THE SECRET PROGRAM
UNITED STATES
Exploration the secret involvement of the United States to retrieve alien spacecraft and entities.
/ UAP / The United States Secret Program
Allegations have been put forward that part of the United States Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon, and private aerospace contractors may be involved in the "Secret Program" or "Legacy Program" to reverse engineer captured alien spacecraft, and to cover up the reported fact that alien spacecraft are real, and their non-human alien pilots are also real.
ALERT: American journalist Matt Ford alleges that the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology Office of Global Access, and Counterproliferation Mission Center, are the organizations responsible for operating the secret and classified UFO/UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering legacy program. This organization also detects UAP through classified platforms.
It also appears that there may be several factions within the secret program, with some having good intentions, and others having more sinister intentions. In addition, these factions include governments, private contractors, and private individuals.​
Manhattan Project Secrecy transferred to UFOs
The Manhattan Project was a research and development program begun during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada. Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the nuclear bombs, that would later by dropped on Japan, ending World War II.
While it has been alleged that the same level of secrecy, or even a higher level of secrecy was placed upon UFOs either during, or after World War II, there's no credible evidence yet to suggest that the secrecy of the Manhattan Project was directly transferred to a government cover-up of UFOs. However, the possibility remains open should sufficient evidence come to light.
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Manhattan Project Secrecy: The Manhattan Project, a top-secret World War II effort to develop the atomic bomb, operated under extreme secrecy to prevent knowledge of its existence from falling into enemy hands. This involved isolating project sites, implementing stringent security measures, and compartmentalizing information amongst workers.
Project Mogul and UFO sightings: During the early years of the Cold War, the United States Air Force launched Project Mogul, a secret program that used high-altitude balloons to detect Soviet nuclear tests. The debris from a Project Mogul balloon was initially reported to be misidentified, leading to the famous Roswell incident and fueling speculation about alien spacecraft. The Roswell incident still must be investigated.
Disinformation to Protect Classified Programs: The Pentagon has acknowledged that it deliberately promoted UFO myths and rumors to deflect attention from top-secret military projects, particularly during the Cold War. These efforts included planting fake evidence and stories about UFOs and alien encounters in local communities near sensitive testing sites like Area 51.
Legacy of Secrecy and Distrust: The legacy of secrecy surrounding programs like the Manhattan Project and the subsequent government misinformation regarding UFOs, created an environment of distrust and fueled conspiracy theories that continue to this day.
While the secrecy surrounding the Manhattan Project and other classified military operations set the stage for public confusion and speculation about unexplained phenomena, it is still unknown if it translated to a systematic transfer of secrecy to cover up encounters with alien life.
CIA Directorate of Science and Technology
Created in 1948 (1 year after the Roswell Incident - coincidence?), the Directorate of Science & Technology is the branch of the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
It is tasked with collecting and analyzing information through technological means and developing technical systems to advance the CIA's intelligence gathering.
The Directorate of Science & Technology is one of 5 directorates within the CIA, with the other four being administration, analysis, operations, and digital innovation. It plays a special role in the CIA, providing a wide range of data and intelligence to all other directorates. The other directorates can then take this information, analyze it, and effectively procure it for their needs.
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Project Blue Book
Project Blue Book was the name for a UFO study that the United States Air Force conducted beginning in March 1952 and ended on December 17, 1969.
Project Blue Book was headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Project Blue Book was the successor to Project Sign (1947) and Project Grudge (1949).
Project Blue Book had two goals. The first goal was to determine if UFOs were a National Security threat, and to scientifically analyze UFO data.
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Around 12,618 UFO reports were collected and analyzed. Most of these sightings were concluded to be misidentifications of natural things like clouds, stars, meteors, or conventional aircraft.
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It has also been alleged by Danny Sheehan that there is a group of classified Project Blue Book files that he was allowed access to at the request of the Carter Administration. Danny alleges that he saw a UFO crash retrieval site on microfilm in a secret basement. The UFO crash retrieval was apparently during the winter and may have occurred during the 1940s.
