Ep.66: Vanished Through A Portal: A UFO Disappears

The line between advanced technology and the supernatural blurs in this captivating conversation with Ryan, who witnessed something that defies conventional explanation. Driving through rural Texas on a hazy afternoon, he spotted a white tic-tac shaped craft moving across the sky—only to watch in astonishment as a glowing purple beam appeared directly in its flight path. When the object entered this vertical portal, it simply vanished, leaving Ryan with a profoundly altered worldview.

"I know what I saw, and I know I wasn't supposed to see it," Ryan explains, detailing how this extraordinary encounter forced him to question what other realities might exist beyond our perception. The sighting occurred in an area where he had previously noticed unusual vertical contrails that suggested something was being regularly launched—activity that seemed deliberately concealed from public view.

This conversation ventures beyond UFOs into Ryan's other supernatural experiences, including encounters with what he believes were demonic entities and a miraculous healing that freed him from years of shoulder pain. His perspective bridges technological mysteries with spiritual questions, suggesting connections between phenomena we typically categorize as separate domains of the unexplained.

What makes Ryan's testimony compelling is his measured approach and credibility as an instrumentation controls technician—someone trained to observe and analyze. His experience aligns with recent government statements suggesting that what we call "alien" might actually represent interdimensional phenomena rather than extraterrestrial visitation in the conventional sense.

Whether you're a skeptic or believer, this episode challenges you to consider how unexplained experiences might broaden our understanding of reality. If advanced technology or interdimensional portals exist just beyond our everyday perception, how might that knowledge transform your worldview?

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Transcript

Something Crosses the Road

Speaker 1 0:08

Something crosses the road. It's skeletal-like, fleshy, and it stands up and then it kind of just almost leaps. They look back and they see one. Where is that? It walks five feet away from my audio recorder.

UFO Sighting in Rural Houston

Speaker 2 0:28

He just saw a big bug. Holy crap, I've been pinched, I've been tapped on the shoulder, I've had my name hollered. A hand came up underneath my left arm. I said little son of a bitch tried to get me. That was the time that I decided you don't sleep inside that building. Did you see that? The calquer? It's big, it's white, it runs faster than any man could ever run and it would lean out behind the tree. Listen, that's why we never go out, because the booger will get you. What's going on everybody? And welcome back to another episode of Exploring the Unknown. I am Dustin and today I'm here with Ryan. What's going on, ryan?

Speaker 1 1:23

What's going on?

Speaker 2 1:25

Thanks for having me. Yeah, absolutely, man. Thank you, uh, for taking the time out to come on and and chat with us. So, uh, luke had reached out to you through reddit, right, yes, sir, okay, cool, so he, he kind of gave me, um, you know the the a little bit of the story, but he didn't tell to tell me too too much. Uh, you, you had witnessed a possible ufo, is that correct?

Speaker 1 1:49

you know it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen. It was definitely, uh, unidentified for sure, like I don't know what that thing was, but I know I wasn't supposed to see it for sure. So, yeah, it could have been a UFO, could have been one of our secret space program. I don't know what it was.

Speaker 2 2:06

That's wild man. So yeah, tell us a little bit about that. You know what? What had happened?

Speaker 1 2:12

OK, well, I'll start off by saying in that same general area where I had the sighting prior to that, in like weeks and months leading up to that, weeks and months leading up to that I noticed if anybody here is familiar with houston, texas, uh, it's the area in between the grand parkway and 290, like this kind of a rural like, like between cypress and hempstead. Um, I noticed these contrails would be going directly up and it's weird. You usually see contrails or chemtrails. You know there are chemtrails, but this was contrails and it was going up. Usually you see them going horizontal. These would always be going up and I always thought what are they launching out here? That that's not normal, like they're launching something I don't know.

Speaker 1 2:56

So, uh, that was what I would notice in that area prior to and then, uh, the day of, I was driving from college station, te, texas, which is about an hour 45 minutes northwest of Houston. I was going back to Houston because that's where I'm originally from and in that area it was a real hazy day, real cloudy, real hazy. It was the middle of the day, probably mid-afternoon on a Saturday morning, saturday afternoon, and it's real cloudy, real hazy, a lot of humidity and I don't know how I noticed this thing, but just like way, way off in the distance, way off in the distance, I caught this little speck, this little white, tic-tac looking thing, so far in front of us, like I can only imagine whoever that was had no worries about being seen. But I mean, for some reason I was able to catch it. And as it was going across the sky, I was thinking to myself I wasn't thinking anything too crazy yet. I was just thinking to myself, oh well, that's a very interesting craft. And I was thinking to myself I wonder what kind of propulsion? Is that a jet or is that a propeller?

