"There's truly anomalous signatures in the skies; the U.S. government understands it represents a form of sentient, non-human intelligence.”
"[…] the universe is teeming with life, it seems, and readily able to be explored.”
— David Grusch, 04/2026
If anomalous phenomena are real, what comes next? How will scholars navigate a post-disclosure world?
Join us on 6/24 for an interdisciplinary dialogue on UAP, knowledge, uncertainty & the future of inquiry with leading scholars and public figures in the disclosure conversation.
Ross Coulthart is hearing rumors that a prominent figure involved in the UAP transparency effort may be under consideration for a role in the Trump administration. 👀
Who do you think it is?
Fair enough @rosscoulthart X posts can be snide & snarky responses to extraordinary claims made there with 0 evidence in support (such as that we know aliens are here). I retracted those posts & I hereby apologize to David Grusch (he doesn't appear to have an X account & I don't have his email).
I have written dozens of articles, book chapters, essays & articles about aliens, had all the major UFO writers on my show, & done countless interviews on the subject, so how about a conversation on your show?
In the meantime, here is an excerpt from my chapter on aliens in my new book Truth. Please take a few minutes to read it instead of assessing my output based on a couple of X posts:
https://t.co/4ipqVGsFfH
Mellon is 💯 right, and if you don’t agree it’s because you already believe NHI are here.
If we were to prove with hard data beyond a shadow of a doubt that things moving around in space aren’t human, the change in political pressure for transparency would be immense.
Why do we need a UAP Scientific Advisory Board?
As has been widely reported, the US government has asked Professor Avi Loeb, of the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University (see the main announcement at the end of this posting), to create a UAP Advisory Council. The members of this advisory group span a range of disciplines from astronomy, psychology, physics, biology, data analytics, psychology, entrepreneurs, and more. I am thrilled to have been invited alongside a notable list of scientists, academics, entrepreneurs, and others.
What follows are my personal thoughts and are not any official position of the UAP Advisory Council. Dr. Loeb has already elaborated on the formation of this Council, along with his views through postings on his blog and in public interviews.
Importantly, no one on the Council has been asked to sign any non-disclosure agreements. We are told that we are free to discuss matters that come before the Board, but without attribution of the source (Chatham House rules). By the same token, I am not obligated to answer any questions either. I plan to treat this effort like I do my day job in cancer immunology—not talking publicly about results until I am sure the answer is as close to correct as I can determine.
So, how did this Advisory Council come to be? Well, one answer is simple—through the dedicated action of thousands of individuals across decades, the coming forward of credible military and government officials in public testimony (sometimes under oath), the work of members of Congress and the Senate, along with testimonials of public witnesses, and much more.
Collectively, those actions have led to the extraordinary and courageous decision by President Donald J. Trump and his administration to release to the public US government-owned UAP-related files and information as vetted by a UAP Governance Board and other government agencies. As publicly announced, our group will report to the UAP Governing Board, which is under the direction of the Executive Branch.
Many people have openly wondered, “Why create a new Board when elements of the government or even commercial institutions already (allegedly) know the answer?” The UAP Advisory Council doesn't have any funding, and we don’t have subpoena power. We are all volunteers. We advise. Given that, there are some straightforward answers to the criticisms and commentary I have seen.
First, appreciate that the complexity of what UAP might represent is not definable in a single technological or cultural framework. It is so complex that even I, who have been steeped in the matter for over 15 years, have a hard time encompassing the breadth of explanations from “it’s real, and it’s here” to “it’s all misidentification”. My mind spins trying to make sense of it all.
What is clear is that the data released so far is not enough. The anecdotes are not enough. Sure, interesting videos, but where’s the metadata? What are the parameters of how the data was collected? Why are there extreme redactions of files and data? Why the incredible pushback? Where are the alleged retrieved technologies? There’s simply not enough to convince me when I put on my serious scientist’s hat.
