few minutes.

• Link to podcast
• Read the transcript
• Anjali's spin appears to be that the others were more inebriated than she was. My Twitter thread with the evidence that proves she was very confused about the day.
• My Twitter thread about the brief interview in which the bone of contention was what time the wife went to bed.
• My Twitter thread about Anjali's accusation that Steven had told her he had the required reading material but that he denied having. Because let's be pedantic, why not?

On Saturday, Wayne of No Tunnels No Aliens fame will appear on Steven Cambian's Truthseekers podcast. I've written a few more Twitter threads on the case this week, following from the three major ones I wrote earlier:

• Anjali's misconceptions about things I've written that she told Wayne & Trisha would be included a libel lawsuit against me (or see previous blog post).
• The differences between Anjali's account of her experience (based on the notes she says she wrote the day after, and which she released the first week of March) and Wayne and Trisha's recollection of that day.
• More from my conversations with Wayne and Trisha, where they explain the expedition plans as they unfolded from their perspective.
• Anjali changed the location of the tunnel between her Reddit post and interview in March, and her subsequent interviews from April.

EDIT Mar 10: Finally! Wayne & Trisha's "shed" and "tunnel" as described by Anjali and as photographed by them.

This is the blog form of this Twitter thread, a pre-emptive defense against Anjali's various and wrong claims. Yes, I was wrong, too, but I corrected my mistake and also I'm not sending legalese emails from myself not my lawyer, threatening to sue for libel and adding plaintiffs without asking them first. (Sound familiar?)

Based on Anjali’s messages to me and others, she has some serious misperceptions about things I’ve said. I will address them so she can save herself some filing fees. I will charitably call this a case of “mistaken identity”.

Anjali’s accusations (some are libelous, she sez):

• I said she’s lying about her experience
• I said Wayne drugged and assaulted her while others filmed
• I deleted tweets about the above
• I said Wayne doesn’t have cancer
• I worked with RGordon to find W

All of this is untrue.

I wrote here about some earlier errors Anjali made regarding the creation and purpose of my social media accounts. The remaining accusations she’s made were in correspondence with Wayne & Trisha (2/27/22), and  emails to me.

ANJALI SEZ: that I claim she’s lying about her experience.

She is WRONG.

​I’ve always said I think she believes her own story about meeting aliens in a tunnel that Wayne dug. (See also this thread.)

Three important Twitter threads updating you on Anjali's case:

1/ There are two Waynes after all. The Wayne we found, and believed Anjali had confirmed as the real Wayne, is not.

For the three main cases covered on this site, I've added links to my relevant Twitter threads that cover aspects of each case in summary form.

The tweets are linked as bulleted lists from the main page for each case:

• Travis Walton
• The Hills
• Anjali

My pinned tweet lists a few additional threads, including for these cases:

• Ariel schoolchildren
• Skinny Bob:
  • Film overlays and puppetry
  • Possible involvement of a creature creator

In May someone on Twitter told me about an alien abduction case where two guys on different continents woke up wearing each other’s shirts. Then he mentioned Travis Walton, who I'd never heard of, and I read some stuff and made this site.

Since then I've looked into a handful of cases that interested me, bitten the heads off a few people who think they know better than me what I should be interested in, and written some Twitter threads. This is a retrospective from my point of view of the past 8 months, itemizing some things I've learned.

• Creature maker Ben Phillips (& co.) created 37 seconds of animation using his own props and a Mars Attacks puppet, slapped on a few filters, uploaded it to YouTube, and fooled a bunch of people that it showed a visiting alien crew from the 40s. Ben gets his kicks talking about how amazing his own footage is - so amazing, he concludes, that it must be real.
• On r/SkinnyBob, the guy who runs the sub uses sockpuppets to argue with himself but he and his alts are all in agreement that Skinny Bob is real because darn it he looks so real. He offered 30K to the creator, if a hoax, but says he can withdraw the prize at any time thus making it worthless.
• I am 100% certain that if and when Skinny Bob is proven beyond doubt to be a hoax, it won't stop the people who believed in him and now have to admit they were wrong from tracking down the next alien video or leaked top secret files so they'll have something else to believe in.

Happy new year. May all your dreams come true, and, if you chase the truth, all your beliefs be shattered.

The name Skinny Bob kept coming up on Twitter. Every time I googled the name, I ended up at YouTube videos depicting alien creature sightings with titles like: "This looks like Skinny Bob."

But who was Skinny Bob?

I figured the name was a generic term for emaciated Grey aliens, taken from American pop culture perhaps. When I was finally directed to the correct videos, I realized I'd seen the footage a while back but evidently not paid much attention. "Skinny Bob" is the name given to the alien by the video uploader. Despite being anonymously in possession of this earth-shattering footage courtesy of the KGB, Ivan0135 had no qualms about giving his details to YouTube - the videos are monetized.

