Alex Collier

American contactee known for the Andromedan Council briefings

Alex Collier (born c. 1956) is an American contactee and lecturer known for his account of lifelong physical and telepathic contact — beginning at Woodstock, Michigan in 1964 and recurring across his life — with the Zenae, a blue-skinned humanoid people of the Andromeda constellation whom he calls the Andromedans, and for the galactic-history briefings — accounts of the deep past of the galaxy and of Earth's own hidden history he says the Andromedans keep in their own records — that he attributes to two of them, the tall, English-speaking Morenae and the aged, telepathic Vissaeus. From the early 1990s he circulated this material — through Val Valerian's Leading Edge newsletters, the magazine Nexus, a lecture circuit, and his 1996 book Defending Sacred Ground — as the briefings of the Andromedan Council, an alleged alliance of 139 star systems: that Earth humans carry the combined DNA of twenty-two extraterrestrial races, that a reptilian-derived elite rules Earth through bloodline proxies, that the Moon is an artificial body, and that the Andromedans have travelled back from a future galactic tyranny to intervene at the events that produced it. Counted among the longest-running figures of the exopolitics and conspirituality milieu, he has spoken publicly since about 1991 and remained active into the 2020s through the weekly webinar series Alex Collier Live.

His account of the Andromedans rests almost wholly on his own testimony, and it is within the exopolitics and conspirituality milieu that it is chiefly taken up — held there to cohere with a wider body of contactee and galactic-history lore, with later writers placing him at the head of that lineage. Engaged from outside that milieu it is met with skepticism, one legible in the tone of the writers who take it up; interviewing him in 1998, Art Bell concluded on air that Collier sincerely believed what he was saying and was "not... feeding us a bunch of lies."

Early life and first contact

Collier grew up mainly in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, and was raised Catholic; his grandparents kept a cabin at Woodstock, Michigan, where the family gathered each summer. During a family picnic at the cabin in August 1964, when he was about eight, he experienced several hours of missing time: he lay down to hide in the tall grass in the early afternoon and woke near nine at night to find Michigan State Police and relatives searching the grounds. By his account he was punished for disappearing, and when he led the adults back with flashlights they found his body's imprint in a spot they insisted they had already searched. In the account he gave decades later, the missing hours were spent aboard a circular craft where two beings — a tall, hairless figure with light-blue skin and a shorter, aged one with pale-white skin — showed him, through a hollowed cap placed on his head, a review of his past lives that left him weeping in recognition.

As a young man Collier lived in Westchester County, New York, where the siblings of schoolmates were among a wave of vanishing children; he took part in a grassroots effort to post missing-children flyers through the towns of the Long Island Sound corridor — New Rochelle, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Port Chester, and White Plains, up into Greenwich, Connecticut and Stamford, Connecticut — an episode he would later reinterpret in light of what the Andromedans told him about the abduction of children. He has said the contacts did not resume until October of his fourteenth year, when he woke to the same two beings at his bedside and recognized them at once, again being given a physical examination and a review of his lives and his connection to them and to Earth; a single further contact came at sixteen, physical but without his being woken to it, after which there was a long gap.

Government service and the return of contact

As an adult Collier worked for several years as a tax collector with the Internal Revenue Service, assigned to an undercover task force investigating oil-company fraud; he trained in Washington, D.C., where, he says, he used his clearance to enter the National Archives. He left the service, took the CPA examination, and for about five years ran his own accounting and tax practice in Beverly Hills and Malibu, living on a 700-acre horse ranch in Malibu. The contacts resumed in 1985, and within two months, he says, he walked away from the practice entirely; he describes being taken aboard an Andromedan vessel for the first time in 1986 and living with the beings for what he experienced as three months, though only about eighteen minutes of ordinary time had passed. By 1987 he was living at Lake Arrowhead, California and, by his telling, in a period of deep depression when a contact ended with a parting line from the elder being that he took as the turning point of his life: "the love that you withhold is the pain that you carry lifetime after lifetime."

Going public

Collier says he sat on the material for ten to fifteen years before speaking, having decided he could no longer "protect the lie," and reached the public around 1991. The disclosure spread through the researcher Val Valerian, a friend who published Collier's material on his Leading Edge pages, from which it passed into Nexus, Connecting Link, and Truth Seekers Magazine and circulated internationally as photocopies and bootleg videotapes. Around 1996 he addressed JZ Knight's Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, which he called the largest audience he had spoken to — "usually about a hundred," he said, against a crowd whose organizers presented his account as independent confirmation of their own teachings.