The Purple Beam Portal

Speaker 1 4:05

And then, all of a sudden, as I'm thinking that in my mind, I'll go to my grave knowing that I saw this, uh, like on in star wars. You know the lightsabers, you know they got when they turn on and they go like that. Well, this purple, this purple beam, vertical purple beam, just appears like this neon, like iridescent, glowing purple beam, just appears like this in front of this thing's fly path and as this thing flies into it, it disappears, like you can see it the front, and then, like the whole thing just disappears, and then the beam contracts and it's gone and I'm just like what in the world was that you know and to this day I don't have an explanation for that.

Speaker 2 4:53

That's wild so, so okay, so, like the, the, the craft flew into the beam.

Speaker 1 4:59

It's not like the beam came down to the craft no, it appeared in its flight path, so it just got in front of it.

Speaker 2 5:07

And then the craft flew into it and disappeared. That's wild, yeah. Now when you say it contracts, what did it like?

Speaker 1 5:12

It like went this way, went up, went down, so it started out vertical like this, and then, when it was done, it came, it went away. The same way it came Just back into itself. Gone came, it went away.

Speaker 2 5:25

The same way. It came just back into itself gone. Oh wow, yeah, you said it was purple it was purple.

Speaker 1 5:29

Yeah, it was like neon, like glowing kind of purple, like lightsaber type of purple, you know what I mean? Yeah, like you know how lightsabers look like, kind of like that that's wild. I almost had to pull over, like I was so like shocked. I had my family with me. They didn't, they didn't see it because it was so far off, but I almost had to pull over. I was just like, hold on, y'all didn't see that, like man, because yeah, I was the only one paying attention to anything. They were, you know, doing their own thing in the in the truck. But, man, I know what I saw and you know.

Speaker 1 6:03

Since then, like on twitter, I saw a couple of pictures of something that kind of was similar and I saved those photos, but that was years ago and I tried finding them for the show but I couldn't find them. But yeah, there's something going on with that appearance out there. I don't know if it's us, if it's you know someone else or what it is, but when I first saw it my first thought was, maybe that's some secret Space Force stuff. Like you know, we got technology the general public is aware of right now, but like the real technology that's really out. There is like maybe hundreds of years ahead of its time. You know, I don't know. You know, god only knows.

Speaker 2 6:43

Yeah, now did you like get on Facebook. Did you ask anybody if anybody else has seen it or do any research in that area?

Speaker 1 6:50

No, I didn't, because, like I said, the thing was so far away that whatever was going on up there, they weren't worried about people seeing because it was such a cloudy, hazy day and I guess I caught it through the right you know pocket of cloud or whatever, and just I don't think anybody else on the road that was with me that day would have seen it. I just noticed things like that. I noticed small things out of place things real easily. And when I saw that floating through the sky, it's just the way it floated to me. That's what caught me. It was like a blimp or some kind of, just the way it effortlessly floated, like I just. That's why I was thinking that's a very interesting craft, because the way it was floating and it was so far away, it just looked like a little white tic-tac to me. That's all it looked like.

Speaker 2 7:36

Yeah, I mean there's been a lot of different sightings. You know that explain a tic-tac shaped craft. So I mean it's definitely possible. Before you had this experience, I mean, what were your thoughts on on that topic?

Chemtrails and Sky Phenomena

Speaker 1 7:51

it kind of changed my whole worldview. Like, uh, it kind of changed my whole worldview. I started looking at things in a different way. Like I'm a christian, like I, I believe that, you know, I believe that the demonic realm, like aliens, could be demons. You know, I believe that the demonic realm, like aliens, could be demons. You know, I believe that there's going to be a great end time, deception, where they're going to use a simulated alien invasion to deceive humanity like this. This is kind of. But I never really looked into any of that stuff until I saw this. Before then I was, I was just like I wouldn't even really paying attention to this kind of stuff. Yeah, so yeah, it changed my whole worldview, like my whole way of thinking the world is like, if that's possible and no one knows about it, what else is going on? You know, that's kind of what I was thinking, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't blame you.

Speaker 2 8:40

So I mean, since then, have you had any other experiences?

Speaker 1 8:45

You keep your eye out on the sky a little bit more. Honestly, nothing like that, no nothing. That was a once-in-a-lifetime just wow moment for me, you know, yeah, but also prior to that, maybe not so much supernatural, but definitely some stuff I wasn't supposed to see. I think I sent you guys a video of it earlier. This was about the same time I saw this sighting. I took a video of my backyard of this airplane that was dumping something out of it, and then it just stopped spraying for a little bit and then it started spraying again. It started spraying again and I got it all on camera, so no one can tell me oh, those are just contrails. They're not, because the dude stopped spraying and then he started spraying again, and so that's about the only other wild thing that I've seen in the sky like that.

Speaker 2 9:36

Yeah, yeah, you even mentioned that. You don't think that you were meant to see that. Why is that?

Speaker 1 9:42

Well, I mean, that's the kind of thing that would freak a lot of people out, like, like, if, if, if, if I was in charge of whatever that was, I wouldn't want other people seeing it, because that's that's the kind of thing that that could cause a big, uh, civil disturbance. If it were to happen, like in front of a bunch of people, like people would be wanting answers. Like it was just wild, it was really crazy.

Speaker 1 10:07

Yeah, like yeah, that is nothing you're not supposed to disappear, like some things don't just poof and disappear. You know what I mean. Like that doesn't happen, like I don't know of anything that just you can make poof and disappear, like that. You know you go through a portal or whatever. That must have been some kind of portal to some kind of other dimension or something I you know. I'm telling you it could be. Could be a number of different things. I don't want to speculate. I just know what I saw was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen in my life.

Speaker 2 10:39

It was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen yeah, that's awesome man, I mean would, I would love to have some kind of experience, like I'm on the fence with these kinds of things. I mean that's why me and Luke do the podcast is. I mean, he, he's probably, you know, more on one side of the fence than I am, but I'm the kind of person that you know I I gotta get hardcore evidence in order for me to you know, you know, believe that it's actually out there, like I feel like it's out there. But I've never had that experience that really made me go, yeah, okay, yeah, this stuff's out there.

Bigfoot Encounters Near Houston

Speaker 1 11:14

Yeah, well, um, I guess to my, my answer to that would be just, you know, like in in the Bible it says uh, you know, you, without faith, it's impossible to please God. Just because you know, like in the Bible it says, you know, without faith, it's impossible to please God, just because you can't see a thing doesn't mean that a thing isn't there. You know what I mean? Yeah, so I think that there was some Pentagon official that came out recently and said what did he say? He said that they've come to the conclusion that aliens quote unquote were like interdimensional, right, uh, and that they they were. Uh, yeah, so you can look that up. Uh, I don't want to go too much into that, but yeah. So, yeah, I don't know what's going on with the pentagon. They want to release all these ufo documents and I don't know if this is like a cover-up for, or distraction, or if it really is them being transparent. You know, I highly doubt.

Speaker 1 12:13

I doubt that part. I'm sure that this kind of some kind of distraction for that, but you know, they're opening up about it, which is interesting.

Speaker 2 12:22

It is interesting. I believe that you know they have their reasons for why they do things. It could be a distraction, it could be, you know, preparation for, for something you know even more. You know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, that's wild man. So, um, okay, man, I wish Luke was able to join this Cause this is such an amazing, you know, encounter. I'm sure that he'd have some really great questions.

Speaker 1 13:33

Well, uh, I'll, I'll start, I'll guess I'll, uh, I'll support my testimony with uh that I'm a instrumentation controls technician. I'm credible, you know, uh, I don't just, you know, see anything and think it's something you know worth, you know gawking over. But this was something that I have never seen before and I don't know anyone else that has Most people when I tell them this, the people that do know me believe me, but the people that don't know me, there's no way they could believe me. They just have a hard time with it. I get that.

Speaker 2 14:12

There's no way they could believe me.