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Executive Order 10501 by President Dwight Eisenhower
Executive Order 10501, issued by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on November 5, 1953, focused on safeguarding official information in the interests of national defense. It's primarily concerned with standardizing the procedures for classifying, declassifying, and handling information related to national security.
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Establishment of classification levels: Defining categories like Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential.
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Rules for classification: Specifying how documents should be classified based on their content and potential impact if disclosed.
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Limitations on classification authority: Restricting who could classify information and limiting its use in certain government entities.
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Guidelines for handling classified material: Providing instructions on storage, transmission, destruction, and preventing unauthorized access.
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Provisions for declassification and review: Establishing mechanisms for reviewing and declassifying information.
Regarding UFOs:
Executive Order 10501 does not specifically mention UFOs. However, some sources suggest that it may have played a role in the broader context of information control surrounding discussions or investigations related to unidentified aerial phenomena during that era.
It's important to note that claims about Executive Order 10501 directly addressing UFOs or extraterrestrial encounters are often based on speculation and may not be supported by verifiable evidence. While some sources link the executive order to alleged secret projects or treaties concerning UFOs, these claims are not generally accepted as factual.
In summary, Executive Order 10501's primary purpose was to enhance the safeguarding of official information in the interests of national defense. Any connection to UFOs is largely based on theories or speculation related to the classification and handling of information that might have touched on such subjects.
John F. Kennedy - Assassinated 1963
John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.
It has been alleged that John F. Kennedy was assassinated by the CIA due to the reason that John F. Kennedy wanted to disclose UFOs to the public.
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The notion that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated because he intended to reveal classified information about UFOs to the public is a prominent conspiracy theory.
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While there's no definitive proof, proponents of this theory often point to certain details that fuel their belief:
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JFK's alleged interest in UFOs: There are reports and claims, sometimes linked to declassified documents, suggesting Kennedy had an interest in UFO intelligence and even requested information from the CIA on the subject.
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A "burned memo": A supposed memo from JFK to the CIA requesting UFO intelligence, which some claim was burned by a former CIA operative, is cited by some theorists as proof of JFK's intentions and the CIA's efforts to thwart them. However, the authenticity of this memo is questioned by many historians and archivists.
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The Efron connection: A declassified CIA document mentions a CIA official named Reuben Efron who intercepted Lee Harvey Oswald's mail before the assassination and had a personal UFO sighting in 1955. Some theorists speculate about a link between Efron, the assassination, and the UFO cover-up.
Project Moon Dust
Project Moon Dust was a secret project operated by the United States Air Force during the Cold War, beginning in 1953
Project Moon Dust was based at the Air Force Missile Development Center at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The goal of the project was to recover objects and debris from spacecraft that survived re-entry through Earth's atmosphere. This included recovery of Soviet Union spacecraft that the United States could analyze as well.
It has also been alleged that Project Moon Dust was tasked with acquiring crashed UFO craft. Where's the evidence?
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AATIP
AATIP was born from another secret program created by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Harry Reid was instrumental in creating the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Applications Program, also known as AAWSAP, to study UFOs, at the encouragement of Harry Reid's friend, Robert Bigelow. Robert Bigelow was a Nevada billionaire and United States Government contractor.
The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, also known as AATIP, was an unclassified and unacknowledged CIA program funded by the United States Government to study UFOs, now renamed UAPs.
AATIP was first made known to the public on December 16, 2017. AATIP actually began in 2007. AATIP was granted a budget of $22 million over a 5 year period, ending in 2012. By 2012, Lue Elizondo was the senior ranking person and director of AATIP.
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However, in 2017, Lue Elizondo resigned from the United States Pentagon in protest of its excessive bureaucracy and compartmentalization regarding the UAP or UFO issue.
Luis Elizondo was also instrumental in getting the "Tic Tac" video and other UFO videos released to the public in 2017 via the New York Times.
Since then, Lue has tirelessly led efforts to raise public awareness of the UAP topic, engaging with the United States Congress, the Executive Branch, the media, academic institutions, the private sector, and global audiences to help to shape UAP policy, and bring about UFO disclosure.
