In this episode of "Reality Check," Ross Coulthart sits down with John Seer, a UK-based former Royal Navy sailor and author who says decades of intuitive "downloads" from nonhuman intelligence began with a UAP encounter at sea when he was just 16 years old. Seer traces the story back to a childhood near-death experience at age 12, when a golf club to the head sent him to a place he describes as pure white and filled with love, an experience he believes opened the channel everything else would later flow through. He recounts the sighting witnessed from the bridge of his warship, the jets scrambled in response and the captain's announcement over the intercom that what the crew had just seen, they had not. He then describes the lowest moment of his life, a train ride during which a monk-like figure appeared, turned around, and held a conversation with him that seemed to move outside of time, the encounter that set the downloads in motion. From there, the conversation widens into the philosophy of death, the idea of bodies as containers for souls, urgent warnings about artificial superintelligence and the year 2027, and the hypothesis, drawing on Dr. Michael Masters' work, that the "Greys" are not visitors from another world but a future iteration of humanity returning to its own past. John answers the skeptics directly, explains why he believes full disclosure will never come, and shares the downloads he says the public needs to hear before time runs out. #JohnSeer #nonhumanintelligence #neardeathexperience CREDITS: Host: Ross Coulthart Executive Producer: Andy Gipson Editorial Producer: Meagan Medick Segment Producer: Christine Jenkinson Associate Producer: Will Tomasi Research Producer: Rob Jones Editor: Maria Morales-Salazar On "Reality Check," NewsNation Special Correspondent Ross Coulthart takes a fact-based approach to tackle everything from unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) to mysteries often missing from the headlines. More Reality Check: https://www.newsnationnow.com/podcasts-newsnation/reality-check-with-ross-coulthart/ Email your questions to RealityCheck@NewsNationNow.com NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans. More from NewsNation: https://www.newsnationnow.com/ Get our app: https://trib.al/TBXgYpp Find us on your screen: https://www.joinnn.com/ CHAPTERS :00 Intro 4:50 "Are You a Madman?" Meeting John Seer 5:35 A Golf Club to the Head, John's Childhood NDE 7:38 "A Place of White, Love Everywhere" 9:31 Do NDEs Open the Door to Downloads? 12:05 The Royal Navy Years and an Encounter at Sea 19:31 On the Bridge Before the Jets Arrived 24:20 "This Is Your Captain Speaking. What You Have Just Seen, You Have Not." 25:48 Enemy Craft or Something Else, What John Saw 28:32 The Train Ride at John's Lowest Point 32:24 When the Downloads Began 33:50 The Monk Turns Around 39:44 How Long Did It Last, and Where Did They Go? 43:18 "Why Were You Sad?" 45:36 Containers for Souls, an Illusion, Not a Simulation 50:32 Warnings About Artificial Superintelligence 54:01 What John Has Been Told About 2027 55:58 What Exactly Is a Download? 58:54 Their Most Important Message to Humanity 1:03:25 Answering the Skeptics 1:05:45 Are the Greys Us From the Future? Dr. Michael Masters' Hypothesis 1:08:46 Other Downloadees and a War He Foresees 1:12:50 Here for a Reason? 1:14:51 Why John Wrote the Book 1:16:20 The Downloads the Public Needs to Hear 1:18:42 Final Thoughts