Orb Skywatch
Text 760.332.8899 to book your Skywatch.An evening beneath the Joshua Tree sky devoted to observation, mystery, and conscious contact
The night sky has always been one of humanity’s great thresholds.
It invites us to look beyond the immediate world, widen our perception, and reconsider what may exist outside the limits of ordinary explanation.
Orb Skywatch is a guided evening in the high desert focused on attentive observation, UAP phenomena, and the possibility that consciousness itself may play a role in how we encounter the unknown.
Enter the Field
This is not simply a stargazing event.
It is an invitation to become more perceptive.
Together, we slow down, orient to the sky, learn to recognize familiar aerial phenomena, and create the conditions for sustained, open-ended observation.
We may work with meditation, intention, focused awareness, and simple contact practices while remaining grounded in discernment and the realities of the environment around us.
What We Explore
During the evening, we may explore:
How to orient to the night sky and identify common objects
The difference between satellites, aircraft, stars, planets, and less easily explained phenomena
Some history and lore on UAP contact
The relationship between attention, intention, and perception
Consciousness-based approaches to contact
Personal and collective experiences of anomalous light phenomena
How to remain open without abandoning discernment
Each gathering is different because the sky, the group, and the conditions are always changing.
A Multidimensional Approach to the Night Sky
Multidimensionality begins with the recognition that reality may be more layered, participatory, and intelligent than we commonly assume.
A skywatch becomes more than an attempt to see something anomalous. It becomes a practice in sustained awareness.
What becomes visible when the mind grows quieter?
How do expectation, emotion, attention, and group coherence shape what we notice?
These questions remain open. The skywatch is a space for direct experience rather than premature conclusions.
What You May Experience
Some evenings are quiet and contemplative.
Others may include unusual lights, flashes, movements, apparent responses, synchronicities, or phenomena that resist immediate identification.
No sighting or contact experience can be guaranteed.
Part of the practice is learning to distinguish genuine mystery from assumption, projection, and ordinary activity in the sky.
The value of the evening is not measured solely by whether something extraordinary appears. It is also found in the quality of attention we bring, the questions that emerge, and the expanded sense of reality we carry home.
Your Guide
I’m Alan Scheurman, a consciousness researcher, teacher, musician, writer, and longtime practitioner within Amazonian medicine traditions.
For nearly twenty years, my work has explored the meeting point of Indigenous cosmologies, anomalous experience, dreamwork, synchronicity, ancestral wisdom, ceremonial practice, and the development of expanded perception.
My approach to UAP and contact phenomena is open but grounded. I do not ask anyone to adopt a particular belief. I create a space where direct experience, careful observation, intuition, and discernment can exist together.
The Experience
Skywatches take place in the high desert near Joshua Tree and Yucca Valley.
A typical evening includes:
Arrival and orientation
Introduction to the landscape and night sky
Grounding and focused-attention practice
Guided sky observation
Optional contact meditation
Group reflection and integration
The experience generally lasts between one and two hours.
Private sessions, small groups, and occasional public gatherings are available.
What to Bring
Please bring:
Warm layers
Closed-toe shoes
Water
A camping chair or blanket
Binoculars, if you have them
A red-light flashlight, if available
Curiosity without expectation
Desert temperatures can change quickly after sunset, even during warmer months.
Who This Is For
Orb Skywatch is for:
People curious about UAP and contact
Experiencers seeking a grounded setting
Stargazers interested in the mysteries of the night sky
Creatives, mystics, and researchers exploring consciousness
Groups looking for an unusual and meaningful desert experience
Anyone willing to approach the unknown with openness and discernment
No prior experience is required.
A Note on Contact
The word contact can carry many meanings.
For some, it suggests the observation of unidentified objects or lights. For others, it includes intuition, dreams, synchronicities, altered states, telepathic communication, or the feeling of entering into relationship with a non human intelligence.
This experience does not define the source of these phenomena for you.
Instead, it offers a framework for engaging the mystery carefully, consciously, and without surrendering your own judgment.
Book an Orb Skywatch
Join me beneath the desert sky for an evening of attentive observation and direct engagement with one of the great mysteries of our time.
Private bookings and small-group experiences are available
Text Alan at 760.332.8899
or fill out the form below
Disclosure Beyond the Craft
For much of the modern era, the UAP question has been imagined through the language of nuts and bolts vehicles: flying saucers, spacecraft, pilots, and visitors arriving from somewhere else.
Yet many of the phenomena now entering public discussion do not appear entirely mechanical. Orb, round, and spherical forms represent the largest category in AARO’s published UAP morphology data, while military personnel and civilian experiencers have repeatedly described luminous objects that hover, transform, divide, disappear, and appear to respond to human attention.
In June 2026, former Air Force intelligence officer and UAP whistleblower David Grusch publicly described what he claimed was a continuum of nonhuman life, extending from corporeal beings to what he called “sentient plasma life.” Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna often describes much of the phenomena as interdimensional.
Experiencer and author Chris Bledsoe has similarly described recurring luminous orbs that appear in connection with prayer, intention, and direct interaction. His experiences have attracted interest from people associated with government, intelligence, and aerospace communities.
The High Desert Has Been Looking Up for a Long Time
The Joshua Tree region is not a recent arrival to the mystery of UAP and contact. The wider Morongo Basin holds one of the foundational chapters in the history of the modern UFO movement.
Just north of Joshua Tree, the immense granite formation known as Giant Rock became home to aviator, inventor, and early contactee George Van Tassel. After settling there in the late 1940s, Van Tassel began hosting meditation gatherings beneath the rock and claimed that, in 1953, he encountered an extraterrestrial visitor who invited him aboard a spacecraft. His accounts remain unverified, but what followed is a documented part of American cultural history.
Beginning in the 1950s, Giant Rock became the site of the annual Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention. People arrived across the open desert by car, bus, and small aircraft to hear contactees, researchers, inventors, and spiritual thinkers speak about flying saucers, extraterrestrial intelligence, advanced technology, and humanity’s place within a larger cosmos. At its height, the gathering reportedly drew as many as 11,000 people, making it one of the largest early UFO conventions in the world.
A few miles away stands the most enduring physical expression of Van Tassel’s vision: the Integratron. The all-wood domed structure was designed as an electrostatic generator for rejuvenation and time travel. Van Tassel said its design combined ideas drawn from Nikola Tesla, the biblical Tabernacle of Moses, and telepathic instructions received from extraterrestrial intelligence. Although the machine was never completed according to his original plans, the structure remains active today as an acoustically resonant gathering place.
These events helped establish the high desert as a meeting ground for people exploring the boundaries between technology, consciousness, spirituality, and contact. The landscape has continued to attract experiencers, artists, mystics, researchers, and skywatchers who sense that something about the desert invites a wider field of perception.
This history does not prove that every unusual light is extraordinary, or that every account should be accepted without question. It does, however, place our skywatch within a much longer tradition of inquiry. When we gather beneath the Joshua Tree sky, we are entering a landscape where people have been looking upward, asking difficult questions, and attempting to establish a relationship with the unknown for generations.
Orb Skywatch continues that inquiry through careful observation, expanded awareness, and a willingness to remain present at the threshold between what we can identify and what has yet to be understood.
