The Pentagon has flatly denied a report claiming that a whistleblower has for the first time revealed the name of a super-secret program to investigate UFOs.
According to an independent American journalist, a whistleblower named the “active and top secret” unauthorized Special Access Program (USAP) that has been illegally withheld from the U.S. Congress. michael shellenbergerwrites on him public Substack blog.
“Immaculate Constellation” is said to be the name of a program established by the Department of Defense in 2017. new york times revealed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), an early UFO research effort.
“The Department of Defense has no current or historical record of any type of SAP known as the 'Immaculate Constellation,'” Pentagon spokeswoman Sue Goff said in a statement Tuesday night after the article was published. Ta.
said Sean Kirkpatrick, former director of the Defense Department's All Area Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). new york post's stephen greenstreet“That's not true. I have accessed all of the unauthorized SAPs and reviewed them with the SAPCO Director.”
written by shellenberger on X“I stand by my story.”
Immaculate Constellation, described as the “parent” program that integrates UFO observations and data collected by U.S. military and intelligence platforms, is part of “a long-standing family of highly classified programs that address various aspects of strategic about the “problems'' with UAP, the “Intelligence Program'','' the anonymous whistleblower told Shellenberger.
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The whistleblower, described as a “current or former U.S. government official,” allegedly wrote a report alleging that the U.S. executive branch “has been controlling UAP/NHI.” [non-human intelligence] This problem has been left unattended for some time, in some cases for decades, without Congressional knowledge, oversight, or approval. ”
The whistleblower's report is said to detail numerous UFO encounters stored in the database, including one in which an F-22 fighter jet was “intercepted” by three to six orbs. This also includes incidents in which a person was forced to leave the mission due to being trapped. In another, the crew of a Navy aircraft carrier saw an orange-red sphere with a surface “undulating like the sun” descend rapidly from high altitude to about 100 to 200 yards (90 to 180 meters) above the flight deck. This is what I witnessed.
shellenberger told NewsNation He was in contact with the alleged whistleblower, but details about their exact role and gender were not disclosed for fear of retaliation.
“I don't think they're cheating or lying about fear,” he says. “This person discovered this material by accident. This was something they didn't expect to encounter.”
In a statement, Goff denied that the Pentagon broke any laws by failing to notify Congress about its secret UFO program.
The U.S. National Security Act of 1947 requires that covert military and intelligence activities, including Special Access Programs (SAPs), be reported to relevant senior members of Congress.
“To date, the Department has found no evidence of the existence of any sensitive UAP programs, including SAP or UAP-related access control programs, that have not been properly reported to Congress,” Goff said.
She referred to the findings of AARO, a new public UFO research organization established by the Department of Defense in July 2022.
AARO's first report published in marchconcluded that there was “no evidence of any kind.” [US government] Investigations, academically sponsored studies, or official review boards have confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represents extraterrestrial technology. ”
“AARO believes that inaccurate claims such as: [US government] is reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology and hiding it from Congress, largely as a result of circulating reports from a group of individuals who believe so, despite the lack of evidence.” the report states.
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They include a number of high-profile former government whistleblowers who have gone public in recent years, including Luis Elizondo, the former Pentagon official who first disclosed the existence of the aerospace threat program in 2017. David Grousha former intelligence officer, claimed in June 2023 that the United States had recovered a crashed aircraft and remains of non-human origin.
The Pentagon has denied their claims, and both men have not provided much evidence, such as images or videos, to support their testimony, saying it is classified.
But in 2020, the Department of Defense officially released Three short UFO videos taken by US Navy pilots off the East Coast of the United States in 2004 and 2015 have confirmed that the footage is real and depicts an “unidentified” phenomenon.
The so-called “Tic Tock” video was the subject of shocking headlines in late 2017, sparking renewed mainstream interest in the subject, leading to a series of Congressional hearings and a new UFO transparency bill.
