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🚨TRUMP SAYS HE HASN'T HEARD ABOUT THE SECRET UFO PROGRAM, BUT A DOCUMENT SUBMITTED TO CONGRESS CLAIMS HE WAS BRIEFED YEARS AGO

A document submitted to Congress by Tim Burchett during the November 2024 UAP hearing, has an interesting claim concerning Donald Trump, the CIA and the alleged legacy crash retrieval program.

The 21 page document contains historical Air Force, CIA and FBI records, but the first page is a statement that was cleared for public release by the DOD on September 6, 2023. It details what former presidents were told with regards to the legacy program, and names people involved in an attempt to transfer recovered UFO material from Lockheed Martin into the AAWSAP research program.

According to the unidentified author, Barack Obama requested a briefing after leaving office because he wanted to find out what information had been withheld from him during his presidency. The author also claims that Donald Trump received an unofficial briefing from several CIA officers midway through his first administration, because the people controlling the legacy program didn't trust him.

The statement goes on to claim that Trump was disturbed by what he was told and decided against pursuing disclosure at the time.

Now compare that to what Trump said during his November 8, 2026 interview on 60 Minutes.

When Ross Douthat asked whether he'd seen evidence of the secret government UFO program that whistleblowers claim has operated outside presidential oversight, Trump replied, "No. And I haven't heard that." He then said that if such a program existed, he intended to find out about it.

Sources:

Congressional document submitted by Tim Burchett, November 13, 2024:
https://t.co/lWIWWmSv74

AARO Historical Record Report, Volume I, March 2024:
https://t.co/ESZ6TjlmpD

Trump's November 8, 2026 60 Minutes interview:
https://t.co/VupkyQvZE0

#ufotwitter #uapX #UFO #UAP #UFODisclosure #Trump #CIA #LockheedMartin #AAWSAP #Congress

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@GeneralMCNews What in the world for?

Are they also threatening to take out the secretaries of labor and commerce for good measure?

[Missileman @MinuteofZombie]

So, @timburchett / @EricBurlison

What exactly is the deal here?

Both of you have claimed to have spoken to @POTUS about the legacy program and UFO secrecy.

@RepLuna you have personally claimed that PURSUE has a presidential mandate to declassify UFO evidence.

@StephenM has been the senior Whitehouse contact for the UAP Governance Board and is now the WH Chief of Staff.

@PeteHegseth has had private meetings about investment opportunities related to UAP reverse engineered technology, @DCSAgov @FBIWFO

You may also want to speak with @DevinNunes and Kevin McGurn

@FBI, @ODNIgov, @DHSgov, @CIA, @DefenseIntel, @DeptofWar and @StateDept HAVE ALL sat down down with @UAPSAC and its chair @ProfAviLoeb and discussed UFO whistleblower complaints and classified testimonies at length.

@JDVance has spoken publicly about the allegations.

@elonmusk has spoken to @realErikDPrince about it.

So who exactly is lying?

Who is being lied to?

Who is not being told?

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@Cortex_Zero Wouldn't it be cool if the press actually knew how to ask questions about this topic:

"Sir, a DIA senior executive recently claimed in a public statement the US has recovered over 12 non-human craft. Have you ever been briefed on this program, and if so, what were you told?"

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@vanalex_hex_i @DAVID19Vincent @TheUfoJoe @Douthat60 Fair point, a national address dealing with this topic exclusively would be far more impactful.

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@TheUfoJoe @Douthat60 "Sir, we have an adapted response protocol should you be asked about this by members of the press: use the example of fighter pilots describing strange vectors they've witnessed, but deny any and all knowledge of legacy programs."

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@thealthype David Grusch's assertions during several recent interviews are particularly relevant to this point. Specifically, that US, China and Russia are locked in a multi-decade covert ET weapons race with US special access programs falling behind due to excessive compartmentalization.

[D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson]

ALIEN PHOTOS AND YANKEE BLUE

In July 2026, I submitted a number of written questions to former AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick, as part of my research for an article that I haven't published yet.

One of my questions (#1) pertained to photos that a number of people claim to have seen, purportedly depicting recovered non-human vehicles and/or bodies. As an example, I quoted this statement by David Grusch: "I did get access to crash retrieval photos and everything. So I’ve seen the recovered vehicles and everything...I got a small smattering, a sample of that, of ones that have landed or crashed on the surface of the Earth." (Fox News Big Weekend Show, June 13, 2026) The core of my question #1 was: "Let us assume for the sake of discussion that at least some of those individuals, while holding security clearances and in some cases while serving as active intelligence officers, did indeed view in classified settings images that they sincerely believe depicted craft of nonhuman origin and/or bodies of nonhuman beings. I have to wonder: What did they see?"

I also asked Kirkpatrick, as Question #2, if he could offer any specifics that might help those filing FOIAs to locate government records pertaining to the "Yankee Blue" fake-alien enterprise that he and former AARO Deputy Director Tim Phillips said they had discovered. Kirkpatrick has spoken of the Yankee Blue matter in the Wall Street Journal in mid-2025, and in an April 2026 speech. But the matter was kept out of AARO's March 2024 Volume I historical report, ostensibly to allow the Air Force inspector general to fully investigate the matter, and the volume 2 historical report is two years overdue. The Pentagon has mysteriously failed to locate records documenting Yankee Blue in response to FOIA requests.

