Cryptids & Dimensions: Q&A with Ronny LeBlanc

So before we get to the book, Ronny, can you tell us a little bit about yourself and how you became involved in the world of UFOs, Cryptids and the Paranormal?

At an early age I was drawn to Bigfoot and UFOs when I was reading about nature, science and animals. I had night terrors. I felt like I was being lifted off of my bed in the middle of the night. I had dreams of being taken into a beam of light into a UFO after watching my neighbor being sucked up into this beam as a Flying Saucer made its way down our street. Almost as if I was expecting it and I found myself looking out the door as my neighbor walked out of his house and into this light. The UFO then moved over to my direction. It was as if we both anticipated being picked up.

My experience with something cloaking in the forest near my house, stomping through the woods, moving the environment around it - which we discussed on an earlier episode with you years ago. It seemed like this obsession with all of this had a purpose and I just didn’t know what it was. I just thought I was weird and that these things couldn’t be real. 

Can you tell us about your Monsterland book series and why you decided to write them?

The pivotal moment was when my little sister died of cancer about 14 years ago. She was a teacher, a mother and she wanted to write a children’s book. Her death put my life into a perspective spotlight where I asked myself what was going to be my legacy? Why am I here on this planet? What is my purpose? Why was I so attached, attracted or intrigued when it came to UFOs, Monsterland and the paranormal. I read every book I could get my hands on after reading Mysterious Universe by Loren Coleman and because of this - a conversation came up with one of my wife’s friends that she had gone to school with. We were at school picking up for our kids and he was asking me about California and where I had visited. 

We got to discussing the Redwood Forest and I mentioned how it was so amazing and prehistoric you would expect to see a Bigfoot come running by. Once he stopped laughing we got into a discussion about their reality and how areas in most of the Pacific Northwest talk about them as a part of nature. This conversation would lead to synchronicity when his brother would discover a series of human-like footprints with a 6 foot stride in Leominster State Forest. He was convinced that these were bigfoot prints and I interviewed him - we went back and I casted one the prints and this led to the book forming and once news got out due to being on Finding Bigfoot television series and newspaper articles people came out of the woodwork and reached out to me. 

You also spent 4 seasons on Expedition Bigfoot. What was that experience like when it comes to investigating Bigfoot on Television?

The experience was great but eventually it became taxing to be gone for a month at a time with being married and having four kids. There was also the element of capturing evidence like the shadow in Season 3 in the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state and because it was captured while filming a TV show some would immediately expect it had to be faked or manufactured. It was the greatest piece of evidence that we were able to capture that highlights Sasquatch's ability to cloak or be invisible. This is Season 3, episode 3 - It was an immediate moment of satisfaction that I felt was my main reason to be on the show, was this capture. Out of all my talks and conferences and speaking engagements, it is the number one thing that everyone brings up and I explain it like this:

If you have ever made a shadow puppet as a kid with a flashlight, your hand and your bedroom wall. You can see that the hand is creating the shadow that appears on the wall. This was similar and demonstrated “cloaking”. As Dr. Mireya Mayor and I were walking along that river in the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state and our second time being in that research area, there was a 70 to 80 foot rock wall that closed on the other side of the river. We had something paralleling us the entire time and when we stopped, rocks would come tumbling down from the top directly across from us. I finally said out loud, “Hey, we know you are up there - show yourself already!! 

Moments later an avalanche of rocks dropped from above and into the river, Dr. Mayor and I swung around and standing next to one another shined our flashlights in the direction of the falling rocks. That’s when a sasquatch that we couldn’t see with the naked eye walked from right to left in the midst of our flashlight beams. It projected its image on the rock wall! What I saw was a shadow in the form of the Patterson-Gimlin film walk across as if it was unnoticed and I saw hair jetting out from the outline of the shadow. I knew at that moment there was a cloaked bigfoot in front of us! It was amazing. 

Let’s get to INTERDIMENSIONAL. Why did you decide to write the book?

