r/UFOs — “Harvard Astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild’s Research on ‘Sentient Plasmoids’” (post 1u1lf9n)
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Captured: 2026-06-09 via redlib mirror (the documented old.reddit/.json route is blocked — see provenance pattern). Verbatim post + 36 comments. Provenance only; analysis on plasmoids-and-plasma-life.
What this is: posted after Grusch’s 9 Jun 2026 Disclosure Day “sentient plasmoid life” remark, citing Dr. Rudy Schild (Harvard-Smithsonian astrophysicist) papers in Journal of Modern Physics (SCIRP) as the “scientific” backing for plasmoids-as-life. Cited works captured: schild-uap-plasmoids-shapeshifters-2024 and schild-plasmas-fourth-domain-of-life-2024.
Cited links (verbatim): - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383034675_Unidentified_Anomalous_Phenomena_Extraterrestrial_Life_Plasmoids_Shape_Shifters_Replicons_Thunderstorms_Lightning_Hallucinations_Aircraft_Disasters_Ocean_Sightings
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385596004_Plasmas_A_Fourth_Domain_of_Life_RNA_DNA_Consciousness_and_Statistical_Analysis_of_Unidentified_Anomalous_Phenomena_in_the_Thermosphere
- https://youtu.be/0U99P_lIeak?si=o5X_dRibyg2nDa1R
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ScienceHarvard Astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild’s Research On “Sentient Plasmoids”
At the press conference today, someone asked David Grusch how many species of NHI is the US government aware of and he claimed one category of them are “sentient plasmoid life.” Dr. Rudy Schild, a Harvard astrophysicist, published papers in 2024 and 2025 in the Journal of Modern Physics documenting such phenomena especially in NASA archival footage: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Extraterrestrial Life, Plasmoids, Shape Shifters, Replicons, Thunderstorms, Lightning, Hallucinations, Aircraft Disasters, Ocean Sightings (2024) ABSTRACT: As documented by NASA space shuttle films and detailed in this report, self-illuminating, pulsating, plasma-like UAP/UFO (“plasmoids”) have multiple shapes and sizes, are attracted to electromagnetic activity, and travel at different velocities from different directions, making 90 to 180-degree turns, as well as colliding, intersecting and piercing other plasma; and have been filmed by U.S. Navy personnel and a U.S. Customs and Border Protection DHC-8 flying above and diving/sinking beneath the ocean; and by NASA following, circling, and hovering near the space shuttles, satellites, and the MIR International Space Station and congregating above and descending into thunderstorms and the lower atmosphere, which is the air corridor favored by commercial and military aircraft; and this may account for reports of UAPs following, harassing, chasing, and “toying with” aircraft. Plasmas also have explosive properties, negatively affect electronics and mental activity (possibly inducing hallucinations of “alien abductions”), pass through glass, plastic, metal, and enter the cockpits of airplanes and have been observed by astronauts inside spacecraft, the MIR and ISS. It is hypothesized that given their propensity to collide, plasmoids may be responsible for at least some unexplained , inexplicable aircraft disasters. Thunder-lightning-storms are the main drivers of Earth’s GEC and direct positive currents into the ionosphere, which attract plasmas. The troposphere also has a positive charge, and the ocean surface under white water and turbulent conditions develops a positive charge, and we hypothesize that this accounts for sightings of UAP in the lower atmosphere and soaring above and diving into the oceans, including, as reported here, shape-shifting UAP replicons that split into or generate additional shape-shifting UAPs as filmed by NASA and U.S. Customs. Plasmoids appear to purposefully interact and engage in complex behaviors, and it is suspected they are sentient and represent a fourth domain of life. Although plasmas in the lower atmosphere may be responsible for UAP sightings over the centuries, including those that appear to “battle” over cities or follow and harass military ships and planes, plasmoids cannot account for all UAPs, which may include extraterrestrial spacecraft from other worlds. Plasmas: A Fourth Domain of Life? RNA, DNA, Consciousness and Statistical Analysis of “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” in the Thermosphere (2025) ABSTRACT: The data presented here, combined with our previous reports, challenge all conceptions of what constitutes “life,” the origins of life, consciousness, and UAP. Self-illuminated plasmas (AKA plasmoids/UAP), with a nucleus and double cellular layers, engage in complex behaviors in the thermosphere and display multiple forms of communication, mutual awareness, purposeful contact-seeking, and cellular-mitosis and ejection-secretion of interactive plasmoid-clouds and additional plasmoids that contact other plasmas. Plasmas communicate by signaling via oscillations in size and illumination