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"NO," Senator Mike Rounds told me. On Mirador, my latest article, an opening challenge to claims that gatekeeper-assassins roam the land, hunting UFO "Legacy Program" leakers.
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ALIEN PHOTOS AND YANKEE BLUE
In July 2026, I submitted a number of written questions to former AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick, as part of my research for an article that I haven't published yet.
One of my questions (#1) pertained to photos that a number of people claim to have ting recovered non-human vehicles and/or bodies. As an example, I quoted this statement by David Grusch: "I did get access to crash retrieval photos and everything. So I’ve seen the recovered vehicles and everything...I got a small smattering, a sample of that, of ones that have landed or crashed on the surface of the Earth." (Fox News Big Weekend Show, June 13, 2026) The core of my question #1 was: "Let us assume for the sake of discussion that at least some of those individuals, while holding security clearances and in some cases while serving as active intelligence officers, did indeed view in classified settings images that they sincerely believe depicted craft of nonhuman origin and/or bodies of nonhuman beings. I have to wonder: What did they see?"
I also asked Kirkpatrick, as Question #2, if he could offer any specifics that might help those filing FOIAs to locate government records pertaining to the "Yankee Blue" fake-alien enterprise that he and former AARO Deputy Director Tim Phillips said they had discovered. Kirkpatrick has spoken of the Yankee Blue matter in the Wall Street Journal in mid-2025, and in an April 2026 speech. But the matter was kept out of AARO's March 2024 Volume I historical report, ostensibly to allow the Air Force inspector general to fully investigate the matter, and the volume 2 historical report is two years overdue. The Pentagon has mysteriously failed to locate records documenting Yankee Blue in response to FOIA requests.
Kirkpatrick provided on-the-record answers in an email dated July 19, 2026. Note that this was about three months before the publication of the book "Out of the Shadows" by former UAP Task Force Director @jaystratton. The book includes Stratton's account of a briefing he gave to Kirkpatrick in 2020 at USSPACECOM (on page 200). Because Kirkpatrick discusses the same meeting, and also answered my question about Yankee Blue records, and because my intended article is not yet ready for publication, I've decided to publish Kirkpatrick's responses now as additional data points for those studying and debating the relevant histories.
Sean Kirkpatrick's answers to my Questions #1 and #2 appear verbatim below. I offer no comments of my own here; when I transmit someone's answers that does not mean that I endorse them. When I want to express an opinion on something, I will do so explicitly.
In the meantime, Kirkpatrick's answers are data points. Compare and contrast them with information from other sources. If you have pertinent comments on his specific answers or the underlying subjects (those being purported photos of in-custody nonhuman craft or bodies, the Kirkpatrick-Stratton encounter at USSPACECOM, and Yankee Blue), state your observations in a straightforward manner, or make your arguments on the merits. Those who instead post here ad hominem attacks on Kirkpatrick, Stratton, Phillips, David Grusch, or others, will probably be blocked. This is not a thread about Skinwalker Ranch, or briefings and claims associated therewith.
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ANSWERS BY SEAN KIRKPATRICK (July 19, 2026):
1. Jay Stratton briefed me while I was at USSPACECOM. I’d known him before. He showed me everything he had and what he had gathered at the time was nothing more than the collection of videos and frames pulled from the videos that have already been released to the public. He had briefed me to get my review of their analysis, and to be a reviewer of his first task force report [the UAP Task Force]. The analysis needed a lot of work and the report, when provided, was filled with unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, most of which were written by Grusch who worked with Stratton at the time. The report had to be massively corrected/rewritten (others did that, not me, I just provided edits and comments).
As for pictures of crafts or bodies, he had none to share. Frankly, neither did anyone else, just stories. What I saw from Yankee Blue showed a real photograph on what looked to be a saucer shape with someone in a lab coat standing over it. Since it was a real photograph, people would accept it for what they see in it. If you look at it and are told that’s an alien craft, you’d probably believe it at first review. The mind sees what it wants to believe. It’s not until you learn that it is a photograph of the heat shield of the lunar lander upside down that your mind sees the truth.
If Grusch (or anyone else) saw these alleged pictures, then where are they? Who showed them to him? Where did he see them? What organization? When? I suspect his answer will be “it’s classified and I can’t share it.” BS. He had and still has an opportunity to share with the Director AARO who is cleared and has authorities to view. No such information has been shared by him or anyone.