Speaker 2 14:14

They just had a hard time with it. Yeah, yeah, I get that. We kind of run into that a lot in the community. It just depends on the kind of people that you talk to. Everybody has their own perspective on things, but that's wild man. Okay, this question is a little off topic because I am kind of curious, because, you know, we we kind of dabble in the world of you know like ghosts and aliens and things like that. But Bigfoot is also one of our, one of our topics. But I'm curious, you know, what's your thoughts on Bigfoot? Bigfoot?

Speaker 1 14:49

I'll tell you what I do have some friends and my ex-wife and a relative of mine. Both have given me some pretty chilling encounters with something that they believe to be that Like. One time my ex-wife said she was with her brother when they were teenagers and they lived in the wooded area in the northwest of Houston and they were out and they said that they heard this woman screaming like real loud and they both, uh, came back to the living. They live in a little mobile home. So they came back to the living room, this mobile home, and they were just white faced and like they said that's what they saw and they wouldn't go near the windows. Like they wanted to sit in the middle of the living room. They, they didn't, they wanted the windows shut and no one go near them. Like they were, they were shaking and uh, the next morning they came out and like there was this one trash can that was all shredded up.

Speaker 1 15:42

Uh, and I think they've said they found a couple of little animals that were shredded up too and I was like you sure that wasn't a mountain lion? And they said, no, mountain lion wouldn't look like this. So, uh, and I got another friend who he's he listens to these bigfoot podcasts all the time he says he saw, uh, he says he saw a couple of them, uh, in franklin, texas, which is about an hour, two hours north of houston, kind of in a very rural area. So I don't discount it. I I don't discount it. I really don't discount it. I know a lot of credible people that have actually seen something like that Me myself not that I can think of no personal experiences.

Speaker 2 16:25

Yeah, would you like to have one?

Speaker 1 16:28

I don't know, man, them things look pretty scary, you know, maybe if I was in my car driving. If I was in my car driving, I'd get away quick. Yeah, sure yeah.

Speaker 2 16:44

I'd like to witness one at a distance. I've talked to some people that had some pretty close encounters. I think the closest one was five feet. This guy was in his truck. Fortunately he was in his truck. If I was outside the truck that would be a different story. But this Bigfoot crossed right in front of him. He was a truck driver. He drove a Mack truck. He said that this thing stood at least three or four feet just above the hood of his truck. I thought that's insane.

Speaker 1 17:14

Wow, yeah, you're not winning a fist fight with that guy. Yeah, I'm good I heard they stink too. I heard they smell like rotten eggs or something like that.

Speaker 2 17:26

Yeah. I heard they do have a very distinct smell Like wet dog mixed with roadkill or something I don't even know. It's not very appealing, yeah.

Speaker 1 17:42

You know, that kind of reminds me One of the stories that my cousins, my relative, told me was over there in the woods. They said that it got to a point where these creatures would be hiding in the tree line in the woods. They said that, uh, it got to a point where these, these creatures would be hiding in the tree line in the woods and, like someone's little girl or something, would be playing in the backyard outside and they, they got to a point where they're smart enough to, like you know, motion them to come over man yeah, oh, and I was like dang, I hope you're, I hope you're wrong about that.

Speaker 1 18:11

That's what he said.

Speaker 2 18:14

I can't verify. I've heard a lot of stories about Sasquatch trying to lure children or things like that Mimicking. They'll mimic laughter and stuff like that. From what I've heard, yeah, that's wild man, I've heard. Yeah that's wild man. Do you have any other encounters or maybe any paranormal ghost encounters? Or anything like that that you'd like to share with us.

Face-to-Face with Supernatural Forces

Speaker 1 18:47

Yes, so it all ties into spiritual stuff. But I have been in contact, Like I've seen demons face to face, Like, for example, there was one the worst one was when I was with my ex-wife and you know we had a history of addiction, Like we were. We were, you know, on pills or whatever, and we decided we're going to get clean. We got clean and we started deciding, we started living for the Lord. So that's what we did. And we went on vacation to South Carolina and the whole way there I just kept getting these thoughts in my head about a car wreck, for some reason, and I just kept shaking it off, shaking it off. And when we got to the beach we're walking down the beach and we stopped and we looked at the ocean and said, wow, this is what we really needed. And then we looked down, in between us, someone had written in the sand god is always with you like just so happened to be right where we stopped and so I said, okay, well, that's pretty cool. Well, that that was uh, good to know, because later that evening I go to bed in our hotel room and and you know that feeling you get when you're being watched Like you know that feeling. I had my back to this nightstand and there was nothing on the nightstand no clocks, no phones, nothing that could light up at all. And I had my back to this nightstand and I just felt like I was being watched and I flipped around, I turned over and I looked at this thing and I handed God this. This nightstand had glowing red eyes like this and it was looking directly at me and when I made eye contact with it it disappeared. The eyes disappeared. Well, about maybe two, three hours later. When we woke up that next morning to go do whatever it was, we got in a really nasty car wreck, Like one of the nastiest. I'm surprised nobody got killed like it was a real nasty car wreck and it was. It was caused by some something inexplicable that you just it wasn't your average car wreck and definitely had some kind of paranormal, uh, uh, supernatural influence to it, because all the stuff I saw previous and then that, and then the ex-wife had a dream we would get in the car wreck. I had a feeling we was going to get in the car wreck and there was just something, something going on with that and uh, you know, I've seen, I've seen angels too, Like I've. Uh, you know, I was on my knees praying one night and I was praying real, fervently, real, real hard, about something Don't remember what it was and, uh, when I went to bed that night, I had the door closed and I had my eyes closed and I saw this flash of light, like bright, bright, flashlight, uh, with my eyes closed, like through my eyelids, and I thought someone was taking a picture of me, like flash photography picture of me. And so I woke up and was nobody in the room and it was, oh, it was the night before I had this job interview and that next day I got the job interview. So, also, I'll tell you the best, the best one. I'll tell you the best one.

Speaker 1 21:46

One day I was at work and we were working on something. I'm a, I work at a power plant and something happened and everyone started running. Well, when I started running with them, somebody clipped the back of my shoe and I fell and I hit my shoulder and I thought the whole place was going to blow up. So I got up in a panic and I fell and I hit my shoulder again. Well, I ended up having shoulder problems for like four years after that, Couldn't even sleep on it at all life. Four years after that couldn't even sleep on it at all.

Speaker 1 22:16

And one night I'm at church and the pastor says, if anybody wants to get healed for a shoulder injury, I just feel shoulder injury. Someone come up here with a shoulder injury. So I went up there. It's clicking, it's hurting, and before anybody puts hands on me and prays over me, the shoulder is healed. It's 100%. This day it's healed.

Speaker 1 22:30

And that next morning I'm walking to the store and on my way back this kid has his car broken down. And he asked me sir, can you help me push this car up the hill? And I'm like, well, there's no way I could do this if my shoulder was hurt. So let's see if this thing really is healed. So I said, sure, and man, I pushed that car up that hill and I just gave the glory to God. And and man, I pushed that car up that hill and you know, I just gave the glory to God and I told him. And then he goes oh sorry, sir, I didn't realize there's nothing wrong with my car after all, and I was like, it's okay, I gave the glory to God, I told him what Jesus did about healing my shoulder and I guess that's what I want to get across to Moses. Jesus can heal, you know he heals and he rewards faith and he's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him. And that's what I got.

Speaker 1 23:20

There's a lot of supernatural power in Jesus. People want to go and dabble in the occult. They want to go and they want to see psychics or whatever. There is real power in the occult. Yes, that's real power you're messing with, but that's not the power you want. That's going to come back around and not be good for you. The real power is in Jesus Christ. He's the ultimate power and if you really want supernatural power, go to the one who created it.

Speaker 2 23:46

And that's what I got to say about that yeah, oh, you're kind of cutting out, you still there yes, sir, can you hear me? Uh, kind of sort of it's cutting in and out. Real bad. I'm not sure what's going on okay, oh, there we go there we go.

Speaker 2 24:06

I live out in the sticks so I don't have the best internet, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah, man, I love that. That's something that Luke and I well, I can't so much speak on his behalf, but I know that he's mentioned this a couple of times since we started the podcast and that's, you know, looking for. You know what. What is what it is that we need to believe in. Or you know what? What is what it is that we need to believe in? Or you know, cause there's so many different things, Right, and I I wasn't one that was really raised in the church, so it's hard for me to to really just dive in because it feels uncomfortable and not to, you know, you know, shed bad light or anything like that, but it's just, I don't know, I don't know how to overcome that and it sucks because it's like, it's like. I know that that could probably help me.

