Project Serpo: Did Humans Spend Years on an Alien Planet?

About this episode

Project Serpo is one of the most detailed alien-exchange stories to circulate in modern UFO culture. It claims that twelve American military personnel departed from the Nevada Test Site in 1965, traveled with extraterrestrials to a world called Serpo in the Zeta Reticuli system, and returned years later. Some versions say eight came back, while others say members died or chose to remain behind. But the public record begins far from Nevada, Roswell, or another star. In November 2005, anonymous messages reportedly began appearing through a UFO email list moderated by Victor Martinez. Researcher Bill Ryan collected and publicized the releases. Within weeks, Ryan, former Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent Richard Doty, and author Whitley Strieber were discussing the story on Coast to Coast AM. This episode follows that documented public trail: the anonymous releases, the rapid move into paranormal media, the claimed supporting sources, and the later moment when Ryan stepped down as webmaster while saying the material included disinformation. It examines the difference between a story’s detail and its provenance, and between secondhand rumor, uncertain memory, repe