This is a summary of Tony’s testimony as he tells it during public appearances and interviews. The full story, told in all its detail, appears in Ceres Colony Cavalier and Project Starmaker.
Michael Anthony Rodrigues is born in 1972 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. By the time he tells his story he is fifty-two—and he carries more than seventy-two years of memory.
On April 15, 1982, after a schoolyard confrontation with a boy who claims his father is an Illuminati, Tony wakes in the middle of the night to find gray aliens standing in his bedroom. They take him from his home to an underground or off-world facility, and there he is inducted into the 20 and back program—also called the Career Return program—in which, through exotic cloning and consciousness-transfer technology, he lives an additional twenty years of life.
After the abduction he is taken to Inyokern. There he undergoes intensive mind programming modeled on MK-Ultra, designed to turn him into a high-end remote-viewing asset. The children in the program are put on IVs, drugged, and rendered unconscious, then used to provide information. Sedated, they answer questions clearly. Afterward they remember nothing.
In December 1982, Tony is moved to an island near Seattle and kept for several weeks at the home of a billionaire satanist, where occult rituals and child experimentation take place.
By 1983 he is being used operationally as a remote viewer in Puerto Tahuantinsuyo, Peru—a small jungle village serving as a drug-trafficking hub. He works aboard a C-46 Commando running cocaine toward Santa Marta, Colombia, a route of roughly ten hours each way.
At the midpoint of every flight his handler wraps him in a Faraday blanket, runs in an IV, and administers a ketamine derivative. Tony loses consciousness and begins delivering accurate information—police positions, safe landing zones. His intelligence proves so reliable that by the end of his two-year stay the handler starts using him to answer villagers’ questions while he is under, working from a clipboard of queries and charging money for the answers.
Around puberty the system begins to fail. Tony starts speaking incoherently during sessions, and his usefulness drops. He is sent back to Seattle, to the billionaire’s home, and kept there with other boys.
The house hosts political fundraisers. Thousands attend by day; at night the crowd thins and the real donors remain. The young boys and girls kept there are sexually abused, and it is filmed. Tony speaks about this publicly in 2015. The Hillary email scandal breaks the following year.
After Seattle, Tony is sold to the military and shipped to the far side of the Moon. In transit, through the windows, he sees that he is bound for a trapezoidal base built on the Pentagon’s design—converted, he is told, because reusing the plan saved money and let the structure hold up in vacuum.
Another round of trauma-based conditioning follows, this one aimed entirely at the fight-or-flight response. Tony is trained not to run. In these “classes,” the lesson is that in a combat emergency flight is never an option, drilled through elaborate internal scenarios that always end the same way: better to give your life for your brother, whatever the cost.
He and the other children are put in an arena and made to defend themselves against massive insects—enormous, fast, violent.
Later the group is moved to Mars aboard a large triangular craft. They are brought to an underground city, hooded, then flown to a small forward base tucked beneath a crevice. They step out of artificial gravity into the lighter pull of Mars. Missions follow: combat against insectoid humanoids.
On one mission Tony and the others run into a particularly dangerous insectoid. They are badly injured and evacuated to heal. The forward base is shut down before long—the insectoids adapt too quickly.
Back in the underground city, a gray-alien instructor reassesses Tony with the same adaptive training software used across the military. His aptitude test sorts him into “skilled labor.” He is sold again and shipped to the planetoid Ceres, where he stays more than a decade.
On Ceres he works aboard a UFO, handling maintenance and fire suppression. The craft was built from two submarines bolted together and converted by German engineers, and it travels backward in time every day, leaving and returning in the same instant. His assignments arrive from a computer.
Every day. For eight years. Like Groundhog Day.
Project Starmaker unfolds in this stretch. Tony endures ten more years of labor that, from the ship’s vantage, happens in an instant—stacked on top of the first twenty.
Time travel is a bitch.
Eventually the ship is decommissioned, and Tony is reassigned to a newer stealth craft built on a chassis leased from a non-human species. He is promoted to cargo engineer, put in charge of seven people. The job gives him back a little dignity.
At the front of the ship stands a tower of psychics whose job is defensive—blocking other species from remote-viewing the ship’s capabilities or scanning its crew. They are human, drug-assisted, positioned just outside the ship’s protective field.
Tony manages the cargo—stacking, weight distribution, the space that’s left. The ship makes frequent runs to Diego Garcia in the British Indian Ocean Territory, and missions across the solar system. Venus, Saturn, and Pluto are off limits: Venusian civilization is too advanced to challenge, and Pluto is held by a hostile species.
With the promotion comes a little freedom. Tony starts earning money and is allowed out of the military complex that has held him for eight years. He can draw paper currency at a trade counter that also handles blockchain transactions, where visiting species trade assets under the colony’s agreements.
The Ceres Colony Corporation runs everything beneath the surface, its cities carved into vast underground caverns. The civilian areas hold malls, restaurants, electric cars. Replicators make most of the food, though the luxury restaurants serve real meat. The architecture is distinctly European, the inhabitants identifying with Deutsche culture, and the colony’s military leader holds the title of Führer.
His slave collar marks him as low-status, unwelcome in most public spaces, and to avoid the harassment, he spends much of his free time in the red-light district.Extra-species sex is common. Sometimes intercourse occurs only mentally, and the girls involved are deeply damaged by it.
Tony has a girlfriend there—a lady of the night. Against everything the program intends, they come to fall in love, a bond neither of them is supposed to have. At the venue where she works is an anti-gravity art exhibit, a foyer where spheres of fire and water float free. The micro-gravity pulses on and off, throwing up violent splashes of flame and liquid. Tony finds it mesmerizing and sits watching until someone finally throws him out.
When his twenty-year term ends, he is demoted and hurried out without the ceremony most people get. He is returned to the Moon base and put through industrial-strength hypnosis and drug programming to erase his memories. The deletion of names works best.
Tony doesn’t want to go back. He is in love. He is livid. He fights it.
They send him back anyway.
He wakes on April 16, 1982, in his childhood bed, and something is wrong. He is completely changed. His father takes a photograph that day—one Tony still keeps. He doesn’t know who he is.
He is devastated, though at the time he remembers none of it.
Years later the memories come back. One afternoon, without warning, twenty years flood into his mind at once. Tony believes it was love that made the recall possible—the bond with the woman he was forced to leave behind on Ceres.
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