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UAP Task Force
In 2020, the United States Pentagon acknowledged the existence of a program similar to AATIP which was called the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, or UAPTF for short.
The UAP Task Force was made public during a hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The Task Force has been giving classified briefings to Congressional committees and aerospace contractors for more than a decade.
Former Senator Harry Reid stated the following in about the UAP Task Force, “It is extremely important that information about the discovery of physical materials or retrieved craft come out.”
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The UAP Task Force operated between 2017 and 2022, within the Office of Naval Intelligence, and was used to standardize the collection and reporting UFO sightings.
Immaculate Constellation
Immaculate Constellations is an Unacknowledged Special Access Program, also known as an USAP.
Immaculate Constellation was established following the public disclosure of AATIP and AAWSAP programs by Lue Elizondo in 2017. Upon disclosure to Congress, it was determined that this USAP, and its collateral information, have not been lawfully reported to Congress.
Immaculate Constellation's primary mission is collecting imagery intelligence on UAP and ARV, or alien reproduction vehicles, utilizing tasked and untasked United States military intelligence resources.
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As part of a network of SAPs linked to non-human intelligence, or NHI, and UAP technologies, Immaculate Constellation acts as a nexus for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating intelligence on the activities, capabilities, and locations of anomalous aerospace threats that originate from foreign or unidentified sources.
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Independent journalist, Michael Shellenberger, testified to the United States Congress about an allegedly secret government program known as, "Immaculate Constellation."
Michael Shellenberger also submitted a report by an unknown UFO whistleblower, that alleged that the United States Defense Department and the intelligence community withheld real evidence to the public about UAPs, or UFOs.
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Update 4-30-25: The author of the Immaculate Constellation report, Matthew Brown, is now ready to reveal what he knows, how he knows it, and who he is. He was interviewed by Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp.
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ARRO
AARO, also known as The All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office is an office within the United States Office of the Secretary of Defense.
AARO was created in 2022 and is still currently active as of 2025, being preceded by the UAP Task Force.
ARRO currently investigates UFOs and UAP in space, in the air, in the sea, and on land.
The first director of AARO was physicist Sean Kirkpatrick.
The second and current director of ARRO is Jon Kosloski.
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The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office has taken steps to improve data collection and transparency, reduce the stigma of reporting UAP events, and has allegedly resolved hundreds of cases involving common objects like balloons, birds, drones, satellites, and aircraft.
However, some United States lawmakers and many UFO researchers have criticized ARRO for not being transparent enough, for classifying too much information, and for not being trustworthy.
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Special Access Programs and Secret Levels of Clearance
There are 3 Levels of Security Clearance in the United States Government. These levels are Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret.
Within these 3 Levels of Security Clearance, are different compartments or secret access programs. Someone must have a need to know if order to access particular information. Someone with Top Secret clearance, may not be read into all of the secret access programs contained within the Top Secret Compartment. Top Secret clearance does not automatically give a person access to all Top Secret compartments.
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Special Access Programs, or SAPs, are highly restricted United States government programs that protect sensitive national security information with enhanced security measures beyond standard classified information controls, requiring specific clearances and stringent access protocols.
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Key Characteristics of SAPs:
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Enhanced Security: SAPs employ stricter security measures than those normally required for classified information, including specific clearance requirements, access controls, and compartmented access.
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Need-to-Know: Access to SAP information is tightly controlled based on a "need-to-know" principle, meaning only individuals with a specific requirement are granted access.
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Classification Levels: SAPs can be established at all levels of classification, including Top Secret, Secret, and Confidential.
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"Black" or "Unacknowledged" Programs: Historically, some SAPs were known as "black" programs, meaning their existence was not publicly acknowledged.
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Acknowledged or Unacknowledged: SAPs can be either acknowledged (existence is openly recognized) or unacknowledged (existence and purpose are protected).
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Compartmentalized Access: SAPs often utilize compartments, with access to specific parts of the program limited to those with a need to know that specific information.
