A group of astrophysicists (which does not include Avi Loeb) says they have found evidence of unidentified aerial phenomena in old photographic plates dating back to before the time of the first satellites. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gt-...

CONGRESSIONAL UAP UPDATE: On Oct 9, 2025 the Senate passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act (S. 2296), advancing it to conference with the House of Representatives. The Senate-passed NDAA contains several UAP-related provisions, but not the Schumer-Rounds UAP Disclosure Act. A 🧵

NEW: Hand delivered Gillibrand WSJ’s Air Force UFO PSYOP article 🤷‍♀️ “Check it out, because if its claims are true then I’ll never ask you about a UFO again!” Interactive political journalism — Ask a Pol. What should we ask Congress next? www.askapoluaps.com/p/i-dont-kno...

U.S. SENATE CONFIRMS CHRISTOPHER FOX AS IC IG On October 7, 2025, the U.S. Senate confirmed Christopher Fox as Inspector General of the Intelligence Community (IC IG). Fox, an attorney, has served in the Air Force, Army National Guard, CIA, and Office of the Director of National Intelligence. A 🧵

GARCIA & COMER SEEK EXPANDED PROTECTIONS FOR FEDERAL CONTRACTOR WHISTLEBLOWERS Reps. Robert Garcia (D-CA) and James Comer (R-KY) on Sept. 26, 2025 introduced a bill (H.R. 5578) to expand protections for federal contractors and grantees who refuse to obey orders that would violate law...

CONGRESS UFO UPDATE The Rules Committee blocked the UAP Disclosure Act (UAPDA) in the House, but it is still in the mix in the Senate. I don't like to link to X here, but time does not allow breaking my long update into little bites; you can read it all at the link below. fixupx.com/ddeanjohnson...

CONGRESS UFO UPDATE The Rules Committee blocked the UAP Disclosure Act (UAPDA) in the House, but it is still in the mix in the Senate. I don't like to link to X here, but time does not allow breaking my long update into little bites; you can read it all at the link below. fixupx.com/ddeanjohnson...

On June 15, 2022, "investigative reporter" George Knapp said he believed a federal program described by Bob Lazar (holding 9 intact alien craft!) still exists, but he thought it had been moved from "Area 51"--perhaps to Utah or Australia! Will lawmakers press him for evidence at 9-9-25 hearing? 🤔

The U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee has posted links to written statements by 5 witnesses slated to testify at a Sept. 9, 2025 UAP hearing before its Secrets Task Force. I post the names and links here without comment for informational purposes. oversight.house.gov/hearing/rest...

This UFO piece by Matthew Hutson is low-key in tone, but one or another of his observations will likely to offend nearly every UFO-oriented faction on X, the "no evidence" crowd included ("whaddya mean five per cent?"). Lots of quotes from non-routine sources.

On 9-9-25 a House Oversight Task Force hears testimony from author-broadcaster George Knapp, 36-year crafter & promoter of the legend of Bob Lazar--scientist-impersonator, fake "Majestic"-clearance holder, felon, and claimed possessor of a gravity-defeating alien isotope. fixupx.com/ddeanjohnson...

Some scientists believe that there is an approximately 12-per-cent chance of a severe solar storm striking the Earth in the next decade—which could devastate our power grid and communication systems. Are we prepared?

George Knapp is co-creator of the legend of Bob Lazar, scientist-impersonator. Knapp has promoted Lazar's claim to hold a gravity-defeating alien isotope. It will be notable if Knapp fails to present up front all he "knows" about "Element 115" at the Sept. 9 congressional "UAP transparency" hearing.

House Oversight Committee releases UAP witness list 1) The House Oversight Committee posted the witness list for a hearing before its Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets on Sept. 9, 2025, under the title "Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection."

VERSIONS OF THE UAP DISCLOSURE ACT ARE NOW ELIGIBLE FOR ACTION IN BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS IN EARLY SEPTEMBER A 🧵 1) In both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, variant versions of the UAP Disclosure Act have been introduced and may be acted on by their respective houses in Sept.

The House Oversight Cmte is "investigating organized efforts...to influence U.S. public opinion on important and sensitive topics by manipulating Wikipedia articles...foreign individuals [and] academic institutions subsidized by U.S. taxpayer dollars, as well as Wikipedia’s awareness and response."

