The bizarre 2026 claim involving DNA databases, psychic spies, “Nordics” and a mystery genetic marker.

Every once in a while, a story comes along that sounds like somebody threw the CIA, The X-Files, 23andMe and a genetics textbook into a blender.

This is one of those stories.

In 2026, an extraordinary claim began spreading across the internet: the CIA had allegedly been interested in searching human DNA databases for people carrying genetic material connected to non-human beings.

Yes.

Alien DNA.

In humans.

And naturally, once the story hit social media, it mutated almost immediately into:

“THE CIA JUST RELEASED DOCUMENTS SAYING THEY'RE LOOKING FOR ALIEN BLOOD.”

That's a hell of a headline.

There's just one problem.

That's not quite what happened.

And the actual story may be more interesting anyway.

Where Did This Story Come From?

The recent wave can be traced largely to philosopher and author Jason Reza Jorjani, who discussed the allegation on the American Alchemy podcast.

According to Jorjani, the information came from Lyn Buchanan, a former U.S. Army intelligence soldier associated with the government's remote-viewing efforts.

The allegation, as subsequently reported by VICE, was that intelligence personnel had been interested in accessing genetic information from massive consumer databases such as 23andMe and Ancestry to locate an unusual genetic variation supposedly associated with extraterrestrial ancestry.

That's an extraordinary claim.

There is currently an enormous difference between someone saying an intelligence program existed and possessing government documentation demonstrating that it existed.

So far, the latter hasn't surfaced publicly.

And Then the Psychic Spies Show Up

This is where the story takes an unexpected turn.

The U.S. government's interest in remote viewing actually is documented.

Remote viewing was the idea that a person might be able to perceive information about a distant or unseen location without physically observing it.

It sounds like science fiction.

Nevertheless, American intelligence and military organizations really did investigate it.

The CIA's own declassified archive contains numerous records from programs associated with names such as GRILL FLAME and later STARGATE.

One 1980 government report explicitly describes a remote-viewing session conducted to obtain information concerning the hostage situation at the U.S. Embassy compound in Tehran. Another states that remote-viewer impressions were being treated as “raw intelligence data,” while cautioning that they had not undergone intermediate analysis or evaluation.

There were also training sessions and the documents themselves sometimes recorded failures. One 1982 report states that a viewer showed “very little correlation” with the target.

That's important.

The existence of a government program proves that the government investigated remote viewing.

It does not prove remote viewing works.

And it definitely doesn't prove aliens exist.

But it establishes the bizarre historical background from which our new story emerges.

Enter the “Nordics”

Now things get really weird.

According to the account attributed to Buchanan, there were supposedly beings called “Nordics” who looked sufficiently human to live among ordinary people.

The story alleges that some lived in Colorado and that descendants or hybrids resulting from relationships between these beings and humans might carry an identifiable genetic signature.

That's supposedly where the DNA databases enter the picture. VICE reported the allegation as involving consumer genetic databases and a search for a genetic variation supposedly connected with non-human ancestry.

Imagine that database query for a second:

British & Irish: 34%

French & German: 17%

Scandinavian: 12%

UNKNOWN SPECIES: 

Obviously, consumer DNA reports don't actually give people an “alien percentage.”

But the allegation raises a genuinely interesting scientific question underneath all the craziness:

If a non-human biological organism reproduced with humans, could genetics identify it?

In principle, something biologically unusual could potentially leave detectable genetic evidence.

But that's completely different from demonstrating that extraterrestrial-human hybrids exist.

Modern genetics identifies relationships by comparing DNA sequences, variants, inheritance patterns and reference populations. To identify something specifically as extraterrestrial, scientists would need compelling evidence establishing that the sequence truly came from an organism originating outside Earth.

Simply finding an unusual human genetic variant wouldn't accomplish that.

Humans have millions of genetic variants.

Rare doesn't mean alien.

Unknown doesn't mean alien.

And weird definitely doesn't automatically mean alien.

Okay... So Where Does Rh-Negative Blood Come Into This?

You knew we were getting here. 

Any time aliens and human genetics appear in the same sentence, somebody eventually brings up Rh-negative blood.

For decades, fringe theories have proposed that Rh-negative people represent descendants of extraterrestrials, Nephilim, lost civilizations, ancient royal bloodlines or some otherwise separate population.

It's fascinating mythology.

But scientifically, Rh-negative blood isn't evidence of extraterrestrial ancestry.