I decided to write Interdimensional because everything I’d been experiencing and researching for years suddenly moved into the public conversation. When figures like Representative Anna Luna began openly referencing interdimensional concepts and David Grusch testified before Congress using terms like ‘trans-medium’ and ‘interdimensional,’ it felt like a cultural threshold had been crossed. The timing made it clear that this was the moment to put my framework into the world while that larger wave of disclosure and re-interpretation was cresting. I had been working on it for years and now I could finally see the finish line. 

You argue that UFOs, cryptids, and paranormal phenomena may be expressions of the same underlying intelligence. What first convinced you these weren’t separate mysteries?

What first convinced me these weren’t separate mysteries was the pattern of high strangeness that kept repeating across completely different categories: UFO encounters, Bigfoot reports, and paranormal experiences. Again and again I saw the same elements: sudden appearances and disappearances, altered states of awareness, missing time, symbolic or dream-like qualities, and a deep psychological impact on the witness. It became hard to treat these as unrelated when the structure of the experiences was so consistent.

What ultimately sealed it was watching how these phenomena interacted with consciousness itself rather than behaving like simple physical objects or biological creatures. My own experiences, combined with decades of cases and the work of researchers like Stan Gordon, Charles Fort, Jacques Vallée and John Keel, showed me that whatever we are engaging with responds to perception, expectation, and meaning. That realization reframed everything for me not as multiple mysteries, but as one underlying intelligence expressing itself through different forms, depending on how and where we encounter it.

What do you mean by “interdimensional,” and how is that fundamentally different from the extraterrestrial model most people are familiar with?

I use the term “Interdimensional” to describe a reality where non-human intelligence operates from layered or adjacent dimensions that coexist with ours, interacting through consciousness, symbolism, and perception rather than simple physical travel. This fundamentally differs from the extraterrestrial model because it reframes the phenomenon as a shared, adaptive presence within reality itself, not visitors arriving in machines from distant planets. I also believe what we call interdimensional is another way of interpreting it as spiritual.

What evidence do you point people to as support of the interdimensional model?

You can point to the consistent “high-strangeness” patterns across UFOs, cryptids, and paranormal cases. These abrupt appearances and disappearances, altered time perception, symbolic or mythic imagery, and the way encounters seem to interact with the witness’s awareness rather than behaving like physical machines, telepathic communication on both sides of Bigfoot and UFOs. A lot of times the observer's attention and intention is vocalized and that they want to have an experience, it then responds in various ways. 

There are over 290 citations in Interdimensional citing historical work by figures like Jacques Vallée and John Keel, modern UAP cases with transmedium and non-ballistic behavior, and consciousness-linked phenomena such as remote viewing, synchronicity, and the experiencer after-effects, all of which suggest an intelligence operating through layered reality rather than simple extraterrestrial travel.

Consciousness is central to your framework. How do you define consciousness in relation to non-human intelligence?

I define consciousness as a participatory field rather than a byproduct of the brain, Non-human intelligence appears to interact with that field directly, not merely through physical space. Consciousness is non-local and this “chi” flows through everything. Similar to what would be considered Animism where everything is conscious. Things like plasma and even water. What we know now is that consciousness is increasingly being treated as a fundamental process tied to information, perception, and reality itself rather than just a byproduct of neurons, with serious work coming out of neuroscience, quantum biology, and theoretical physics. 

Ronny speaking at Bigfoot Days in Estes Park, Colorado

Recent breakthroughs often cited in support of the interdimensional framework include mathematical models from neuroscience showing brain activity mapped onto high-dimensional geometric spaces (sometimes described as “11 dimensions”), and physics experiments where light and quantum states are encoded and measured across dozens of dimensions (such as 37-dimensional quantum systems), suggesting reality itself is structured far beyond three-dimensional space. 

Together, these developments don’t prove the interdimensional hypothesis outright, but they strongly support my argument in Interdimensional that consciousness and perception may be interfaces with a layered, higher-dimensional reality rather than confined to a strictly physical, extraterrestrial model.

You suggest the phenomenon is adaptive and responsive to perception. Does it change because of us, or are we simply perceiving different layers of fixed reality?

