D. Dean Johnson

INVISIBLE CONSTELLATION 8 months after Trump's Truth Social UFO order, 17 months since Marco Rubio got authority over the National Security Council, no sign of the supposed White House/NSC "Immaculate Constellation" program claimed by Matthew Brown & David Grusch or its claimed trove of UFO images.

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2) DOPSR is not a fact checking process. For writers who are covered, even "fictional novels" must be submitted for pre-publication review. www.esd.whs.mil/Records-Decl...

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DOPSR 1) Pre-publication review by the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR) is to ensure that a published work does not reveal, even "inadvertently," any classified, Controlled Unclassified, or "operational security related" information.

2) DOPSR is not a fact checking process. For writers who are covered, even "fictional novels" must be submitted for pre-publication review. www.esd.whs.mil/Records-Decl...

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CLASSIFIED PRESIDENTIAL UAP DIRECTIVE? What Peter Skafish of The Sol Foundation says here (on Oct. 8, 2026) is interesting: He describes a recent, government-wide, classified executive directive dealing with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). A thread 🧵

3) (entirely is distinct from FOIA) is not applicable to "information originated by the incumbent President or the incumbent Vice President; the incumbent President’s White House Staff or the incumbent Vice President’s Staff; committees, commissions, or boards appointed by the incumbent President;

4) or other entities within the Executive Office of the President that solely advise and assist the incumbent President..." [Executive Order 13526, § 3.5(b)] So, for example, neither FOIA nor MDR would result in release of the text of a classified National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM).

2) But it is not clear to me what purpose he thinks might be served by filing a FOIA request for such a directive. Classified material is exempt from FOIA, and so too generally are presidential and National Security Council documents. Even a request for Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR)

GOLD RUSH As widely reported, ex-CIA official David Rush yesterday pleaded guilty in a plea deal. He signed a 15-page Statement of Facts, found at the link. A summary of how Rush created and exploited the facade of a Special Access Program is on pages 5-7. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

signalsintelligence.substack.comOrigins of the Majestic-12 SOM1-01 Special Operations ManualExamining the evidence that SOM1-01 used a 1954 Army projector manual as a template.

"Signal's analysis is a genuinely useful addition to the case against SOM1-01....It deserves serious attention from anyone who has taken a fresh interest in MJ-12..."--Mark Rodeghier, PhD, Scientific Director, J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies signalsintelligence.substack.com/p/origins-of...

Dr. Mark Rodeghier's complete statement is shown in the graphic below.

politico.comTrump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting.The president named a science council to review the government’s data. What's taking so long?

"UAP EXPERT," RUBIO & TRUMP'S UFO "CONCERNS" I have little confidence in the descriptions of President Trump's purported UAP-related "concerns" which journalist Ilan Greenberg attributed to an unnamed "UAP expert" in the Sept. 26, 2026 POLITICO article linked, www.politico.com/news/magazin...

10) Someone now may postulate that either the National Security Advisor or the anonymous "UAP expert" were misinformed, or that one or both were mischaracterizing what they claimed to know, but I think that these cannot both be accurate representations of the President’s perception and intentions.

11) Here is a video clip of Secretary Rubio's remarks, from The Katie Miller Podcast of August 11, 2026. Katie Miller is the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.

politico.comTrump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting.The president named a science council to review the government’s data. What's taking so long?

8) So: Greenberg understood based on his "UAP expert" that President Trump "knows more about it than people think he does," that the President believes the government has evidence of "non-human technology," that he wants the truth to come out, but also that he is "disturbed about what to do."

9) This picture of the President knowing of government-held evidence of "non-human technology," coupled with ambivalence, is at odds with Rubio's "I assure you," full-bore disclosure scenario, which he offered as a counter to what he presented as a misperception that "we're covering something up."

politico.comTrump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting.The president named a science council to review the government’s data. What's taking so long?

