About
Zach Skrede
Air Force veteran · Consciousness researcher · Founder
The teacher — and quiet steward — behind Central Wisconsin CE-5. Grounded, plainspoken, and genuinely glad you're curious.
How he got here
A grounded path to a vast question
Zach Skrede is a U.S. Air Force veteran — his first assignment was transient alert and crash recovery at Aviano, Italy — and a consciousness researcher. His own transformative experiences pulled him toward a bigger question — what happens when we meet the sky with calm intention rather than fear?
He went looking for grounded answers, and trained at the renowned Monroe Institute, the Virginia research center known for its decades of work on consciousness and expanded states of awareness. In 2022 he brought that practice home and founded Central Wisconsin CE-5.
Since then he has guided hundreds of people through CE-5 protocols, group-coherence exercises, and skywatch events in the fields of central Wisconsin — keeping the work deliberately practical, even as it reaches toward the profound.
Through education, personal testimony, and hands-on experience under the stars, he encourages others to explore the connection between consciousness, a wider multidimensional reality, and humanity's place in the greater cosmos. No dogma, no hard sell — just an open invitation to come look up.
How Zach works
An approach you can trust
Grounded, not gullible
Zach treats contact as a discipline of attention and coherence, not an article of faith. Curiosity and healthy skepticism are both welcome at the fire.
Peace as the starting point
The whole practice begins from calm, positive intent. We don't engage with fear, and no one is ever pressured toward a particular belief.
Experience over doctrine
There's no creed to sign. Zach teaches by doing — you have your own direct experience under the sky, and you decide what it means.
The community
Not a brand. A circle.
Central Wisconsin CE-5 isn't a business or a personality. It's a growing circle of the curious and the open who gather to practice contact together.
Zach is the teacher and the steward — but the heart of it is everyone who shows up, unfolds a chair in the dark, and watches the sky. We meet in the central wisconsindark-sky country, far enough from the city's glow that the Milky Way still arches overhead.
Yes, that's a UFO abducting a stegosaurus
On the hat
Yes, it's real foil — and yes, it's on purpose. Zach wears it to beat the skeptics to their own punchline and reclaim the “tinfoil hat” as a badge instead of an insult. Mostly, though, he just thinks it's funny. If you can't laugh about all this, you're probably taking it too seriously.
Come look up with us
The best way to understand any of this is to stand in a field and try it. Join a skywatch, or just say hello.