In Interdimensional, I argue that the phenomenon is both structured and responsive: there appears to be an underlying, stable architecture to reality, but what we encounter is shaped by perception, expectation, and consciousness itself. In other words, we may be accessing different layers of a fixed system, yet the way that system presents itself seems to adapt to the observer, culture, and psychological context of the experiencer. So it may not be “changing” in essence because of us, but it is revealing itself through forms that are filtered, mediated, and sometimes reshaped by human awareness.

Why do cryptids like Bigfoot belong in the same conversation as UFOs and UAPs?

In Interdimensional, I insert cryptids like Bigfoot in the same conversation as UFOs and UAPs because they display the same core anomalies that resist a purely biological or technological explanation: sudden appearances and disappearances, transitory physical traces, altered time perception, and a consistent psychological impact on witnesses. Across cases, these encounters often involve liminal environments, heightened states of awareness, and symbolic or archetypal elements, suggesting an intelligence that interacts through perception rather than behaving like an ordinary animal or mechanical craft. 

There are many Bigfoot encounters that overlap with classic high-strangeness markers like lights, orbs, missing time, synchronicities, and even telepathic or intuitive communication. These mirror patterns that are found in UFO experiencer accounts. 

When viewed through an interdimensional framework, cryptids are not misidentified animals but context-specific manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon that presents itself as craft, beings, or mythic forms depending on cultural expectation and perceptual filters. In that sense, Bigfoot belongs in the UAP conversation not as a separate mystery, but as another expression of a single, adaptive intelligence operating across layered reality.

How should we interpret past historical UFO events using this interdimensional framework?

Past UFO events should be read less as reports of physical spacecraft and more as encounters with a phenomenon expressing itself through the symbolic, psychological, and cultural language of the time. Whistleblower Dylan Borland sees a white orb while he was on base approach him, hover over and “manifest” into a triangular UFO or the New Jersey drones being seen along with orbs and some of those circular lights were seen turning into the drones! Weird stuff! Of the many historical cases—airships in the 1800s, religious apparitions in earlier centuries, and even mythic sky beings in ancient texts, they all share the same core features as modern UAP encounters: liminality, altered perception, very difficult to rationalize or explain and having a deeply personal meaning to witnesses, those that remember the events. Others will report missing time or remembering years later what they had endured. 

They likely represent different “interfaces” with the same underlying intelligence, filtered through human expectation and worldview. In this sense, history does not show a progression of better technology arriving from elsewhere, but a consistent phenomenon adapting its form to each era’s symbolic vocabulary, revealing that what we are engaging with may be a layered reality interacting with consciousness itself rather than visitors from another planet.

What do you make of narratives in the UFO/UAP realm when it comes to whistleblowers and government programs and all that?

They are only giving us a sliver of the picture. The whistleblower accounts and government narratives are not simple confirmations of hidden technology, but they are fragmented glimpses of a phenomenon that doesn’t behave like conventional craft or hardware, which is why so many insiders struggle to describe what they actually encountered. I believe that they are still trying to understand what they are. 

Testimonies like Dylan Borland witnessing a white sphere morph into a triangular object, while on base or Jake Barber, helicopter pilot associated with UFO crash retrievals describing overwhelming emotion and a near-spiritual sense of love during the egg-shaped recovery operations. They mirror the same consciousness-linked effects reported by civilian experiencers for decades, suggesting the phenomenon is not merely material, but interactive, perceptual, and psychologically transformative. 

In the book I point to patterns in historical military encounters, classified UAP studies, and researchers like Jacques Vallée, where objects violate physical laws, appear responsive to observers, and generate altered states of awareness, reinforcing the idea that governments may be studying something real but fundamentally mischaracterized when forced into a purely extraterrestrial or technological framework. Rather than exposing a secret space program alone, these narratives may reveal an ongoing struggle to understand an intelligence that operates across layers of reality, blurring the line between physics, consciousness, and human meaning. And these beings and craft seem to be able to bend our laws of physics as well as manipulate space time. 

