Internal Docs: DHS 2011 Plan To Get Access To Crashed UFOs
Understanding the connection between a 2023 Pentagon memo on how to report credible UFO sightings and the Top Secret 2011 KONA BLUE proposal
In the last few weeks the publication of 2 separate sets of documents from 2 unrelated government agencies are adding to the mounting evidence that there is at least one database of very detailed information on UFO incidents that’s being kept from the public. An unclassified memo from the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the official procedure for reporting UFO events at military bases . It was sent out in May 2023, and published by FOIA request from researcher Douglas Johnson in March 2024. This was followed by the release of a previously top secret official 56 page proposal to create a black unacknowledged program under the highest level of secrecy known as a Special Access Program, (SAP) from Department of Homeland Security. It was drafted back in 2011 with the explicit purpose of taking possession of UFO’s that have already been retrieved and exist in other government programs, along with other UFO related objectives.
By themselves the documents are revealing. Analyzing them together in context a pattern emerges. Identical, very detailed language appears in these documents as well other official documents, such as Office of Inspector General filings and the 64 page UFO disclosure act introduced by Senator Schumer which passed with a majority vote in the senate. A plausible explanation is all of these individual agencies have access to the same or similar sources of data which proves legitimate UFO’s operated by a non human intelligence exist and it’s being used to create official policies.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff is an office run by 4 Star Generals who lead each branch of the US military that advises the Secretary of Defense and the President. When a UFO memo is sent from this office it raises eyebrows. It ordered all commanding officers around the world to “report all UAP incidents, incursions, and engagements using the below, standardized reporting requirements and templates; transfer all data from UAP incidents, incursions, and engagements, as described; and recover and transfer all UAP objects and materials, as described.” It continues on the point of crash retrievals “AARO (All -Domain Anomalous Resolution Office) coordinates across the US Government to identify the appropriate agency to assist in shipping, transferring, receiving, storing, examining, etc., of material and data associated with the UAP (UFO) incident”
This is official policy in the military for how data from UFO events will be reported and how their physical materials will be recovered. This document was sent in the context of a sizeable faction of current and former government insiders insisting that there’s an illegal UFO crash retrieval program. These allegations have fueled fierce debate, more importantly they’ve triggered several investigations, including a criminal investigation in the Department of Justice.
In the memo are the definitions provided for terms used. The one for UAP (unidentified anomalous phenomena) also know as UFO. UAP: “sources of anomalous detections in one or more domain (i.e., airborne, seaborne, spaceborne, and/or trans-medium) that are not yet attributable to known actors and that demonstrate behaviors not readily understood by sensors or observers. "Anomalous detections" include but are not limited to phenomena that demonstrate apparent capabilities or material that exceed known performance envelopes. A UAP may consist of one or more unidentified anomalous objects and may persist over an extended period of time.”
This is how the JCS define objects observed violating sensitive air space at military bases. The memo references data from separate events at bases all over the world was already collected and analyzed by the JCS to create this memo. It’s also worth noting that the UAP Disclosure Act uses an almost identical definition for UAP. The definition used also makes clear that the capabilities being observed are far beyond any known technology.
This Is Not Ours Or a Foreign Countries Tech
That last point is key because one of the arguments used by debunkers is all of the most anomalous sightings are just military drones from the US or foreign countries. At several different points in the memo it was made explicitly clear that is not the technology being discussed. The memo makes a clear distinction between events involving known technology and actual UFO’s: “Incidents, incursions, and engagements by identifiable, non-anomalous phenomena (e.g., sUAS and other capabilities or materials that do not exceed known or predicted performance envelopes) continue to be reported through established processes and mechanisms.”
Similarly, the document clarifies different procedures to recover UFO’s and their materials compared to typical tech recoveries: “Recovery and transfer of identifiable, non-anomalous items of foreign origin that have military potential or applications continue to be managed by the DoD FMP (Foreign Material Program)..”