2. I was present with the Secretary of the Air Force when he directed his staff to take action [regarding Yankee Blue]. Other than the ensuing IG review I do not know what form that action took. It was also nearing the change in administration and subsequently the change in AF [Air Force] leadership, and there was a lot lost in translation.
In July 2026, I submitted a number of written questions to former AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick, as part of my research for an article that I haven't published yet.
One of my questions (#1) pertained to photos that a number of people claim to have ting recovered non-human vehicles and/or bodies. As an example, I quoted this statement by David Grusch: "I did get access to crash retrieval photos and everything. So I’ve seen the recovered vehicles and everything...I got a small smattering, a sample of that, of ones that have landed or crashed on the surface of the Earth." (Fox News Big Weekend Show, June 13, 2026) The core of my question #1 was: "Let us assume for the sake of discussion that at least some of those individuals, while holding security clearances and in some cases while serving as active intelligence officers, did indeed view in classified settings images that they sincerely believe depicted craft of nonhuman origin and/or bodies of nonhuman beings. I have to wonder: What did they see?"
I also asked Kirkpatrick, as Question #2, if he could offer any specifics that might help those filing FOIAs to locate government records pertaining to the "Yankee Blue" fake-alien enterprise that he and former AARO Deputy Director Tim Phillips said they had discovered. Kirkpatrick has spoken of the Yankee Blue matter in the Wall Street Journal in mid-2025, and in an April 2026 speech. But the matter was kept out of AARO's March 2024 Volume I historical report, ostensibly to allow the Air Force inspector general to fully investigate the matter, and the volume 2 historical report is two years overdue. The Pentagon has mysteriously failed to locate records documenting Yankee Blue in response to FOIA requests.
Kirkpatrick provided on-the-record answers in an email dated July 19, 2026. Note that this was about three months before the publication of the book "Out of the Shadows" by former UAP Task Force Director @jaystratton. The book includes Stratton's account of a briefing he gave to Kirkpatrick in 2020 at USSPACECOM (on page 200). Because Kirkpatrick discusses the same meeting, and also answered my question about Yankee Blue records, and because my intended article is not yet ready for publication, I've decided to publish Kirkpatrick's responses now as additional data points for those studying and debating the relevant histories.
Sean Kirkpatrick's answers to my Questions #1 and #2 appear verbatim below. I offer no comments of my own here; when I transmit someone's answers that does not mean that I endorse them. When I want to express an opinion on something, I will do so explicitly.
In the meantime, Kirkpatrick's answers are data points. Compare and contrast them with information from other sources. If you have pertinent comments on his specific answers or the underlying subjects (those being purported photos of in-custody nonhuman craft or bodies, the Kirkpatrick-Stratton encounter at USSPACECOM, and Yankee Blue), state your observations in a straightforward manner, or make your arguments on the merits. Those who instead post here ad hominem attacks on Kirkpatrick, Stratton, Phillips, David Grusch, or others, will probably be blocked. This is not a thread about Skinwalker Ranch, or briefings and claims associated therewith.
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ANSWERS BY SEAN KIRKPATRICK (July 19, 2026):
1. Jay Stratton briefed me while I was at USSPACECOM. I’d known him before. He showed me everything he had and what he had gathered at the time was nothing more than the collection of videos and frames pulled from the videos that have already been released to the public. He had briefed me to get my review of their analysis, and to be a reviewer of his first task force report [the UAP Task Force]. The analysis needed a lot of work and the report, when provided, was filled with unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, most of which were written by Grusch who worked with Stratton at the time. The report had to be massively corrected/rewritten (others did that, not me, I just provided edits and comments).
As for pictures of crafts or bodies, he had none to share. Frankly, neither did anyone else, just stories. What I saw from Yankee Blue showed a real photograph on what looked to be a saucer shape with someone in a lab coat standing over it. Since it was a real photograph, people would accept it for what they see in it. If you look at it and are told that’s an alien craft, you’d probably believe it at first review. The mind sees what it wants to believe. It’s not until you learn that it is a photograph of the heat shield of the lunar lander upside down that your mind sees the truth.
