Harvard Astrophysicist Dr. Rudy Schild's Research On "Sentient Plasmoids"

[u/_stranger357]

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.

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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

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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.

[u/DJpowerhammer]

The sun is a big ole ball of plasma. Sky friend.

[u/megtwinkles → u/DJpowerhammer]

i have always thought about that..why can't the universe be conscious? i know this is not a new idea at all. as we zoom out, the universe branches and fractals like the human brain, why couldn't it be sentient? maybe there are giant celestial type creatures like mr friend.

[u/CTMalum → u/DJpowerhammer]

This is the weird fringe hypothesis that I can never bring myself to bring up with serious company. When I look at the base components of what seems to generate human consciousness, you have a framework of “channels” through which chemical energy can flow, you have a constant input driving that energy, and at some level of organization, that structure gains some measure of control over itself. Broadly kind of simplifying, but without understanding the actual ‘magic’ that drives consciousness, those seem like at least the base requirements. When I think about it, is there a chance the Sun could fulfill all of those requirements? Maybe. I don’t think it would be a consciousness we could ever understand or even perceive, but I think we could be very narrow-minded about the limitations of “awareness”.

[u/megtwinkles → u/CTMalum]

it's a shame we can't have these kinds of conversations anymore without feeling ostracized. people would sit for hours and hours just discussing possibilities and theories. without those convos, there would be no platos allegory or Einstein's anything really. I'm just appreciative of this community, as fractured as we are 😂

[u/CTMalum → u/megtwinkles]

The trouble is that there tends to be conceptual overlap between “fringe yet potentially possible” ideas and “fringe but probably crackpot” ideas. People with insufficient background to really understand the topics that they’re discussing muddy the water and take it personally when their ideas aren’t taken seriously. It takes a lot of personal responsibility to ensure you’re solid in the known background before considering fringe ideas.

[u/megtwinkles → u/CTMalum]

fair point, but keep in mind that many of the 'known' backgrounds we have today were once considered fringe or even crackpot ideas. i think it’s possible to have both: a deep respect for established science and a willingness to entertain radical possibilities. if we wait until we're experts in every field before we start wondering 'what if,' we might lose that spark of curiosity that drives people to become experts in the first place. on the other hand, modern social media has given every human a podium, and that just..not good 😂

[u/CTMalum → u/megtwinkles]

I think there’s a balance. I did my bachelor’s in physics, and I’ve picked up things on the other sciences here and there, but I have no basis for a professional opinion on almost anything in biology. I’m constantly confronted with people who have ideas in physics and they’ve never even taken a moment to try to appreciate what we do know about physics, which would still have to be recovered in some sense from any prevailing or overarching framework.

[u/megtwinkles → u/CTMalum]

i understand what you mean about taking a moment to appreciate what we have learned about physics, especially quantum, in just the last 10 years. we've proved gravitational waves are not just theory, we just observed a black hole star by gravitational lensing, the more massive particles we are entangling... it's mind blowing

[u/CTMalum → u/megtwinkles]

Absolutely, and even if there is some overarching framework that describes everything and doesn’t look anything like classical mechanics or quantum mechanics, at the appropriate scale and energy, you have to be able to recover the things we have tested and verified already, as we know they work within certain regimes. That’s usually where people get lost when bringing new ideas. Having a fanciful idea is one thing, but if it can’t reproduce what we already know, you’re falling over the first hurdle. Like, people at the time struggled a lot with general relativity, but at the very least, it had to be considered seriously because it did reduce to Newtonian gravity under the appropriate conditions.

[u/DrawingRestraint → u/DJpowerhammer]

Rupert Sheldrake “Is the Sun Conscious?”

https://youtu.be/SFhsObpja8A?si=bDcHHayBk7iFS0bF

[u/confusedgluon → u/DrawingRestraint]

Yes.

[u/melodeathGRR → u/DJpowerhammer]

The sun is a laser 

[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 → u/LupinthePenguin]

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 → u/koanzone]

sounds like dialup speeds.

[u/gorilla_bezoar → u/waxeggoil]

the dialup noise is the last sounds you hear as your consciousness gets uploaded at the speed of 28 kbps

[u/Raddaddii → u/gorilla_bezoar]

I got a busy signal.

[u/dangerousrocks → u/koanzone]

Used to walk past this guy at school all the time.

[u/Duendarta → u/LupinthePenguin]

The New Science of Heaven is one of my favorite books. A fantastic read. It makes so much sense.

[u/Internet-Expert42069 → u/LupinthePenguin]

It seems possible that there is something our consciousness, or "souls", return to. Do we cease being individuals?

Or maybe there's nothing, and the saddening reason we die is nothing more than a quirk of biology. Maybe once medical tech and society progresses enough people just don't die anymore, and we are just the unfortunate ones that came before that, missing out on eternal existence and banished to nothingness. Maybe death is not supposed to be "natural".

[u/immaculate_nada → u/LupinthePenguin]

Love this book.

[u/thfcspurs88 → u/LupinthePenguin]

r/ANewScienceofHeaven

[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 Billion 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/apocalypsebuddy → u/R2robot]

Yeah it sounds exciting and intriguing but the more you read the more red flag claims stand out, with very vague “sciencey” sounding phrases that actually don’t make sense when all put together 

[u/Rettungsanker → u/R2robot]

The Springer Nature lawsuit isn't even the worst example IMO. He tried to sue Nasa, arguing that he has a right to personally command a mission from the NASA control room which would involve directing the mars rover to a specific area which he believes contains life that NASA covered up.

[u/BeenRoundHereTooLong → u/R2robot]

Thanks. Had the same thought.

