UFO Disclosure? Part 3 - AARO, Grusch, and the UFO Crash Myth
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Four years ago, I made a two-part series on UFO disclosure in which I argued that Tom Delonge and Luis Elizondo were disseminating propaganda from the U.S. military and intelligence community. In this third instalment in the series, we’ll see how military and intelligence officials, as well as some independent researchers, are now disseminating the narrative that the U.S., Russian, and Chinese Governments, as well as some private aerospace companies, have retrieved crashed UFOs and back-engineered their technologies. I argue that this, too, is part of a propaganda campaign that began as early as 1947.
Recent Disclosures
Since 2021, the U.S. government has established two new organizations ostensibly devoted to UFO disclosure. On May 24, 2022, NASA commissioned the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Team, a panel of experts tasked with recommending a methodology for the analysis of publicly available UAP data. The following year, they released a report concluding that there was no evidence that extraterrestrial beings were responsible for UAP events.(1)
On July 20, 2022, the Office of the Secretary of Defense created the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, tasked with identifying UAP reports - including the classified ones - with a focus on their relevance to national security. As of 2026, AARO still claims to be working towards accepting reports from the public.
Suspicions soon emerged about the integrity of AARO’s leadership. The first director, Sean Kirkpatrick, had claimed that he had no prior interest in UFOs, and had not studied them in any official capacity before his hiring. However, in May of 2024, the current owner of Skinwalker Ranch, Brandon Fugal, revealed a photo proving that Kirkpatrick was present at a confidential briefing in 2018 that he had previously denied attending. Fugal alleged that Kirkpatrick stated that everyone there was “very well aware of the reality of the UFO phenomenon.”(2)
In February 2025, AARO released a report that analyzed the popular “Go Fast” UFO video that leaked in 2017, and was later declassified. The authors concluded with “high confidence that the object did not move at anomalous speeds.” However, they did not even guess what the object could have been.(3)
In March 2025, AARO released another report on a UFO filmed in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico in 2013. Again, the AARO report determined that the UFO did not exceed the performance capabilities of human technologies. Despite this, they could only conclude with “moderate confidence” that the objects were sky lanterns. However, prior analysis by the independent group, the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, noted that the object’s speed did not change as it penetrated the surface of the water. Notably, once underwater, the object's thermal image "grew in size momentarily before it split into two parts," which then re-emerged from the water at continuous speed: hardly the behaviour of sky lanterns.(4)
AARO has since turned its attention to the UFO encounter over Montana’s Malmstrom Air Force Base back in 1967: guards saw moving lights above the facility, and soon after, an oval-shaped, glowing red object appeared. At least six of the independently-wired nuclear missiles then switched to an unlaunchable “no go” condition, one after the other. The DoD recently claimed that the glowing red object was a secret test of an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP device, being used to assess the vulnerability of the site. AARO simply deferred to the DoD’s explanation, and it was reported uncritically in corporate press like the Wall Street Journal.(5)
In many respects, AARO is a modern-day Project Blue Book, with the goal being to “explain away” the majority of cases and settle on prosaic explanations. Like those mentioned previously, most of the anomalies that AARO investigated were given prosaic, though often unconvincing resolutions.(6) An FAQ on AARO’s homepage claims that they have found no evidence of extraterrestrial technology.(7)
From November, 2024, to January 2025, there were over 27,000 UFO reports primarily over the northeastern U.S.. Government spokespersons and news outlets almost exclusively referred to the objects as “mystery drones,” despite recently establishing a preference for the term, UAP.
Official responses were mixed: the Homeland Security secretary ruled out foreign technology and emphasized the potential threat; the White House Press Secretary contradicted this, stating that the UFOs posed no national security threat and that such drone activity was authorized by the FAA; the FAA stated that if unknown aircraft aren’t violating regulations they are not investigated. Still, AARO conducted an early investigation and reported that out of 757 UFO reports, only 21 could not be unexplained.(8) It seems that despite raising new concern over military reports, the U.S. government’s response to public UFO sightings is still inconsistent, and uncoordinated.
Luis Elizondo
Since my discussion of Luis Elizondo in my previous disclosure video, the alleged leader of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, has continued to make statements that are contradicted by official documentation. In 2018, Elizondo claimed in a keynote speech for the Mutual UFO network, or MUFON, that the U.S. government spent $22 million on AATIP’s efforts. However, documents have revealed that this sum of money actually went to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. Internal DoD emails obtained by the Black Vault’s John Greenewald in May 2025 do confirm Elizondo’s involvement in handling UFO reports prior to October 2017. However, the emails appeared to contradict Elizondo’s claim to have been an AATIP leader, stating that there were “no funding lines associated with [Elizondo’s] work” and that no “significant resources” were expended.(9)
On May 1, 2025, Luis Elizondo spoke at a Congressional UFO briefing and revealed a potential UFO photo that he claimed had been given to him by a pilot earlier that day. The photo contained what appeared to be a flying saucer casting a shadow on the earth. Within hours, online sleuths pinpointed the photo’s location and identified the supposed UFO and shadow as two irrigation crop circles side-by-side.
Elizondo reiterated that the photo wasn’t vetted, and claimed that he only presented it to make the point that pilots should have a central reporting system. However, it’s difficult to believe that a pilot could have mistaken two irrigation circles - common sights over U.S. farmland - as a UFO, especially considering that the illusion of a disc and shadow is only apparent when the two circles are viewed from the particular angle in the photo. It’s even more difficult to believe that Elizondo - a supposed expert at assessing UFO evidence - could have seen the photo and not immediately recognized it for what it was.(10)
Is it possible that Elizondo only presented this photo because he knew it would soon be explained away? This would certainly fit within AARO’s debunking agenda. We saw in part 2 of this series how Jeremy Corbell leaked a video of a supposed UFO that was convincingly identified as the lights of a plane out of focus. These kinds of straw man disclosures have the effect of making the public believe that the evidence for UFOs is weak, and easily explainable.
Researchers Tupacabra and Red Panda Koala have documented the existence of a harassment campaign aimed at critics of Elizondo. Many of the people doing the harassing, which has included posting photos of Panda’s house and family members, are demonstrably connected to Elizondo in some way or another.
Whistleblowers?
Since my previous videos, a number of new military personnel have come forward to discuss UAP. The first was Alex Dietrich, a fighter pilot who was a second eye-witness to the 2004 “tic-tac” UFO sighting near San Diego.
In 2025, Tim Gallaudet, a retired Navy Rear Admiral, disclosed that he’d once received an “urgent” email recounting several Navy pilots’ near-miss encounters with UFOs. The next day, the email and attached “go fast” video were gone. The “go fast” video was later leaked then declassified, but Gallaudet claimed that the Navy has many such videos of UAP that are not released for study.