If Grusch (or anyone else) saw these alleged pictures, then where are they? Who showed them to him? Where did he see them? What organization? When? I suspect his answer will be “it’s classified and I can’t share it.” BS. He had and still has an opportunity to share with the Director AARO who is cleared and has authorities to view. No such information has been shared by him or anyone.
2. I was present with the Secretary of the Air Force when he directed his staff to take action [regarding Yankee Blue]. Other than the ensuing IG review I do not know what form that action took. It was also nearing the change in administration and subsequently the change in AF [Air Force] leadership, and there was a lot lost in translation.
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IF THERE WERE A "LEGACY PROGRAM," THEY WOULD BE FROWNING
The Circana BookScan list, published by Publishers Weekly, reported that for the week ending Oct. 17, 2026, "Out of the Shadows" by @jaystratton was no. 7 on the "Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction" list, with 13,331 according to BookScan. The book was published Oct. 13, so this covered the first five days, including any preorders fulfilled during publication week.
The book also appears for a second week on the New York Times bestseller lists that were posted late Oct. 28 (formal date Nov. 8), down from 3rd to 6th place on the Hardcover Nonfiction list, and down from 2nd to 6th place on the Combined Print & E-book Nonfiction list. NYT does not provide sales figures.
Audiobook sales are not included in these lists.
The Circana BookScan list, published by Publishers Weekly, reported that for the week ending Oct. 17, 2026, "Out of the Shadows" by @jaystratton was no. 7 on the "Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction" list, with 13,331 according to BookScan. The book was published Oct. 13, so this covered the first five days, including any preorders fulfilled during publication week.
The book also appears for a second week on the New York Times bestseller lists that were posted late Oct. 28 (formal date Nov. 8), down from 3rd to 6th place on the Hardcover Nonfiction list, and down from 2nd to 6th place on the Combined Print & E-book Nonfiction list. NYT does not provide sales figures.
Audiobook sales are not included in these lists.
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For "the week ending Oct. 24," Circana BookScan / Publishers Weekly placed @jaystratton's book no. 10 (down from no. 7) on the Hardcover Frontlist Nonfiction list, with total hardcover sales to date of 22,249. The book appeared on the New York Times bestseller lists for a 3rd week (the "week ending Oct. 31"), at no. 14 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list (down from no. 6) and at no. 15 on the Combined Print & E-Book list (down from no. 6).
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ALIEN PHOTOS AND YANKEE BLUE
In July 2026, I submitted a number of written questions to former AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick, as part of my research for an article that I haven't published yet.
One of my questions (#1) pertained to photos that a number of people claim to have ting recovered non-human vehicles and/or bodies. As an example, I quoted this statement by David Grusch: "I did get access to crash retrieval photos and everything. So I’ve seen the recovered vehicles and everything...I got a small smattering, a sample of that, of ones that have landed or crashed on the surface of the Earth." (Fox News Big Weekend Show, June 13, 2026) The core of my question #1 was: "Let us assume for the sake of discussion that at least some of those individuals, while holding security clearances and in some cases while serving as active intelligence officers, did indeed view in classified settings images that they sincerely believe depicted craft of nonhuman origin and/or bodies of nonhuman beings. I have to wonder: What did they see?"
I also asked Kirkpatrick, as Question #2, if he could offer any specifics that might help those filing FOIAs to locate government records pertaining to the "Yankee Blue" fake-alien enterprise that he and former AARO Deputy Director Tim Phillips said they had discovered. Kirkpatrick has spoken of the Yankee Blue matter in the Wall Street Journal in mid-2025, and in an April 2026 speech. But the matter was kept out of AARO's March 2024 Volume I historical report, ostensibly to allow the Air Force inspector general to fully investigate the matter, and the volume 2 historical report is two years overdue. The Pentagon has mysteriously failed to locate records documenting Yankee Blue in response to FOIA requests.
Kirkpatrick provided on-the-record answers in an email dated July 19, 2026. Note that this was about three months before the publication of the book "Out of the Shadows" by former UAP Task Force Director @jaystratton. The book includes Stratton's account of a briefing he gave to Kirkpatrick in 2020 at USSPACECOM (on page 200). Because Kirkpatrick discusses the same meeting, and also answered my question about Yankee Blue records, and because my intended article is not yet ready for publication, I've decided to publish Kirkpatrick's responses now as additional data points for those studying and debating the relevant histories.