Sentient - NRO Intelligence Analysis System
NRO's highly classified Sentient program analyzes satellite data. Sentient is an AI (Artificial Intelligence)-powered system designed to process orbital and terrestrial sensor data to detect, track, and forecast activity on and above Earth.
Its primary function is to compile and analyze data from various sources including satellite imagery and other sensor data, to support intelligence collection and analysis, including detecting and tracking potential threats, which some have alleged includes tracking UFOs.
Sentient is used to compile and synthesize information, enabling faster analysis than humanly possible and supporting intelligence collection and analysis.
The program's capabilities include machine learning and real-time tip-and-cue functionality, enabling coordinated re-tasking of reconnaissance satellites without human input. ​
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was the official headquarters for Project Blue Book from 194 to 1969. Project Blue Book was the United States Air Force's program for investigating UFO sightings, which documented over 12,600 reports.
While the Blue Book project allegedly found no evidence of threats to national security or technology beyond modern science, Wright Patterson Air Force Base remains a central location in UFO lore due to theories suggesting it stores crashed alien craft and bodies from the Roswell incident. The Air Force officially denies these claims.
Roswell Connection: Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is central to theories claiming that physical evidence from the alleged 1947 Roswell, New Mexico crash that allegedly included alien bodies and alien technology, was stored at the base.
Hangar 18: The idea of a specific "Hangar 18" at the base housing alien materials gained public attention through figures like science-fiction author Robert Spencer Carr, though the United States Air Force has stated there is no such hangar.
Official Denials: The United States Air Force has officially denied the existence of alien visitors or spacecraft at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, according to statements made in 1985.
Modern Context: Today, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is home to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), a key entity involved in intelligence gathering on foreign aircraft and spacecraft. This role continues the base's involvement in the analysis of advanced or unknown airborne technologies, further fueling its association with the UFO subject.
Langley Air Force Base
Reports linking Langley Air Force Base to UFOs primarily involve sightings of unidentified drones in 2023 and a 2012 account by an Air Force veteran of an unexplained triangular UFO craft.
There is allegedly no official or independently verified evidence connecting these incidents to aliens. The Pentagon explicitly denies any evidence of aliens related to these phenomena.
However, in December 2023, mysterious drones flew over Langley Air Force Base for 17 consecutive nights, evading detection by military sensors.
Eyewitnesses, including Air Force General Mark Kelly, reported fleets of drones flying over the restricted airspace. The drones appeared in different formations and sizes, with some described as being up to 20 feet long.
Despite investigations by the Pentagon, the FBI, and the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the source of the drones was not identified. This lack of answers prompted a series of White House meetings. We still do not have an answer from the White House as to what these drones were.
Some military assets, such as F-22 fighter jets, were relocated as a precaution. Authorities considered foreign adversaries like China or Russia as potential culprits, but also acknowledged the possibility of hobbyists. No evidence of alien involvement was ever found, but the incident has fueled theories.
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At a recent congressional hearing, Air Force veteran Dylan Borland testified about a sighting at Langley Air Force Base in 2012. Dylan Borland described witnessing a large, silent, 1-2 story tall, triangle-shaped UFO craft hovering roughly 100 feet above the base and 100 feet from him personally. He stated that his cellphone malfunctioned and became extremely hot during the encounter, and he could see a gold plasma-like fluid running through the craft. Dylan Borland reported the incident to the Pentagon's AARO, which dismissed his claim. He alleges that he faced retaliation and manipulation of his security clearance after reporting the event.
In addition, Langley Air Force Base was one of many military installations that collected reports for the Air Force's Project Blue Book, which ran from 1952 to 1969. The project analyzed 12,618 reported UFO sightings and concluded that most were misidentifications of natural phenomena or conventional aircraft. The official conclusion of Project Blue Book was that there was no indication of a threat to national security and no evidence that the unexplained sightings were alien. However, there were many unexplained sightings.