Another military veteran came forward in 2023. David Grusch was an Air Force Intelligence officer who worked in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office. From 2019 to 2021, he served on the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force, and he assisted in drafting the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023, which, in part, added legal protection for whistleblowers discussing UFOs. Earlier that year, he went to journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal with claims that the U.S. government had recovered and attempted to reverse-engineer “non-human” spacecraft. Kean and Blumenthal published these claims on The Debrief, an independent website, in June of 2023.
In an interview for News Nation later that year, Grusch claimed that the Pentagon is in possession of videos that are “more concerning” than those leaked in 2017. He also claimed that he’s met people who have direct knowledge of non-human craft, including those involved in the retrieval of downed UFOs and even their dead occupants. Kean disclosed that Grusch did not mention anything about alien bodies ahead of The Debrief article.
Grusch has been critical of what he sees as a UFO coverup. He has supposedly handed officials classified information that proves the UAP retrieval operations were being “illegally shielded” from congressional oversight. He also stated that he believes that people have been killed in service of this coverup, however, he presented no evidence of any specific murders.
Ross Coulthart: “Have people been killed to protect this secret?”
Grusch: “Uh, based on the people I talked to that was an ongoing concern. Yeah, unfortunately I’ve heard some really unamerican things I don’t want to repeat right now.”
Coulthart: “So you have a strong suspicion that people have been murdered to protect this secret?”
Grusch: “Over the years, yeah.”
Like Kirkpatrick and Elizondo, Grusch has made some claims that are contradicted by public evidence. Grusch said that he shared his claims with Kirkpatrick, then the director of AARO, the year prior, but that Kirkpatrick never followed up with him. However, documents that show that Kirkpatrick attempted to arrange a meeting with Grusch for several months. When he finally managed to schedule one, Grusch failed to appear.
Grusch has made claims about historical UFO crashes and retrievals that are dubiously sourced. He drew attention to documents claiming that in 1933, Mussolini's government in Italy recovered a “partially intact vehicle” outside the small city of Magenta. These documents were mailed to Italian researcher, Roberto Pinotti, by an anonymous source in 2000 who claimed that he or she inherited them from a family member who worked on Mussolini's alleged secret UFO program. Italian historians and UFO researchers have yet to find corroborating evidence for this program or the “crash” at Magenta. Grusch went on to claim that the U.S. government had been given the crashed object through contacts at the Vatican in 1944 or ‘45, but Grusch has offered no sources for this knowledge.
All of Grusch’s claims are based on second-hand knowledge: at the time that this video was released, he has presented no direct evidence of any craft retrievals or non-human “biologics,” and NASA and the Department of Defense have both denied the veracity of his claims.
Although Grusch had supposedly left the government by then, Kean and Blumenthal made clear that all of his public disclosures were “cleared for open publication” by the DoD. Grusch has also several times held back information claiming that details were “not approved” for the public, explaining that certain details were to be given only to U.S. intelligence committees and the inspector general. For example, Grusch claimed that he was prohibited from sharing details on the alleged UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, though he did state that a 1994 report by the U.S. Air Force was a “total hack job” intended to disinform the public. The fact that he’s still acting under boundaries established by the DoD calls into question his very status as a whistleblower, and makes one wonder if he might have been put up to the task of “disclosing” some carefully curated information - or disinformation.
Another whistleblower to come forward in 2025 corroborated Grusch’s claims of a crash-retrieval program: Jacob Barber is a veteran military helicopter pilot who says that he was involved in at least two retrieval operations involving objects he could not identify. He claimed that one of these retrievals included an “overwhelming” emotional component where he felt “possessed” by a “beautiful spirit.”
Barber: “Once it was just me and that object, in between the pick and the drop site, there’s about 20 miles in between, I felt like something was inside of me. I felt like I was possessed by the most beautiful spirit I’d ever been possessed by.”
He also claimed that he’d witnessed a UFO come from the ground and saw non-human entities.
The Crash-Retrieval Narrative
The common element to most of the U.S. government’s recent disclosures is the propagation of the narrative that military and private aerospace companies have recovered and at least attempted to reverse-engineer non-human spacecraft. This same narrative has recently been propagated by a few ufologists as well.
In her 2019 book, American Cosmic, scholar of religion, Diana Pasulka, explores Americans’ beliefs about UFOs. Many of her insights were gleaned from a mysterious source that she identifies only as “Tyler.” Tyler is supposedly the CEO of an aerospace company who claims to be able to “download” information from non-human intelligences that help him develop new biotechnologies. He also believes that some sort of technology constructed by these intelligences crashed in the American desert in the late 1940s. believes that in the late 1940s, non-human intelligences deliberately crashed spacecraft into the American desert so that the U.S. government and aerospace industry could back-engineer their technologies.
Pasulka explains how Tyler once took her and scientist Garry Nolan out to an alleged UFO crash site in the New Mexico desert. Together, they searched the ground for crash debris, and sure enough, the team found two metallic artifacts, one of which she described as being like tin foil that would return to its original shape after being crumpled. These artifacts have since been subjected to laboratory analysis, and remain unidentified. Pasulka considered the possibility that the debris was planted, but seems to believe that it was real. Her description of the foil-like debris is strikingly similar to Major Jesse Marcel’s description of the debris allegedly recovered from the Roswell crash. Nolan speculated that non-human intelligences may have deliberately crashed spacecraft into the American desert so that the U.S. government and aerospace industry could back-engineer their technologies. He jokingly referred to the debris that he found with Tyler and Pasulka as a “donation.” During her first appearance on the massively popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Pasulka claimed that this was a widely-held belief among her associates.
Pasulka: “Well they don’t believe that they crashed. They use that term, but they don’t think it’s a crash. They think that it’s - they personally, I’ll tell you from a professor’s standpoint, like - their idea of this is that it’s a donation. They call it the donation site. So they think that these were donated materials, and they’re going to get information. And they do. And that’s how Tyler was able to create a lot of, of the things that he created.”
In the same interview, Pasulka justified allowing U.S. government and industry leaders to set the terms of disclosure. She agreed with official claims that “there’s some sort of national security issue there,” which she respects because, as she put it, she’s an American. In her book, Encounters, Pasulka states that, “As an American citizen I’m not interested in jeopardizing national security, and I respect the process of classification… I know that if something is classified, it is classified for a reason.” In the same book, Pasulka confesses that many colleagues have asked her why she gets access to government sources and information that aren’t available to anyone else, and she admits to being unsure. I would suggest that she was chosen as a conduit of disinformation.