Yet what I do know is that the question of what it might be will not go away while the data remains locked up. The answers to what any data might mean will require a comprehensive effort across disciplines that expand well beyond “nuts and bolts” science. Hence, the broad makeup of the team that comprises the UAP Advisory Council. Every person on the Board is, I believe, devoted to taking a logical and deeply skeptical approach to this matter. We will let the data guide us and cross-check each other.
For me, despite my widely known bias that I think there’s something deeper to the matter than misidentification, I remain like any scientist a trained sceptic at heart. I am terrified of making a mistake, but I’ve yet to reach a formal conclusion despite my public musings. I can believe a thing might be true, but as a scientist, I must believe enough in the possibility of an idea being true to justify my time and effort to prove it to myself— and more so to prove it to colleagues or the lay public.
There is data that, when contextualized as a hypothesis, becomes evidence that invites us to wonder whether the answer to “Are We Alone?” might be sitting right in front of us, but we choose to ignore it or let others tell us it should be ignored. Remember, data is only evidence towards supporting a conclusion when you pose a question (hypothesis) around what the data means. But evidence is not a conclusion. Evidence is what you put in front of a jury, where the data has been sufficiently scrubbed of doubt to allow one to decide what it means.
So, back to “Why do we need a UAP Scientific Advisory Board?” Well, we all want objective, and even subjective, expertise to interpret whatever data comes our way. Even if tomorrow a saucer landed in Times Square, we would still need a swath of expertise to interpret what opens the door, how it got here, and what might be the intent. Better to be prepared, in my opinion.
We obviously risk that this is a misdirection from some essential truth or that we might be being used in some elaborate disinformation campaign. We are also aware that we might be in for the possibility that there is simply nothing there but elaborate stories and misidentifications.
But I can tell you this—the risk is worth it. We have come further than ever before to open the door (or Pandora’s Box) to a potentially incredible opportunity. “Are we alone?” might be answered as “We are one of many.” Coming to know what others might have already learned about the nature of reality is, for me, well worth the effort to ask the question.
One way or the other, I believe humanity can handle the answer.
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Thank you for your response! I am encouraged and believe this sort of thoughtful answer is excellent for discourse on the topic.
I do have a response to you crafted, though I would like to ask you to discuss your point of view and politely debate this topic in a video-recorded, in-person format on my platform.
I host few interviews; however, it appears we will both be in the Capital at the end of the month, and I think the public would have a voracious appetite to see an accomplished USG official like yourself and me respectfully debate these points and explore the Legacy Program vs. sensor data discussion topic!
If you are open to this, please connect with me here on Twitter DMs where we can exchange emails/Signal contact. I would be happy to set up a time, date, and location.
Congress has repeatedly asked about crash debris etc. and the answer is always the same, “We don’t know what you are talking about.” Repeatedly asking the same question and getting the same answer is not helpful. We need a strategy to build a wider, broader base of support to press further and eventually get to the bottom of this. My premise is that to get to the holy grail of recovered ET materials, if indeed we have any, first requires a greater public consensus and demand for the truth and support from key committees. One of the best ways to get there is to show UAP entering and leaving the atmosphere; or exceeding all known science and aeronautic
principles regarding acceleration etc. We’ve established there are strange and mysterious objects out there but we are a long way from demonstrating to the satisfaction of most people that UAP are so advanced they are definitely of non-human origin. If we can get this other data out, our prospects for successfully obtaining the release of recovered materials will be far, far greater and the public will be better prepared to accept this. This is a step by step process unless Congress is able to leapfrog to the alleged recovered materials which isn’t looking likely at the moment. So if we can get there directly that would be great, but we still have a lot of convincing to do and the data I propose seeking offers a logical and reliable step towards the common objective of getting to the truth with genuine highly compelling data that exists but has not yet been released. Meanwhile we continue to look for and support whistleblowers.
🧵 New from the Disclosure Foundation: a white paper on the psychological impact of UAP/NHI disclosure, from six clinical and research psychologists across five universities.
Disclosure is underway.
Are we ready for how people will respond?