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Reports regarding Vandenberg Space Force Base's involvement with UFOs and alleged alien encounters are based on witness testimonies, including those of former military personnel and contractors. No official government agency has confirmed that any of these events involved alien beings.
In 1964 an incident occurred known as the Big Sur UFO. A former United States Air Force officer, Robert Jacobs, claimed that his team at Vandenberg Air Force Base, filmed an "intelligently controlled flying device" while monitoring an Atlas missile test. Robert Jacobs alleged the object followed the missile and fired a beam of light at its warhead before it flew out of frame.
An engineer on the same project, Kingston George, stated that Robert Jacobs had no clearance to know the true nature of what was being recorded. George maintained that the team had simply filmed the missile releasing its decoy warheads and chaff, which Robert Jacobs had misinterpreted as a UFO encounter.
Robert Jacobs claims he was warned by superiors never to speak about the incident again, while his footage was reportedly cut.
Multiple UFO sightings occurred at Vandenberg Air Force Base between 2003 and 2005 during high-stakes missile launches. These were reported in 2023 at a Congressional Hearing by former military police officer Jeffrey Nuccetelli and former Navy pilot Ryan Graves.
Witnesses, including Boeing contractors and military personnel, reported seeing a massive, football-field-sized red square UFO hovering silently over missile facilities before moving away at impossible speed.
In other incidents, security personnel reported being approached at high speed by fast-moving lights and a large UFO triangular craft. Jeffrey Nuccetelli testified that service members were told to "keep quiet" and intimidated into silence by superiors.
According to Ryan Graves, sightings remain underreported due to the stigma and fear of professional repercussions. Former military personnel have testified that the government suppresses information about UFOs at Vandenberg Air Force Base and other bases.
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While the testimonies describe unidentified aerial phenomena and alleged cover-ups, they do not offer verifiable evidence of alien contact at Vandenberg. Some suggest that witnesses may be seeing classified military technology being tested at the base without having the appropriate security clearance to understand what it is.
The Pentagon, NASA, and other agencies stress that UAPs are still unidentified and often have far more mundane explanations.
Area 51 Military Base
Area 51 allegedly has no official involvement with UFOs or aliens according the United States government, but its extreme secrecy has led to decades of speculation and theories.
The United States government officially confirmed the existence of Area 51 in 2013, revealing it was a highly classified site for testing advanced military aircraft.
Area 51 was established by the CIA in 1955 primarily to test and develop the U-2 spy plane, which flew at altitudes previously unheard of. Other advanced reconnaissance and stealth aircraft, including the A-12 Oxcart and the F-117 Nighthawk, were also tested there.
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The advanced capabilities of these experimental aircraft caused numerous "unidentified flying object" sightings among civilians, who had no reference for a plane flying so high or so fast.
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The CIA and United States Air Force intentionally maintained the mystique around Area 51 to protect their classified programs. In some cases, the military even planted disinformation, such as circulating fabricated photos of flying saucers, to distract from the base's true purpose.
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​​Rumors connecting Area 51 with alien life began decades ago. A central theory alleges that the government is reverse-engineering captured alien spacecraft at Area 51 for military use.
Some theorists also claim that the alleged alien spacecraft and bodies recovered from the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, crash were secretly taken to Area 51. The Air Force has stated that the crash was of a high-altitude surveillance balloon from a classified project called Mogul. However, it begs the question as to why the Air Force initially called it a flying saucer, instead of simply stating it was a weather balloon.
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The most influential boost to the UFO theories came in 1989, when a man named Bob Lazar claimed he had worked at Area 51 on alien propulsion technology. His credentials and claims were allegedly discredited, but his has story sparked widespread interest.
Finally, the infamous "alien autopsy" film, released in the 1990s, purported to show a medical examination of an alien at Area 51. This video was later revealed to be a hoax.
Eglin Air Force Base
Multiple Unidentified Flying Object, or UFO sightings by military pilots near Eglin Air Force Base have sparked Congressional attention and public interest, though they were later allegedly attributed to more conventional, non-alien objects.