Another notable ufologist has also recently begun propagating the crash retrieval narrative. In 2017, Jacques Vallée was in New Mexico looking for remnants of UFO crashes from the 1940s when researcher Ron Brinkley informed him that a UFO crashed at Trinity on August 16th, 1945.
Vallée published Trinity with Italian investigative journalist and ufologist, Paola Leopizzi Harris, in 2021. The witnesses that they spoke to alleged that a UFO had crashed on their ranch property, and that UFO occupants were seen at the site. They said that the U.S. military led a recovery effort, and that soldiers put the crashed craft under a tarp in the back of a truck, then left it entirely unguarded while they went for lunch. One boy used this opportunity to retrieve several pieces from the wreckage, one of which was described as flexible metal that returned to its original shape after being crumpled. However, only one of the pieces he took is available for scrutiny, and Vallée concluded that it was terrestrial. Writer and ufologist, Kevin Randle, points out the many features that the Trinity case shares with the Roswell crash – including the unfoldable metal - suggesting some contamination from the Roswell lore.
In December of 2020, Vallée appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience, where he discussed his work with alleged UFO debris. However, Vallée was very cagey in answering questions about the debris, which may have been an indication that he was under some sort of a non-disclosure agreement, or otherwise sworn to secrecy.
Recovering “Alien” Tech
Pasulka and Vallée’s work reinforces the same crash-retrieval narrative being propagated by David Grusch and Jacob Barber. As mentioned in a previous video, George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell have recently revived interest in the Bob Lazar case, which also involves the allegation that the U.S. government was back-engineering a crashed UFO. Most recently, Anna Paulina Luna, a U.S. congresswoman representing Florida, told Joe Rogan in August 2025 that she’s seen evidence that the U.S. government has seized non-human technologies and back-engineered them. However, she too had to steer clear of “classified conversations” and admitted that she had never seen any such technology directly.
It strikes me as suspicious that so many different actors - most of whom are sourcing military intelligence - would all suddenly be propagating recycled stories of crashed UFOs and retrieval operations. Why now, nearly 80 years after the alleged crashes occurred? Pasulka’s story is particularly hard to believe: Tyler and others had apparently known about the crash site for decades, and it was even featured in an episode of the X-files, and yet somehow Pasulka found two pieces of wreckage on the first day she was invited to search it. And why would Tyler have invited a scholar of religion to search a crash site in the first place? Wouldn’t this have been a job more suited to a materials scientist or an archeologist?
I believe that some important clues about the motivation behind all these crash retrieval stories are contained in Dan Farah’s recent film, Age of Disclosure. The film features 34 government insiders - including Lue Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, and David Grusch - who claim to have knowledge of UFO crash retrieval operations by the U.S. government, and the governments of other world powers. Hal Putoff, who had recently been a part of Tom Delonge’s To The Stars Academy, even proposed a version of Nolan’s donation theory, suggesting that some of the UFO crashes were deliberate efforts to share alien technology with humanity.
Nearly all of the claims in the film are based on second or third-hand information. That is, no one interviewed in the film claim to have seen any recovered alien technology or biologics directly.
Throughout the film, it is frequently claimed that the U.S. government is locked in what Elizondo calls a “secret war” with rival nations to back-engineer recovered non-human technology. Several of the participants express their desire for the U.S. military to maintain its geopolitical advantage over other nations. In the end, there is a clear call to action: Elizondo pleas for amnesty for those who have lied about UFOs for the past 80 years, and he and others encourage viewers to support the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act, which, among other things, would give the federal government eminent domain, or legal ownership, over all recovered technology and intelligence. Elizondo wants us to forgive military intelligence for their decades-long coverup of the phenomenon while also asking us to give them ownership of anything recovered from a UFO.
To be clear, I very much doubt that there has ever been a UFO crash, and I certainly don’t think that anyone has ever recovered technology from one. I believe that Grusch is either lying, or unwittingly passing along misinformation from other dishonest government actors. I believe that the same is true of most of the figures interviewed in Age of Disclosure, excepting the UFO witnesses. I also believe that “Tyler” is a counterintelligence agent tasked with laundering disinformation through Pasulka. If the U.S. government has truly been hiding alien tech, or alien bodies, then this would be a simple thing to prove. All they would have to do is to release physical samples to the public, or declassify the relevant documentation. Until they do so, or until a whistleblower does so, then all we have is hearsay.
Conclusion
In an earlier video, I recounted the U.S. government’s history of trickery and deception in its approach to the UFO issue. We saw how government operatives have repeatedly attempted to disrupt independent research into UFOs by disseminating disinformation. I would argue that this disruption began with the seeding of the original crash retrieval narrative: the Roswell incident.
On July 8, 1947, just two weeks after Kenneth Arnold’s sighting triggered the “flying saucer frenzy,” a public information officer for the U.S. Army was ordered by his base commander to issue a press release claiming that the Army had recovered debris from the crash of a “flying disc.” The next day, the Army retracted this statement and claimed that the debris had belonged to a weather balloon.
Many Roswell researchers have concluded that lower-level officials were forced by their higher-ups to participate in a coverup of a real flying saucer crash. But there is another explanation: that the U.S. Army, faced with the difficulty of explaining the wave of UFO sightings sweeping across the country, purposely seeded the crash story in order to mislead the public into believing that the phenomenon was extraterrestrial - and strictly physical - in nature. By then denying it the following day, they simultaneously birthed the myth of a coverup, leading a subset of the population to believe, falsely, that the U.S. government was hiding the debris from an alien spaceship, and possibly even alien bodies.
The birth of the Roswell mythos has led ufologists on a decades-long, and mostly fruitless, search for evidence. To this day, none of the debris from the alleged crash at Roswell has ever been made available for public scrutiny, and no credible contemporary documents have emerged to verify the crash retrieval story. Meanwhile, Roswell researchers - and all ufologists, by association - have been branded as delusional conspiracy theorists by the wider public. Could this have been the objective all along?
In the first video in this series, I referenced the case of Bill Moore, who admitted to collaborating with the notorious Air Force counterintelligence agent, Richard Doty. Moore had been one of the early investigators of the Roswell case, and one of the early promoters of the controversial Majestic-12 documents in 1988. These anonymously-delivered documents referenced a secret committee formed by President Truman tasked with concealing the Roswell crash and exploiting recovered technology. Moore and others presented the documents as genuine, though they were widely rejected in the mainstream media, and are thought to be fraudulent by many ufologists today.