Sean Kirkpatrick's answers to my Questions #1 and #2 appear verbatim below. I offer no comments of my own here; when I transmit someone's answers that does not mean that I endorse them. When I want to express an opinion on something, I will do so explicitly.
In the meantime, Kirkpatrick's answers are data points. Compare and contrast them with information from other sources. If you have pertinent comments on his specific answers or the underlying subjects (those being purported photos of in-custody nonhuman craft or bodies, the Kirkpatrick-Stratton encounter at USSPACECOM, and Yankee Blue), state your observations in a straightforward manner, or make your arguments on the merits. Those who instead post here ad hominem attacks on Kirkpatrick, Stratton, Phillips, David Grusch, or others, will probably be blocked. This is not a thread about Skinwalker Ranch, or briefings and claims associated therewith.
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ANSWERS BY SEAN KIRKPATRICK (July 19, 2026):
1. Jay Stratton briefed me while I was at USSPACECOM. I’d known him before. He showed me everything he had and what he had gathered at the time was nothing more than the collection of videos and frames pulled from the videos that have already been released to the public. He had briefed me to get my review of their analysis, and to be a reviewer of his first task force report [the UAP Task Force]. The analysis needed a lot of work and the report, when provided, was filled with unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, most of which were written by Grusch who worked with Stratton at the time. The report had to be massively corrected/rewritten (others did that, not me, I just provided edits and comments).
As for pictures of crafts or bodies, he had none to share. Frankly, neither did anyone else, just stories. What I saw from Yankee Blue showed a real photograph on what looked to be a saucer shape with someone in a lab coat standing over it. Since it was a real photograph, people would accept it for what they see in it. If you look at it and are told that’s an alien craft, you’d probably believe it at first review. The mind sees what it wants to believe. It’s not until you learn that it is a photograph of the heat shield of the lunar lander upside down that your mind sees the truth.
If Grusch (or anyone else) saw these alleged pictures, then where are they? Who showed them to him? Where did he see them? What organization? When? I suspect his answer will be “it’s classified and I can’t share it.” BS. He had and still has an opportunity to share with the Director AARO who is cleared and has authorities to view. No such information has been shared by him or anyone.
2. I was present with the Secretary of the Air Force when he directed his staff to take action [regarding Yankee Blue]. Other than the ensuing IG review I do not know what form that action took. It was also nearing the change in administration and subsequently the change in AF [Air Force] leadership, and there was a lot lost in translation.
In July 2026, I submitted a number of written questions to former AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick, as part of my research for an article that I haven't published yet.
One of my questions (#1) pertained to photos that a number of people claim to have ting recovered non-human vehicles and/or bodies. As an example, I quoted this statement by David Grusch: "I did get access to crash retrieval photos and everything. So I’ve seen the recovered vehicles and everything...I got a small smattering, a sample of that, of ones that have landed or crashed on the surface of the Earth." (Fox News Big Weekend Show, June 13, 2026) The core of my question #1 was: "Let us assume for the sake of discussion that at least some of those individuals, while holding security clearances and in some cases while serving as active intelligence officers, did indeed view in classified settings images that they sincerely believe depicted craft of nonhuman origin and/or bodies of nonhuman beings. I have to wonder: What did they see?"
I also asked Kirkpatrick, as Question #2, if he could offer any specifics that might help those filing FOIAs to locate government records pertaining to the "Yankee Blue" fake-alien enterprise that he and former AARO Deputy Director Tim Phillips said they had discovered. Kirkpatrick has spoken of the Yankee Blue matter in the Wall Street Journal in mid-2025, and in an April 2026 speech. But the matter was kept out of AARO's March 2024 Volume I historical report, ostensibly to allow the Air Force inspector general to fully investigate the matter, and the volume 2 historical report is two years overdue. The Pentagon has mysteriously failed to locate records documenting Yankee Blue in response to FOIA requests.
