UFO Whistleblowers Aim Spotlight at White House Secrecy Machine
Written by Christopher Sharp - 13 July 2025
In a new interview with podcaster Stephen Diener on 8 July 2025, Representative Burlison said that many Special Access Programs (SAPs) relating to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) “operate directly under the supervision of the White House.”
Sources tell Liberation Times that the drive for secrecy starts inside the White House itself, pushed by career officials who span administrations and work in two offices so sensitive their names cannot be disclosed publicly.
According to those sources, UAP missions are acknowledged at the highest levels of the White House but remain hidden from most Cabinet agencies behind elaborate cover programs.
If true, the claim suggests UAP missions are far more centralised - and politically sensitive - than previously reported.
One defense source pointed to Dan Sherman’s book ‘Above Black: Project Preserve Destiny’ as a useful primer on how such compartmentalisation works.
His description of layered secrecy mirrors today’s system, according to the source.
The six layers of secrecy are said to be as follows:
Public layer (Unclassified) – Information released to the public, which may or may not reveal an organisation’s true purpose
Controlled layer (For Official Use Only) – Unclassified data restricted to prevent outsiders from piecing together a sensitive picture
Secret – Material whose unauthorised disclosure could seriously harm national security
Top Secret + code-word compartments – Highly sensitive operations organised under code names
Black missions – Conventional clandestine projects and missions, such as CIA–JSOC efforts to recover foreign hardware. Knowledge is limited to the President and a handful of lawmakers (the “Gang of Eight”)
Programs-within-programs – Genuine UAP activities concealed inside black missions and projects. Even Presidents can be kept at arm’s length; probing questions are often deflected with a limited briefing on the outer mission or project.
What has been alleged by whistleblowers, such as former senior intelligence official David Grusch, resembles Sherman’s description.
He alleged that UAP activities have been hidden within conventional SAPs belonging to the Department of Defense (DoD) and Controlled Access Programs (CAPs) belonging to the CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Speaking to The Debrief in 2023, Grusch said that UAP activities have been nested within the programs:
“When you have multiple agencies nesting UAP activities in conventional SAP/CAP programs, both as recipients of exploitation-related insights and for operational reasons, without appropriate reporting to various oversight authorities, you have a problem.”
This differs from the account of the U.S. government’s UAP investigation office, known as the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), whose spokesperson, Susan Gough, has stated it has found inauthentic UAP SAPs.
Such explanations don’t match insider claims about how UAP missions and projects are hidden. According to their accounts, genuine SAPs or CAPs - either acknowledged or unacknowledged - provide the cover.
Take the CIA’s Office of Global Access: it allegedly carries out retrieval missions in dangerous places - salvaging a downed Russian MiG or a fallen Chinese satellite. If teams ever recover an advanced, non-human craft, that operation is simply folded into the same control system of secrecy, shielded by the legitimate mission already on the books.
SAPs versus CAPs
DoD SAPs shield national-security information that demands safeguards beyond standard classified controls, including:
Breakthrough military technologies and ‘black’ acquisition programs,
Highly sensitive operational and special operations,
Intelligence findings whose disclosure would expose unique U.S. advantages and reveal vulnerabilities, and,
Other mission-critical capabilities that, if compromised, would cause exceptionally grave damage to national security.
Intelligence Community CAPs guard its most sensitive secrets, including:
Exceptionally delicate human and technical sources - this can include sensitive breakthrough technologies,
Clandestine collection methods, and
Covert or emerging IC operations and activities.
Complicated Picture
It should be noted that the moment DoD money, infrastructure, or eventual fielding enters the picture, it (as a CAP) typically gains a DoD SAP wrapper, sometimes running in parallel with an Intelligence Community CAP that still shields the strictly covert intelligence-collection and clandestine operations pieces.
For example, the CIA might have a covert remote collection operation in a foreign country that might require Air Force unacknowledged special operations logistics support.
However, according to Liberation Times’ sources, not all UAP activities are hidden within conventional SAPs and CAPs - although the White House’s role in maintaining secrecy allegedly remains crucial.
One example, according to sources, is IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION, an alleged Unacknowledged Special Access Program (uSAP) tasked with tracking advanced craft of both human and non-human origin.
Rather than being tied up with another legitimate SAP or CAP, its shield is the White House’s National Security Council - the President’s principal forum for coordinating national security and foreign policy, uniting military, intelligence, and diplomatic agencies under a single executive umbrella.
Speaking about the layers of secrecy protecting the alleged program, investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell, told Liberation Times:
“It is my understanding - and based on my journalistic experience - that a highly effective way to protect Special Access Programs (SAPs) from exposure to the public, Congress, and even from other chains of command, is to use the National Security Council (NSC) as a shield.
“The NSC can oversee SAPs, particularly when a program falls under presidential purview or requires interagency coordination at the highest levels - which Immaculate Constellation would indeed have required.
“The NSC wouldn’t run the SAP in any operational sense, but it would play a critical role in its authorization, oversight, or strategic direction - especially if the President deems the matter vital to national security. The NSC enables coordination among multiple agencies while remaining detached from the program’s day-to-day execution.
“This arrangement is particularly effective for extremely sensitive SAPs, as it helps shield them from standard congressional oversight and bolsters the mechanisms required for maintaining secrecy.
“And I would consider the described mission of Immaculate Constellation to fall directly within this framework.”
When asked how much the Presidents know about such efforts, sources tell Liberation Times that they are informed to address the President’s intelligence priorities, while providing a sufficient level of details that offer plausible denial and protection of the President in situations where such efforts might have been exposed or leaked.
However, Liberation Times also understands from sources that the White House is not always kept in the loop and that some programs relating to UAP are being run completely rogue from any oversight.
Despite the change of administration and the appointment of Marco Rubio, once the Senate’s foremost champion of UAP transparency, as National Security Advisor, tangible progress on UAP disclosure remains scarce, raising the question of whether seasoned career bureaucrats can still outflank even the most determined political allies of openness.