Doty later told ufologist, Linda Moulton Howe, that the Majestic-12 story was true, and showed her unidentified documents claiming that gray alien bodies had been recovered at Roswell. Though he promised to show her footage of UFOs and an interview with an alien being, the footage was never produced. More recently, Doty has even claimed that he was offered a job in 2019 to work with Elizondo disseminating disinformation, effectively outing Elizondo as a disinformation agent.
The controversy over the alleged crash at Roswell is eerily similar to the situation that we see unfolding today: just as they were in the 1980s and ‘90s, sources within the U.S. government are trying to convince journalists and ufologists that the military has recovered and back-engineered alien technology from UFOs that crashed in the first half of the twentieth century. We’re repeatedly asked to believe in a few controlled leaks, but never are we shown what we’d need to verify the claims; instead, we’re asked to recommit to the same unsubstantiated narratives, and to redouble our faith in the same channels of disclosure that have not borne fruit in the past.
I would argue that we’re repeating old mistakes by placing our faith in U.S. government operatives - former or otherwise - to tell us what’s true and false. If we choose to trust in these sources, we should ask ourselves: what did trust in the Roswell story, or the Majestic-12 conspiracy, ever yield us? Nearly 80 years later, we still have no crash debris, and no authenticated contemporary documents proving that any such crash occurred. Meanwhile, those seeking to substantiate these narratives have only served to undermine ufology’s credibility with the general public.
But why would U.S. government actors want us to believe that aliens have crashed on Earth, or that the U.S. and other countries have captured their technology? I have already suggested that these claims send ufologists on a wild goose chase, undermining their credibility with the general public. It also leads people to believe that the phenomenon is strictly physical in nature, and comes from outer space: two things I’ve repeatedly doubted on this channel.
But I also believe that these actors are trying to manufacture the consent necessary to make the UAP Disclosure Act law. I view this legislation as a ploy to give the U.S. government the legal means to acquire enemy technology - or civilian technology - that is in advance of their own. For example, under the provisions of the act, if a secret Chinese prototype were to crash, and the U.S. military were to reach the crash site first, they could legally seize the technology, so long as they called the craft a UFO. In fact, they could seize any technology - including that developed by private companies - as long as they claimed that that technology was first recovered from a crash site. And because the act grants them authority to keep UAP-related information classified for 25 years, no one would know the truth of the matter until long after the fact.
But there is also great propaganda value in disseminating stories of back-engineering, in particular. As Pasulka has argued, Americans’ beliefs about UFOs represent a new form of religion, where angels are swapped out for aliens, and divine chariots for UFOs. Nolan and Putoff’s “donation” theory, in particular, represents a new take on the Myth of Prometheus, where an alien gives humanity a revolutionary new power, though it is delivered exclusively to the hands of the U.S. power establishment.
Perhaps, we are witnessing the birth of a new mythology for the coming American space age.
Four years ago, I made a two-part series on UFO disclosure in which I argued that Tom Delonge and Luis Elizondo were disseminating propaganda from the U.S. military and intelligence community. In this third instalment in the series, we’ll see how military and intelligence officials, as well as some independent researchers, are now disseminating the narrative that the U.S., Russian, and Chinese Governments, as well as some private aerospace companies, have retrieved crashed UFOs and back-engineered their technologies. I argue that this, too, is part of a propaganda campaign that began as early as 1947.
Recent Disclosures
Since 2021, the U.S. government has established two new organizations ostensibly devoted to UFO disclosure. On May 24, 2022, NASA commissioned the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Team, a panel of experts tasked with recommending a methodology for the analysis of publicly available UAP data. The following year, they released a report concluding that there was no evidence that extraterrestrial beings were responsible for UAP events.(1)
On July 20, 2022, the Office of the Secretary of Defense created the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, tasked with identifying UAP reports - including the classified ones - with a focus on their relevance to national security. As of 2026, AARO still claims to be working towards accepting reports from the public.
Suspicions soon emerged about the integrity of AARO’s leadership. The first director, Sean Kirkpatrick, had claimed that he had no prior interest in UFOs, and had not studied them in any official capacity before his hiring. However, in May of 2024, the current owner of Skinwalker Ranch, Brandon Fugal, revealed a photo proving that Kirkpatrick was present at a confidential briefing in 2018 that he had previously denied attending. Fugal alleged that Kirkpatrick stated that everyone there was “very well aware of the reality of the UFO phenomenon.”(2)
In February 2025, AARO released a report that analyzed the popular “Go Fast” UFO video that leaked in 2017, and was later declassified. The authors concluded with “high confidence that the object did not move at anomalous speeds.” However, they did not even guess what the object could have been.(3)
In March 2025, AARO released another report on a UFO filmed in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico in 2013. Again, the AARO report determined that the UFO did not exceed the performance capabilities of human technologies. Despite this, they could only conclude with “moderate confidence” that the objects were sky lanterns. However, prior analysis by the independent group, the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, noted that the object’s speed did not change as it penetrated the surface of the water. Notably, once underwater, the object's thermal image "grew in size momentarily before it split into two parts," which then re-emerged from the water at continuous speed: hardly the behaviour of sky lanterns.(4)
AARO has since turned its attention to the UFO encounter over Montana’s Malmstrom Air Force Base back in 1967: guards saw moving lights above the facility, and soon after, an oval-shaped, glowing red object appeared. At least six of the independently-wired nuclear missiles then switched to an unlaunchable “no go” condition, one after the other. The DoD recently claimed that the glowing red object was a secret test of an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP device, being used to assess the vulnerability of the site. AARO simply deferred to the DoD’s explanation, and it was reported uncritically in corporate press like the Wall Street Journal.(5)
In many respects, AARO is a modern-day Project Blue Book, with the goal being to “explain away” the majority of cases and settle on prosaic explanations. Like those mentioned previously, most of the anomalies that AARO investigated were given prosaic, though often unconvincing resolutions.(6) An FAQ on AARO’s homepage claims that they have found no evidence of extraterrestrial technology.(7)
From November, 2024, to January 2025, there were over 27,000 UFO reports primarily over the northeastern U.S.. Government spokespersons and news outlets almost exclusively referred to the objects as “mystery drones,” despite recently establishing a preference for the term, UAP.
Official responses were mixed: the Homeland Security secretary ruled out foreign technology and emphasized the potential threat; the White House Press Secretary contradicted this, stating that the UFOs posed no national security threat and that such drone activity was authorized by the FAA; the FAA stated that if unknown aircraft aren’t violating regulations they are not investigated. Still, AARO conducted an early investigation and reported that out of 757 UFO reports, only 21 could not be unexplained.(8) It seems that despite raising new concern over military reports, the U.S. government’s response to public UFO sightings is still inconsistent, and uncoordinated.