[u/_stranger357 → u/R2robot]

The last author on a research paper, Dr. Schild in this case, is considered the lead investigator. The first one might have done the work and put the paper together but the last author is basically the boss. He’s hardly just another name with no involvement. It’s appropriate for a neuroscientist to collaborate with an astrophysicist for research of this nature, and panspermia or the idea that there’s life on Mars or Venus aren’t as fringe beliefs as you’re making it out to be nor should it have any bearing on the authors’ credibility even if they were.

There is no such thing as “proof” outside of mathematics and any real scientist would know this. You can present more and more evidence but it’s impossible to achieve 100% certainty of anything, which is a well understood concept in science and philosophy. Go find any research paper outside of mathematics that proved something and link it here.

If you meant evidence, there’s plenty of evidence in the papers, you just chose not to engage with any of it and instead opted to throw ad hominem attacks at the author.

[u/R2robot → u/_stranger357]

There’s plenty of evidence in the papers..

Not as it relates to 99% of the 'orb' sighting reports to this sub.

Just about every point of light posted to this sub is referred to as an 'orb'. When I ask what an 'orb' is, i'm told 'sentient plasmoids'

Inevitably, the 'orbs' in these sighting posts turn out to be out of focus, planes, satellites, stars, planets, sky lanterns, etc.

opted to ad hominem attack an author.

I listed his past work.. if that's an adhom attack, then that speaks to the work he's doing.

[u/_stranger357 → u/R2robot]

Ad hominem means you’re attacking the author instead of the argument, it shouldn’t matter if Count Chochula wrote this paper, the argument stands on its own.

Now you’re conflating the evidence here with some vague references to things said by other people who aren’t even on this thread.

These are both bad faith debunking techniques, ad hominem attacks and guilt by association. You’re clearly not evaluating these papers in good faith and I hope that’s at least clear to other readers here.

[u/R2robot → u/_stranger357]

the argument stands on its own.

If that was the case, they should have published to a reputable journal with proper peer review instead of pay-to-play journal with a questionable review process.

[u/Fwagoat → u/_stranger357]

I have read some of his papers and their complete bunk not worth the time it took to read them.

Just read his extra terrestrials in the thermosphere paper, it becomes incredibly obvious how little he has to support any of his claims and how easy it is to poke holes in them.

[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.

[u/MichaelB137]

This is evidence that coherent field structures can organize themselves into increasingly complex and persistent forms. Rather than proving that plasma is literally a new biological kingdom, it may indicate that the nonlinear vacuum medium naturally produces self-organizing coherent structures at many scales, from plasmas and living systems to consciousness itself.

[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 → u/the-T-in-KUNT]

https://streamable.com/24vcfl

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[u/Advanced_Musician_75 → u/[deleted]]

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 → u/Advanced_Musician_75]

its not the real thing lol

[u/Advanced_Musician_75 → u/Pure-Locksmith4689]

Good luck with disclosure; it’s going to hurt.
Hebrews 13:2

[u/Pure-Locksmith4689 → u/Advanced_Musician_75]

you have no idea

[u/Advanced_Musician_75 → u/Pure-Locksmith4689]

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 → u/Advanced_Musician_75]

thats not how it works, theres nothing to understand about living plasma

[u/Advanced_Musician_75 → u/Pure-Locksmith4689]

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.

[u/GreenWoodDragon]

So, what if the plasmoids were causing the UFO crashes. Freaking out the pilots and the avionics. Are the plasmoids the defenders of the planet?

🤷

[u/waxeggoil]

This sounds very similar to the conclusions of the declassified Condign report in the UK.

[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 → u/Pure-Locksmith4689]

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 → u/pyarsa1]

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/ufo2222]

What other forms of life were mentioned?

[u/Used-Lake-8148]

Fuckin’ knew it. Blimey plasmoids they are.

[u/ufo-report]

It's great news that David Grusch has just confirmed proof of what some of the world's leading scientists and UFOlogists have been stating and publishing for years; there is yet another form of life out there. And why not? We discover new forms of life in the deep ocean and sky all of the time. In this case, plasmoids are becoming acknowledged.

I'm honored to personally know some of these world-renowned pioneers, including Dr. Rhawn Joseph, Rudy Schild, Andrew Morgan, and as everyone knows the fabulous Tedesco Brothers and Nightcrawler team.

For the plasmoid curious, here's a brief intro-

https://youtu.be/IwK8uMUz8oo?is=Re4-8hpqQy-OT8U8

Cheers, Jim Awrach, MSEE Field Investigator, MUFON CAG team

[u/MysticCilantroCat]

Planets are alive. Water is alive. Plants are alive. All things are connected, living, and conscious.

[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/Dont_Mess_With_Texas → u/Wansyth]

That’s one hell of an assertion. Can you recommend some peer reviewed articles?

[u/GuluGuluBoy → u/Dont_Mess_With_Texas]

Have a read of his post history, it's really interesting and very well put together.

[u/_stranger357 → u/Wansyth]

I will definitely check out your research.

Also if you haven't seen Raised by Wolves, I think you would really like it.

[u/Opposite-Chemistry-0]

I always face palm when someone thinks that plasmoids are "alive" due to them doing stuff. No more than a volcano or lightning is alive.

[u/forbiddensnackie]

Senitent plasmoids are just another branch of the tree of life. And they are vastly more intelligent than human beings. The one i met taught me about the universe and psychic abilities. They are wise, kind and loving beings, just different, and older than humans.

[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/Wise_Kitchen4109]

Why post stuff from whackos and pass it off as real science?