SEN. SCHUMER FILES UAP DISCLOSURE ACT AGAIN A 🧵 Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the Senate minority leader, on July 29, 2025, filed the "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2025" (UAPDA) as a proposed amendment (SA 3111) to the FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA, S. 2296).

NEW TOP DEMOCRAT ON HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE'S FEDERAL SECRETS TASK FORCE: REP. JASMINE CROCKETT 1/3) On June 24, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives elected Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) as the new ranking minority member on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

SENATE ARMED SERVICES REPORT SEEKS "INTEGRATED SENSING ROADMAP" & 5-YEAR PLAN FOR PENTAGON UFO OFFICE The Senate Armed Services Committee has filed its official report on the FY 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA, S. 2296). With respect to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), or UFOs,

SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE BILL CONTAINS NEW WHISTLEBLOWER PROVISIONS A 🧵 The FY 2026 Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA, S. 2342) contains 15 pages (pages 226-240) dealing with protections for Intelligence Community whistleblowers.

SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE INCLUDES 3 UAP PROVISIONS IN NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION A 🧵 1) The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA, S. 2296), approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), includes 3 sections with language related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).

UAP HEARING DELAYED TO SEPTEMBER On June 26, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) told @askapoluaps.bsky.social‬ that her Oversight Federal Secrets Task Force would hold a public hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena "in July." But an Oversight Committee aide today told me it will be in September.

SEAN KIRKPATRICK COMMENTS ON "OPERATIONS PLAN" DESCRIBED BY TIM PHILLIPS 🧵I asked ex-AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick to comment on the remarks of ex-AARO Deputy Director Tim Phillips regarding a document of unclear origin that Phillips described as "an operations plan for contact with alien beings."

FORMER AARO DEPUTY DIRECTOR TIM PHILLIPS DISCUSSES "YANKEE BLUE" AFFAIR A 🧵 1) In a just-released episode of "John Michael Godier's Event Horizon," former AARO Deputy Director Tim Phillips discussed the purported fake special access program "Yankee Blue." He said, "It was an Air Force initiative."

Billy Cox: "FBI records indicated...Malmgren never held the top-secret 'Q' clearance from the AEC... His claims of having been a trusted insider with the Kennedy clan via family brother-in-law Sargent Shriver were refuted by multiple sources, including Shriver’s son." substack.com/home/post/p-...

Powerful House Appropriations Committee poised to give strong endorsement to AARO (UFO office) 1) The Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives meets June 12, 2025, to approve its version of the Dept of Defense Appropriations Act for FY 2026 (begins Oct. 1), as yet unnumbered.

There's a lot to chew on in Steven Greenstreet's new interview with Tim Phillips, former deputy director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Including this: Steven Greenstreet: What cases confuse you the most? Tim Phillips: "The black triangles." youtube.com/watch?v=Lcwk...

DID AMBASSADOR HARALD MALMGREN "SAVE THE WORLD"? A 🧵 Did one-time Ambassador (and UFO-insider claimant) Harald Malmgren really stymie a scheme by General Curtis LeMay to start a nuclear war during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis? I did a deep dive. douglasjohnson.ghost.io/harald-malmg...

Harald Malmgren--one-time ambassador, and later big-time storyteller. A thread. 🧵 Today I published on Mirador the findings of my 4-month investigation into 10 key Malmgren claims, showing he fabricated key claims about jobs and credentials he had in 1962. douglasjohnson.ghost.io/harald-malmg...

Analysis: Did a 1962 Nuke Test Knock Down a Nonhuman UFO? 1/2) Several folks have asserted that the Bluegill Triple Prime nuclear test of Oct. 26, 1962, knocked down a nonhuman UFO. On my blog, Mirador, I have posted a new article analyzing that theory. douglasjohnson.ghost.io/bluegill-tri...

"The investigative article 'Harald Malmgren: Real-World History vs. Grandiose Fantasy,' by researcher, Douglas Dean Johnson meticulously deconstructs the inflated personal narrative of Harald B. Malmgren ... #UFO #UAP #UFOSky tinyurl.com/2j5ppx4u

Harald Malmgren--one-time ambassador, and later big-time storyteller. A thread. 🧵 Today I published on Mirador the findings of my 4-month investigation into 10 key Malmgren claims, showing he fabricated key claims about jobs and credentials he had in 1962. douglasjohnson.ghost.io/harald-malmg...