Kirkpatrick provided on-the-record answers in an email dated July 19, 2026. Note that this was about three months before the publication of the book "Out of the Shadows" by former UAP Task Force Director @jaystratton. The book includes Stratton's account of a briefing he gave to Kirkpatrick in 2020 at USSPACECOM (on page 200). Because Kirkpatrick discusses the same meeting, and also answered my question about Yankee Blue records, and because my intended article is not yet ready for publication, I've decided to publish Kirkpatrick's responses now as additional data points for those studying and debating the relevant histories.
Sean Kirkpatrick's answers to my Questions #1 and #2 appear verbatim below. I offer no comments of my own here; when I transmit someone's answers that does not mean that I endorse them. When I want to express an opinion on something, I will do so explicitly.
In the meantime, Kirkpatrick's answers are data points. Compare and contrast them with information from other sources. If you have pertinent comments on his specific answers or the underlying subjects (those being purported photos of in-custody nonhuman craft or bodies, the Kirkpatrick-Stratton encounter at USSPACECOM, and Yankee Blue), state your observations in a straightforward manner, or make your arguments on the merits. Those who instead post here ad hominem attacks on Kirkpatrick, Stratton, Phillips, David Grusch, or others, will probably be blocked. This is not a thread about Skinwalker Ranch, or briefings and claims associated therewith.
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ANSWERS BY SEAN KIRKPATRICK (July 19, 2026):
1. Jay Stratton briefed me while I was at USSPACECOM. I’d known him before. He showed me everything he had and what he had gathered at the time was nothing more than the collection of videos and frames pulled from the videos that have already been released to the public. He had briefed me to get my review of their analysis, and to be a reviewer of his first task force report [the UAP Task Force]. The analysis needed a lot of work and the report, when provided, was filled with unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, most of which were written by Grusch who worked with Stratton at the time. The report had to be massively corrected/rewritten (others did that, not me, I just provided edits and comments).
As for pictures of crafts or bodies, he had none to share. Frankly, neither did anyone else, just stories. What I saw from Yankee Blue showed a real photograph on what looked to be a saucer shape with someone in a lab coat standing over it. Since it was a real photograph, people would accept it for what they see in it. If you look at it and are told that’s an alien craft, you’d probably believe it at first review. The mind sees what it wants to believe. It’s not until you learn that it is a photograph of the heat shield of the lunar lander upside down that your mind sees the truth.
If Grusch (or anyone else) saw these alleged pictures, then where are they? Who showed them to him? Where did he see them? What organization? When? I suspect his answer will be “it’s classified and I can’t share it.” BS. He had and still has an opportunity to share with the Director AARO who is cleared and has authorities to view. No such information has been shared by him or anyone.
2. I was present with the Secretary of the Air Force when he directed his staff to take action [regarding Yankee Blue]. Other than the ensuing IG review I do not know what form that action took. It was also nearing the change in administration and subsequently the change in AF [Air Force] leadership, and there was a lot lost in translation.
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With publication on Oct. 13, 2026, of the book "Out of the Shadows" by @jaystratton, various stories about a proposed transfer of something from Lockheed Martin to AAWSAP, circa 2009, are again a matter of discussion and debate. Therefore I am now reposting this August 2025 post/thread. It notes the denials by Pentagon/AARO of separate FOIA requests filed by @theblackvault and by me, seeking the memorandum (MFR) summarizing AARO's interview of the CIA officer who, in the accounts, blocked the transfer, elsewhere identified as Glenn Gaffney (since retired from government).
I said in my August 2025 post that I intended to appeal the denial, but I never got around to doing so. I expect that John Greenewald, Jr. did appeal the denial that he received; if so, perhaps he will provide an update on the status.
I said in my August 2025 post that I intended to appeal the denial, but I never got around to doing so. I expect that John Greenewald, Jr. did appeal the denial that he received; if so, perhaps he will provide an update on the status.
AARO DENIES FOIA REQUEST FOR UNCLASSIFIED "MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD"
The "Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Volume 1" (unclassified version), issued in February 2024 by the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly ), stated that a former CIA official had signed a Memorandum for the Record (MFR) denying any knowledge "of any extraterrestrial material in the possession of the USG or any other organization."
Although not identified by AARO, it seems probable that the former CIA official referred to was Glenn Gaffney. Gaffney has been linked in various inconsistent and weakly sourced published accounts as having somehow prevented a proposed transfer of unusual materials (inconsistently described in various accounts) from Lockheed Martin to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), a short-lived DIA-funded program, sometime "in the 2009-2010 time frame."
