A former U.S. Army sergeant, who passed away in 2021, claimed he had been communicating telepathically with an alien being for most of his life.
Clifford Stone gained attention within UFO enthusiast circles after he spoke at the National Press Club in Washington in 2001. During his testimony, he asserted that he had been part of a covert Army program that dealt with the recovery of materials from crashed UFOs.
According to Stone, his extraterrestrial connection, whom he referred to as ‘Korona,’ first contacted him telepathically when he was just seven years old. This alleged communication continued throughout his lifetime.
Stone described the alien as resembling a mantis-like creature and recounted several other mysterious encounters he claimed to have experienced over the years. However, no public evidence ever substantiated these claims.
Although the U.S. government has never officially confirmed the existence of creatures like those Stone described, recent comments from a former CIA scientist have sparked intrigue.
Dr. Hal Puthoff, a physicist and electrical engineer involved in the intelligence community’s psychic and UFO research initiatives during the 1970s and 1980s, recently mentioned that individuals recovering crashed UFOs have encountered “at least four distinct types” of alien life forms.
Those allegedly include Grays, Nordics, Reptilians and Insectoids, which Stone’s mantis alien would fall under.
Stone made statements that when he met Korona during childhood, telepathic messages flooded his head, saying: ‘The entity even told me that he could feel the emotions that I felt. From that day on, I would have, at his pleasure, interactions with this entity, who would later tell me that his name was Korona,’ he added.
Clifford Stone (Pictured) testified in front of the National Press Club in Washington that he was involved in salvaging material from crashed UFOs
The Army veteran also claimed he believed many aliens walk among humans in an effort to observe and better understand the human race.
During his bombshell testimony at the National Press Club, he alleged that he had personally catalogued 57 different species of extraterrestrial life forms while working in secret military programs.
Born in Portsmouth, Ohio, on January 2, 1949, he joined the Army in 1969 and served for more than 20 years, including during the Vietnam War, where he worked as an administrative and legal specialist.
His official military records list his primary role as an administrative and legal specialist, a position he held while serving for more than two decades.
Over time, however, Stone asserted that his duties extended far beyond clerical work.
He claimed he was quietly reassigned to classified recovery operations involving unidentified craft and, in some cases, non-human biological entities – these assertions have never been independently verified.
‘I was involved in situations where we actually did recoveries of crashed saucers. There were bodies that were involved in some of these crashes. Also, some of these were alive,’ Stone said, according to a 2001 report from the BBC.
The Department of Defense has never confirmed Stone’s involvement in any program related to extraterrestrial recovery or communication, and no declassified documents substantiate his account.
Army veteran Clifford Stone claimed that he was in telepathic contact with a mantis-like creature which called itself Korona (Stock Image)
Critics have long pointed out this absence of evidence, noting that extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof.
Although the US government has maintained that there has never been physical proof of UFOs or alien life existing, President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to release all information regarding extraterrestrial encounters.
Until his death, Stone consistently maintained that his claims were rooted in firsthand encounters rather than speculation, describing them as experiences that had permanently changed his understanding of religion, mortality, and humanity’s place in the universe.
Stone claimed that Korona’s civilization had reached what it considered a scientific conclusion about the existence of a creator, not as a matter of belief, but as an empirically established reality.
Scholars of religion and philosophy have long debated whether scientific inquiry can ever address metaphysical questions such as the existence of God.
Stone claimed that belief in a singular creator is ‘no longer a faith-based ideal,’ and argued that science from advanced intelligence now supports the existence of what many people call God.
He further alleged that this same intelligence possessed technology capable of facilitating communication between the living and the dead, though he stressed that such interactions were tightly constrained.
‘They even have the means to communicate with their loved ones. It’s not some parlour trick,’ he claimed. ‘They really have the means to do it. But there are forbidden questions that you can’t ask about what happens after death.’
That restriction, Stone claimed, was not presented as a technical limitation but as an enforced boundary, one that prevented deeper inquiry into the nature of death itself.
He suggested that certain knowledge may either be dangerous, destabilizing or simply inaccessible to human understanding at this stage of development.
