At the September 2025 Congressional UAP hearing, George Knapp talked about his acquisition of Russian documents after the collapse of the Soviet Union, that the Soviets were "trying to build their own UFO" using the information they had acquired through their massive UFO information collection effort via their military, and that the people he had spoken to in Russia were no longer willing to talk to him. (Insinuating that they had been silenced or intimidated to desist from r

Yankee Blue, a purported Air Force disinformation program aimed at its own officers to convince them that the military was working on captured alien technology (or was it a hazing ritual that went too far?) was revealed to the public in a June 2025 Wall Street Journal article and had been reportedly discovered by AARO in its investigations. It has set off a debate about how much of the UFO mythos from the 1980s onwards has been down to a government deception. An important ca