Tony Rodrigues

Childhood Abduction & Illuminati Claim

Tony Rodrigues (full name Michael Anthony Rodrigues) was born in 1972 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. According to his published account in Ceres Colony Cavalier, his entry into classified programs began in April 1982 when he was nine years old, following a schoolyard confrontation with a boy he claims was the son of a high-level Illuminati member. Later that month, Rodrigues reports experiencing a bedroom abduction by five Gray extraterrestrials who removed him to an underground or off-world facility for genetic assessment and program induction.

The 20 & Back Program

Rodrigues claims he was inducted into a classified "20 and Back" program (also termed the "Career Return Program") operated through what he describes as breakaway civilization technology. He alleges the program employed consciousness transfer and cloning mechanisms to allow recruits to live multiple decades of experience while remaining chronologically young in their origin timeline. According to his testimony, he experienced four years in a covert operation in Peru beginning around age 13, followed by service in Seattle before ultimately spending approximately 15 years stationed on Mars and Ceres Colony as a military auxiliary combating indigenous insectoid species and serving with what he terms the "Dark Fleet." When calculated through his claimed consciousness-transfer experience, he describes carrying over 70 years of subjective memory despite his chronological age of 52 at the time of his first major public disclosure.

Author & Consciousness Researcher

Rodrigues entered public discourse around 2016 as an author and consciousness researcher. His primary publication, Ceres Colony Cavalier: A True Account of One Man's Twenty Year Abduction (2022), provides detailed narrative of his SSP experience, organizational structures of alleged breakaway programs, technological systems, and the alien species he claims to have encountered. He followed with Project Starmaker (early 2022), which explores claims regarding extraterrestrial star-making projects designed to engineer habitable systems, and Beyond Sight: A History of Remote Viewing Energetics (later publication), detailing consciousness-based research methodologies. These works position him within the contemporary SSP whistleblower and experiencer community, alongside other claimants like Corey Goode and Randy Cramer.

Current Work & Public Presence

Rodrigues currently operates as a remote viewing instructor and consciousness trainer. He offers individual consulting sessions, leads group remote viewing training programs (including his "Alpha" group), sells binaural audio products marketed as PSIION consciousness training tools, and provides commercial "Remote Viewing for Hire" services through affiliated entities. He maintains an active Patreon community ("Talks with Tony") and has made appearances on Gaia TV and numerous UFO-oriented podcasts and interviews. His professional positioning emphasizes direct experiential knowledge of classified programs rather than theoretical or academic frameworks.

Stance & Credibility

Rodrigues identifies explicitly as a Secret Space Program experiencer and whistleblower. His claims remain unverified and widely contested within both mainstream science and skeptical UFO research communities. No corroborating evidence from independent sources, government documents, or other program participants has emerged to substantiate his narrative. However, his account maintains internal consistency across multiple publications and interviews, and he has sustained an active media presence and paying audience within the UFO experiencer and consciousness-research communities.