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SPECIAL ACCESS REQUIRED - the Secrecy of UFO Crash Retrieval Programs
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Part 2 of 2 into investigating the security architecture behind UFO crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs. This massive exploration seeks to uncover the who, what, when, where, and why behind the covert nature of the UFO Legacy Program portfolio.
Watch Part 1 here: https://t.co/HfyPZ3xGA5
Best visualized as an onion, the UFO portfolio secrecy apparatus is seemingly structured as an infinite series of "layers", where the center of the onion is the core truths, materials, senior leadership, biologics, etc of the behind the UFO effort and seemingly infinite layers of protectoin exist to keep even presidential administrations and "temporary employees" one layer away from the beating heart of UFO Legacy Programs.
Today's project seeks to explore the current-day structure and layers of this onion, a fragmented and scattered "Manhattan Project 2.0." Indeed, today, the UFO Legacy Program portfolio seemingly operates in an extremely compartmentalized structure, featuring a fractured control group and select few personnel who can peer across the "silos" into other programs housed under a bizarre quasi-government and industry control group.... But this wasn't always the case....
This project picks up where Part 1 left off, where in 1994 the Special Access Program (SAP) enterprise was restructured to safely gatekeep USG access and vest permanent control of the UFO portfolio within the above-mentioned quasi-industry and government group.
Here I seek to perform an exhaustive dive into the structure of Special Access Programs (SAPs), Controlled Access Programs (CAPs), and Covert Action Programs (also CAPs), and explore how and why such compartmented national programs are the PERFECT ecosystem for hiding UFO crash retrieval and exploitation activities.
This investigation will explore the types of SAPs, protection levels of SAPs, governance structure of SAPs, and the who, what, when, where, and why of how SAPs operate.... Ultimately, giving examples for how each SAP type (Acquisition, Intelligence, and Operations and Support) with waived unacknowledged status can house UFO activities.
Indeed, the project will also explore SPECIFIC loopholes UFO Legacy Programs have exploited within White House SAPs and Covert Action Programs out of the National Security Council to operate "Non-Covert Action Programs" - programs with managed need-to-know (MNTK) access and mighty SAP security protocols with completely waived reporting and budgetary requirements! As this investigation will argue, this is done by taking White House SAP Non-Covert Action Programs and applying the "Content-Only SAP" designation to exist in a quasi Title 10 and Title 50 state!
Though the SAP ecosystem is absolutely the most critical piece of the investigation, this documentary also explores deputized agencies and services that mitigate program exposure and insider/outsider threat protection with DARPA SID, DOE OICI, AFOSI/PJ, and AFLCMC/IP, addresses onion-sponsored narrative control and disinformation campaigns including the Robertson Panel, Condon Committee, AARO, and AAWSAP, and evaluates much of the body of the modern-day onion through the concept of "unrivaled secrecy."
Short list of the MANY things we will explore today:
- Continued investigation into UFO Legacy Programs being housed (partially modern day) within the National Security Council's subgroup on covert action (5412 Special Group, 303 Committee, etc)
- Define DoD Special Access Programs (SAPs), Intelligence Community Controlled Access Programs (CAPs), and National Security Council Covert Action Programs (Also CAPs)
- Explore how the National Security Council (NSC) has utilized White House SAPs with the "Content-Only" budgetary tier/administrative designation to create "Non-Covert Action Programs effectively" that waive ALL budgetary and reporting requirements
- Define the Content-Only SAP designation and describe how making a SAP contain CPI (Critical Program Information) is imperative to Legacy Program Secrecy
- Explain 10 USC § 119 and 50 USC § 3093 and argue why these UFO White House SAP Non-Covert Action Programs exist in a grey area between Title 10 and Title 50, not adherent to either's reporting structure
- Define and give examples for the three types and three protection levels of SAPs - Acquisition, Intelligence, Operations, and Support, and Acknowledged, Unacknowledged, and Waived, respectively
- Construct an illustrative example of how each type of SAP would be used on the Hidden Wing UFO exploitation program out of Air Force Acquisition
- Identify how all points above are massaged to completely waive congressional briefings and traditional oversight reporting for UFO-related SAPs
- Study SAP naming conventions and additional security controls such as NOFORN (Not Releasable to Foreign National)
- Identify how @ENERGY SAPs answer to their own statutory authority and get real spooky, real fast!