"There will not be a UAP hearing next week," a spokesperson for the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee told me today (at 10:29 AM EDT, May 9). A UAP-related public hearing before the committee's Federal Secrets Task Force had previously been anticipated by the task force chairwoman.

After hearing on "unauthorized drone activity over U.S. military installations," House Oversight Military & Foreign Affairs Chair Wm Timmons (R-SC) & Ranking Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) "pledged to work together to enhance military security & counter aerial threats." oversight.house.gov/release/hear...

AARO's STAG "TERMINATED" 🧵A thread 1) When he became director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick formed an advisory group, the membership of which he refused to make public (or even provide to congressional offices). www.defense.gov/News/Release...

AARO's STAG "TERMINATED" 🧵A thread 1) When he became director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick formed an advisory group, the membership of which he refused to make public (or even provide to congressional offices). www.defense.gov/News/Release...

1/2) CONGRESS UPDATE: The House Oversight Committee's Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets plans a UAP-related hearing the week of May 12, 2025. This WILL NOT be a full Oversight Committee hearing, a committee spokesperson told me. No details yet. Also, the Oversight Committee's

HERRERA AND AARO Michael Herrera got from AARO a "Memorandum for Record" (MFR) that AARO attests summarizes what Herrera told AARO staff on April 27, 2023. I believe it validates Herrera's claims that he did not, to AARO, describe a purported hovering craft as an "extraterrestrial spacecraft,"

FEDERAL SECRETS TASK FORCE: HEARING APRIL 1 The Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets (Rep. Luna, chair), of the U.S. House Oversight Committee, will hold its first public hearing on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at 2 PM EDT, on "the JFK Files." oversight.house.gov/hearing/task...

SECRETS TASK FORCE On March 13, 2025, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee issued a release on their appointments to the Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets, adding Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) to the four names that I reported on Feb. 27 had been posted on the Oversight website.

JACQUES VALLEE COMPOUNDS DELUSIONAL CLAIMS ABOUT THE TRINITY UFO-CRASH HOAX 1/5) Sad to see: Before the ever-indulgent Joe Rogan (3-12-25), Jacques Vallee again shoveled out utter nonsense about the sordid, disintegrated Trinity UFO-crash hoax. (Fair Use: one-minute clip from 167-min. show)

UPDATE: TASK FORCE ON FEDERAL SECRETS (1) The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee posted the minority (Democratic) appointments to the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets: Reps. Robert Garcia (CA), ranking; Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL); Summer Lee (PA); and Dave Min (CA).

SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE AND UAP 1. In the 2023-24 Congress, the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee, then chaired by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), held two AARO/UAP hearings. For the new Congress (119th), Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is chair.

SEN. TED BUDD (R-NC) APPOINTED TO SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE 1. On Jan. 24, 2025, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) named Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), filling the vacancy created by the resignation of Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL).

President Biden today (12-23-24) signed the $895 billion FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 5009); it includes the Intelligence Authorization Act. As noted in my linked 12-7-24 post, little new here on UAP, and it allows to lapse two UAP provisions adopted last year. x.com/ddeanjohnson...

Thru FOIA I got ICIG Thomas Monheim's Nov. 13 resignation letter to President Biden and email exchange between Monheim & DNI Avril Haines. In these documents he gave no reason for decision to resign. Monheim is associated with the UAP case of David Grusch; more on that at link. x.com/ddeanjohnson...

The U.S. Senate today (12-18-24) cleared for White House the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act (HR 5009), 85-14. (House passed 12-11-24, 281-140.) As noted in my Dec. 7 post linked below, little new here on UAP & allows 2 UAP-related provisions adopted last year to lapse. x.com/ddeanjohnson...

Senator Mike Rounds (R-SD) sits on Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees, and is currently lead sponsor of the UAP Disclosure Act. His newsletter says that he met this week with Harald Malmgren, past advisor to several presidents. I would like to have been a bug on the wall. 🐜

CONGRESS UAP/UFO UPDATE In response to my inquiry, on December 4, 2024, I received the following statement from a spokesperson for the Oversight and Accountability Committee, U.S. House of Representatives.

1/2) IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION: At a House Oversight subcmte hearing Nov. 13, Rep. Nancy Mace entered into the hearing record an 11-page paper purporting to describe a concealed government UFO program named IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION. FYIO, see below comments by former AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick.