Person

Jesse Michels

Former venture capitalist and host of American Alchemy, a long-form YouTube show about UAP, consciousness and fringe science. His interviews with insiders like Matthew Brown and Michael Herrera and scientists like Hal Puthoff and Garry Nolan reach millions of viewers.

On the record

The published interviews.

Claims (1)

His guests' accounts.secondhandSourced, unconfirmedJesse Michels

What Jesse Michels said (7 claims)

On the record 1Does not hold 3

“Vallée wrote about Lazar's drink and memory lapses in Messengers of Deception.”Does not hold48 hours with Bob Lazar and Luigi Vendittelli

That book is from 1979; Vallée wrote about Lazar in Revelations (1991).

“Burkhard Heim moved to the US and worked for Lockheed in the 1950s.”Does not hold48 hours with Bob Lazar and Luigi Vendittelli

Heim stayed in Germany. Extended Heim Theory's six forces is a real proposal.

“Nolan's bismuth-magnesium sample came from Ubatuba.”Does not hold48 hours with Bob Lazar and Luigi Vendittelli

Layered Bi/Mg is 'Art's Parts' (1996); Ubatuba (1957) is nearly pure magnesium.

“Bismuth and element 115 share a column and five valence electrons; bismuth is the most diamagnetic element.”On the record48 hours with Bob Lazar and Luigi Vendittelli

Chemistry is record; the step to space-time engineering is speculation.

“The Farmington wave, the Aztec crash story and the Hottel memo all fall in the same March 1950 weeks.”speculationSourced, unconfirmedFarmington 1950

“Ruppelt counted it among Blue Book's best cases.”analysisOn the recordRapid City 1953

“The L-9 paper was planted to stigmatise Woods' real night in advance.”analysisLeadEllsworth AFB 1977

Cases (2)

Connected

Chris Ramsay person Deep Prasad person Filippo Biondi person John Herrington denies Brent Friedman's 1981 account document Stockholm UAP conference (Beyond Session #1, 1 Oct 2026) document