Sherman recounts his training at an NSA facility where he learned to mentally flatten sine waves on a computer screen without any physical connection, developing what the military called intuitive communication abilities. Once stationed at his operational base, he spent over two years receiving transmissions from two alien contacts, initially consisting of number strings and military intelligence data including launch coordinates and temperature readings.
The communications eventually shifted to abduction data, including latitude and longitude coordinates, residual pain levels, and potentiality for recall scores. This deeply disturbed Sherman. When his classified commander informed him he would never be allowed to leave the military, Sherman found a way to secure an honorable discharge and chose to share his compartmentalized piece of a much larger puzzle.
Key Moments
Above Black: the gray programs: Sherman explains the classification 'onion effect' and introduces the term Above Black: a level beyond Top Secret that he and others in the military called the gray programs, hidden even from most of the government.
NSA captain's genetic-coding briefing at Fort Meade: After being summoned in 1992 to the NSA headquarters at Fort Meade, an unnamed captain ushers Sherman through extra security into his office and tells him he is part of a genetic experiment tied to alien contact in 1947.
Project Preserve Destiny and 1963 genetic management: Sherman recounts the captain's account: a 1947 alien contact led to a 'genetic management' program starting 1960; by 1963 they were manipulating human DNA in utero so 'intuitive communicators' could provide a worldwide link if all electromagnetic communication failed.
Inside the NSA training school: clicking the sine waves: Sherman describes the secret night school at NSA: a computer terminal with ten sine-wave boxes and headphone tones. Trainees mentally 'clicked' onto each tone and flattened the wave to zero degrees, then progressed to numbers, text, and video concepts.