- Explore the SAP governance hierarchy, including: Component SAPCO (SAP Special Office), USD SAPCO, DoD SAPCO, SAPOC (SAP Central Office), and SRG (Senior Review Group)
- Argue why DoD SAPCO, SAPOC, and SRG are premier gatekeeping institutions for USG access into the programs
- Identify relevant USD (Undersecretary of Defense) departments connected to specific SAP types and capable of UFO activities (USD(I&S), USD(A&S), USD(R&E))
- Discuss several funding schemes the Legay structure harnesses for program funding: haircuts across black projects and unexpected offices/services, self-fund through cutout activities, hiding budget in generic DoD budgets with Content-Only SAPs, criminal enterprises, IR&D, etc
- Name several agencies/services within USG SAP architecture that serve as program protection and exposure mitigation for the Legacy apparatus, including: AFOSI/PJ (Office of Special Projects), DOE OICI (Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence), AFLCMC/IP (Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Information Protection Directorate), and DARPA SID (Security & Intelligence Directorate)
- While on the subject of DARPA, identify Dr. Peter Highman (Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Critical Technologies, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering) as a senior Legacy Program scientist at the upper echelons of the SAP ecosystem
- Discuss narrative campaigns/disinformation operations from the Legacy onion, including 1953 Robertson Panel, 1969 Condon Committee, and 2022 AARO
- Explore NSC, James Clapper-sponsored partial transparency campaigns through the AATIP (allegedly)
- Identify the frontman for these operations, Lue Elizondo (allegedly)
- Inquire into how the Clapper/Elizondo partial transparency campaign evolved through AATIP, TTSA, the 2017 NYT article, the 2024 hearings, and Age of Disclosure (allegedly)
- Isolate on Lue Elziondo's former position as Director, National Programs Special Management Staff (NPMS) under USD(I&S), and once again ask if Elizondo has prior experience WITHIN the Legacy Programs and possibly exposed Tom Delonge to elements of the NSC Immaculate Constellation Activity (allegedly)
- Criticize the evolved narrative-campaign, amnesty please, and incomplete legacy outline presented in the Age of Disclosure Documentary, and ask why the National Security Council is missing from the Legacy Program silo falsely presented as the monolithic Legacy Program
- So much more, I am just scratching the surface!!
Thank you @imxanderjones for the great music and thank you @UAPNinja for making me a 3D printed Flux Liner!
🧵 New national polling on UAP.
In an independent survey we commissioned, most Americans say these phenomena are real, and a large bipartisan majority wants more government transparency.
We have created a survey for the public to share what you think and feel of the PURSUE UAP Records Release. Participate by clicking on the link in the attached article.
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I really like @Rizstanford take here bc he’s honest about it.
This NDA thing is weird bc if you work for any private company in any competitive industry — you sign a non-disclosure agreement as part of your employment.
It’s not like you only sign an NDA for nefarious information. You sign or agree to NDAs by virtue of being employed by people who build things in competitive markets.
The issue for the engineers and scientists on the Program isn’t “oh my God, I signed an NDA”. It’s “my whole career is an NDA”.
You talk to any career defense professional, even boring ones, and they won’t tell you much about their company, they won’t tell you any inside baseball, they won’t tell you anything about meeting schedules.
The moment a person exposed to Program information is confronted with the prospect of violating a security agreement is not “oh my God, but I signed a security agreement!”
It’s “This violates who I am and always have been. I’m a trusted professional. I have kept secrets big and small, mundane and cataclysmic, my whole life. I don’t do this..”
It’s never about one oath. It’s about all of them.
If we’re going to appeal them, and receive them; it’ll have to be from that place.