6) Personally, I would place more weight on the words of Marco Rubio, who is known to have a longstanding interest in UAP matters, and who interacts very frequently with the President both as National Security Advisor (overseeing the National Security Council staff) and as Secretary of State.

7) In an August 11, 2026 interview, Rubio said, "... people do believe we're covering something up. I assure you, in this administration, if we knew, the President would be all over it-- like, there would be a prime-time address, he'd be showing the pictures and the videos."

politico.comTrump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting.The president named a science council to review the government’s data. What's taking so long?

4) Moreover, the "UAP expert" claimed to have had "discussions" not with President Trump, but with "people with direct knowledge of Trump's concerns..." Those people are also not identified, not even as to the general nature or extent of their purported access to the President.

5) So, we are presented with a characterization of the President’s purported knowledge and concerns, based on statements by unknown persons, and filtered through an unknown "UAP expert" whose personal presuppositions and degree of objectivity can only be guessed at by the reader.

politico.comTrump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting.The president named a science council to review the government’s data. What's taking so long?

2) Greenberg agreed to grant anonymity to that source, which is fine in principle under many circumstances. But the criteria by which Greenberg (who apparently has never before published on UAP matters) would confer such a designation or agree to it are entirely unclear;

3) Personally, I am inclined to downgrade the credibility of any source who would describe himself as a "UAP expert" or agree to be so characterized, at least without substantial additional language explaining the scope of and basis for the claim.

politico.comTrump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting.The president named a science council to review the government’s data. What's taking so long?

POLITICO'S UFO ARTICLE: INTERESTING QUOTES & MISSING CLAIMS A 🧵 1) Today's 5,000-word POLITICO article, "Trump Promised the Truth about UFOs; These Scientists Are Waiting," by freelance journalist Ilan Greenberg, is worth reading, despite some puzzling omissions. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

12) A provocative alternative viewpoint is expressed in quotes that Greenberg obtained from Ohio State University Prof. Alexander Wendt, author of the forthcoming book "The Last Humans: UFOs, Global Security, and the Threat to State Sovereignty": "'The good news is they’re not going to get any data'

13) "[Wendt said]... The bad news, however, is if the council does get its data and announces the presence of alien intelligence on earth, Wendt believes it’s almost certainly the end of civilization as we know it.... Wendt would like to see a 25-to-50-year news blackout to prepare the public."

politico.comTrump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting.The president named a science council to review the government’s data. What's taking so long?

10) But I also fully support the full exercise of lawful presidential authorities, which on national security matters are extensive, to get to the bottom of UFO-crash and "legacy program" stories and disclose the results. Whether any such full exercise is underway now within

11) the Trump Administration remains to be seen--but if it is not really happening, I think it is nonsense to blame it on entrenched bureaucrat-gatekeepers whom the President and his cabinet secretaries are mysteriously powerless to identify and fire or move out of the way.

politico.comTrump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting.The president named a science council to review the government’s data. What's taking so long?

8) Given those connections, it does seem odd to me that Greenberg did not include at least a summary of the captive-alien-tech claims.

9) As my regular readers know, personally I am generally skeptical of captive-alien-tech claims; I regard a number of the best-known UFO-crash tales as thoroughly discredited hoaxes, and a number of the current crop of "whistleblowers" as credulous, deluded, or straight-up LAPRing phonies.

politico.comTrump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting.The president named a science council to review the government’s data. What's taking so long?

6) Also absent are the names of any of the persons publicly claiming personal knowledge regarding government possession of alien technology, including David Grusch, who employed the statutory whistleblower process, and an array of self-styled whistleblowers who have surfaced since 2023.

7) A number of members of the House of Representatives have associated themselves with some of those captive-alien-tech claims, and prodding from that group of lawmakers has been a significant factor leading to the Trump Administration's current UAP-related initiatives.

politico.comTrump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting.The president named a science council to review the government’s data. What's taking so long?