In November 2024 I filed a FOIA for the referenced MFR, which I knew to be not classified, but "Controlled Unclassified Information" (CUI), and therefore not automatically immune from FOIA. In my FOIA request, I anticipated that the name of the signer of the MFR would be redacted to protect his privacy.
But in a letter today (displayed below), AARO denied release of the MFR in its entirety, asserting that it is covered by various FOIA exemptions that apply to "internal documents that are part of the decision making process, and contain subjective evaluations, opinions and recommendations"; "information compiled for law enforcement purposes that could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source"; and various privacy protections.
I believe that these exemptions are of doubtful applicability under the circumstances; therefore, I intend to appeal the denial.
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[From the article:] On Sept. 29, 2026, the House Oversight Committee issued a press release and 16-page booklet summarizing its accomplishments during the 2025-2026 Congress. Neither the press release nor the booklet contained any mention of UAP. The committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets was mentioned only in an non-topical count of hearings held by each of the full committee's subcommittees and task forces.
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"If a nuclear weapon were used on [Pickaxe Mountain] in Iran by the US or Israel, or an empty field in Ukraine by Russia etc., it doesn’t matter, it would open up Pandora’s box and would make the U.S. and the world dramatically less safe." -- Tyler Rogoway
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ELECTION DAY
On Election Day, UAP/UFO-related government policy issues will have no discernible impact on the outcome of any House or Senate race. Regarding prospects for the UAP Disclosure Act in the post-election "lame-duck" session, see End Note No. 9.
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On Election Day, UAP/UFO-related government policy issues will have no discernible impact on the outcome of any House or Senate race. Regarding prospects for the UAP Disclosure Act in the post-election "lame-duck" session, see End Note No. 9.
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RT @ddeanjohnson: DO SENATORS AFFIRM UFO WHISTLEBLOWERS FACE "DIRECT RISKS TO PERSONAL SAFETY"?
"NO," Senator Mike Rounds told me. On Mira…
"NO," Senator Mike Rounds told me. On Mira…
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I assessed prospects for the Burlison amendment (=UAPDA) in End Note No. 9 of my Oct. 27 article on UAP in the election. Short version: the review-board proposal won't emerge from the ongoing negotations now crafting the final version of the FY27 NDAA.
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Thanks for the detailed reply. I appreciate your reasoned approach, though I disagree with some of your interpretations and conclusions.
I will point out two areas of disagreement:
- Terminology
I do not find the terms "extraterrestrial" and "off-world" as used by AARO to be especially problematic or indicative of an attempt to limit liability or scope of findings. Any single term is equally problematic in excluding or including too much. "NHI" for example, includes dolphins and orangutans without some further qualification on the term, and "exotic" can include any number of things. I think "ET/alien" has effectively become a catch-all metonym for everything radically different from modern humans and human technology, including spacefaring beings from other worlds, cryptoterrestrials and chrononauts, even though some are technically "terrestrial".
"Urgent and credible" are procedural terms required by statute, not the conclusion of in depth ICIG investigation into the claims. ICIG had only 14 days to evaluate whether the claims "appear credible", and ICIG Thomas Monheim stated they conducted no investigation into alleged UAP programs in a letter to Rep. Tim Burchett.
See this post for discussion of the statutory language, ICIG actions and link to ICIG letter: x.com/MonkeeSage/sta…
- Administrative suppression and reprisals
I have not seen documented evidence of attempts to kill the UAPDA amendments in any of their various forms in Senate or the House. Much of the meat of the original Schumer-Rounds amendment was stripped but I have seen no documentation that this was anything beyond the standard negotiation of the NDAA package. An amendment that creates a new office (the review board), a new NARA records collection, and requirements across all departments to produced and review records, is a hard sell in a congress averse to increased spending and bureaucracy, not to mention the "eminent domain" concerns that have even been shared by some disclosure advocates. There hasn't been a vote on any of the amendments individually, though we may see one in the House Rules Committee with Rep. Burlison's version of the amendment this year.
