CLASSIC: What is Project Blue Beam?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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It seems the nearly 8 billion people living on Earth can't seem to agree on anything, much less cooperate to achieve a goal. But what if there was some way to unite them, to push the millions of different communities on the planet toward working together? One of the proposed answers is something called 'Project Blue Beam' -- the idea that, if you can't find a messiah, you can use technology to make one.

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0:00.0	Oh, folks, friends and neighbors, fellow conspiracy realist, the time has come.
0:07.7	You've heard us mention this concept often because we've been obsessed with it for years.
0:14.7	In these divisive times of recent modern history, what could unite the eight plus billion people living on
0:24.7	earth, a species that famously can't agree on anything, up to and including condiments for
0:32.7	different hot dogs? What on earth or off earth could unite this disparate rag tag group of what we call
0:42.9	humans? There are two things. And we're going to talk about them in this episode. Hell yeah.
0:48.2	There are two things. And we're going to talk about so much stuff, guys. But water projections,
0:53.5	vapor projections are such a real thing now, even after
0:57.3	five years of recording this episode in 2020, it feels like it could absolutely happen, though.
1:03.4	Well, can we also say, I mean, this was something that came up in our Q&A for the live show
1:07.7	that we did on the Virgin Voyages, True Crime Expedition, whatever you want to call it.
1:12.7	This is something that is very much still on people's minds and relevant today.
1:17.9	Yeah.
1:19.1	So travel with us, folks.
1:21.4	Back to 2020 before we, the only thing we're really missing from this explanation is the phenomenal and
1:29.4	terrifying breakthroughs in mass drone swarm technology. This is our question. What is Project
1:35.9	Blue Beam? Dream big with us after a word from our sponsors. This is an I-Heart podcast.
1:44.9	From UFOs to psychic powers and government conspiracies, history is riddled with unexplained events.
1:52.1	You can turn back now or learn the stuff they don't want you to know.
1:57.2	A production of IHeart Radio.
2:09.0	Thank you. A production of IHeart Radio. Welcome back to the show.
2:10.5	My name is Matt Knoll is on an adventure today, but we'll be returning soon.
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