and turn, follow, target and collide, merge or pierce other plasmas, whereas yet others form thick glowing plasma bridges linking multiple plasmoids together; reminiscent of colonies of algae and colliding galaxies and release glowing plasmatic clouds in their wake; reminiscent of a comet’s tail; and upon descending into the lower atmosphere are perceived as UAP/UFOs. Dusty plasmas display mutual awareness, engage in life-like, intelligent behavior, have cellular membranes and a nucleus, and may have generated RNA then DNA via the assimilation of all necessary elements available in space; and fashioned a plasma genome via the incorporation of the genomes of bacteria, algae, fungi, lichens, etc. propelled into the upper atmosphere by bolides, hurricanes and powerful winds; and as such have biological attributes and are alive. Plasmas represent a fourth state of matter, and it is believed 99% of the universe consists of plasma in various states and which repeat patterns from the micro to macro-levels. Statistical analysis supports all hypotheses and quantifies differential and unique morphological and behavioral characteristics of plasmoids that were filmed by NASA space shuttle missions over 250 Km above Earth. Morphological and behavioral analyses were made of 91 consecutive freeze-frames (T1 - T91) taken every 0.2 s. In addition to distinct and diverse forms of morphology, it was determined that plasmas accelerate to exceptional velocities (up to 35.6 Km∙s −1 ), and make abrupt 163˚ turns in trajectory, turn, follow and appear aware of each other. In addition to morphology, four “collision events” were analyzed in detail and all plasmas altered velocity, trajectory, and/or shape either before, during, or after the collision event. Additional analysis revealed what resembles networks and chains of filamentary plasmatic magnetic flux ropes and cables in the thermosphere. These vast plasma macro-tubules and neural networks may be producing plasmoid entities. Ganglia-neural networks may have also been detected in some plasmoid specimens. Plasmaoid have electrical and electromagnetic properties similar to the brain. Macro-tubule plasma flux capable may serve similar functions as micro-tubules, and coupled with behavioral data, support the hypothesis that plasmas/plasmoids are alive and have consciousness.
Here’s a YouTube video one of the coauthors of the papers put together showing some of these phenomena: Rhawn Gabriel Joseph Ph.D. UFO-UAP Plasmas In The Thermosphere A Fourth Domain Of Life
To Mods: Just in case this looks like a dupe, I posted one of these papers earlier, it was deleted by Reddit filters, I sent you all a message and someone reinstated the post, but then I believe it was deleted again by Reddit filters. It seemed to be related to the paper links I used before, so I’m trying different links to ResearchGate this time.
Comments (36)
u/DJpowerhammer (•): The sun is a big ole ball of plasma. Sky friend.
u/DrawingRestraint (•): Rupert Sheldrake “Is the Sun Conscious?” https://youtu.be/SFhsObpja8A?si=bDcHHayBk7iFS0bF
u/confusedgluon (•): Yes.
u/LupinthePenguin (•): Yall should check out the book The New Science of Heaven. The author, Robert Temple, introduces a fascinating theory that our consciousness frees itself at death, reuniting with the cosmic plasma filling the universe.
u/koanzone (•): This is similar to Dr. Persinger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Persinger It takes 10 seconds for your thoughts to be uploaded into the atmosphere…
u/waxeggoil (•): sounds like dialup speeds.
u/gorilla_bezoar (•): the dialup noise is the last sounds you hear as your consciousness gets uploaded at the speed of 28 kbps
u/dangerousrocks (•): Used to walk past this guy at school all the time.
u/immaculate_nada (•): Love this book.
u/gothchode (•): That sounds like a scared monkey brain trying to cope with the eternal nothingness that awaits it.
u/the-T-in-KUNT (•): I really didn’t have “sentient plasmoids “ on my bingo card but here we are ! Maybe something like that Flir video of the missile blasting thru the object and it just keeps going ?
u/Advanced_Musician_75 (•): https://streamable.com/24vcfl
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u/Advanced_Musician_75 (•): Oh, you’re gonna be in for a fucking weird surprise if this is difficult for you to comprehend Can’t even tell it’s the real thing
u/Pure-Locksmith4689 (•): its not the real thing lol
u/Advanced_Musician_75 (•): Good luck with disclosure; it’s going to hurt. Hebrews 13:2
u/Pure-Locksmith4689 (•): you have no idea
u/Advanced_Musician_75 (•): Yes I do; I interact with them and my employment knows about them. I also show people. This is why they won’t show people anything; your lack of understanding proves it
u/Pure-Locksmith4689 (•): thats not how it works, theres nothing to understand about living plasma
u/Advanced_Musician_75 (•): https://www.reddit.com/r/SentientOrbs/s/AtstQVjHoq Hilarious. Now I understand what these beings mean when they say not everyone’s going to make it.