Luis Elizondo
Since my discussion of Luis Elizondo in my previous disclosure video, the alleged leader of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP, has continued to make statements that are contradicted by official documentation. In 2018, Elizondo claimed in a keynote speech for the Mutual UFO network, or MUFON, that the U.S. government spent $22 million on AATIP’s efforts. However, documents have revealed that this sum of money actually went to the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program. Internal DoD emails obtained by the Black Vault’s John Greenewald in May 2025 do confirm Elizondo’s involvement in handling UFO reports prior to October 2017. However, the emails appeared to contradict Elizondo’s claim to have been an AATIP leader, stating that there were “no funding lines associated with [Elizondo’s] work” and that no “significant resources” were expended.(9)
On May 1, 2025, Luis Elizondo spoke at a Congressional UFO briefing and revealed a potential UFO photo that he claimed had been given to him by a pilot earlier that day. The photo contained what appeared to be a flying saucer casting a shadow on the earth. Within hours, online sleuths pinpointed the photo’s location and identified the supposed UFO and shadow as two irrigation crop circles side-by-side.
Elizondo reiterated that the photo wasn’t vetted, and claimed that he only presented it to make the point that pilots should have a central reporting system. However, it’s difficult to believe that a pilot could have mistaken two irrigation circles - common sights over U.S. farmland - as a UFO, especially considering that the illusion of a disc and shadow is only apparent when the two circles are viewed from the particular angle in the photo. It’s even more difficult to believe that Elizondo - a supposed expert at assessing UFO evidence - could have seen the photo and not immediately recognized it for what it was.(10)
Is it possible that Elizondo only presented this photo because he knew it would soon be explained away? This would certainly fit within AARO’s debunking agenda. We saw in part 2 of this series how Jeremy Corbell leaked a video of a supposed UFO that was convincingly identified as the lights of a plane out of focus. These kinds of straw man disclosures have the effect of making the public believe that the evidence for UFOs is weak, and easily explainable.
Researchers Tupacabra and Red Panda Koala have documented the existence of a harassment campaign aimed at critics of Elizondo. Many of the people doing the harassing, which has included posting photos of Panda’s house and family members, are demonstrably connected to Elizondo in some way or another.
Whistleblowers?
Since my previous videos, a number of new military personnel have come forward to discuss UAP. The first was Alex Dietrich, a fighter pilot who was a second eye-witness to the 2004 “tic-tac” UFO sighting near San Diego.
In 2025, Tim Gallaudet, a retired Navy Rear Admiral, disclosed that he’d once received an “urgent” email recounting several Navy pilots’ near-miss encounters with UFOs. The next day, the email and attached “go fast” video were gone. The “go fast” video was later leaked then declassified, but Gallaudet claimed that the Navy has many such videos of UAP that are not released for study.
Another military veteran came forward in 2023. David Grusch was an Air Force Intelligence officer who worked in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office. From 2019 to 2021, he served on the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force, and he assisted in drafting the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023, which, in part, added legal protection for whistleblowers discussing UFOs. Earlier that year, he went to journalists Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal with claims that the U.S. government had recovered and attempted to reverse-engineer “non-human” spacecraft. Kean and Blumenthal published these claims on The Debrief, an independent website, in June of 2023.
In an interview for News Nation later that year, Grusch claimed that the Pentagon is in possession of videos that are “more concerning” than those leaked in 2017. He also claimed that he’s met people who have direct knowledge of non-human craft, including those involved in the retrieval of downed UFOs and even their dead occupants. Kean disclosed that Grusch did not mention anything about alien bodies ahead of The Debrief article.
Grusch has been critical of what he sees as a UFO coverup. He has supposedly handed officials classified information that proves the UAP retrieval operations were being “illegally shielded” from congressional oversight. He also stated that he believes that people have been killed in service of this coverup, however, he presented no evidence of any specific murders.
Ross Coulthart: “Have people been killed to protect this secret?”
Grusch: “Uh, based on the people I talked to that was an ongoing concern. Yeah, unfortunately I’ve heard some really unamerican things I don’t want to repeat right now.”
Coulthart: “So you have a strong suspicion that people have been murdered to protect this secret?”
Grusch: “Over the years, yeah.”
Like Kirkpatrick and Elizondo, Grusch has made some claims that are contradicted by public evidence. Grusch said that he shared his claims with Kirkpatrick, then the director of AARO, the year prior, but that Kirkpatrick never followed up with him. However, documents that show that Kirkpatrick attempted to arrange a meeting with Grusch for several months. When he finally managed to schedule one, Grusch failed to appear.
Grusch has made claims about historical UFO crashes and retrievals that are dubiously sourced. He drew attention to documents claiming that in 1933, Mussolini's government in Italy recovered a “partially intact vehicle” outside the small city of Magenta. These documents were mailed to Italian researcher, Roberto Pinotti, by an anonymous source in 2000 who claimed that he or she inherited them from a family member who worked on Mussolini's alleged secret UFO program. Italian historians and UFO researchers have yet to find corroborating evidence for this program or the “crash” at Magenta. Grusch went on to claim that the U.S. government had been given the crashed object through contacts at the Vatican in 1944 or ‘45, but Grusch has offered no sources for this knowledge.
All of Grusch’s claims are based on second-hand knowledge: at the time that this video was released, he has presented no direct evidence of any craft retrievals or non-human “biologics,” and NASA and the Department of Defense have both denied the veracity of his claims.
Although Grusch had supposedly left the government by then, Kean and Blumenthal made clear that all of his public disclosures were “cleared for open publication” by the DoD. Grusch has also several times held back information claiming that details were “not approved” for the public, explaining that certain details were to be given only to U.S. intelligence committees and the inspector general. For example, Grusch claimed that he was prohibited from sharing details on the alleged UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, though he did state that a 1994 report by the U.S. Air Force was a “total hack job” intended to disinform the public. The fact that he’s still acting under boundaries established by the DoD calls into question his very status as a whistleblower, and makes one wonder if he might have been put up to the task of “disclosing” some carefully curated information - or disinformation.
Another whistleblower to come forward in 2025 corroborated Grusch’s claims of a crash-retrieval program: Jacob Barber is a veteran military helicopter pilot who says that he was involved in at least two retrieval operations involving objects he could not identify. He claimed that one of these retrievals included an “overwhelming” emotional component where he felt “possessed” by a “beautiful spirit.”
Barber: “Once it was just me and that object, in between the pick and the drop site, there’s about 20 miles in between, I felt like something was inside of me. I felt like I was possessed by the most beautiful spirit I’d ever been possessed by.”
He also claimed that he’d witnessed a UFO come from the ground and saw non-human entities.
