YouTube video · UAP Gerb · 28 March 2024
Michael Herrera: UFO Whistleblower (ft. Joeyisnotmyname)
Gerb reverses his earlier doubt about Michael Herrera after months of contact with the Reddit investigator Joeyisnotmyname, who has talked with Herrera weekly. Joey checked the October 2009 Sumatra relief operation and found nothing that contradicts Herrera, and he says flight-tracking data prove Herrera was later flown to a secure facility to meet a program insider. Gerb has seen a redacted copy and says the meeting did take place. What the insider said, a "black group" since the 1940s, EMP weapons and psionic recruits, stays anonymous hearsay. The two also set out where AARO's 2024 historical report misstates Herrera.
On the record
- USS Denver and the 31st MEU were sent to west Sumatra in October 2009 (Joey's operation check).
- AARO's Historical Record Report vol. 1 (March 2024) describes "US Special Forces loading containers onto a large extraterrestrial spacecraft".
Open questions
- Who is the insider, and will Joey's flight-tracking evidence be made public?
- Who is in Nathan's helicopter photo? Herrera disputes it, so it is not a proven contradiction.
- Platoon members who say Herrera lies were not with him on the ground; their view is commentary.
Leads to follow
- Joey's Reddit post "Verifying the events around Michael Herrera's UFO encounter, part 1" and any later parts.
- The DOPSR status of "Sentinels of Ether".
- No person record for Joey: pseudonymous and private.
Timeline
On the recordWitness testimonyAlleged / one person's word
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Oct 2009
Herrera's Sumatra encounterMarines from USS Denver on a relief mission near Padang meet an octagonal craft and an armed, unmarked team.
Oct 2009
Debrief and threat on OkinawaSD card and phones taken; a man in Air Force blues threatens prison or death; NDA.
2023
Herrera testifies to AAROIn a SCIF with Kirkpatrick present, note-takers and no recording, per Herrera to Joey.
2023-24
Joey checks the 2009 operationUSS Denver, the 31st MEU, CH-53s and hasty landing zones; nothing contradicts Herrera.
Before Mar 2024
Herrera meets a program insiderAt a secure facility, after an introduction through Greer. Joey says flight-tracking data prove the trip.
8 Mar 2024
AARO Historical Record Report vol. 1Nearly names Herrera and, per Gerb and Joey, misstates his account.AARO
The claims, checked
On the record (2)
USS Denver was the only ship sent to Sumatra's west coast in October 2009, with the 31st MEU, CH-53s and hasty landing zones; nothing in the operation contradicts Herrera.Context check of the operation, not of the encounter.analysisJoeyisnotmyname (Reddit investigator)Sumatra, 2009: Michael Herrera's octagonal craft
AARO's report describes "US Special Forces loading containers onto a large extraterrestrial spacecraft", but Herrera never said Special Forces and always said the craft was human-made.The report text is on the record; the two errors are their reading against Herrera's statements.analysisJoeyisnotmyname and UAP GerbAARO Historical Record Report, Volume 1 (March 2024)Sumatra, 2009: Michael Herrera's octagonal craft
Witness testimony (7)
A 300-ft octagonal craft hovered 15-20 ft above a jungle clearing while an unmarked team with American accents loaded containers with climate units, then the craft left west instantly with no rotor wash.National Press Club 2023, as retold by Gerb.firsthandSumatra, 2009: Michael Herrera's octagonal craft
His first wave was armed and had no radios; an admiral debriefed them and their SD card and phones were taken.firsthandSumatra, 2009: Michael Herrera's octagonal craft
On Okinawa a man in Air Force blues with no name tag told him he would go to prison or die if he talked.firsthandMichael Herrera
Flight-tracking data prove that Herrera was flown to a secure facility to meet a program insider; Joey recorded a call with Herrera before the meeting.Evidence not public; Gerb has seen a redacted copy.firsthandJoeyisnotmynameMichael Herrera
Having seen a redacted copy of the evidence, he can say with a high degree of certainty that the meeting did take place, though not that what the insider said is true.Gerb at 24:03.firsthandMichael Herrera
He testified to AARO in a SCIF with Kirkpatrick in the room, with note-takers and no recording.Told to Joey before the report came out.firsthandAAROSean KirkpatrickAARO Historical Record Report, Volume 1 (March 2024)
Greer embellished his account: the team did not hold guns to their heads but kept a standoff distance.Herrera's own correction, as relayed at 51:50.firsthandSteven GreerSumatra, 2009: Michael Herrera's octagonal craft
Alleged / one person's word (8)
Later waves were disarmed after an Air Force colonel objected to the first wave being armed.Marines Joey spoke to, unnamed.secondhandJoeyisnotmynameunnamed Marines → Joeyisnotmyname → UAP Gerb → told itSumatra, 2009: Michael Herrera's octagonal craft
A "blue group" with oversight (AARO, AATIP, Blue Book) is separate from a "black group" that has reverse-engineered non-human craft since the 1940s.Relayed by Herrera to Joey and posted on Reddit; compare the Wilson-Davis notes.anonymousunnamed program insiderunnamed insider → Michael Herrera → Joeyisnotmyname → told itThe Wilson–Davis memo
The program downs craft with EMP-like weapons or lures them, the craft are "boring tech" to its engineers, and "P3" psionic recruits are bargained into service from poor countries.anonymousunnamed program insiderunnamed insider → Michael Herrera → Joeyisnotmyname → told itJake Barber and the golden egg
The insider's ghost-written book "Sentinels of Ether" describes a 2004 Mexico operation in which a black-program team wiped out a JSOC team.Two chapters said to be under DOPSR review; Gerb and Joey find this part suspicious.anonymousunnamed program insiderunnamed insider → Joeyisnotmyname → told it
Most platoon members Joey reached say Herrera lies, but on questioning they were not with him on the ground.Commentary under the what-if rule: not witnesses to the event.secondhandJoeyisnotmynameplatoon members → Joeyisnotmyname → told itSumatra, 2009: Michael Herrera's octagonal craft
A photo from team leader "Nathan" shows Herrera on a helicopter without rifles; Herrera names the two men in it as others.The only documentary item against Herrera, and disputed; not a proven contradiction.secondhandJoeyisnotmyname"Nathan" → Joeyisnotmyname → told itSumatra, 2009: Michael Herrera's octagonal craft
The report's separate "authentic non-UAP SAP" passage on p. 32 is not about Herrera, who never gave a precise time or place and whose site was jungle, not a test facility.analysisJoeyisnotmyname and UAP GerbAARO Historical Record Report, Volume 1 (March 2024)
Herrera and Weygandt met the same paramilitary group, likely DOE/NEST.Gerb's reasoning.speculationJonathan WeygandtNational Nuclear Security Administration (NEST, OST, SRT)Sumatra, 2009: Michael Herrera's octagonal craft