Rh status largely concerns proteins encoded by the RHD and RHCE genes, with RhD-negative phenotypes commonly resulting from absence or alteration of functional RHD depending on population ancestry.

That's genetics.

Not a little alien hiding inside chromosome 1. 

The current CIA/DNA allegation does not establish that the mystery genetic marker was Rh-negative blood.

That's something people online can easily add afterward because Rh-negative blood already has an enormous mythology surrounding it.

Until somebody produces evidence connecting the alleged marker specifically to the Rh system, we shouldn't make that jump.

But What Genetic Marker Were They Supposedly Looking For?

And here we hit perhaps the most interesting missing piece.

If someone claims intelligence agencies can search millions of DNA profiles for people carrying non-human ancestry, then there should be something identifiable they're searching for.

A mutation?

A haplotype?

A particular sequence?

An unusual chromosome region?

An ancestry pattern?

Something.

Yet no publicly authenticated genetic sequence has emerged demonstrating extraterrestrial ancestry.

There isn't a peer-reviewed paper saying:

Congratulations, we found Gene ET-1.

There isn't an authenticated alien reference genome sitting in GenBank for scientists to compare against.

And there isn't publicly verified evidence demonstrating that a CIA genetic screening program identified extraterrestrial-human hybrids.

That's a gigantic hole in the story.

Why People Believed the “CIA Documents” Version

This part is understandable.

The CIA really does have an enormous online collection of declassified documents.

And some of them are wild.

Search long enough and you'll encounter material concerning remote viewing, paranormal research and intelligence investigations that sound like they belong in a movie.

For example, the CIA archive genuinely contains government remote-viewing session reports describing attempts to gather information about real-world targets.

So when somebody posts:

“CIA DOCUMENTS PROVE...”

people naturally assume whatever follows must be something the CIA established as fact.

But that's not how an archive works.

A government archive can contain allegations, reports, raw intelligence, experiments, newspaper clippings, correspondence, unsuccessful investigations and material the government collected without endorsing.

CIA.gov hosting a document ≠ CIA confirming everything written inside it.

That's an incredibly important rule when exploring declassified intelligence records.

But Would the Government Be Interested If Something Like This Were Real?

Now that's a fun question.

Forget whether the current allegation is true for a moment.

Imagine scientists discovered a small group of humans carrying DNA containing sequences that couldn't plausibly be explained through ordinary human evolution, mutation, introgression or contamination.

Would intelligence agencies care?

I'd bet every blood group in the ABO system they would. 

Such a discovery would have implications for biology, national security, medicine, anthropology and probably every other branch of government imaginable.

Scientists would care too.

So would universities.

So would every genetics laboratory on Earth.

The problem isn't that government interest in such a discovery would be unbelievable.

The problem is that we don't currently possess convincing evidence that the discovery happened.

The Most Interesting Part of the Story

There's a funny paradox here.

We don't need to exaggerate this story.

The verified history is already strange enough.

The United States government really investigated remote viewing.

Government personnel really conducted sessions attempting to collect intelligence through alleged psychic perception.

Those records really were classified.

And many of those records really are publicly available today in the CIA's archive.

Then, decades later, a man associated with that strange chapter of intelligence history becomes connected to an allegation that intelligence officials were interested in searching enormous DNA databases for descendants of human-looking non-human beings.

That allegation remains unverified.

But damn.

As stories go, it's a good one.

So Is the CIA Searching for “Alien Blood”?

Here's where everything stands.

There is currently no authenticated publicly available CIA document we've found establishing that the agency is searching Americans for alien blood or Rh-negative blood.

There is a recent public allegation involving intelligence personnel, consumer DNA databases and supposed extraterrestrial-human genetics.

There is independently documented history showing that U.S. intelligence and military organizations investigated remote viewing.

There is not currently publicly verified scientific evidence demonstrating alien-human hybrids.

And there is no established connection between this allegation and Rh-negative blood.

So for now we're putting this one in our favorite category:

WEIRD ENOUGH TO INVESTIGATE. NOT PROVEN ENOUGH TO BELIEVE.

If an actual government document appears identifying the alleged genetic marker, though?

Oh, we're absolutely reading that thing from page one. 

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Sources & Further Reading

VICE — “A Whistleblower Claims the CIA Is Searching DNA Sites for Alien-Human Hybrids”

CIA Reading Room — GRILL FLAME Remote Viewing Session XCI

CIA Reading Room — Remote Viewing Session CD-58

CIA Reading Room — Remote Viewing Session D-8