In the same period his illustrated lectures — one, given for the Global Sciences Congress, surviving as the recording Andromedan ET, Contactee, Moon Mars Lecture — presented Lunar Orbiter photographs he said showed bridges, monuments, domes, and machinery on the Moon's far side, and argued that the Apollo astronauts had been ordered to keep silent about them. The photographs are genuine NASA Lunar Orbiter frames that Collier says he was "told specifically where to look" within; that the shapes are hard to make out he attributes to deliberate blurring by those managing the images ("I think sometimes they purposely blur these just a little bit"), while to a skeptical eye the same indistinctness is what one would expect if the apparent structures were image artifacts and pareidolia rather than engineering.

These lectures closed with a set of dated forecasts he had begun giving in 1994 and would repeat over the decade — extraterrestrial craft ordered out of the solar system by August 2003 and the Moon leaving orbit around the same time, the Hale–Bopp-borne ships he expected to enter an orbit around Mercury in early 1997, and the end of third density by the close of 2013 — which he offered as the Andromedans' highest probabilities rather than fixed prophecy. None of the dated events occurred as described, and Collier has been consistent across his career that such statements are probabilities on a timeline that human and non-human action can still change — "I know about probabilities, and that's the only way I'll present it, as a probability. Absolutely nothing is written in stone" — a framing he ties to a "divine intervention" he says began on 23 March 1994 and altered the projected outcomes. A reading common among those who take the account to be imagined treats the string of unmet dates as the plainest sign that its source is internal; the counter-reading holds that undated but structural claims cannot be checked at all and that only the dated ones were ever falsifiable in the first place.

His writings were gathered in 1996 as Defending Sacred Ground, expanded the following year with Val Valerian as Defending Sacred Ground: The Andromedan Compendium and drawn largely from lectures serialized in Valerian's newsletter The Leading Edge; an earlier collection circulated as Letters from Andromeda. Valerian, who edited the collection, prefaced its opening lecture with the concession that much of the material was "basically unverifiable" and an invitation to weigh it against other researchers' work and "decide yourself."

On July 21, 1998, Collier appeared in a two-hour conversation with Art Bell on Coast to Coast AM, later rebroadcast by the I heArt Bell podcast; Bell was careful to separate the account from the abduction genre, describing Collier's relationship with the Andromedans as one "based on trust and friendship" in which "his free will has never been violated." Among the claims he laid out was one attributed to Morenae: that a mass daytime flyby would occur worldwide before the end of 1998 — a forecast that, like the lecture's, passed without the described event. Pressed on whether he might be doing it to sell books, Collier answered that the work had only ever cost him money and that he was "not some guru"; Bell, closing the show, said he had come to believe Collier was telling "what you think to be the truth." He said he counted himself the fourth of four people the Andromedans were then contacting and disclaimed any special standing — "I'm not chosen. There's nothing special about me at all" — adding that one contactee in South America, also in touch with Morenae, had broken off for fear of being killed, and that he himself had had "security problems" involving his family.

Across his career he returned to a recurring set of terrestrial concerns — the hidden structures he saw on the Moon, the reptilian hand behind Earth's governments, and the abduction of children, the last tied to cases like the Westchester vanishings — pressing them through lectures and interviews for decades.

Later years

Collier lectured through the 1990s and later moved to Hawaii, where he lived for more than a decade and, he says, turned down a job offer from the University of Hawaii around 1999; the exopolitics writer Michael Salla, whom he had known since about 2000, has recalled visiting him there in 2010. A filmed 1994 interview with Rick Keefe, in which he first set out the reptilian and child-predation material, sat unreleased for years before it was entered in a film festival at an International UFO Congress in the mid-2000s. He later settled near lakes in Tennessee, and by his account had considered stopping entirely around 2020 before being persuaded to restart with an online seminar.

In his early-2020s return to public speaking, in repeated conversations with Salla, Collier framed the Andromedan Council as one of several groupings the Andromedans refer to only as an "alliance," engaged in the strategic work of human liberation. Asked about the contested claim that the Moon and Mars had been liberated — associated with the contactee Elena Danaan — he affirmed the reading while attributing the surrounding doubt, without disputing its content, to a source who "is no longer having contact"; on subjects outside his own contact, such as the Council of Nine and the Seeders, he has deferred to Danaan as "the authority." In the same period he predicted that light from a supernova in Cygnus would reach Earth in the first weeks of 2022 and leave the planet without a night for three days — a further dated forecast that did not come to pass. His conversations across these years turned on the galactic slave trade and on Enki's return — a claim he traces to Morenae, who he says told him "Enki was back" years earlier — and the activation of human DNA.

In his interviews of the mid-2020s he has said the beings showed him the child-predation material through a holographic camera that records an object's whole history, and that retired state police, FBI, and CIA personnel had, after some of his talks, encouraged him to keep speaking. Weighing a prophesied "second coming" against a staged "fake alien invasion," he has judged that either would require a physical craft or entity rather than holography alone, and has dated human cloning to the early 1970s — then lasting only weeks, and by his account since advanced to clones surviving six to eight months.

