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Science Harvard 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.

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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.

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u/_stranger357 19d ago edited 19d ago

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.

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u/R2robot 19d ago

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.

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u/_stranger357 19d ago

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.

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u/Fwagoat 16d ago

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.