If this is a layered reality, what is the biggest psychological or cultural barrier preventing people from accepting that idea?

I believe that the deepest barrier is not skepticism itself but the fear of what it would mean to dissolve the boundary between mind and world, subject and object. We are heading back to Spirit Science. We have separated them but we need to see them together to understand the bigger picture. Our culture is built on the assumption that reality is external, fixed, and mechanistic, so acknowledging a layered universe in which consciousness participates in shaping experience threatens science, religion, authority, and even personal identity at once. 

What people resist is not just a new explanation for UFOs or cryptids, but the unsettling implication that meaning, perception, and intelligence may be woven into reality itself requiring a fundamental redefinition of what it means to be human in a universe that is not passive, but responsive and potentially a new definition of reality.

Were there any moments when you doubted the conclusions or theories in your own writing?

Yes, there were moments throughout the book when I questioned whether I was pushing the framework too far or seeing patterns where none existed. But each time I stepped back, the convergence kept reappearing across history, witness accounts, consciousness research, and my own experiences, all pointing to the same structural logic beneath the surface. The doubt ultimately strengthened the book, because it forced me to test the ideas rigorously rather than accept them on belief alone. You will see how the ending comes full circle with the adventure. Someone is listening and responding. 

Do you think there’s any danger in misinterpreting these experiences as interdimensional both even if they are or aren’t?

Yes, there is a real danger if the interdimensional framework is treated as a belief system rather than a working model. If people adopt it too rigidly, it can lead to spiritual bypassing, myth-making, or the temptation to explain away every unknown as proof of hidden intelligence, which ultimately weakens serious inquiry. I’m careful in Interdimensional to present the idea as an interpretive lens, not a final answer.

There is also a risk on the other side that if these experiences are dismissed outright because they don’t fit a conventional extraterrestrial or materialist model, we may be ignoring the very dimensions of reality that could help us understand them more fully. Misinterpretation can either inflate the phenomenon into dogma or reduce it into something purely mechanical that it clearly is not. The responsibility is to hold the mystery with discipline, humility, and curiosity, allowing evidence and experience to guide the framework rather than forcing the experiences to conform to it.

If readers take only one idea from Interdimensional, what should it be?

If readers take only one idea from my new book Interdimensional, it should be that reality is not as fixed, external, or mechanistic as we have been taught to believe. The phenomena we label as UFOs, cryptids, and paranormal events are not isolated anomalies, but expressions of a deeper, structured intelligence that appears to operate through layers of reality and through consciousness itself. In this view, we are not simply observers of a strange universe, we are integral participants in it, and our perception, meaning-making, and awareness are part of how that reality is encountered.

This reframing challenges both the extraterrestrial model and strict materialism by suggesting that what we are engaging with is not something “out there” arriving from another planet, but something already embedded within the architecture of existence.

The recurring patterns of symbolism, transformation, synchronicity, and psychological impact across encounters point toward an interactive system that reveals itself differently depending on culture, expectation, and state of consciousness. 

What appears as a craft, a being, a cryptid, or a mythic figure may be less about form and more about interface—how an underlying intelligence becomes visible to the human mind.

When and where can we find the book?

You can grab a personalized and signed copy by me through my website www.RonnyLeBlanc.com (which you are on :) or you can get a print and kindle copy from Amazon.com as well as Barnes and Noble.

I have two big events coming up - the first will be in Washington DC on 1/31 at the Lost Origins Gallery with Brett and Jill from the A Flash of Beauty documentaries. 

They will be screening A Flash of Beauty: Paranormal Bigfoot on Friday night 1/30 and the following night on Saturday I will be doing a talk, Q&A and book Interdimensional book signing starting at 7pm.  I will share my London event in another blog post (stay tuned!)

Here is the link for both Bigfoot related events: 

1/30: A Flash of Beauty: Paranormal Bigfoot Washington, DC Screening: https://shorturl.at/TSkMb

1/31: Ronny LeBlanc Book Signing and Presentation in Washington, DC: https://shorturl.at/b0Urd