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By Samuel A. Lopez, USA Herald – October 25, 2025

USA HERALD - In a secluded area of the American Southwest, members of the Skywatcher Group conduct nightly experiments under a wide desert sky. Their founder, Jake Barber, a former Air Force Special Operations veteran, claims that a blend of low-frequency signaling technology and synchronized meditation allows his team to summon aerial phenomena on demand. The group’s experiments, which combine electronics with deep concentration techniques they call “psionic calling,” are said to produce visible lights and structured craft-like objects that appear in the sky within minutes. To believers, the results are evidence of successful non-human contact. To skeptics, they are coincidence, illusion, or something yet unexplained.

The controversy surrounding Skywatcher has grown as some researchers—both in and outside government—begin asking whether their activities could be interacting with the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. The object, first detected earlier this year, has exhibited several anomalies unlike any known comet or asteroid, including an “anti-tail” of particles streaming toward the Sun and unexplained variations in brightness. As speculation mounts that 3I/ATLAS may be an intelligently controlled probe or artifact, it is not unreasonable to consider whether groups like Skywatcher, broadcasting signals and directed thought into the cosmos, could be attempting communication—intentionally or by accident—with whatever intelligence might be associated with it.

Barber himself has made no explicit claim that Skywatcher is in contact with 3I/ATLAS, but his team’s growing confidence in their ability to “summon intelligences” has fueled public speculation. Social media posts and independent investigators have begun linking Skywatcher’s experiments to the timing of specific 3I/ATLAS observations, noting apparent correlations in energy readings and visual anomalies. While these connections remain speculative, they reflect the growing cultural fascination with the object and the notion that private groups—not state-run observatories—may be the first to bridge the cosmic gap.

The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) has reportedly visited Skywatcher’s testing range to observe their methods. Officially, the Defense Department maintains that no evidence supports extraterrestrial contact, but unofficial curiosity remains strong. The visit alone suggests that the government is at least monitoring what Skywatcher is doing, if only to understand whether their activities could interfere with military or scientific operations.