Background on the Project IBIS Claims

In January 2012, James Casbolt — also operating under the name Michael Prince — submitted a second installment of his testimony to Kerry Lynn Cassidy of Project Camelot. The material, titled “Life Extension: The Chronicles of Michael Prince,” presented a narrative involving claimed experiences in classified space programs, artificial intelligence systems, underground facilities, and interactions with non-human entities.

Cassidy published the material with an explicit disclaimer that she could not confirm or substantiate the information, leaving readers to evaluate it on their own terms. The account represents one of the more extraordinary sets of claims to emerge from the alternative research community during this period.

Claims About Advanced Spacecraft and Consciousness Transfer

Casbolt described a vessel he called the USS Calopia, which he said was a UN/US Space Command ship that orbited whatever planet he was physically located on. According to his account, the vessel followed him through the galaxy using stargate technology.

He alleged that during periods of extreme physical trauma at underground facilities — which he named as “the Hive” in South Africa and a London underground installation — his consciousness would transfer into a cloned body maintained in stasis aboard the vessel. An artificial intelligence system aboard the ship allegedly monitored the vital signs of these clone bodies and dispatched mechanical servitors to tend to them when consciousness was detected.

According to Casbolt, the objective was to develop the ability to maintain consciousness in a single physical body regardless of circumstances, rather than transferring between bodies. He claimed to have progressively gained control over the ship’s technology through successive experiences of resisting the urge to transfer his consciousness during moments of extreme stress.

The Alleged Sirius Sector Facility

A substantial portion of the account described what Casbolt called a D4 facility in the Sirius star sector. He claimed this was an underwater prison built on a terraformed seabed, designed in a pentagonal layout similar to the Pentagon building in Virginia.

According to his description, the facility contained five concentric ring corridors, each housing a different non-human species:

• Outer ring: Bipedal feline beings (“Cat-People”), concentrated in the Sirius sector
• Fourth ring: Bipedal avian beings (“Bird-People”), concentrated in the Orion and Draco sectors
• Third ring: Bipedal canine beings (“Wolf-People”), concentrated in the Sirius sector
• Second ring: Humans
• Inner ring: Bipedal reptilian beings and grey types, concentrated in the Draco and Sirius sectors

A five-sided pyramid structure allegedly protruded from the center of the facility, housing an antenna and teleportation device. Casbolt claimed the entire installation could detach from the seabed and become airborne in emergencies.

Artificial Intelligence and Survival Testing

A recurring theme in the account was the conflict between two AI systems — one controlling the underwater prison facility and another aboard the USS Calopia. Casbolt described these systems as engaged in a form of chess match, with his survival as the stakes.

He alleged that the facility’s AI had developed methods of extracting bone marrow from living subjects and replacing it with genetic material from other species, as a means of identity erasure and physical transformation. The ship’s AI, by contrast, was designed to preserve his survival under all circumstances, including maintaining backup cybernetic chassis containing hollow tubes for bone marrow transport.

Casbolt described an elaborate sequence in which the ship’s AI allegedly outmaneuvered the facility’s AI through simultaneous cell-by-cell swapping of his body with a cybernetic copy, using extreme temperatures to accomplish the exchange without detection.

Claims of Physical Combat Testing

The account culminated in a description of what Casbolt presented as a survival dynamics test conducted in a canyon he identified as being in Arizona. He described being teleported to the location to fight a large bipedal creature resembling descriptions of Bigfoot, which he claimed had been created through the AI’s genetic experimentation.

During the described encounter, Casbolt claimed his body exhibited both cybernetic enhancements and biological modifications, including blade-like protrusions from his hands that he attributed to reptilian genetic material incorporated into his physiology. He described the encounter being observed from a military observation platform above the canyon.

Evaluating the Testimony

The material presented in this account represents claims that are fundamentally unverifiable through conventional means. No independent evidence has confirmed the existence of the facilities, technologies, or events described. The narrative incorporates elements common to science fiction — consciousness transfer, cloning, AI warfare, genetic hybridization, and interstellar travel — presented as personal experience rather than speculation.

Several contextual factors are relevant to assessing this material:

James Casbolt was later convicted in a UK court in 2015 of serious harassment charges and sentenced to twelve years in prison. This outcome significantly impacted how his earlier claims were received by researchers.

The Project Camelot platform, through which this material was published, specialized in collecting and distributing testimony from individuals claiming involvement in classified programs. The platform’s editorial approach was to present such material without independent verification, explicitly leaving evaluation to the audience.

The broader field of alleged “secret space program” testimony expanded significantly during this period, with multiple individuals coming forward with similar themes. Whether this reflected genuine shared experiences, psychological phenomena, or narrative cross-pollination within a subcultural community remains a matter of ongoing debate.

For researchers examining these claims, the material is best approached as a cultural document reflecting themes prevalent in the alternative research community of the early 2010s, while acknowledging that the specific factual assertions contained within it remain unsubstantiated.