This case interests me for two reasons - the passion with which fans of Skinny Bob support his reality, and my personal (admittedly limited) interest in animation. I've written an ongoing thread on Twitter looking at the 37 seconds (from a total of 5 minutes across 4 videos) that show Skinny Bob alive and moving. My conclusions, that he is a modified Mars Attacks stock motion puppet, come from work done on Reddit last year mostly by two users, BrooklynRobot and RedDwarfBee.

I did some further research on the puppets to understand how they were built and used. (In the end, Tim Burton's Mars Attacks movie used CGI based on the puppets, not stop motion animation.) Comparisons between the puppet and Skinny Bob only convinced me further. Some of the similarities:

• identical body proportions, other than the head (puppet's lower jaw removed, foam latex skull modified)
• identical tendons, fingernails, and shadows on the hands (which are heavily painted on the puppet, though it's not clear in the image below)
• identical features of the skull (eye sockets, cheekbones)
• mobile brow (which is articulated on the puppet) while rest of face doesn't move other than slight parting of lips.

Additionally, it looks like the Skinny Bob footage was shot in such a way as to hide any shortcomings of the animation:

• very poor quality: low res, high contrast to wash out details, distressed film - all of this can be done in post-production
• Bob never talks or moves his lower face, and never manipulates objects with his hands
• Bob's entire eye sockets are always in deep shadow, so his eyeballs can't be seen (CGI eyes are hard enough to render realistically; puppet eyes definitely don't look real)
• the only complex movement he makes is walking, and that scene is shot with extreme camera shake and blur.

There's lots more information on my Twitter thread - including speculation about where the Skinny Bob footage may have been shot - and I'll update that as new information comes in. I've also started a discussion at r/SkinnyBob on Reddit.

Why would anyone modify an expensive puppet, make an animation, and then compile it with UFO footage, slap on some filters, and upload it to YouTube with a narrative about a crashed saucer in Russia? I can't say, but if I had the skills and equipment to do it for fun... I just might.

As of November 2nd, Anjali's expedition to bring back irrefutable evidence of the existence of physical ETs inside a physical base inside Wayne's mountain is "postponed". On Aliengirl111's podcast, Anjali said that when she visited Wayne in California at the end of October he revoked all access to his property.

There are two ways of viewing this story. Either we take Anjali at her word - which leaves us puzzling over the inconsistencies (not to mention Wayne's improbable naivety) - or we speculate on the assumption she's not always truthful and transparent. Which approach gives us a more accurate interpretation of what's really going on? And what happens next?

There's no evidence Wayne is a real person, although it seems likely he is. Without evidence, he's a character in Anjali's narrative and anonymous if real. She says he wants "nothing to do with it".

Reading between the lines, it looks like he never wanted anything to do with it. 

If he's a reasonable man, he knows there are no aliens in his mountain eager to softly disclose themselves. If there were, they wouldn't be stopped by one man changing his mind due to privacy or health or anything else. Wayne was never going to retain his privacy; and he could avoid the stress of the expedition by taking a vacation that weekend.

Did he tell Anjali, or did he feed her fantasy? I can only hope he did tell her the truth - even if not in 2018, surely in 2021 when he discovered she'd placed him in a co-starring role.

Either she didn't believe him, or she did and ever since then has been trying to save face.
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So, there are no reasons for Wayne "revoking" permission since we have no evidence he'd never granted it. Anjali says she wasn't in touch with him during her flurry of online activity in the first half of 2021 so he didn't expect people coming to his land looking for non-existent tunnels or thinking he believes in aliens. Now he seems to want it all to go away.

​But Anjali won't go away:  "You can’t invite a former Pentagon Defense Intelligence agent to your home and take them to meet extraterrestrials in a tunnel, and then expect they’re going to go away. That’s not going to happen." [Anjali on Aliengirl111, Nov 2, 2021]

There's no evidence Anjali devoted every waking hour, as she claims, to organizing an expedition or that she was gathering "one of the most scientifically-esteemed teams ever assembled". She can't even talk intelligently about the "equipment to measure" that would be taken into the tunnel. This unnecessarily complicated expedition was doomed to fail and many predicted it would.

She's been avoiding questions about her relationship with him (specifically, if he ever gave permission for access to his property for the purpose of meeting aliens). Her Nov 2 tweet where she says "My intentions are to press forward" with the expedition is not believable to me.

My perspective on the developments in the Anjali story this past week (on Reddit).

While Travis Walton's abduction tale aboard a flying saucer is beat-for-beat almost identical to a couple of Heinlein stories, a few details seem to have been drawn from other science fiction sources of the era.

Curt Collins posted a 1967 comic on UFO UpDates with aliens and their "surgery" that bear similarities to Travis's alleged experience. Then there's Captain Kirk's command chair, Dr McCoy's medical equipment, and the 2001: A Space Odyssey cockpit screens and buttons...

Not to disparage classic science fiction, which at the time looked futuristic, but I'd be so disappointed if a real alien spaceship looked like it came from the imaginations of 1960s Hollywood writers.

Read my update with illustrations and quotes from Travis's book.