In FY23 NDAA, then Sen. Rubio established broad whistleblower protections from NDAs, DoE policies, Espionage Act, "or other provision of law", and protections from reprisals, for authorized reporting to AARO in a secure setting. These are codified in 50 USC 3373b(b). Memos where issued by CAPCO and SAPCO affirming reporting is allowed under the statutes. I agree that many potential whistleblowers fear reprisals, but I think much of that is motivated by incorrect (but widely circulated) statements from disclosure advocates that no protections currently exist or are inadequate, and claims of threats and reprisals from whistleblowers (addressed below).
See this post for links to the statutes and memos: x.com/MonkeeSage/sta… (note uscode.house.gov appears to be under maintenance, you can find a working link to the statutes here govinfo.gov/content/pkg/US…).
Thanks to the investigative work of @theblackvault @ddeanjohnson and @SignalsIntelUFO (all of them are worth a follow) we can evaluate some of the claims of reprisals against whistleblowers. The pattern in these cases is that there were no inappropriate reprisals or retaliations.
FOIA documents reveal that Luis ELizondo's reprisal complaint was found to be without merit.
See John Greenwald's reporting here: theblackvault.com/documentarchiv…
David Grusch's claims of an Espionage Act complaint against him were denied in a letter from Mark Dupont to Rep. Burchett.
See Dean Johnson's reporting here: x.com/ddeanjohnson/s…
Grusch's claims that his law enforcement incident records were unlawfully leaked without redaction according to VA FOIA statutes were dismissed with prejudice in a lawsuit against the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office.
See: x.com/SignalsIntelUF…
DoD IG found that the revocation of Grusch's clearances were based on legitimate concern and unrelated to his UAP disclosures.
See: theblackvault.com/documentarchiv…
Reports of personal retaliation from Brown, Borland, etc. are uncorroborated. I don't find the reports of MiB breaking into Matthew Brown's house to move his grandfather's ashes to be compelling for example.
Regarding claims about personal threat and even murder for disclosure I find that even more implausible. I just read a report from Dean Johnson this evening where Sen. Mike Rounds denies such claims.
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I will point out two areas of disagreement:
- Terminology
I do not find the terms "extraterrestrial" and "off-world" as used by AARO to be especially problematic or indicative of an attempt to limit liability or scope of findings. Any single term is equally problematic in excluding or including too much. "NHI" for example, includes dolphins and orangutans without some further qualification on the term, and "exotic" can include any number of things. I think "ET/alien" has effectively become a catch-all metonym for everything radically different from modern humans and human technology, including spacefaring beings from other worlds, cryptoterrestrials and chrononauts, even though some are technically "terrestrial".
"Urgent and credible" are procedural terms required by statute, not the conclusion of in depth ICIG investigation into the claims. ICIG had only 14 days to evaluate whether the claims "appear credible", and ICIG Thomas Monheim stated they conducted no investigation into alleged UAP programs in a letter to Rep. Tim Burchett.
See this post for discussion of the statutory language, ICIG actions and link to ICIG letter: x.com/MonkeeSage/sta…
- Administrative suppression and reprisals
I have not seen documented evidence of attempts to kill the UAPDA amendments in any of their various forms in Senate or the House. Much of the meat of the original Schumer-Rounds amendment was stripped but I have seen no documentation that this was anything beyond the standard negotiation of the NDAA package. An amendment that creates a new office (the review board), a new NARA records collection, and requirements across all departments to produced and review records, is a hard sell in a congress averse to increased spending and bureaucracy, not to mention the "eminent domain" concerns that have even been shared by some disclosure advocates. There hasn't been a vote on any of the amendments individually, though we may see one in the House Rules Committee with Rep. Burlison's version of the amendment this year.
In FY23 NDAA, then Sen. Rubio established broad whistleblower protections from NDAs, DoE policies, Espionage Act, "or other provision of law", and protections from reprisals, for authorized reporting to AARO in a secure setting. These are codified in 50 USC 3373b(b). Memos where issued by CAPCO and SAPCO affirming reporting is allowed under the statutes. I agree that many potential whistleblowers fear reprisals, but I think much of that is motivated by incorrect (but widely circulated) statements from disclosure advocates that no protections currently exist or are inadequate, and claims of threats and reprisals from whistleblowers (addressed below).
See this post for links to the statutes and memos: x.com/MonkeeSage/sta… (note uscode.house.gov appears to be under maintenance, you can find a working link to the statutes here govinfo.gov/content/pkg/US…).