4) However, I noticed Greenberg avoided mention of high-profile claims that the government (or affiliated contractors) possess not only "raw data," "files," "records," or "evidence" on anomalous devices operating on this planet, but also actual nonhuman craft/devices, exotic debris, and/or bodies.

5) At least five members of Prof. Loeb's 20-member UAPSAC have publicly promoted or lent credence to some such stories; two of those UAPSAC members were quoted in the article, but neither was quoted about their captive-alien-tech beliefs.

politico.comTrump Promised the Truth About UFOs. These Scientists Are Waiting.The president named a science council to review the government’s data. What's taking so long?

2) The focus of the article is Prof. Avi Loeb's UAP Science Advisory Council (UAPSAC) and its role in the complicated emerging architecture of the Trump Administration's "UAP transparency" enterprise.

3) The article contains substantial new material on those matters, including interesting quotes from spokespersons for the White House, the Pentagon, and the CIA.

youtube.comBob Lazar & S4: Contradictions & Hidden Details Deep Dive (feat SignalIntelligence & Victor Coleiro)YouTube video by TheSneezingMonkey

9 Sept

The Sneezing Monkey interviews two Bob Lazar experts: Victor Coleiro and (in his first-ever podcast appearance) ace investigative journalist Signals Intelligence. An eye-opener for those who have only encountered the cleaned-up, streamlined versions of Lazar's tales. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG8r...

14 Aug

SHOT: Marco Rubio (National Security Advisor & Secretary of State) (8-11-26): White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller now has the UAP portfolio "and I think he's doing a great job with that." CHASER: David Grusch (8-13-26): "I hope Secretary Rubio is helping Stephen Miller..." (continued)

14 Aug

"at the White House, because I'm hearing mixed messages about Stephen Miller's seriousness. And I hope he understands how this would impact President Trump's legacy if this is botched."

paradigm.newsReality Shock: A beginner’s guide to UFOs, Aliens and DisclosureThree years after a bipartisan group of senators moved to assert eminent domain over “evidence of nonhuman intelligence,” the public is renegotiating its relationship with reality itself.

Journalist Ben Schreckinger has posted "A Beginner's Guide to UFOs, Aliens, and Disclosure." Neither I nor anybody else who follows this subject is going to agree with everything in somebody else's 16,000-word article, but a lot of work went into it--worth a read. www.paradigm.news/p/reality-sh...

"While a case can be made for presuming that some UFOs really do represent one or more exotic phenomena, the available evidence that humans are retrieving and reverse-engineering alien craft is much weaker. These extraordinary claims...have not been matched with equally extraordinary evidence."

LAW FIRM ISSUES UAP-DISCLOSURE ALERT The global law firm DLA Piper has posted an alert regarding the memo on UAP-related disclosures that was sent to all Intelligence Community organizations by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on 7-31-26. www.dlapiper.com/en-us/insigh...

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The DLA Piper alert of 8-12-26 notes that in some respects "the [ODNI] preliminary guidance is narrower than the existing statutory mechanism for making authorized disclosures to AARO..." The alert cautions that some key questions remain unresolved pending promised follow-on guidance from ODNI.

garberfiles.substack.comCan UAP Witnesses Now Disclose What They Know?What the Trump administration's UAP secrecy waiver really means.

7 Aug

UAP INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MEMO EXPLAINER Attorney Ross Garber has written an excellent explainer on the July 31, 2026 memo "Preliminary Guidance for Implementation of NDA Waiver," sent by Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas to all Intelligence Community organizations.

Ross Garber@realrossgarber.bsky.social

Can UAP Witnesses Now Disclose What They Know? garberfiles.substack.com/p/can-uap-wi...

7 Aug

1 of 2) Reflecting a different perspective, for the record: Some days ago I asked former AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick for a comment on the Lukas memo. Kirkpatrick replied by email on August 5, 2026, "This memo adds nothing to existing statute and authorities. [continued]