Kirkpatrick provided on-the-record answers in an email dated July 19, 2026. Note that this was about three months before the publication of the book "Out of the Shadows" by former UAP Task Force Director @jaystratton. The book includes Stratton's account of a briefing he gave to Kirkpatrick in 2020 at USSPACECOM (on page 200). Because Kirkpatrick discusses the same meeting, and also answered my question about Yankee Blue records, and because my intended article is not yet ready for publication, I've decided to publish Kirkpatrick's responses now as additional data points for those studying and debating the relevant histories.

Sean Kirkpatrick's answers to my Questions #1 and #2 appear verbatim below. I offer no comments of my own here; when I transmit someone's answers that does not mean that I endorse them. When I want to express an opinion on something, I will do so explicitly.

In the meantime, Kirkpatrick's answers are data points. Compare and contrast them with information from other sources. If you have pertinent comments on his specific answers or the underlying subjects (those being purported photos of in-custody nonhuman craft or bodies, the Kirkpatrick-Stratton encounter at USSPACECOM, and Yankee Blue), state your observations in a straightforward manner, or make your arguments on the merits. Those who instead post here ad hominem attacks on Kirkpatrick, Stratton, Phillips, David Grusch, or others, will probably be blocked. This is not a thread about Skinwalker Ranch, or briefings and claims associated therewith.

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ANSWERS BY SEAN KIRKPATRICK (July 19, 2026):

1. Jay Stratton briefed me while I was at USSPACECOM. I’d known him before. He showed me everything he had and what he had gathered at the time was nothing more than the collection of videos and frames pulled from the videos that have already been released to the public. He had briefed me to get my review of their analysis, and to be a reviewer of his first task force report [the UAP Task Force]. The analysis needed a lot of work and the report, when provided, was filled with unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, most of which were written by Grusch who worked with Stratton at the time. The report had to be massively corrected/rewritten (others did that, not me, I just provided edits and comments).

As for pictures of crafts or bodies, he had none to share. Frankly, neither did anyone else, just stories. What I saw from Yankee Blue showed a real photograph on what looked to be a saucer shape with someone in a lab coat standing over it. Since it was a real photograph, people would accept it for what they see in it. If you look at it and are told that’s an alien craft, you’d probably believe it at first review. The mind sees what it wants to believe. It’s not until you learn that it is a photograph of the heat shield of the lunar lander upside down that your mind sees the truth.

If Grusch (or anyone else) saw these alleged pictures, then where are they? Who showed them to him? Where did he see them? What organization? When? I suspect his answer will be “it’s classified and I can’t share it.” BS. He had and still has an opportunity to share with the Director AARO who is cleared and has authorities to view. No such information has been shared by him or anyone.

2. I was present with the Secretary of the Air Force when he directed his staff to take action [regarding Yankee Blue]. Other than the ensuing IG review I do not know what form that action took. It was also nearing the change in administration and subsequently the change in AF [Air Force] leadership, and there was a lot lost in translation.

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@UfosAroundWorld Yeah man, the ego on those deluded abductees
..thinking their sperm is so special.

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@MiddleOfMayhem Are you implying losing one of your favorite dart boards would've left you in mourning?

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@Felipe4Evr @UAPWixy Doty only came clean after Bill Moore outed him during a MUFON conference in '89.

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@uncertainvector @UAPDr Thank you, Ryan

Informed opinions are hard to come by on this system.

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@SicCoP1 Hard to consider him to be much a credible source on anything after this insane rant.
https://t.co/RH7PtzZYJK

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.

Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.

To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.

The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.

And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.

We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.

Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.

They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.

One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@michaelshermer @jaystratton That's not how Hollywood works, Michael.

It's closer to the stock market ..identify a conspiracy as yet unproven, then fan the flames with rumor and insinuation in hopes of blowing it open and cashing out on the back end.

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@NicolaKegel @GuntherEagleman The Colares flap took place 20 years before Project Blue Beam was first conceptualized in the 90s.

[Ben Hansen @BenHansen00]

Charter airline pilots report a "cylindrical" pill-shaped object over Ohio. Estimated 30ft long, appeared to emerge from a storm cell at 41K ft. No hits on ATC radar. FAA was not notified of balloon launches. Raises safety concerns of airspace intrusions & foreign surveillance.

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@Daily_MailUS @AviationSafety @uncertainvector @SafeAerospace

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@GuntherEagleman Entire books have been written about this case.

The Brazilian Air Force did an investigation into Colares that lasted for months. For those who may want to know more about it, the History Channel did a documentary covering it in 2003.
https://t.co/aDVjqe6car

[Straker Optimized @Anglonaut]

@UAPDr Imagine working with a grey alien on propulsion and avionics projects on an annual basis for 30 years.