Thanks to the investigative work of @theblackvault @ddeanjohnson and @SignalsIntelUFO (all of them are worth a follow) we can evaluate some of the claims of reprisals against whistleblowers. The pattern in these cases is that there were no inappropriate reprisals or retaliations.
FOIA documents reveal that Luis ELizondo's reprisal complaint was found to be without merit.
See John Greenwald's reporting here: theblackvault.com/documentarchiv…
David Grusch's claims of an Espionage Act complaint against him were denied in a letter from Mark Dupont to Rep. Burchett.
See Dean Johnson's reporting here: x.com/ddeanjohnson/s…
Grusch's claims that his law enforcement incident records were unlawfully leaked without redaction according to VA FOIA statutes were dismissed with prejudice in a lawsuit against the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office.
See: x.com/SignalsIntelUF…
DoD IG found that the revocation of Grusch's clearances were based on legitimate concern and unrelated to his UAP disclosures.
See: theblackvault.com/documentarchiv…
Reports of personal retaliation from Brown, Borland, etc. are uncorroborated. I don't find the reports of MiB breaking into Matthew Brown's house to move his grandfather's ashes to be compelling for example.
Regarding claims about personal threat and even murder for disclosure I find that even more implausible. I just read a report from Dean Johnson this evening where Sen. Mike Rounds denies such claims.
douglasjohnson.ghost.io/sen-rounds-no-…
David Grusch's $2.3m lawsuit against against Loudoun County Sheriff Michael Chapman and a member of his staff has been permanently dismissed.
Grusch filed the suit after the Sheriff released to journalist Ken Klippenstein a police incident report containing details of an usch's involuntary commitment to a mental health facility. Grusch's name was redacted on the report, but Grusch was identifiable based on other information in the document.
Yesterday, the court heard Sheriff Chapman’s demurrer, which argued that Grusch’s remaining claims for gross and willful negligence fail as a matter of law even assuming all of the facts alleged by Grusch in his complaint were true.
The judge has now held that the release of the redacted incident report was authorized under Virginia's FOIA law, and that the Sheriff showed some level of care in the release. Because any showing of care defeats gross negligence, and willful negligence requires conscious disregard, Grusch's two remaining claims were dismissed.
As Grusch's complaint was dismissed with prejudice, it cannot be refiled.
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RT @ddeanjohnson: 2) Can a candidate whose platform centers on UAP disclosure get elected to Congress, as a leader of a UAP group recently…
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RT @ddeanjohnson: 4) In only one congressional race has a competitive candidate even raised UAP. Leela Gray (D), challenger in Florida's 13…
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5) As I discuss in detail in the article, on any public policy issue that political professionals believe has the capacity to motivate significant numbers of voters, there will eventually be roll call votes that place House and Senate members on record on that issue. Yet since the beginning of the modern "flying-saucer" era in 1947, no bill or amendment explicitly and in substantial part dealing with UFOs (by any terminology) has ever been subjected to a stand-alone roll call vote on the floor of either the U.S. House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate.
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6) The article also discusses things that hypothetically could happen to change UAP's current political near-irrelevance. Plus, an update on the legislative dynamics at work on the UAP Disclosure Act, and some of the possible changes in the new Congress.
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UFOs DON'T MATTER ON ELECTION DAY
1) So many UFO movies, books, podcasts, tales told in congressional hearings--and yet, UAP/UFOs/aliens are invisible in election campaigns & will have no discernible effect on Nov. 3 results. My new article on Mirador.
douglasjohnson.ghost.io/ufos-dont-matt…
1) So many UFO movies, books, podcasts, tales told in congressional hearings--and yet, UAP/UFOs/aliens are invisible in election campaigns & will have no discernible effect on Nov. 3 results. My new article on Mirador.
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4) In only one congressional race has a competitive candidate even raised UAP. Leela Gray (D), challenger in Florida's 13th CD, has verbally zinged Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) for "focusing on UFOs and aliens instead of working to lower costs or protect affordable healthcare."
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3) Despite bold pronouncements, in the months and weeks leading up to election day on Nov. 3, 2026, no campaign or group has spent serious $ to tout or criticize UAP-related government activity. If this is happening at all, it is on such a small scale that it is insignificant.
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