Kaney's Weird Files - Issue 7 Volume 3

July 2025 in Review

Tim Kaney - Experiencer

Jul 30, 2025

Weird /wird/

adjective: weird; comparative adjective: weirder; superlative adjective: weirdest

suggesting something supernatural; uncanny.
"the weird crying of a seal"

July, 2025

WI, USA, Earth

Salutations Carbon-based Lifeforms,

First, a big ‘thank you’ to all of you readers, subscribers, followers, and groupies out there that still enjoy this content. While I saw a couple of you dropped off from email this last month, I am still encouraged to keep writing this periodically. I did notice a couple new folks - welcome! As weirdly odd it is still a thing. I really appreciate all of you that still tune in and read. For those that turned off emails, I am sorry if it was not adding value to your inbox. I am hoping to this month.

I am excited to let everyone know some small news about my memoir, an upcoming appearance, and a few other tidibits of fun.

And of course, the usual oddities.

-Experiencer Tim

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TikTok Rabbit Hole - Part 3

GATE research update: I did reply to the CIA’s request for full information to confirm my identity which was received and acknowledged. However, my reply also was an attempt to restate and clarify the records for which I was searching. Silly me, I learned and was reminded that I incorrectly sturctured the request. So, I was told they would not be able to process the request as stated. I worked hard and restructured it with the help of Google Gemini (Hah, I know, but that machine helped me see and rearticulate what I needed to ask).

Beyond this, I flipped through all my school possessions I have, including most of my gradeschool report cards, in order to see if there were any records or notes from teachers indicating my potential inclusion or enrollment in a gifted and talented program. Sadly, I did not. That said, what I did find was report cards with fairly consistent good grades, positive remarks, and notes of primarily ‘Outstanding’ performance. Nothing referencing GATE, TAG, OM (Odyssey of the Mind), nor hearing tests.

There have been a few new GATE program TIKTOKS I have come across, but nothing really groundbreaking.

As I stated, I resubmitted my request and am waiting on that for a response.

Will update all of you as I can.

As a reminder, I am going down this rabbit hole because I believe that many of us who are part of the ‘experiencer’ camp might also have been part of this program, if it is a true and factual series of events to which we were unwilling participants. Although I have not uncovered historical records as evidence of the GATE program being linked to government clandestine operations involving ‘gifted’ kids - one cannot discount all the stories and memories of this shared phenomenon from others as can be seen on social media. That is to say, I have not uncovered evidence that the GATE programs, which is written about in school districts websites and state legislature, is or was a front or decoy program for identifying and assessing young people for the purpose of either recruitment into known programs such as Stargate or - as some have speculated - the isolation of young people presenting with cognitive and otherworldly abilities in order to make them forget, stunt their growth, and / or shutting them off completely from those abilities in order to make sure they would not become a future threat by fully awakening.

What comes next is still a mystery. One I will be sure to share with you all.

I have an ask of all of you: if you recall being part of GATE, leave a comment with your story and / or memories.

Upcoming Appearance

I am going to be part of the ‘The January Encounter UFO/UAP Conference’. It is being put on Gloria Hass, my friend and experiencer, and she invited me to be a presenter! I’ll be showing some of my artwork with a focus on my experiences, dreams, and talking about the memories involved with each one. Here is a little bit about the conferencere:

“Join our exclusive, free UFO event on Saturday, January 10, 2026 with four amazing speakers! Live event! No replays.

This online conference is a live event and will meet on Zoom and is FREE! There are only 150 seats available so get your reservation in NOW! Deadline to sign up: December 15, 2025 or sooner if all spots are taken.

Speakers:

9:00 am – Philip Kinsella – “Alien Contact through CE5 Initiative – The Interdimensional Hypothesis”

10:00 am – Tim Kaney – “Artwork of an Experiencer”

11:00 am – Trey Hudson – “The Meadow Project”

12:00 pm – Armando Landrian – “The MUPAS Project””

This should be great a great event of which I am honored to participate. There are major names in this line up and I hope my portion will be in some way beneficial to the viewers.

Check out the link here for more information and how to reserve your spot today.

Night Anxiety - Update

Just as quietly and quickly it had surfaced again, my nightime anxiety has subsided. Over the past month it seems to have vanished. I wonder what was going on with that? Me thinks it was either physiological or paranormal in nature. I haven’t been aware of any kind of visitations lately - only a few vivid dreams. They were not lucid, though.

‘Paranormal Ranger’ Parallel

I posted this on social already and as a note here in substack...

‘Wow, a crazy thing happened while reading ‘The Paranormal Ranger’ the other day. I forgot the page number, but the author presents his own illustrations of creatures and entities he recalls encountering. One of them, while not exact, really gave me cold chills. It looked like a cross between the pieces of art I drew based on my own experiences / dreams. The body shape, head, and eyes looked like the thing tapping on my window with three fingers as a kid recovered under hypnosis AND it had bony ridges across its upper torso, very similar to the creature I saw in my nightmare in college and drew in charcoal. Crazy similar stuff. What does it mean, I wonder? I think I know…’

I just checked, and I see the image of the gray alien on page 120. There are very clear similarities to me to the image of the gray I saw in my recovered memory via hypnosis and then the one I drew after a nightmare during college. Also, there was another one I drew after a different nightmare later in life, more recently. It also has similarities.

After coming to that page, I thought about contacting the author to share this revelation. What should one do?

July in UFO History

ON THIS DAY IN 1952. July 9, 1952. 10:00 p.m. Maryland State Police Lt. C. C. Serman and Trooper 1-c Robert Weir are on patrol on the extension of Church Street near US Highway 50 in Hebron, Maryland, when they see a glowing ball of yellow light approaching them. <Link to CUFOS original post>

July 21 1928. The Worcester Herald; Worcester, Hereford and Worcester, England. Strange Sky Phenomenon Observed. <Link to Historical Aerial Phenomena original post>

July 29 1952. Luminous objects 1952 Cuba, Standard-Sentinel. <Link to Historical Aerial Phenomena original post>

ON THIS DAY IN 1979. July 27, 1979. 11:10 p.m. Gary Hull is on the patio of his in-laws’ home in Stamford, Connecticut, when he sees an orange light in the northwest. <Link to CUFOS original post>

Book News - 1 Year Anniversary!

I still have 6 signed copies of the Revised edition in paperback with a glossy cover available. Message me if you are interested. I have no takers by August 4th, I’ll start hiding them across Dane County…

In honor of my birthday and the anniversary of my memoir being published, I am running a FREE e-book promotion on Amazon.

Be sure to check it out from August 1st through the 4th.

Enjoy!

Keep reading and keep looking up. Remember, the truth is still out there.

Sincerely,

Tim Kaney

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