While the official explanation points to balloons, the incidents have been used to argue for greater government transparency regarding UFO encounters. There is no official or corroborated evidence connecting Eglin AFB with aliens vehicles.
A United States military pilot reported four potential UFOs while flying in a training range near Eglin Air Force Base. The pilot initially saw four objects on radar, but visually observed and recorded only one. The object was described as rounded or cone-shaped, at an altitude of 16,000 feet.
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The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) later allegedly concluded with "moderate confidence" that the object was "very likely a lighter-than-air object, such as a large commercial lighting balloon". The Pentagon tested a similar balloon and found it could replicate aspects of the pilot's account. U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, publicly disclosed the incident during a congressional hearing on UFOs and called for the radar images to be subpoenaed.
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The Eglin UFO incident is part of a larger, ongoing public conversation about government transparency regarding UFOs. Congressional lawmakers like Representative Gaetz and Representative Anna Paulina Luna have used recent UFO incidents, including those near Eglin Air Force Base, to call for more transparency from the Department of Defense.
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The Pentagon's AARO office has released case resolution reports, such as the one detailing the Eglin Air Force incident, to document and explain UFO sightings. AARO concluded that the majority of UFO reports can be allegedly attributed to known objects.​
Holloman Air Force Base
Holloman Air Force Base's involvement with UFOs and aliens is primarily associated with two main areas:
First, its historical role as a site for classified balloon launches, including Project Mogul, which the United States military uses to explain the Roswell Incident's alleged alien wreckage and pilots.
Second, the 1971 "Holloman Air Force Base UFO Landing" event, a documented sighting of an unusual aerial craft near the base that sparked intense interest and debate.
The United States Air Force asserts that the "alien debris" and "pilots" from the 1947 Roswell incident were actually the wreckage of a Project Mogul balloon and its equipment.
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Holloman Air Force Base, then Alamogordo Army Airfield, was the site where initial tests for Project Mogul balloons were conducted in 1947. The project used long-range balloons for reconnaissance, and the materials from these balloons allegedly match witness descriptions and photographs of the Roswell UFO debris.
In 1971, several individuals, including military personnel, reported witnessing a series of strange UFO sightings at Holloman Air Force Base. The event centered on a supposed landing of an unusual aerial craft.​ Eyewitnesses described an unfamiliar aerial UFO vehicle hovering silently before landing on the ground.​ The event sparked significant interest in alien life, leading to widespread debate about the nature of the sightings.​
Explanations for the event ranged from alien visitors and advanced military technology, to atmospheric phenomena and government cover-ups.
Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Base
There was an investigation in 2019 at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane in Indiana, involving a construction crew discovering an unidentified object on the base, though its nature was not confirmed to be a UFO.
The incident prompted an investigation, and multiple agencies responded to the base.
​The investigation's findings were not publicly released, and the nature of the object was not confirmed to be alien.
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Ex-Green Beret Randy Anderson alleges that he and another green beret, were taken by their military instructors underground in 2014, deep below the Naval Surface Warfare Center military base at Crane, Indiana via an elevator to a high security area.
Below the base, was a room labeled "Off World Technology," and they went inside this room with their instructors, where they were shown a levitating unnatural looking metallic basketball size sphere, with the sphere levitating above a podium.
Randy Anderson said there was an ominous uneasy feeling in the room. He said he was told that the sphere was recovered from a crashed UFO craft, that it was a control mechanism for the craft, and that the sphere interacted with consciousness.
Randy Anderson also saw in this same room, a gauntlet type object lying on a table. The gauntlet had a crystal screen emitting light on top of it, and strange hieroglyphic symbols would appear on the screen that he did not recognize, and they would change.
He did indicate that they look similar to the hieroglyphic symbols that Danny Sheehan has drawn, that he saw on a crashed UFO saucer craft years ago. Randy was told that someone was either injured or died obtaining this gauntlet from its source.​​
Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms Base
The primary involvement of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms with UFOs stems from a 2021 incident where Marines reported seeing a large, silent, triangular-shaped UFO craft with flashing lights hovering over Camp Wilson at the base. The black triangular-shaped UFO, approximately half the size of a football field, that remained stationary in the sky for 10 to 25 minutes before disappearing.