The Crash-Retrieval Narrative
The common element to most of the U.S. government’s recent disclosures is the propagation of the narrative that military and private aerospace companies have recovered and at least attempted to reverse-engineer non-human spacecraft. This same narrative has recently been propagated by a few ufologists as well.
In her 2019 book, American Cosmic, scholar of religion, Diana Pasulka, explores Americans’ beliefs about UFOs. Many of her insights were gleaned from a mysterious source that she identifies only as “Tyler.” Tyler is supposedly the CEO of an aerospace company who claims to be able to “download” information from non-human intelligences that help him develop new biotechnologies. He also believes that some sort of technology constructed by these intelligences crashed in the American desert in the late 1940s. believes that in the late 1940s, non-human intelligences deliberately crashed spacecraft into the American desert so that the U.S. government and aerospace industry could back-engineer their technologies.
Pasulka explains how Tyler once took her and scientist Garry Nolan out to an alleged UFO crash site in the New Mexico desert. Together, they searched the ground for crash debris, and sure enough, the team found two metallic artifacts, one of which she described as being like tin foil that would return to its original shape after being crumpled. These artifacts have since been subjected to laboratory analysis, and remain unidentified. Pasulka considered the possibility that the debris was planted, but seems to believe that it was real. Her description of the foil-like debris is strikingly similar to Major Jesse Marcel’s description of the debris allegedly recovered from the Roswell crash. Nolan speculated that non-human intelligences may have deliberately crashed spacecraft into the American desert so that the U.S. government and aerospace industry could back-engineer their technologies. He jokingly referred to the debris that he found with Tyler and Pasulka as a “donation.” During her first appearance on the massively popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast, Pasulka claimed that this was a widely-held belief among her associates.
Pasulka: “Well they don’t believe that they crashed. They use that term, but they don’t think it’s a crash. They think that it’s - they personally, I’ll tell you from a professor’s standpoint, like - their idea of this is that it’s a donation. They call it the donation site. So they think that these were donated materials, and they’re going to get information. And they do. And that’s how Tyler was able to create a lot of, of the things that he created.”
In the same interview, Pasulka justified allowing U.S. government and industry leaders to set the terms of disclosure. She agreed with official claims that “there’s some sort of national security issue there,” which she respects because, as she put it, she’s an American. In her book, Encounters, Pasulka states that, “As an American citizen I’m not interested in jeopardizing national security, and I respect the process of classification… I know that if something is classified, it is classified for a reason.” In the same book, Pasulka confesses that many colleagues have asked her why she gets access to government sources and information that aren’t available to anyone else, and she admits to being unsure. I would suggest that she was chosen as a conduit of disinformation.
Another notable ufologist has also recently begun propagating the crash retrieval narrative. In 2017, Jacques Vallée was in New Mexico looking for remnants of UFO crashes from the 1940s when researcher Ron Brinkley informed him that a UFO crashed at Trinity on August 16th, 1945.
Vallée published Trinity with Italian investigative journalist and ufologist, Paola Leopizzi Harris, in 2021. The witnesses that they spoke to alleged that a UFO had crashed on their ranch property, and that UFO occupants were seen at the site. They said that the U.S. military led a recovery effort, and that soldiers put the crashed craft under a tarp in the back of a truck, then left it entirely unguarded while they went for lunch. One boy used this opportunity to retrieve several pieces from the wreckage, one of which was described as flexible metal that returned to its original shape after being crumpled. However, only one of the pieces he took is available for scrutiny, and Vallée concluded that it was terrestrial. Writer and ufologist, Kevin Randle, points out the many features that the Trinity case shares with the Roswell crash – including the unfoldable metal - suggesting some contamination from the Roswell lore.
In December of 2020, Vallée appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience, where he discussed his work with alleged UFO debris. However, Vallée was very cagey in answering questions about the debris, which may have been an indication that he was under some sort of a non-disclosure agreement, or otherwise sworn to secrecy.
Recovering “Alien” Tech
Pasulka and Vallée’s work reinforces the same crash-retrieval narrative being propagated by David Grusch and Jacob Barber. As mentioned in a previous video, George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell have recently revived interest in the Bob Lazar case, which also involves the allegation that the U.S. government was back-engineering a crashed UFO. Most recently, Anna Paulina Luna, a U.S. congresswoman representing Florida, told Joe Rogan in August 2025 that she’s seen evidence that the U.S. government has seized non-human technologies and back-engineered them. However, she too had to steer clear of “classified conversations” and admitted that she had never seen any such technology directly.
It strikes me as suspicious that so many different actors - most of whom are sourcing military intelligence - would all suddenly be propagating recycled stories of crashed UFOs and retrieval operations. Why now, nearly 80 years after the alleged crashes occurred? Pasulka’s story is particularly hard to believe: Tyler and others had apparently known about the crash site for decades, and it was even featured in an episode of the X-files, and yet somehow Pasulka found two pieces of wreckage on the first day she was invited to search it. And why would Tyler have invited a scholar of religion to search a crash site in the first place? Wouldn’t this have been a job more suited to a materials scientist or an archeologist?
I believe that some important clues about the motivation behind all these crash retrieval stories are contained in Dan Farah’s recent film, Age of Disclosure. The film features 34 government insiders - including Lue Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, and David Grusch - who claim to have knowledge of UFO crash retrieval operations by the U.S. government, and the governments of other world powers. Hal Putoff, who had recently been a part of Tom Delonge’s To The Stars Academy, even proposed a version of Nolan’s donation theory, suggesting that some of the UFO crashes were deliberate efforts to share alien technology with humanity.
Nearly all of the claims in the film are based on second or third-hand information. That is, no one interviewed in the film claim to have seen any recovered alien technology or biologics directly.
Throughout the film, it is frequently claimed that the U.S. government is locked in what Elizondo calls a “secret war” with rival nations to back-engineer recovered non-human technology. Several of the participants express their desire for the U.S. military to maintain its geopolitical advantage over other nations. In the end, there is a clear call to action: Elizondo pleas for amnesty for those who have lied about UFOs for the past 80 years, and he and others encourage viewers to support the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act, which, among other things, would give the federal government eminent domain, or legal ownership, over all recovered technology and intelligence. Elizondo wants us to forgive military intelligence for their decades-long coverup of the phenomenon while also asking us to give them ownership of anything recovered from a UFO.
