Veteran US Marine fears he’ll end up dead ‘like Jeffrey Epstein after being warned by ‘men in black’ not to speak about UFO he claims he saw during Sumatran earthquake humanitarian mission in 2009′
A US Navy veteran who claimed his unit saw a classified military UFO in 2009 has said he now fears for his life because he believes dark forces are trying to silence him.
Former gunman Michael Herrera, 33, has said he doesn’t want to end up like disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein – who he suggests was murdered, despite his August 2019 death being ruled a suicide.
Last month, Denver-born Herrera sensationally claimed that while serving in Indonesia in 2009, his six-man unit encountered a flying saucer loaded with weapons.
Herrera was then a 20-year-old gunman sent on a navy humanitarian mission during the 2009 Sumatra earthquake and tsunami that devastated the region.
He told the Mail that while guarding a relief airborne landing outside the town of Padang in October of that year, his six-man unit encountered a floating octagonal craft that was apparently being used by clandestine US forces.
He claims that his six-man unit encountered a hovering octagonal craft and that they were threatened at gunpoint by unmarked US forces at the scene. A rendering of the scene is above
Herrera claims that an Air Force lieutenant colonel told him, “You must not talk about what happened. You go to jail, or you die’
Herrera spoke at length to podcaster Shawn Ryan and said he fears he will one day be killed by the sinister forces he believes are trying to cover up UFO secrets.
“I saw something move and turn. It changed color from a very light matte gray to a very dark matte black,” he said. “It stuck out like a sore thumb.”
They were then threatened at gunpoint by unmarked US troops on the scene who told him not to reveal his sighting of the “flying saucer” to anyone, according to Herrera, and his camera was seized by some mysterious “men in black.”
Herrera, 33, said he doesn’t want to suffer the same fate as Jeffrey Epstein – who he suggests was murdered, recorded as a suicide
Now the former Marine claims the threat lingers over him — quite literally, as he says black helicopters circle his Denver home.
People who say they’ve had alien encounters often complain about being stalked by black helicopters — a common trope that skeptics argue is just an urban myth.
In an extended conversation with podcaster Shawn Ryan, he said he fears he will one day be killed by the sinister forces he believes are trying to hide the Pentagon’s UFO secrets.
“I don’t feel like hurting myself…everyone is joking that Epstein didn’t kill himself…so the same goes here,” Herrera said.
“I have no reason to hurt myself, so if anything happens, it’s not mine.”
“I’ve had countless encounters with goddamn helicopters hovering over my house,” he added. “They also hovered over my father’s house.
“They get so low, where they rattle against the walls [and] scare the animals we have.
‘[My dad’s] dogs went crazy at that point and he was worried because he was home and he acted like I’d never heard anything like it before.”
Herrera added that he believes other UFO whistleblowers have been subjected to similar intimidation tactics.
Former Marine Michael Herrera tells DailyMail.com that he saw a UFO being loaded with weapons in 2009 while serving in Indonesia. He was only 20 at the time
“There’s just kind of a hysterical factor in how much the fuck they spend on this to try and intimidate me or anybody,” he said.
Herrera says he was encouraged to break his 14-year silence by new UFO whistleblower protection and in April testified under oath about his wild story
“There are some elected officials, and even some government officials who I know are going through the same thing because they told me about it in person.”
Herrera’s claim about seeing the UFO in Indonesia came after 14 years of silence.
Empowered by the new protection of UFO whistleblowers, he testified under oath before the government’s UFO investigation team, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), and a Senate committee in April.
The veteran provided his spotless four-year record and texted about the incident to an alleged co-witness – who refused to talk, saying it was “not worth my life or endangering my family.”
Edge aspects of his account were verified by DailyMail.com using military sources. But Herrera, 33, has no documentation or photos of the incident itself.