Speaker 1 24:59

Well, I'll tell you this much I understand where you're coming from. The religious structure of this world has really corrupted the word of God. It's more about having a relationship than it is obeying a set of rules and standards. And if anybody wants to relationship, than it is obeying a set of rules and standards. And if anybody wants to judge you for not obeying a set of rules and standards, they can judge themselves. You know whatever you do between you and the Lord.

Speaker 1 25:24

So you know Jesus didn't like religious people, he didn't like the religious system and you know they killed him for it. You know he rose again on the third day, but, yeah, he was. The religious structure of this world is what got jesus crucified. And jesus would walk around calling these religious people uh names like hypocrite, snake, viper. You know he would flip tables and chase them out of the temple with a whip and call them uh, tell them that they turned his house into a den of thieves.

Faith, Healing, and Final Thoughts

Speaker 1 25:52

So, uh, if it's the corruption of the church and the way people act in the church, that's kind of got you feeling that way. I understand, just understand that even Jesus felt that same way. He didn't like it either. Yeah, he was at odds with them all the time. I appreciate that, yes, sir. So I mean, I understand that a lot of people they got a bad taste in their mouth from uh, something they experienced, the church and uh just know, even the bible says that the people that are in charge that run churches, they'll be held to double accountability. Whether that be good or bad, they're held to double accountability and if they, if they, if they misuse their position, they'll pay for it.

Speaker 2 26:44

So Right, Right, okay, yeah, awesome man. Well, I know we're coming up on our time, but first I want to thank you for taking the time out to do this and sharing your stories and experiences with us. But there is something that we usually do at the end of our podcast, which is I use chat GPT to kind of form a would you rather question? That's kind of you know, paranormal themed or Bigfoot themed. Would you like to participate in it?

Speaker 1 27:15

Yeah, sure.

Speaker 2 27:17

All right. So would you rather come face to face with undeniable proof that Bigfoot exists, but no one believes you, no matter how much evidence you have, or be abducted by aliens shown the secrets of the universe? But when returned you forget everything except the overwhelming feeling that something man that's easy.

Speaker 1 27:42

I'll take the Bigfoot info easily.

Speaker 2 27:47

Why is that?

Speaker 1 27:49

Well, because you know the secrets of the universe are already in the Bible, so I've already got access to those. Also, I don't want to be abducted Like no, I'd rather not be abducted. You know, I like it where I'm at right now, just fine.

Speaker 2 28:03

I agree with you. I'm afraid. My thing is, I'm afraid they won't bring me back, exactly.

Speaker 1 28:08

You never know right, oh, man.

Speaker 2 28:19

Well, hey, thank you so much, ryan, for coming on. I, we really appreciate it. Um, you know, if you ever want to come back on and share more experiences with us, you're you're more than welcome to you. Have our email address. Just reach out anytime, okay sounds good.

Speaker 2 28:26

Thanks for having me absolutely right and I'll talk to you later how you doing. Bye, you too, bye, oh wow, that's a wild experience. I couldn't imagine man seeing something like that. That shouldn't exist. We get told as we're growing up that these things shouldn't exist and then, whenever you witness something like that, it's just, it's just mind blowing, it's just mind blowing.

Speaker 2 28:57

But, uh, yeah, I want to thank everybody for listening to another episode of exploring the unknown. Uh, if you haven't yet, make sure that you subscribe to the channel. Hit that like button, that little bell, uh, uh icon tripping over my words. Luke, it's weird without you here. Dude, like, like it's a back and forth and right now it's just me talking to myself. So, uh, yeah, um, if you guys had an experience, please reach out to us through our Facebook page, our website, exploring the unknown podcom, or you can hit us up on our email, exploringtheunknownpod at outlookcom. Yeah, you can even send us a voice memo if you want, just you kind of explaining your experience, where you're from, what your name is, or you can keep it anonymous, whatever you got to do to make you feel comfortable. But, yeah, this concludes this week's episode and keep an eye out for the next episode and we'll chat with you later, all right, guys? Bye.