To be clear, I very much doubt that there has ever been a UFO crash, and I certainly don’t think that anyone has ever recovered technology from one. I believe that Grusch is either lying, or unwittingly passing along misinformation from other dishonest government actors. I believe that the same is true of most of the figures interviewed in Age of Disclosure, excepting the UFO witnesses. I also believe that “Tyler” is a counterintelligence agent tasked with laundering disinformation through Pasulka. If the U.S. government has truly been hiding alien tech, or alien bodies, then this would be a simple thing to prove. All they would have to do is to release physical samples to the public, or declassify the relevant documentation. Until they do so, or until a whistleblower does so, then all we have is hearsay.
Conclusion
In an earlier video, I recounted the U.S. government’s history of trickery and deception in its approach to the UFO issue. We saw how government operatives have repeatedly attempted to disrupt independent research into UFOs by disseminating disinformation. I would argue that this disruption began with the seeding of the original crash retrieval narrative: the Roswell incident.
On July 8, 1947, just two weeks after Kenneth Arnold’s sighting triggered the “flying saucer frenzy,” a public information officer for the U.S. Army was ordered by his base commander to issue a press release claiming that the Army had recovered debris from the crash of a “flying disc.” The next day, the Army retracted this statement and claimed that the debris had belonged to a weather balloon.
Many Roswell researchers have concluded that lower-level officials were forced by their higher-ups to participate in a coverup of a real flying saucer crash. But there is another explanation: that the U.S. Army, faced with the difficulty of explaining the wave of UFO sightings sweeping across the country, purposely seeded the crash story in order to mislead the public into believing that the phenomenon was extraterrestrial - and strictly physical - in nature. By then denying it the following day, they simultaneously birthed the myth of a coverup, leading a subset of the population to believe, falsely, that the U.S. government was hiding the debris from an alien spaceship, and possibly even alien bodies.
The birth of the Roswell mythos has led ufologists on a decades-long, and mostly fruitless, search for evidence. To this day, none of the debris from the alleged crash at Roswell has ever been made available for public scrutiny, and no credible contemporary documents have emerged to verify the crash retrieval story. Meanwhile, Roswell researchers - and all ufologists, by association - have been branded as delusional conspiracy theorists by the wider public. Could this have been the objective all along?
In the first video in this series, I referenced the case of Bill Moore, who admitted to collaborating with the notorious Air Force counterintelligence agent, Richard Doty. Moore had been one of the early investigators of the Roswell case, and one of the early promoters of the controversial Majestic-12 documents in 1988. These anonymously-delivered documents referenced a secret committee formed by President Truman tasked with concealing the Roswell crash and exploiting recovered technology. Moore and others presented the documents as genuine, though they were widely rejected in the mainstream media, and are thought to be fraudulent by many ufologists today.
Doty later told ufologist, Linda Moulton Howe, that the Majestic-12 story was true, and showed her unidentified documents claiming that gray alien bodies had been recovered at Roswell. Though he promised to show her footage of UFOs and an interview with an alien being, the footage was never produced. More recently, Doty has even claimed that he was offered a job in 2019 to work with Elizondo disseminating disinformation, effectively outing Elizondo as a disinformation agent.
The controversy over the alleged crash at Roswell is eerily similar to the situation that we see unfolding today: just as they were in the 1980s and ‘90s, sources within the U.S. government are trying to convince journalists and ufologists that the military has recovered and back-engineered alien technology from UFOs that crashed in the first half of the twentieth century. We’re repeatedly asked to believe in a few controlled leaks, but never are we shown what we’d need to verify the claims; instead, we’re asked to recommit to the same unsubstantiated narratives, and to redouble our faith in the same channels of disclosure that have not borne fruit in the past.
I would argue that we’re repeating old mistakes by placing our faith in U.S. government operatives - former or otherwise - to tell us what’s true and false. If we choose to trust in these sources, we should ask ourselves: what did trust in the Roswell story, or the Majestic-12 conspiracy, ever yield us? Nearly 80 years later, we still have no crash debris, and no authenticated contemporary documents proving that any such crash occurred. Meanwhile, those seeking to substantiate these narratives have only served to undermine ufology’s credibility with the general public.
But why would U.S. government actors want us to believe that aliens have crashed on Earth, or that the U.S. and other countries have captured their technology? I have already suggested that these claims send ufologists on a wild goose chase, undermining their credibility with the general public. It also leads people to believe that the phenomenon is strictly physical in nature, and comes from outer space: two things I’ve repeatedly doubted on this channel.
But I also believe that these actors are trying to manufacture the consent necessary to make the UAP Disclosure Act law. I view this legislation as a ploy to give the U.S. government the legal means to acquire enemy technology - or civilian technology - that is in advance of their own. For example, under the provisions of the act, if a secret Chinese prototype were to crash, and the U.S. military were to reach the crash site first, they could legally seize the technology, so long as they called the craft a UFO. In fact, they could seize any technology - including that developed by private companies - as long as they claimed that that technology was first recovered from a crash site. And because the act grants them authority to keep UAP-related information classified for 25 years, no one would know the truth of the matter until long after the fact.
But there is also great propaganda value in disseminating stories of back-engineering, in particular. As Pasulka has argued, Americans’ beliefs about UFOs represent a new form of religion, where angels are swapped out for aliens, and divine chariots for UFOs. Nolan and Putoff’s “donation” theory, in particular, represents a new take on the Myth of Prometheus, where an alien gives humanity a revolutionary new power, though it is delivered exclusively to the hands of the U.S. power establishment.
Perhaps, we are witnessing the birth of a new mythology for the coming American space age.
Notes:
1) Brett Tingley, “NASA UFO report finds no evidence of 'extraterrestrial origin' for UAP sightings,” Space.com, September 14, 2023, https://space.com/nasa-ufo-uap-study-team-first-results-revealed; NASA, “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Team Report,” NASA.gov, September 14, 2023, https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/uap-independent-study-team-final-report.pdf.
2) During the meeting, Kirkpatrick went on to encourage Fugal to “dispense with any part of your presentation that would seek to convince us of the reality because we already know.” Stephanie Dwilson, “Fugal’s Proof Disproves Kirkpatrick’s Denial of Secret Skinwalker Ranch Meeting,” PostapocalypticMedia.com, May 27, 2024,
https://postapocalypticmedia.com/fugal-kirpatrick-skinwalker-ranch-meeting. AARO, https://www.aaro.mil, Accessed April, 2026.
3) The report also leaves an unusually wide estimate for the object’s speed: between 5 mph and 92 mph. John Greenewald, “Pentagon Releases AARO Report on ‘Go Fast’ Video Analysis,” The Black Vault, February 10, 2025, https://theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-releases-aaro-report-on-go-fast-video-analysis.