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe in an interview on Fox News stated that in the few short years since the UAP Task Force was established there have been “hundreds of unexplained sightings. Meaning there’s no natural phenomena involved, there’s no visual disturbance. It’s not clutter or debris or birds or anything else but objects that demonstrate technologies that seem to defy the laws of physics.” Former DNI John Radcliffe Fox Interview
In another interview on Fox News, while answering a question from the host about where these sighting have occurred, Ratcliffe said: “There have been sightings all over the world. When we talk about sightings what I want to tell you is, it’s not just a pilot or a satellite or some intelligence collections. Usually we have multiple sensors picking up these things. Some of these are just unexplained phenomena and there’s quite a few of them that haven’t been made public.” DNI Radcliffe Fox Interview 2
During the interviews, the former DNI stated that just a small fraction of the data that has been collected has been made public and he was working on declassifying much more. But it’s further confirmation that somewhere in the DoD exists an extensive database of events that defy natural or man made explanations. Credible sighting are occurring regularly near heavily surveilled military bases. Part of the memo is a summary of the current situation leading up to these procedures being implemented. Similar to Radcliffe explaining that sightings are happening all over the world, the memo states “The US Government has observed UAP in or near the territory and/or operating areas of the United States, of its allies, and of its adversaries.” If anyone could get access to the data collected during these events it would be the 4 star generals that head the Air Force, Navy, Army etc who make up the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
It becomes even more evident that these procedures were crafted in reference to some collection of data from UFO incidents as the memo continues. One of the definitions provided for context in the memo is “UAP Datam; any record of UAP detection, observation, identification, effects (on persons or equipment), mitigation, and material-exploitation. UAP datum includes but is not limited to observer, debriefer, and investigator notes and reports; still photographs and full-motion video; audio recordings; and platform and sensor- instrument recordings.” Seems odd to have a comprehensive list of all the possible sources used to record data from UFO events if similar incidents and records don’t already exist.
Notably in the memo are mentions of health effects from close encounters with UFO. “Details of UAP-related health incidents (e.g., physiological, psychological effects and whether persistent or transitory) will be retained in service members' medical records but shall not/not be transmitted with the UAP report.” This suggest the DoD already has records of such incidents. In fact the events following a well known sighting at a US base in the UK confirms this. Several people stationed at the base reported seeing a UFO in the Rendlesham Forest. Upon (During)an investigation physical evidence was found in the form of 3 imprints on the ground where the UFO was seen, equal distance from each other in the shape of a triangle. Tests concluded that the spot had higher than normal radiation readings. An officer who had a close encounter with the UFO soon became ill and was discharged after the incident with symptoms of radiation exposure. For years the officer was unable to file for disability since he nor his doctor were allowed access to his medical records. The reason given by the government was that the records remained classified.
Ultimately the incident was resolved after former congressional representative Merril Cook wrote a letter to the VA and the President demanding the records be released. It is quite telling that the JCS is now acknowledging that there are health effects related to these UFO. Update on Citizens Hearing For UFO Disclosure
In order to verify what exactly is in the database of UFO incidents it should be released publicly , so that experts across a variety of fields can independently analyze the data and form their own conclusions. It is clear that the JCS created reporting and crash retrievals mechanisms. Just like how there is a form to fill out if an employee requests time off or to report an accident on a base, there is a standardized 11 line form to report the details of UFO sightings to the Joint Chiefs of Staff within 96 hours of the event.
KONA BLUE
Convinced of a coverup the at the time Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen Daniel Inouye, who chaired the Iran-Contra Committee, along with scientists from the Defense Intelligence Agency brought their information to the DHS Under Secretary for Science & Tech Dr. Tara O’Toole to form the program. They’d been informed that UFO programs were being kept from Congressional oversight by hiding them in the most highly classified programs known as Special Access Programs (SAP). For context, this is the exact claim being made by David Grusch in his criminal complaint to the Inspector General. After being denied access by the DoD and Lockheed Martin Sen Reid made a path for a competing SAP to force his way into the program.