A bunch of holier-than-thou propellerhead academics and civilians proclaiming they’d never sign an NDA — is precisely the WRONG demographic of ufology to make overtures to insiders.
They will see those people as NPCs.
Those attitudes are alien to security professionals. We’ve shut off and stopped listening to you.
Secrecy in its most basic form is a normal part of competitive industry. There’s nothing inherently evil about it. Framing this like there is will alienate the people you want to identify with this effort.
ICYMI here's what Canadian authorities did NOT want you to know about the objects shot down in 2023:
1) Images & video of the Yukon object were held back
2) That object crashed near the village of Mayo
3) Police collected debris from the shores of Lake Huron
Anything else? 🍁❓🔍
BURLISON FILES UAP REVIEW BOARD PROPOSAL TO HOUSE DEFENSE BILL
In the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman Eric Burlison (R-MO) today (June 18, 2026) filed at the House Rules Committee, as a possible amendment to the FY 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 8800), a 65-page proposal to establish a federal review board dedicated to locating records and materials related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
Burlison's amendment, cosponsored by Reps. Eli Crane (R-AZ) and Andre Carson (D-IN), is not labeled as the "UAP Disclosure Act" (UAPDA), but it largely tracks proposals that carried that name in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Burlison’s proposal would fold in the "UAP Records Collection" framework in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), enacted as a compromise in late 2023. But Burlison's proposal would go much further, creating a temporary federal agency and nine-member board, with members nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. This agency would be empowered to search out UAP-related records and materials for the purpose of orderly public disclosure, subject to some constraints.
The proposed Review Board would have authority to issue subpoenas in some circumstances and to request Attorney General-issued subpoenas in others. A provision objected to by some UFO-oriented groups in past years, allowing the government to seize materials deemed to be of non-human origin through the exercise of the power of eminent domain, remains in the amendment.
Burlison's amendment does NOT contain the "findings, declarations, and purposes" that were part of the original "UAP Disclosure Act" unveiled in the Senate in July 2023 by Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Mike Rounds (R-SD). Those provisions, much quoted in ufological circles, suggested the existence of UAP records hidden from proper oversight through excessive classification, and asserted that the legislation was "necessary to restore proper oversight over unidentified anomalous phenomena records by elected officials in both the executive and legislative branches of the Federal Government that has otherwise been lacking..."
Still, Burlison's new version retains multiple provisions that refer repeatedly to "non-human intelligence," which the amendment defines as meaning "any sentient intelligent non-human lifeform regardless of nature or ultimate origin that may be presumed responsible for unidentified anomalous phenomena or of which the Federal Government has become aware."
The proposal also refers repeatedly to "technologies of unknown origin," defined to include devices "incorporating science and technology that lacks prosaic attribution or known means of human manufacture."
The Rules Committee may meet the week of June 29 to decide which amendments may be considered when the full House takes up H.R. 8800, which could occur the same week. Over 1,100 proposed amendments had been filed with the House Rules Committee by the "deadline" at 5 PM today (June 18, 2026), and some additional amendments are generally accepted late. Based on the practice in previous years, however, only a fraction of the amendments filed will be made in order for floor consideration. UAPDA amendments were not made in order when they were filed at Rules in 2024 (by Rep. Robert Garcia, D-CA) and in 2025 (by Burlison).
The complete text of the Burlison amendment (amendment no. 1044 on the House Rules Committee list of amendments to H.R. 8800) can be downloaded through the link in the first reply.
Questions or comments dealing directly with the substance of this or related legislative proposals, or the legislative process being employed, are welcome below, although I cannot always answer questions rapidly. Discussion of other UAP matters or personalities does not belong in this thread; those who egregiously violate this advisory may be blocked.
In this bonus episode of "Reality Check," @rosscoulthart sits down with Jonathan Caplan KC, the King's Counsel and veteran British barrister whose new book, "Not For Disclosure," gathers 50 years of his own investigation into the UAP question.
Premiering now: https://t.co/lKF1HamjZX