Through this period Collier ran a weekly online seminar, Alex Collier Live, every Friday afternoon, with an archive of more than 250 sessions on Alex Collier TV and a newsletter at AlexCollier.org. He has said he was "made to promise not to turn this into a business," while also describing the webinars as the sole income of the three people who run them, "conspiracy theorists" who had been "kicked out of the system"; reflecting on the whole undertaking, he said that "if I had to do it over again, I probably wouldn't do it." He describes exploitation of the early work — bounced appearance fees, and a "compendium" transcribed from his videotapes and sold without his knowledge — which those who read the account as sincere take as evidence he did not build it for gain. In his later appearances he has cast himself among the "elders" clearing a path for a younger generation, and has named Wendelle Stevens, Clifford Stone, Robert Dean, George Green, and Bill Cooper as predecessors whose work preceded his own, placing his current effort alongside that of Danaan, Laura Eisenhower, and Salla. Within the secret-space-program milieu that numbers him among its forerunners, the researcher Brian Tseng has grouped Collier with Phil Schneider as 1990s figures who "have been whack-a-mole assassinated and destroyed in so many ways over the decades" — the "security problems" Collier reported in 1998 read, in that telling, as retaliation for breaking ranks rather than as coincidence.

The Andromedans and the nature of contact

Collier's two named contacts are both Zenae — a people he says descend, like all galactic humanity, from the Lyran diaspora that scattered after war with the reptilians and settled, by his account, in the Andromeda constellation. The elder, Vissaeus, he describes as small, pale, thousands of years old, a "sage" near the end of his physical life, and communicating only telepathically; Morenae, tall — by his account roughly seven and a half feet — and blue-skinned, learned to speak English aloud. He gives their home as a small system he calls Zen, circling a star he names Niraj in Andromeda, a distance he puts at hundreds of millions of light-years. His account of these two individuals is an independent contact chain, distinct from the later Danaan–Thor Han channel through which the Zenae are otherwise described.

Communication, he says, is telepathic and holographic: an entire concept arrives at once as a symbol that has then to be "unraveled," a process he found took years to learn and one that still yields information he recovers only later, during question-and-answer sessions. He initiates contact by projecting an agreed symbol into the night sky, and does not always receive a reply. Aboard the vessel he describes a circular, doorless, self-luminous room whose instrument panels appear only when Morenae activates them with a small handheld device; the largest craft, he says, are mother ships hundreds of miles across and internally layered into many levels, aboard which he had to wear a belt to hold his physicality together. By 1998 he had counted more than 279 separate contacts before he stopped counting, on no fixed schedule; the onboard past-life review, he said, had spanned some 817 years and ended with a life in Germany in 1938. That the encounters left no independent trace is, in the account's own terms, expected of a telepathic contact conducted aboard craft and closed with induced missing time; the same absence is, to a reader who takes the experiences for confabulation, simply the absence of evidence.

Views and teachings

Collier has attributed to the Andromedans — based, according to them, on the Zenae's institutional memory via the Andromedans' own historical records — numerous teachings on the genetic heritage of humanity from the Seeders, a galactic "genetic royalty" held in noncoding DNA; the history of the Draco reptilians from Alpha Draconis and the Lyran exodus; the alleged control of Earth through the "Magi"; the alleged transportation of the Moon from Ursa Minor; a hollow Earth; the meanings of crop circles; and the extraterrestrial nature of the God of scripture. The reason for his own contact, he says, is that the Andromedans come from our future, where tyranny had spread across some twenty-two solar systems, and have travelled back to intervene at the events that led to it; from them he relays a protocol for the moment of open contact — to meet any being as an equal and declare that one's sovereignty as a spiritual being be respected — and an ethic, "responsible freedom of self-determination," that he calls the Andromedan formula he most often repeats.

Collier presents his material as probability rather than doctrine and has been consistent that he is indifferent to being believed — "I don't need to convince any of you of what I know" — and distances himself from any guru role. His recurring positions — that consciousness survives and reincarnates, that the soul is "a galactic library" of all its lives, that service to others and mutual respect are the conditions of a healed world, and that fear is withheld love — restate teachings he attributes to the Andromedans rather than doctrines of his own.

Books

• Defending Sacred Ground (1996, self-published; expanded 1997 as Defending Sacred Ground: The Andromedan Compendium, with Val Valerian, Brotherton Press) — a collection of Collier's Andromedan briefings on genetics, galactic history, Moon and Mars bases, and control systems, first serialized in exopolitics newsletters and magazines before international distribution.

See also

• James Gilliland
• Billy Meier

References