The event gained public attention after investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell released footage and testimony from over 50 witnesses, including Marines. They captured photos and videos of the object, which were later shared by Jeremy Corbell. While some sources suggest it could have been a secret military training exercise or unknown technology, no definitive explanation has been provided, and the incident underscores ongoing public interest and government interest in UFOs.
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​A Department of Defense spokesperson stated that a training exercise was ongoing at the time and the Pentagon's UAP office did not have records of the incident. However, some witnesses noted the object's characteristics, like its silent hovering and size, did not resemble typical flares used in training exercises.
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The incident is part of a larger pattern of interest in UAPs, a term for phenomena that are not yet identified. The government has acknowledged the existence of machines with unknown technology and origin, though the Twentynine Palms sighting has not been officially explained.
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The release of the footage by Jeremy Corbell, brought significant public attention to the event and the ongoing debate surrounding unidentified objects in military airspace.
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In addition, Roderick Castle III, also alleges that he and his team of marines, witnessed a UFO around the same night as the Phoenix Lights UFO incident on March 13, 1997.
Roderick was a marine stationed at the Air Ground Combat Center Marine Base at Twentynine Palms located in San Bernardino County, California, within the Mojave Desert. Specifically, the base is situated near the town of Twentynine Palms. It is the largest Marine Corps base in the world, covering over 1,100 square miles. The base is approximately 266 miles from Phoenix, Arizona.
Roderick saw the UFO at night while out on overnight crash retrieval duty during a wargame exercise from 7 pm to 7 am. Him and his team of 5 marines were sent to investigate unauthorized flare activity in the region within the Emerson Dry Lake Bed, which is 90 miles southeast of Edwards Air Force base, after the base received a call.
When they arrived on the scene, they went up and over a hill, and encountered a huge black equilateral 300 foot long UFO triangle hovering 150-200 feet above the desert ground with no sound. The UFO triangle had 3 white-yellow orb lights embedded into each corner on the bottom, the corners were rounded, there were vent like structures on the sides, and a concave circle in the middle on the bottom.
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Below the UFO craft were about 5-6 unmarked all black matte jacked up F150 and F350 tactical vehicles, with some vehicles having canopies and other antenna, and also a unit of about 30 heavily armed men with sub machine guns, in black unmarked uniforms, black helmets, black goggles, and black facemasks. These men were possibly mercenaries. About 15 of these mercenaries rushed up the hill towards Roderick's marines.
Cheyenne Mountain Complex
No credible evidence has ever proven the involvement of the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in Colorado, with UFOs or aliens, though the highly secretive nature of the base has fueled decades of theories and fictional portrayals.
As a central command center for North American air and space defense, the base is an unsurprising subject for such speculation.
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Alien Corpses: Rumors have long circulated that the complex secretly holds alien bodies and other alien evidence. These claims lack credible sourcing and are based on the base's reputation for deep secrecy.
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Recent UFO Sighting: In February 2022, a former senior intelligence officer named Caison Best, reported a daytime sighting of a "massive, perfectly still, elliptical" UFO hovering near the Cheyenne Mountain Complex.
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Army Whistleblower Report: In September 2025, news emerged that a U.S. Army witness reported a bizarre UFO sighting over the complex.
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Fictional Stargate program: The military science fiction franchise Stargate prominently features the Cheyenne Mountain Complex as the headquarters for its operations involving an alien stargate portal.
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Dulce Base Association: Some conspiracy theories have linked the complex to the alleged Dulce Base in New Mexico, which is said to involve secret experiments with alien life.
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NORAD Tracking: As the headquarters for the North American Aerospace Defense Command, also known as NORAD, the complex has been used to track unidentified objects. In recent years, NORAD has refined its radar systems to detect more anomalous objects. Following the shooting down of several unidentified objects in 2023, NORAD officials stated they had not found any evidence to suggest they were of alien origin.​
