BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - John Robert Demos says in a Jan. 11 federal lawsuit filed in Birmingham that he is being held in prison on the orders of a top secret U.S. military court until he agrees, among other things, to reveal the blueprints and dynamics of extra-terrestrial spacecraft.

Demos, 60, a long-time inmate at a state of Washington prison, and his far out claims aren't new to judges in Birmingham - or many other judges around the nation.

"Demos is a long standing and well-known recreational filer of frivolous legal actions," U.S. District Court Judge Karon O. Bowdre, of Birmingham, stated in an order dismissing the lawsuit this week.

Besides being frivolous, Bowdre stated that Demos is in Washington State and out of her jurisdiction.

According to the department of corrections in Washington State Demos is serving a sentence for first degree attempted rape, first degree burglary and a parole violation. He is set to be released Oct. 29, 2014.

Demos acknowledges in court filings that he has filed "100s" of lawsuits. He has filed 34 lawsuits or legal actions in federal courts around the nation so far this month and more than 500 since the late 1980s, according to online federal court records.

Demos has filed lawsuits against U.S. Presidents, the Secretaries of Defense, the chairman of Mars candies, and one in which he sued Coca Cola to get access to their secret recipe for Coke. It doesn't appear he's ever won on such a claim.

By the early 1980s his court filings in Washington State had already gained notoriety.

The Spokesman-Review on March 13, 1983, in a story about prisoners filing lawsuits and other legal actions, called Demos "the most prolific writ-writer in the state of Washington's corrections system." In the approximately nine years before that story, Demos had filed about 600 lawsuits on his behalf or on behalf of other prisoners, the Spokesman-Review story stated.

By the early 1990s Demos had already made a name for himself in courts outside Washington state - including at the nation's highest court.

The U.S. Supreme Court in 1991 had had so many petitions from Demos seeking in forma pauperis status_ relief from filing fees _ to challenge lower court rulings on his cases that justices denied him the ability to proceed informa pauperis "in all future petitions for extraordinary relief " - except under strict conditions.

That apparently didn't stop him from trying. Two years later the U.S. Supreme Court noted in another order that Demos had filed another 14 petitions to them since its previous order.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2002 said his filings "amount to a pattern of malicious, abusive, and frivolous litigation."

In responding to Demos' appeal in a case in which he contended the creation of the geography of Cimarron County, Okla., which borders four states, somehow violated Article IV of the U.S. Constitution, the 10th Circuit stated Mr. Demos "has no absolute, unconditional right of access to the courts and no constitutional right of access to prosecute frivolous or malicious actions."

In a 2008 case filed in Birmingham federal court to seek his release from prison Demos, who is African American, stated he renounced any allegiance to the United States, "as the U.S. Constitution, orders, statutes, and regulations were forced upon me without my consent and that the jurisdiction of the U.S. over my person is based on 'slavery.'"

U.S. District Court Judge David Proctor, of Birmingham, stated that the case was due to be dismissed "because it fails to state a claim and is frivolous under The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995."