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People who made claims from inside government or its contractors, in public or under oath. Their claims are reported as claims. 50 events, newest first.
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Whistleblowers24 Oct 2025
The Sol Foundation held its third UAP symposium on the shores of Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, October 24-27, 2025. Listed speakers included Karl Nell, Jacques Vallee, Garry Nolan, Tim Gallaudet, Beatriz Villarroel and Jake Barber.
Photo: Killarnee, CC BY-SA 4.0
Whistleblowers18 Jan 2025
In a NewsNation special built on a Ross Coulthart interview, former Air Force helicopter pilot Jake Barber said he flew as a contractor recovering downed craft, including an egg-shaped object he believes was non-human. A Pentagon spokesperson said no verifiable information supports such claims.
Photo: Mosman Library, CC BY 2.0
Whistleblowers22 Nov 2024
The Sol Foundation, a UAP think tank founded by Stanford academics, held its second annual symposium on Nov. 22-23, 2024. Speakers included former NOAA head Tim Gallaudet, a former Senate Armed Services staffer, and scientists Garry Nolan, Avi Loeb and Jacques Vallee.
Whistleblowers13 Nov 2024
Journalist Michael Shellenberger's written House testimony described an anonymous whistleblower report alleging a hidden Pentagon program, 'Immaculate Constellation', that gathers UAP imagery. A Defense Department spokesperson said it has no record of any such program; the claim is unverified.
Photo: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0
WhistleblowersAug 2024
Luis Elizondo, who says he led the Pentagon's AATIP effort, published Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs, arguing that UFOs are a serious national security issue the Defense Department withholds. The Pentagon said in 2019 he had no responsibilities for AATIP.
Photo: Luis Elizondo/HarperCollins/United States Department of Defense, Public domain
WhistleblowersMay 2024
Retired Army Col. Karl Nell, who had worked with the Pentagon's UAP Task Force, told a SALT iConnections audience in New York that non-human intelligence exists and has long interacted with humanity. AARO has said it found no evidence that UAP are alien.
WhistleblowersMar 2024
Retired Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, a former Oceanographer of the Navy, published the Sol Foundation's first policy paper, 'Beneath the Surface', arguing that UAP research should look at the ocean and at reported objects that move between air and water.
Photo: United States Department of Commerce, Public domain
Whistleblowers19 Jan 2024
Sean Kirkpatrick, AARO's first director, wrote in Scientific American that claims of a secret U.S. program to recover and reverse-engineer alien craft were unsupported by evidence, arguing they spread by circular reporting among a small group of advocates.
Photo: Defense.gov, Public domain
Whistleblowers12 Jan 2024
Intelligence Community Inspector General Thomas Monheim gave a classified UAP briefing to a House Oversight subcommittee following David Grusch's 2023 testimony. Members came out divided: some said they learned little, while Rep. Jared Moskowitz said it showed progress on parts of Grusch's claims.
Photo: Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Public domain
Whistleblowers17 Nov 2023
The Sol Foundation, a UAP research and policy group led by Stanford's Garry Nolan, held an invitation-only two-day symposium at Stanford. Speakers included former NOAA official Tim Gallaudet and Army Col. Karl Nell, and David Grusch appeared remotely. Lecture videos were later posted.
Photo: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 3.0
Whistleblowers26 Jul 2023
Former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch testified under oath that he had been told of a decades-long program to recover craft of non-human origin, which he said he learned through interviews rather than firsthand access. The Pentagon and AARO have said they found no verifiable evidence of such programs.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
Whistleblowers26 Jun 2023
Sen. Marco Rubio, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told NewsNation that current and former officials with high clearances had brought UAP-related claims to the committee. He did not say whether he found the claims credible.
Photo: United States Senate, Public domain
Whistleblowers7 Apr 2023
Former intelligence officer David Grusch, who had represented the NRO and NGA on UAP task force work, left government service on April 7, 2023. About two months later The Debrief published his claims that the U.S. holds craft of non-human origin.
Photo: U.S. House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
Whistleblowers2023
Former Navy F/A-18F pilot Ryan Graves founded Americans for Safe Aerospace, a nonprofit that says it supports pilots who report UAP and pushes for better reporting. Graves says pilots began sending reports to the group because they lacked another channel.
Photo: U.S. House Committee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, Public domain
WhistleblowersMay 2022
Former intelligence officer David Grusch filed an urgent-concern and reprisal complaint with the Intelligence Community Inspector General, alleging UAP information was withheld from Congress. He says the IG found it credible and urgent in July 2022; his underlying claims remain unverified.
Photo: ODNI, Public domain
Whistleblowers2022
Stanford pathologist Garry Nolan and anthropologist Peter Skafish co-founded the Sol Foundation, a research institute and policy think tank on UAP that says it formed in 2022 after Congress received an intelligence report on the subject. It went on to hold annual symposia and publish policy papers.
Whistleblowers19 Oct 2021
At the National Press Club, Robert Salas and three other former Air Force officers described 1960s incidents in which they said UFOs coincided with missiles going offline or appeared during tests. The accounts repeat claims first made decades after the events and have not been officially confirmed.
Photo: Moszkowicz, CC BY 3.0
Whistleblowers3 May 2021
Former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo filed a 64-page complaint with the Defense Department inspector general alleging officials tried to discredit him over his UAP work, including a threat to call him crazy. The allegations were his; the inspector general did not publicly rule on them.
Photo: Freedom of Information act document publicly provided by John Greenewald, Jr., Public domain
Whistleblowers30 Apr 2021
Former Senate majority leader Harry Reid told The New Yorker he had been told for decades that Lockheed held retrieved materials and that the Pentagon refused his request for clearance to see them. He did not claim to have seen any himself.
Photo: CIA, Public domain
WhistleblowersDec 2020
Haim Eshed, who long headed Israel's defense space programs, told Yedioth Ahronoth that the U.S. and Israel were in contact with aliens and that a joint base existed on Mars. Israel Space Agency chair Isaac Ben-Israel said he went too far; NASA said it had found no signs of extraterrestrial life.