In 2011, Dr. O’Toole was on the team that drafted a proposal to create the KONA BLUE SAP. As documented in the release, over a period of 6 months DHS held at least 10 official meetings while crafting this proposal. The main purpose of this program was to inventory and research all UFO’s already in the possession of US agencies and defense contractors. This was 12 years before the memo from the JCS on UFO reporting and recovery protocols.
It’s worth noting that during this time period, in this proposal the name used in place of UFO is Advanced Aerospace Vehicles (AAV). The definition is the same. The context they are being discussed is the same. The detection equipment used and the unexplainable behaviors observed are the same.
If the program was approved it would have been made up of 7 centers working on different, but related objectives: 1.Data Collection Center 2. Data Analysis Center 3. Advanced Technology Center 4. Experimental Centers 5. Consciousness Center 6. Medical Center 7. Education Center. In the proposal each center had specific objectives with an outline of how it would operate. To understand the full context, please read the entire previously Top Secret now declassified proposal. As someone looking for the source material used by DHS leadership to craft such a detailed document, what really stood out was the Data Collection Center.
Data Collection
In the KONA BLUE section on Data Collection it explicitly references existing databases of UFO reports. One of the objectives of this proposed center was to “Expand the current data warehouse (which currently comprises 11 separate databases with over 200,000 AAV reports, the vast majority of which occurred after 1947) by expanding case numbers within each of the eleven databases.” In there is an admission that these sightings of flying objects that defy our current understanding of physics dates back to the 40’s. Another strike against the theory that this is the US or another country testing experimental tech. If this data is so reliable it’s being used to craft policies like this explosive proposal, the JCS memo, and Sen Chuck Schumers 2023 UFO Disclosure Act the public has a right to the information in order to determine for ourselves how our government should precede in an alleged representative democracy.
Further into the proposal O’Toole elaborates on the data KONA BLUE would be analyzing from the government agencies that have collections of data from UFO incidents:
“Historical and recent cockpit recordings and ECM recordings from Air Force, Navy, Marine, and Army. Records, reports, raw data and threat analyses pertaining to (but not limited to): advanced aerospace vehicle tracking by any agency or armed service within CONUS, all data from Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Lunar and Mars associated data (both historical and contemporary) from NASA, satellite data on unknown targets from NRO, other uncorrelated imagery data from NGIA, trajectory tracks of uncorrelated targets from NORAD/NORTHCOM/MIT Lincoln Labs etc., radar track records of uncorrelated targets from FAA and all data (historical and contemporary) pertaining to interactions/sightings of advanced aerospace vehicles at missile sites, nuclear weapons storage facilities, and at Air Force bases in CONUS.”
That is very specific data that the DHS Under Sec for Science & Tech is referencing. It would be remarkable if the DHS spent months crafting this proposal without ever verifying it exists. Especially since recent revelations 13 years after KONA BLUE confirms such data exist exactly where DHS said it does. In July 2023 David Grusch testified before congress about the investigation that he claims revealed a secret UFO crash retrieval program being illegally hidden from congress. Responding to a question about satellite imagery of UFO events he answered that in his time working at NGA “I have seen multiple cases… I personally reviewed both what we call over head collection and from other strategical tactical platforms that I could not even explain prosaically and I have a degree in physics by the way as well. And I’m aware you all haven’t seen these reports unfortunately.”
The proposal also mentioned ECM (electronic counter measures) recordings from fighter jets. Essentially ECM can be described as radar jamming and any interference with the electronic targeting on a jet. Currently congress is in a standoff with the DoD. Members of the UFO caucus are accusing the Pentagon of covering up a UFO incident involving a pilot. The pilot told his rep Matt Gaetz that there are near daily sightings in the restricted air space where pilots are training. After a specific close encounter where there was a visual sighting and confirming radar signals the jets electronic tracking systems experienced interference and began to malfunction. The pilot took close up pictures and video of the UFO. When Gaetz and other representatives went to the base the commanding general refused to give them access to the pilot or any of the data collected claiming they didn’t have proper clearance. The irony is these were members of the oversight committee who’s mandate is to investigate agencies in the executive branch.
