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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 4h

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...

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"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...

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Origins of the Majestic-12 SOM1-01 Special Operations Manual

Examining the evidence that SOM1-01 used a 1954 Army projector manual as a template.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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."

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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."

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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."

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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;

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"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...

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Trump 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?

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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."

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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'

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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...

politico.com

Trump 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?

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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...

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Bob Lazar & S4: Contradictions & Hidden Details Deep Dive (feat SignalIntelligence & Victor Coleiro)

YouTube video by TheSneezingMonkey

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"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."

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

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)

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"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."

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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...

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Reality Shock: A beginner’s guide to UFOs, Aliens and Disclosure

Three 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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

2 of 2) "The fact that [Rep. Eric] Burlison ignores previous statutes, authorities, and statements by Congressional members, the Pentagon, AARO and others and does not acknowledge that this was already the case for personnel, is a clear indication that this is all for show." [end Kirkpatrick]

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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]

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

7) [Grusch, continuing] "I have a FOIA lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia, because it's come to my attention that when I went public in June 2023, the Department of the Air Force filed an unauthorized disclosure Espionage Act complaint against me."

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

6) Dupont's statement conflicts with Grusch's statement in an interview with Chris Farrell posted May 5, 2026: "And the Air Force, I think, was very afraid when I went public...." [continued in next reply]

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

5) Among those, a letter from Mark D. Dupont, Senior Intelligence Oversight Official, to Rep. Tim Burchett, Nov. 1, 2023, stating: "At no point did anyone from the Air Force file a complaint with IOD [Intelligence Oversight Directorate] and IOD took no actions with respect to these conversations."

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

4) As far as I know, Grusch has not publicly released the documents that the DoW released to him during the earlier stages of the litigation, as described in earlier Joint Status reports. Some of those documents were also released in incomplete form to me and others through separate FOIA requests.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

3) The Fourth Joint Status Report did not indicate that the government had produced any new documents since the last Joint Status Report, which was filed on July 1.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

2) That was the gist of the Fourth Joint Status Report filed by the parties on Aug. 5, 2026. On August 6, U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema issued a briefing schedule for the next steps in resolving the disagreement over the legal adequacy of the search.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

UPDATE ON DAVID GRUSCH'S FOIA LAWSUIT A 🧵 1) In David Grusch's FOIA lawsuit against the Dept of War, relating to his claim the USAF filed a Espionage Act complaint against him in 2023, the parties now agree the remaining disagreement is whether the DoW adequately searched for responsive records.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

7) On Aug. 3, 2026, Jay Clayton was sworn in as the ninth Senate-confirmed DNI. He replaced Bill Pulte, who served as acting director after DNI Tulsi Gabbard stepped down in June. Aaron Lukas remains as Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (PDDNI). www.odni.gov/14064/pr-12-...

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Jay Clayton Sworn In As Director Of National Intelligence

Today, Jay Clayton was sworn in as the nation’s ninth Director of National Intelligence, following confirmation by the United States Senate last week. Director Clayton has previously served as United ...

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY PUT ON NOTICE ON "UAP TRANSPARENCY" On July 31, 2026, Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Aaron Lukas sent IC components "preliminary guidance" that employees and contractors "should" report UAP-related info to AARO or PURSUE; prior NDAs or oaths are waived.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

6) After a July 15 confirmation hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) submitted to Clayton written questions about the ODNI's role in "UAP transparency." That written exchange appears below.

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D. Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

5) On June 16, an ODNI spokesperson told me and others that the Board's purpose was "to support the President's directive on UAP transparency." Few details have yet been released regarding the Board's structure and operations.

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