Chris Bledsoe, a North Carolina builder and commercial pilot, experienced a life-changing encounter with luminous orbs and non-human intelligence on the Cape Fear River in January 2007, which healed his 18-year battle with Crohn’s disease and initiated two decades of ongoing contact, drawing attention from intelligence agencies, NASA, and the Vatican.
Childhood Tragedies and Near-Death Experiences
Bledsoe survived a series of bizarre, near-fatal accidents from early childhood: set on fire at age two, shot point-blank with a shotgun at age ten (leaving a fist-sized hole in his back), scaffolding collapses, and car explosions.
The gunshot wound triggered a near-death experience: he recalls floating in space, seeing Earth from above “like the Silver Surfer,” before being pulled back into his body.
These events instilled a lifelong sense that something was trying to end his life, a feeling that persisted until the 2007 encounter reframed it as preparation for his later role.
The 2007 Cape Fear River Encounter
In January 2007, financially ruined after 9/11 devastated the Fort Bragg housing market and desperate from Crohn’s flare-ups, Bledsoe cried out to God while on a fishing trip with his 17-year-old son Chris Jr. and three friends.
At 5:10 PM in broad daylight, he walked into a cornfield and saw two 40-foot diameter “flaming red balls of fire” orbiting clockwise silently; as a commercial pilot, he knew they were not conventional aircraft.
When he turned to run back to the group, a third orb descended directly in front of him, and he lost four hours of time, reappearing at the campfire with no memory of the interval.
His son, searching for him, encountered two 3–4 foot tall translucent beings with glowing red eyes that paralyzed him; Bledsoe’s arrival broke the paralysis, but the boy was traumatized and did not speak publicly about it for 20 years.
As the group fled in a truck, a red orb chased them; at the top of the hill, two orbs hovered above the road and a third had transformed into a 45-foot white “tic tac” shape on the ground — matching the craft Navy pilots (e.g., David Fravor) had reported off the East Coast.
The tic tac’s dimensions (tail in one ditch, nose in the other) gave Bledsoe a precise measurement; a CIA director of operations later told him this was the first time the agency had a report of a tic tac taking someone.
Immediate Healing and the “Five Years of Darkness”
The next morning, Bledsoe realized his Crohn’s symptoms — daily nausea, abdominal pain, emergency room visits, heavy medication — were completely gone; medical tests at Chapel Hill confirmed no trace of the disease.
Instead of relief, a five-year ordeal began: living in the Bible Belt, his Pentecostal community and family turned on him, accusing him of consorting with the devil; social services were called, his children were interrogated at school, and the family was ostracized.
Bledsoe describes this period as “five years of hell,” during which he was “beaten into pulp” mentally, yet the phenomenon itself remained benevolent — orbs appeared daily at his home, cameras fried when he tried to record them, and he felt compelled to tell the story like Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters.
The 2012 Portal Encounter and “The Lady”
On Easter Saturday 2012, at his breaking point, Bledsoe shouted at the sky that the phenomenon had ruined his children’s lives and vowed never to speak of it again.
At 3:00 AM, a male voice commanded “Arise”; he found himself dressed and outside at the dog kennel, where a portal opened in a massive oak tree — the trunk vanished into a black hole, a wind blew him backward, a cow-like form passed over him revealing stars through it, and then a woman appeared.
She stood six feet away, about 4.5–5 feet tall, hovering inches off the ground, wearing a white Roman-style draped dress; she leaned down and said, “You know why I’m here,” confirming she came because he had renounced his mission.
She told him: “This is your burden you must bear. If you will do this, I will always be with you and I’ll allow you to share our presence publicly with television, with people, and with witnesses.”
From that moment, the orbs became photographable; Bledsoe has since amassed over 22,000 photos and videos on his phone plus hard drives of footage, all beginning in 2012.
Government, NASA, and Vatican Interest
The tic tac report in 2007 brought immediate CIA/NASA attention; a CIA operations director told Bledsoe they had tracked the craft 60 miles away at the coast and “Bingo, there’s where the tic tac has taken someone.”
NASA scientists engaged with his recovered memories (via hypnotherapy with Dr. Michael O’Connell, trained under John Mack), particularly his “virtual tour” that included Mars and hairy Bigfoot-like creatures — a detail that prompted NASA insiders to reference the film John Carter and discuss portals as a mechanism for interplanetary transit.
Dr. Diana Pasulka (author of American Cosmic), a Wilmington neighbor, sought him out and introduced him to NASA scientist Tim Taylor (stem cell research, electron back-engineering); the Vatican also became involved, wanting to know about “the Lady” and her messages.
Bledsoe has since spoken with “every religious scholar in the world” and holds three honorary PhDs in religious studies; he insists the beings are angels, not aliens — “I was praying and the UFOs came. Hence my book, UFO of God.”
Consciousness as a Quantum Interface
Bledsoe describes reality as a quantum computer: the information field around us contains all human knowledge and thoughts; consciousness tunes into frequencies to manifest experiences.
The phenomenon “whips up what you want and gives it to you”: if you seek triangles, you see triangles; if you seek flying saucers, you see saucers; if you seek orbs that respond to thought, you get that — Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 “skipping saucers” description seeded 50 years of saucer sightings via collective consciousness.
Pre-1947, people saw glowing ships and houses in the sky; the phenomenon mirrors the observer’s cultural framework — “Seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will be opened.”
Bledsoe chooses to seek only “heavenly light”; that intent shapes what appears, and the result is healing and blessing rather than fear.
The Divine Feminine and the Age of Aquarius
The Lady’s core message: the divine feminine balance must be restored after millennia of patriarchal suppression (the early church burned female oracles and mystics as witches, breeding fear into humanity like dogs bred for traits).
She declared: “We’re going to come back into this world and bring the balance back, the divine feminine, and we’re going into the Age of Aquarius, and it’s written in the stars. There’s no stopping what’s coming. I’m coming back, and I’m going to bring about peace, and I’m going to expose all the darkness.”
Bledsoe sees himself as a reluctant messenger in the prophetic tradition (Moses, Ezekiel) — shunned, called a grifter and apostate, but sustained by the truth of the encounters.
Healing Others and Manifested Blessings
Bledsoe serves as a conduit: he was flown to Washington, D.C., to visit a boy dying of mitochondrial DNA disease (grandson of a famous Hollywood figure, Make-a-Wish recipient from President Obama); after Bledsoe hugged him, the boy began eating full meals and later graduated American University in intelligence work — “I didn’t do it. Something else did it.”
Manifestation operates daily: after a filmmaker friend said he needed a better camera, Bledsoe researched intensely but told no one; two months later at Easter, Danny Sheehan’s niece called — a wealthy D.C. woman wanted to buy him a camera; she arrived with the exact model, lens, and tripods he had specified on a private list.
“All I did was think about it and it just manifested. And so many things like that happen today. It’s beyond thought.”
Ongoing Daily Phenomena
Orbs and shadow beings enter his home daily: his wife witnesses green orbs sizzling and crackling over chairs, filling rooms with light; orbs fly through bedroom walls; they appear whether he seeks them or not — “If I’m not looking for it, it’s looking for me always.”
He invites the hosts to a dark canyon for a guaranteed sighting; the phenomenon remains constant, interactive, and responsive to prayer and intention.
Teased for Part Two
Biblical UFO references and the Lady’s spiritual connection.
2012 written prediction of the 2024 Iran war.
UFOs shutting down nuclear missile facilities.
Remote viewing that thwarted a papal assassination attempt.