After the standoff was made public, researchers put in FOIA request for documents on the incident. In the declassified summary published by the Air Force it says “upon closing to within 4,000 feet UAP-1, the radar malfunctioned and remained disabled for the duration of the event.” This is just the latest, known example of UFO jamming radar of miliary jets. But the confirmation of the UFO data referenced in the KONA BLUE proposal doesn’t end there.
There is a transcript from an FAA air traffic controller during a credible UFO sighting by multiple trained professionals and multiple radar systems from 1986. The air traffic controller was in contact with a plane being followed by more than one UFO. The pilot reported seeing an object and picking it up radar. The air traffic controller also got a radar reading exactly where the pilot said. There was no flight tracks in that area and there was no transponder which all aircraft are legally required to have. The plane was followed for 400 miles despite coordinated attempts by the controller and the pilot to stop the pursuit. This event and the following investigation was confirmed to have happened by John Callahan who was head of the accidents and investigation division of the FAA.
Simply with access to the internet I found a former NGA employee confirming under oath that satellite imagery of UFO events exists in the NGA, documentation from the Air Force of jets recording electronic counter measures from UFO’s and evidence from the FAA about a highly credible UFO incident. Confirming important parts of this proposal isn’t definitive proof that every assertion is 100% true but it certainly adds credibility to the document.
Claims Of A Secret UFO Program
At the center of this DHS proposal is the claim that UFO’s have already been recovered. One of the justifications given to create KONA BLUE was “Recovered AAV technology exists in and is accessible only within a SAP construct.” Similar to the section breaking down exactly what UFO data can be found in specific government agencies, the proposal goes into specific detail about the titles and departments of people who have been involved in the existing secret UFO program.
“Over past decades a number of high-level individuals in the military, intelligence, and even political sectors of our government have had various level of exposure/access to this subject area. This has included agency directors, members of the JCS and very senior individuals in the Executive Branch. To this can be added certain foreign heads of state, as well as select members of the government contractor community in the electronics and aerospace sectors. Oral histories from individuals of the caliber referenced above are critical to this mission.”
Notice the direct reference to the Joint Chiefs of Staff involvement in this topic. Again, this proposal was drafted in 2011. Fast forward 12 years, and that very same JCS office is circulating an eye opening memo to every commander in the US military about official procedures for reporting UFO events and coordinating UFO crash retrievals.
To continue this long thread of coincidences, the description given of who had access to the UFO program sounds nearly identical to how that same group is described in Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumers historic UAP Disclosure Act from last year. The legislation defined the “Legacy Program” as:
“all Federal, State, and local government, commercial industry, academic, and private sector endeavors to collect, exploit, or reverse engineer technologies of unknown origin or examine biological evidence of living or deceased non-human intelligence that pre-dates the date of the enactment of this Act.”
The KONA BLUE proposal also states clearly that they have a detailed list of names of people who have worked in the program and what they know. One of the objectives of the program was to gather all the information they knew in one place.
“Data collection from an already identified and calibrated list of retired, previously highly placed government, armed services, contractor and intelligence community individuals. The oral history project will include gathering all information pertaining to the location of advanced aerospace technology and biological samples, including records, files, reports, photographs, as well as physical samples.”
UFO Health Effects
Another thread that connects the JCS memo to the KONA BLUE proposal is the mention of possible health effects from getting close to UFOs. An objective of the medical center established in the proposal is to: “Create comprehensive database on all physiological and medical effects of advanced aerospace vehicles (AAVs) within the United States. The database will have pattern analysis and correlative capabilities.”
