People

Diana Walsh Pasulka

Religious studies professor at UNC Wilmington. Studies UFO belief as an emerging religion. Author of American Cosmic (2019) and Encounters (2023).

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ToRoleYearsVerdictSource
Garry Nolansubject "James" in American CosmicDocumented · occurrednybooks.com
Vatican UAP archivea source people cite for this claimUnproven
Tim Taylortook him to the Vatican; both named in the Vatican Observatory's 2017 annual report2017Documented · occurrednybooks.com
Tim Tayloridentified as "Tyler D." in American Cosmic (identification unconfirmed; Taylor hasn't confirmed the pseudonym)2017Unprovennybooks.com
Holy Seeinvited to the Vatican for research on two canonizations; searched the archives for material on extraterrestrial life2017Documented · occurredstrangerthanfiction.org

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FromRoleYearsVerdictSource
A CIA-affiliated person Pasulka met owns a book by-about Maria de AgredaspeakerStructural
A Marian apparition at Garabandal, Spain (1961-1965) involved four girls reportedly experiencing group levitation-like trancesspeakerStructural
A medieval theologian argued Mary's Immaculate Conception was pre-ordained across time, offered by Pasulka as an early non-linear-time argumentspeakerStructural
After American Cosmic's publication, a group tied to government-disclosure efforts asked Pasulka to name the two scientists ('Tyler' and 'James'-Nolan) from her then-unpublished bookspeakerStructural
Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End (1953) depicts alien 'Overlords' who conceal their demonic appearance, end war-disease via propaganda-like influence, and absorb human children into a unified overmind, ending humanityspeakerStructural
Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End and Ray Kurzweil's singularity writing were influenced by Teilhard's Omega PointspeakerStructural
Carlos Eire (Yale historian) wrote They Flew without access to Joseph of Cupertino's original trial record, which Pasulka says she obtained and had translatedspeakerStructural
Chris Bledsoe can allegedly 'summon orbs'; Pasulka's brother reportedly witnessed thisspeakerStructural
Clarke did not credit Teilhard in Childhood's End but engaged Teilhard's ideas in later workspeakerStructural
Eric Wargo's books cite examples of future events (e.g. 9-11) appearing pre-figured in past artspeakerStructural
Gen Z shows increased interest in religion (survey-documented trend)speakerStructural
Joseph of Cupertino's canonization trial record contains many witness signatures attesting to levitationspeakerStructural
Juan Diego's account of Our Lady of Guadalupe shares phenomenological similarities with other apparition accounts despite no prior contact between traditionsspeakerStructural
Maria de Agreda's diary describes a specific encounter (a person blind in one eye) later corroborated by a Spanish missionary accountspeakerStructural
Marshall McLuhan was influenced by Teilhard de ChardinspeakerStructural
Near-death experiences show cross-cultural pattern similaritiesspeakerStructural
Nolan is the pseudonymous 'James' in Diana Pasulka's American CosmicNolan is 'James' in American CosmicDocumented · occurred
Pasulka and Peter Thiel were both students of Rene Girard at StanfordspeakerStructural
Pasulka co-chaired the Death, Dying and Beyond session of the American Academy of ReligionspeakerStructural
Pasulka connects Steven Dick's 'post-biological entities' framework to angelic visitations in EzekielspeakerStructural
Pasulka has discussed UAP-anomalous phenomena with John Alexander and Travis Taylor, and describes John Alexander's wife reporting unexplained objects at their residencespeakerStructural
Pasulka is a UNC Wilmington religious studies professorspeakerStructural
Pasulka received unsolicited emails from government-aerospace personnel to her university account in 2015-2016, then met 'Tyler' c.2013-2014speakerStructural
Pasulka says Vallee showed her a 666-page book about the devil and called The Ninth Gate a favorite filmnamedStructural
Pasulka translated Latin for the 2011 film The ConjuringspeakerStructural
Pasulka wrote about Maria de Agreda ('the Lady in Blue') in American CosmicspeakerStructural
Pasulka's book Encounters shares a title with, and she consulted on, the Netflix UFO docuseries EncountersspeakerStructural
Pasulka's father served on a ship (the Bittersweet) in Alaskan waters c.1957 searching for Russian submarines, and reported a sonar-radar encounter that disabled the ship for hoursspeakerStructural
Pasulka's first publication concerned 19th-century child near-death experiencesspeakerStructural
Pasulka's grandfather reported seeing UFOs from a mountain in Northern California redwoods; a missing minor was allegedly on a UFO-photography mission in the same areaspeakerStructural
Pasulka's thesis- UFO phenomena are re-enchanting the modern secular world and relegitimizing transcendence, but what is behind them may not be benevolentspeakerStructural
Recovered material at the site was explained by Tyler as disintegrated 1950s government storage cans meant to defeat metal detectors; Pasulka's OUP editor questioned this explanationspeakerStructural
Reincarnation is doctrinally incompatible with Catholicism; other Christian traditions differspeakerStructural
Russian billionaires have set 2040 as a target year for immortality-singularityspeakerStructural
Tar Desardon = Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit paleontologist (1881-1955), noosphere-Omega Point, Vatican-censured, died Easter Sunday 1955speakerStructural
Teresa of Avila also reportedly levitated, with witnesses trying to hold her downspeakerStructural
The 1917 Fatima apparitions (Portugal) culminated in the 13 Oct 'Miracle of the Sun' witnessed by roughly 70,000 people, including skeptical press photographers, with reports of a spinning-color-shifting sun and instantly-dried clothingspeakerStructural
The Catholic Church has since eased its formal warning on Teilhard's writingsspeakerStructural
The Neda and Bayside apparition cases (1950s and 1990s respectively) that Pasulka's research team studied include witness reports of 'men in black' in dark cars without headlightsspeakerStructural
The Others (2026) is an NYT bestsellerspeakerStructural
Thiel is a founder-major funder of large social-media and data platforms (irony given his Antichrist-surveillance argument)speakerStructural
Tim Taylor is a NASA mission controller who attended conferences held by Kripal and Diana PasulkanamedStructural
Tyler gained Vatican Archive access after his credentials-face were checked on a screenspeakerStructural
Tyler invited Pasulka to Cape Canaveral multiple times for rocket launches; NRO-launch-related patches use Roman-god imagery and Latin, including on Tyler's own mission patchesspeakerStructural
UAP researcher Tim Gallardo-Galardet contacted Pasulka about her father's at-sea encounterspeakerStructural
Vatican Apostolic Archive access requires advanced credentials and need-to-knowspeakerStructural
Vatican II (1962-65) was an internal Catholic reform councilspeakerStructural
Chris Bledsoestudied his case; worked with her on a TV series about his lifeDocumented · occurredunidentifiedphenomena.com
Garry Nolan"James" in American CosmicDocumented · occurrednybooks.com
Jacques Valleeappears in her American Cosmic circleUnproven
Sheehan on Danny Jones (2024)Vatican/UFO-archive adjacency—youtube.com
Tim TaylorVatican visit with Pasulka; both named in the Vatican Observatory's 2017 annual report2017Documented · occurredstrangerthanfiction.org
Tim Taylor"Tyler D." in American Cosmic (identification unconfirmed)2017Unprovenstrangerthanfiction.org

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