A UFO expert was found dead in Poland after reportedly vomiting black liquid, and his investigations into UFOs and government cover-ups have become part of the conversation surrounding his odd death.
The 39-year-old conspiracy theorist, Max Spiers, had left his mother a haunting text message just days before he died, U.K. publication The Sun reported.
“Your boy’s in trouble. If anything happens to me, investigate,” Spiers wrote in the text message, according to The Sun.
He was said to have died from natural causes, but his mother, Vanessa Bates, and others believe his death warrants a proper investigation.
Before he died, Spiers had traveled to Poland to speak at a conference about conspiracy theories and UFOs. Bates said he was “staying with a woman who he had not known for long and she told me how she found him dead on the sofa,” according to The Sun.
Friends of Spiers claimed he “vomited a black liquid” when he died in the Warsaw apartment.
Miles Johnson, a friend of Spiers, told Project Camelot, which documents conspiracies and whistleblowers, that “a person has died here and I don’t think it’s good enough [that] somebody who just took normal medication should end up vomiting, spewing black liquid, whatever it was. And then shortly after that, whatever length of time it was, died.”
Spiers worked with Bases Project, a group that focuses on conspiracy theories, and was working alongside science fiction writer Madlen Namro, U.K publication the Express reported.
Bates believes her son's work might have led to his untimely death.
“He was making a name for himself in the world of conspiracy theorists and had been invited to speak at a conference in Poland in July. … I think Max had been digging in some dark places and I fear that somebody wanted him dead,” Bates said, according to the Sun.
Before Spiers’ death, he was investigating the lives of some very well-known people in politics, business and entertainment, The Sun noted.
The unexplained details of Spiers’ death, and the seeming lack of probing on the part of authorities, has left many of his followers convinced that government agents are responsible for his death.
“The entire circumstances are suspicious and I urge everyone to encourage the release of details about what really happened and call for an autopsy,” a blogger wrote on Project Camelot’s website.
Another blogger, Craig Hewlett, wrote: “If it wasn’t true what he talks about then why would they kill him? Healthy people don’t just get sick and die, they get poisoned.”
The theorist had been living in the United States for a few years before he returned to the U.K. to stay with his mother before ultimately traveling to Poland.
Spiers was buried in a Canterbury cemetery a week after his death.
“He has a brother, Josh, and sister, Becky, who are both devastated, as are his two boys,” Bates said, according to The Sun.
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