There’s even a specific mention of radiation poisoning like what happened at the Rendlesham Forrest incident: “Since to date, some evidence points to non-ionizing (EM) radiation associated injuries, emphasis will be on rapid reaction and timely sampling utilizing the above described and other appropriate tests.” Another call back to information that’s available to the team drafting this proposal that the public still doesn’t have access to but apparently members of the JCS do.
Closed Door Meetings
In the documents released by the Pentagon, is a page with a table that lists at least some of the official meetings that were held in the DHS about this proposal. For some reason a column labeled “Attendance” is completely blacked out as well as an entire paragraph under the table. The only thing that wasn’t redacted were the dates the meetings took place and from that I count 9 separate meetings.
One of the most interesting pages of the documents released was the minutes of a high level meeting led by the DHS Under Secretary for Science & Tech. In attendance were members of the committee that oversees special access programs, DHS General Council, and 2 other DHS Under Secretaries. The minutes say she gave a history what led to the proposal and “described the technology as she knew it.”
Eventually the first question she was asked was “why the FBI specifically was not approached to do this program. She answered that FBI had no organic capability to do research & development in the scientific arena.” The notes say the conversation shifted to why a special access program was specifically needed. The general council responded with an entire paragraph that’s been redacted. The minutes continued: “A discussion concerning "collection" also occurred in which the U/S l&A felt that S&T didn't have the authority to conduct.”
The issue that Under Secretary for Intelligence had with the proposal was that to him it was unclear exactly how the science & tech division of DHS would get access to the materials suggesting they don’t have the authority to seize property overtly or covertly. It seems like the only real pushback received in the meeting were bureaucratic confusion over who had jurisdiction in this area. At no point did anyone challenge the premise of the proposal, that UFO’s are of non human origin, they have been recovered and are being hidden in a special access program. You would think in such a high level meeting someone would have asked for evidence of legitimate sightings or the existence of a secret UFO program but that is notably missing. It leaves the impression that at some point in the 5 months leading up to this meeting, or even in this meeting itself Dr. O’Toole provided everyone involved at least some of the data that’s been referenced multiple times throughout the proposal.
At one point Dr O’Toole mentions that “there is very serious science involved with this program and felt the US government has the duty to continue investigating it.” The meeting ends with someone asking O’Toole to write a 5-10 page follow up, which also wasn’t included in the documents released.
“ Finally the S2 tasked Dr. O'Toole and Mr. Cover with preparing a 5-10 page paper that fully documents how we got to where we are now with the KONA BLUE program, it's provenance (history) while at DIA, and exactly what science would be researched that had applicability to the OHS mission. S2 is stilt not certain of what the "It" is in the program or otherwise what exactly we are researching. She also stated that some kind of formal request to OHS to accept this program and the associated funding would be very helpful.”
Ultimately the program wasn’t approved. The objections once again were bureaucratic in nature and nothing to do with the validity of the claims being made about UFO’s or secret government programs. Currently there’s no way to tell whether this program was proposed again or revived in another agency since it would still be top secret today. It seems unlikely that it just died seeing how the data mentioned seems to be influencing UFO policies and investigations 13 years later.
Regardless where you are personally on this topic we can all agree that our government needs to be more transparent with what they know. The reality is they’ve spent billions of dollars researching this subject for 80 years but maintain the position that the public doesn’t have a right to know what they do. There’s plenty of speculation about why some faction in government is releasing more information on the topic. Some even concocting their own theories that this is all a big distraction or being used to advance the agenda of empire. I think that is mostly just noise. The government will always manipulate any situation so it best serves them. Clearly they are using this information to craft policy whether you think this a psy-op or not. I’ll always be in favor of releasing the evidence so we can come to informed conclusion for ourselves. The alternative is to ignore this mountain of evidence and act like there’s nothing to see here. We should all be doing what we can to put pressure on the government to show the public what they have.