In our latest episode of the Fortean Winds podcast “Aliens, Demons & Final Events: Oh My!” we discuss the parallels between the book “Final Events” written in 2010 and our own work today.

As RamX said on the show, he had just read the book New Years Eve 2025. Thus, the team seeing so many connections between their own work and the book was a….surprise.

But we love timelines, and they help to clarify the crazy things we talk about. So, as promised, here is a timeline of the major events (as we see it) in the book
“Final Events” by Nick Redfern.

Chronological Notes: The Story of Final Events

Late 19th Century – 1918: The Occult Roots

• 1875: Aleister Crowley, the “master of the occult,” is born.
• 1918: Crowley performs the “Amalantrah Working” rituals in New York, allegedly opening a portal and contacting an entity named “Lam”.
• Significance: The Collins Elite believe Crowley’s rituals began the modern “invasion” of these entities.

1946 – 1952: The Portal Widens and the Birth of the Collins Elite

• 1946: Rocket scientist Jack Parsons and future Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard perform the “Babalon Working” rituals. The Collins Elite conclude this further enlarged Crowley’s portal, leading to the 1947 UFO wave (Kenneth Arnold and Roswell).
• June 1952: Jack Parsons dies in a violent explosion at his home laboratory.
• 1952: Following Parsons’ death, a secret group of military and intelligence personnel forms to investigate the “occult-UFO” connection. This group becomes known as the Collins Elite.

1952 – 1961: Shift to the Demonic Theory

• Late 1952 – 1953: Members of the Collins Elite, such as informant “Richard Duke,” move away from the “Soviet secret weapon” theory and begin to believe UFOs are demonic.
• 1958 – 1959: Army Intelligence conducts research into mental telepathy and ESP, which the Collins Elite believe are tools used by NHEs to manipulate human perception.
• January 1960: Richard Duke’s final task involves investigating psychic Ruth Montgomery, who popularized the “walk-in” theory (souls being replaced by other entities).

1961 – 1973: Abductions and Black Magic

• September 1961: The Betty and Barney Hill “abduction” occurs. The Collins Elite analyze the case, concluding that abductions are “mental attack visions” or spiritual kidnappings rather than physical ET encounters.
• April 1972: Under Operation Often, CIA-linked bureaucrats approach witch Sybil Leek. She reportedly warns them that the forces they are trying to harness for “psychotronic weaponry” are soulless, demonic, and deceptive.
• 1973: Following a UFO incident involving a military helicopter (the Coyne case), the Pentagon asks witnesses if they have had “unusual dreams” or “out-of-body experiences,” searching for signs of spiritual “attachments”.

1980s: The Reagan Era and the “Soul” Concern

• Early-to-mid 1980s: The Reagan administration reportedly increases the budget for the Collins Elite.
• June 1982: President Reagan views E.T. at the White House and reportedly tells Steven Spielberg, “There are only a handful of people who know the truth about this”.
• Key Realization: The Collins Elite conclude that NHEs “feed” on human energy and emotions (fear, pain, and sexual energy) and that their ultimate goal is the harvest of the human soul.

1991 – 1998: Whistleblowers and The Collins Report

• November 25, 1991: Two DoD physicists meet with Anglican priest Ray Boeche at the Cornhusker Hotel in Nebraska. They provide him with evidence (including autopsy photos of victims killed by “psychic methods”) of the government’s failed attempts to control these “demons”.
• March 11, 1998: A two-volume document titled The Collins Report is printed. It outlines the group’s belief that UFOs are a “Trojan Horse” intended to lead humanity into a one-world government under the Antichrist.

2007 – 2010: Final Revelations

• 2007: Nick Redfern interviews Ray Boeche and meets with “Robert Manners,” a younger member of the Collins Elite who confirms the group is still active.
• 2010: The story concludes with the group in a state of “absolute dread,” fearing that the end-times are approaching and that the human race is being duped into a pact with hellish forces.

All in on Leek

The Collins Elite’s decision to “go all in” on the demonic theory was not based solely on Sybil Leek’s testimony. According to Final Events, her warnings were viewed as a confirming piece of a much larger puzzle involving high-level intelligence data, physical evidence, and historical analysis that the group had been collecting for decades.

The group believed they had moved beyond the “unclear veracity” of typical mediums for several specific reasons:

1. Corroborating Physical Evidence

The group’s convictions were bolstered by what they considered “hard” evidence from Department of Defense projects.

• Post-Mortem Evidence: Two DoD physicists provided Ray Boeche with photographs of individuals allegedly killed during experiments to contact these entities. The deaths were attributed to “remotely induced” cardiac arrest, head trauma, and suffocation—lethal effects the group believed were caused by the entities (NHEs) they were trying to control.
• Failed Technological Mastery: While the military initially thought they had mastered “psychotronic weaponry” and “remote viewing” through technology, they eventually concluded the entities were the actual “causal factor,” merely allowing humans to think they were in control to further a deception.

2. Patterns in Abduction Lore

The group analyzed thousands of abduction cases and found consistent patterns that aligned with demonic behavior rather than scientific ET exploration.

Fortean Winds Note: “We too have gone through thousands of cases of abductions and this pattern is just one among many.”

• Spiritual Hostility: The Collins Elite noted that during “alien” contacts, the entities almost exclusively targeted and denied the validity of Christianity, while remaining neutral or silent on other world religions.
• The “Energy” Harvest: Testimony from abductees suggested that these beings “fed” on human fear and pain. This led the group to conclude that the entities were “soulless” and that their primary goal was the “harvest of the human soul,” a concept they found mentioned in highly classified documents.

3. The Occult Connection (Crowley and Parsons)

The group was deeply influenced by the historical “portals” they believed were opened by Aleister Crowley and Jack Parsons.

• The 1947 Tipping Point: They believed that Parsons’ “Babalon Working” rituals in 1946 directly triggered the 1947 UFO wave, including the Roswell crash.
• Alchemical Origins: They concluded that the biological remains found at Roswell were not extraterrestrial, but “alchemical” or “manufactured life-forms” (similar to a Golem or Homunculus) created by these entities to interact with our physical world.

4. Validation Through “Operation Often”

When the CIA initiated Operation Often to explore the tactical use of the occult, Leek’s warnings carried weight because she was an expert being consulted by the state. When her assessment—that these forces were “demonic” and “deceptive”—matched the internal findings the Collins Elite were already seeing in military “psychic” experiments, the group treated it as expert corroboration rather than just another “medium’s message”.

In summary, the Collins Elite didn’t just take Leek’s word for it; they used her testimony to validate a pre-existing, “horrific story” supported by what they viewed as dead bodies, failed experiments, and a decades-long pattern of spiritual manipulation.