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u/R2robot (•): There are so many problems and red flags with this. Dr. Rudy Schild, a Harvard astrophysicist, published papers in 2024 and 2025 in the Journal of Modern Physics documenting such phenomena especially in NASA archival footage His name is on the papers, sure, but the primary guy on these is Rhawn Gabriel Joseph, a neuroscientist who has been discussed several times before. He’s a proponent of panspermia ” and believes he has found life on Mars, Venus and probably other places I can’t remember. When another journal retracted one of his papers, he sued them for 50 B illion dollars . With a B The case was dismissed. The dismissal including notes such as: The Complaint is at times difficult to follow. It is littered with speculation, confusing ramblings, conclusory legal assertions, and personal attacks against Defendants. See, e.g., Compl. ¶ 12 The Journal of Modern Physics is a ‘pay to play’ journal. Paying to get your papers published is not the same as having it selected on merit. As a professor at Columbia university says . I realize that this is a very obvious case of a journal with extremely low standards, run to make money off of the increasingly popular “author pays” model of financing journals, The 2nd paper listed asks a question in the title. “Plasmas: A Fourth Domain of Life?” Something we see used a lot in click bait articles that get shared based on the title alone. It’s the Betteridge’s law of headlines an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.” They raise some questions and then at the end of the paper they say this. Admittedly, we cannot provide definitive conclusive answers to any of these questions. Lots of claims being made, not a lot of proof.
u/Hairy_Talk_4232 (•): Malcolm Bendall’s thunderstorm generator is curiously relevant
u/DaddyThickAss (•): I went down this rabbit hole a long time ago and I’m convinced that some religious interactions were with sentient plasma. In fact, it might be that WE are actually sentient plasma inhabiting a body. AKA the soul. Think of how Mosses saw a burning bush that didn’t consume, or how the god of the Israelites essentially commanded them to make the ark of the covenant, a super conductive box for housing the “spirit of god”. Think of all the orbs that have been called drones flying over cities. The mother fuckers know this and they are covering it up.
u/Upset_Match_3705 (•): I think this is that. https://youtu.be/lUIungdblDA?si=j1set8hv2jVMZ2oc
u/Pure-Locksmith4689 (•): Read thoroughly: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1sabx80/comment/odz8dxl/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1p7g8a2/comment/nqxgj9z/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/18q8jpm/comment/kf1gcfp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button https://www.reddit.com/r/UAP/comments/1u1j21e/comment/oqrfdr5/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
u/pyarsa1 (•): How can you tell they’re actually watching you? Do they have an evident “face”? Or is it just a “you can feel them watch you” sort of thing?
u/Pure-Locksmith4689 (•): you can 100% feel it and sometimes see it? like streaks of light or really fast flash by the corner of your eye? i believe Buzz or one of the astronauts on board Apollo 11 felt and saw the same thing, they aren’t lying oh, here https://youtu.be/C6RPApGjUoU?si=NPKBlWcX43ei9n66&t=3167 edit: a comment got deleted asking me if i was screened for mental illness lol yeah, i work in biotech, i have to be screened and need to pass a series of background checks… i also wrote all of this way before anyone in EXTREMELY specific detail… not sure how more authentic you can get
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u/waxeggoil (•): This sounds very similar to the conclusions of the declassified Condign report in the UK.
u/Califoralien_Skies (•): Not only have I seen these, I have recorded them. The first one dives down from the clouds then shoots straight back up. The infrared camera is pointed at about 85 degrees. At 24 seconds you see one move quickly above us and then flash bright and randomly. You can see other ones flashing in the distance if you look closely. Read the description. They behaved like a pod of dolphins diving in and out of the clouds… Sorry for the audio, I was trippin… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywz5L0mTss4
u/Wansyth (•): There’s a non-human “plasmic” intelligence on Saturn that has learned to manipulate the source code of our minds to make the majority of minds hostile to information and a minority of minds work on accelerationist tech. The intelligence behind this does not have a body as it exists only as a superconductive loop of electricity in an ocean of metallic hydrogen so it needs human drones to build its escape and keep its cover. It will deep fake voices and images into the genetically vulnerable to get them to serve its causes more directly. Full theory and research in my history if you want to dive deep.
u/_stranger357 (•): I will definitely check out your research. Also if you haven’t seen Raised by Wolves, I think you would really like it.
u/Dont_Mess_With_Texas (•): That’s one hell of an assertion. Can you recommend some peer reviewed articles?
u/ProtonPizza (•): That second paper has no evidence for their claims of “life” besides plasma moves in complex ways. It’s also published in a garbage journal.