4) AARO, https://www.aaro.mil; John Greenewald, “DoD Report Says Aguadilla UFO Was Just Sky Lanterns; Previous Scientific Studies Claim Otherwise.” TheBlackVault.com, March 20, 2025. https://theblackvault.com/documentarchive/dod-report-says-aguadilla-ufo-was-just-sky-lanterns-previous-scientific-studies-claim-otherwise; Scientific Coalition of UAP Studies, “2013 Aguadilla Puerto Rico UAP Incident: A Detailed Analysis,” ExploreSCU.org, Aug 15, 2018, Updated: May 23, 2024, https://explorescu.org/post/2013-aguadilla-puerto-rico-uap-incident-report-a-detailed-analysis.
5) Joel Schectman and Aruna Viswanatha, “The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology,” Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2025, https://wsj.com/politics/national-security/ufo-us-disinformation-45376f7e, read at
https://msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-pentagon-disinformation-that-fueled-america-s-ufo-mythology/ar-AA1GfrNv; Kevin Wright, “Using the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon is Gaslighting the Public on UFOs—Again,” NewParadigmInstitute.org, June 7, 2025, https://newparadigminstitute.org/learn/library/using-the-wall-street-journal-the-pentagon-is-gaslighting-the-public-on-ufos-again; Bill Kaufmann, “Nearly six decades after seminal Montana UFO incidents, air force vets brief Pentagon,” CalgaryHerald.com, March 26, 2023, updated Mar 27, 2023,
https://calgaryherald.com/news/seminal-montana-ufo-events-pentagon; Robert Salas in, “Incident at Malmstrom - Captain Robert Salas / Disclosure Project Witness Testimony Archive,” Abundance of Energy, June 21, 2013, YouTube video, 25:09, https://youtube.com/watch?v=nc-dBRT1JkY.
6) Another questionable debunking from AARO is Florida’s UFO sighted at Eglin Air Force Base in January 2024 was just a balloon, Stephanie Dwilson, “Congressman Speaks Out: AARO Hiding Truth About UFO Sighting in Florida,” PostapocalypticMedia.com, April 27, 2024, https://postapocalypticmedia.com/congressman-aaro-hiding-truth-about-ufo.
7) AARO, https://www.aaro.mil.
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1) Brett Tingley, “NASA UFO report finds no evidence of 'extraterrestrial origin' for UAP sightings,” Space.com, September 14, 2023, https://space.com/nasa-ufo-uap-study-team-first-results-revealed; NASA, “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Team Report,” NASA.gov, September 14, 2023, https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/uap-independent-study-team-final-report.pdf.
2) During the meeting, Kirkpatrick went on to encourage Fugal to “dispense with any part of your presentation that would seek to convince us of the reality because we already know.” Stephanie Dwilson, “Fugal’s Proof Disproves Kirkpatrick’s Denial of Secret Skinwalker Ranch Meeting,” PostapocalypticMedia.com, May 27, 2024,
https://postapocalypticmedia.com/fugal-kirpatrick-skinwalker-ranch-meeting. AARO, https://www.aaro.mil, Accessed April, 2026.
3) The report also leaves an unusually wide estimate for the object’s speed: between 5 mph and 92 mph. John Greenewald, “Pentagon Releases AARO Report on ‘Go Fast’ Video Analysis,” The Black Vault, February 10, 2025, https://theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-releases-aaro-report-on-go-fast-video-analysis.
4) AARO, https://www.aaro.mil; John Greenewald, “DoD Report Says Aguadilla UFO Was Just Sky Lanterns; Previous Scientific Studies Claim Otherwise.” TheBlackVault.com, March 20, 2025. https://theblackvault.com/documentarchive/dod-report-says-aguadilla-ufo-was-just-sky-lanterns-previous-scientific-studies-claim-otherwise; Scientific Coalition of UAP Studies, “2013 Aguadilla Puerto Rico UAP Incident: A Detailed Analysis,” ExploreSCU.org, Aug 15, 2018, Updated: May 23, 2024, https://explorescu.org/post/2013-aguadilla-puerto-rico-uap-incident-report-a-detailed-analysis.
5) Joel Schectman and Aruna Viswanatha, “The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology,” Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2025, https://wsj.com/politics/national-security/ufo-us-disinformation-45376f7e, read at
https://msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-pentagon-disinformation-that-fueled-america-s-ufo-mythology/ar-AA1GfrNv; Kevin Wright, “Using the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon is Gaslighting the Public on UFOs—Again,” NewParadigmInstitute.org, June 7, 2025, https://newparadigminstitute.org/learn/library/using-the-wall-street-journal-the-pentagon-is-gaslighting-the-public-on-ufos-again; Bill Kaufmann, “Nearly six decades after seminal Montana UFO incidents, air force vets brief Pentagon,” CalgaryHerald.com, March 26, 2023, updated Mar 27, 2023,
https://calgaryherald.com/news/seminal-montana-ufo-events-pentagon; Robert Salas in, “Incident at Malmstrom - Captain Robert Salas / Disclosure Project Witness Testimony Archive,” Abundance of Energy, June 21, 2013, YouTube video, 25:09, https://youtube.com/watch?v=nc-dBRT1JkY.
6) Another questionable debunking from AARO is Florida’s UFO sighted at Eglin Air Force Base in January 2024 was just a balloon, Stephanie Dwilson, “Congressman Speaks Out: AARO Hiding Truth About UFO Sighting in Florida,” PostapocalypticMedia.com, April 27, 2024, https://postapocalypticmedia.com/congressman-aaro-hiding-truth-about-ufo.
7) AARO, https://www.aaro.mil.
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Dwilson, Stephanie. “Fugal’s Proof Disproves Kirkpatrick’s Denial of Secret Skinwalker Ranch Meeting“ PostapocalypticMedia.com, May 27, 2024,
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Kaufmann, Bill. “Nearly six decades after seminal Montana UFO incidents, air force vets brief Pentagon”, CalgaryHerald.com, March 26, 2023, updated Mar 27, 2023, https://calgaryherald.com/news/seminal-montana-ufo-events-pentagon.
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“Understanding UAP: Science, National Security & Innovation (House Oversight and Government Reform)”, UAP Disclosure Fund, YouTube video, 3:28:37, May 7, 2025, https://youtube.com/live/XVdux73iJEk.
Walsh, Marcus. “Is the Tic Tac ours? UAP experts clash over Lockheed Martin claims and secret tech” July 16, 2025 https://cybernews.com/tech/ufo-uap-coulthart-lockheed-martin.
Wright, Kevin. “Using the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon is Gaslighting the Public on UFOs—Again” June 7, 2025, https://newparadigminstitute.org/learn/library/using-the-wall-street-journal-the-pentagon-is-gaslighting-the-public-on-ufos-again.
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