US Air Force Silent on Alleged Covert UFO-Tracking Program Revealed by James Clapper
Written by Christopher Sharp - 22 November 2025
The United States Air Force has declined to say whether it operated a covert program dedicated to tracking Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
In the new documentary ‘The Age of Disclosure’, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper made a striking claim: a secretive Air Force program has been actively monitoring UAP, particularly over the highly classified Area 51 facility in Nevada - an epicentre of cutting-edge military development and testing.
Clapper, who also served as Chief of Air Force Intelligence, stated:
“When I served in the Air Force, there was an active program to track anomalous activities that we couldn’t otherwise explain - many of them connected with ranges out west, notably Area 51.”
Liberation Times asked the Air Force whether it could confirm or deny whether Clapper’s allegations were true. But the Air Force was unable to do so.
Instead, an Air Force official told Liberation Times:
“The Nevada Test and Training Range provides flexible, realistic and multidimensional battlespace to test and develop tactics as well as conduct advanced training in support of U.S. national interests.
“Several agencies have jurisdiction over various parts of the Nevada Test and Training Range. The U.S. Air Force controls the airspace over the range and roughly 2.9 million acres of land withdrawn for military use. Various organizations including the Department of Energy, Department of the Interior and private towns such as Rachel also manage portions of the land.”
Liberation Times also reached out to Susan Gough, spokesperson for the Department of War’s (DoW) UAP office, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), regarding Clapper’s allegations. However, Gough stated that she had no information to provide at this time.
The documentary, which features Clapper’s allegations, was released this week on Amazon.
After watching the premiere in March 2025 at the SXSW Film Festival, Marik Von Rennenkampff, a former analyst at the U.S. Department of State and Obama administration appointee at the Department of Defense (now Department of War), wrote:
‘In Age of Disclosure, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper states that a secretive, previously unknown U.S. Air Force program tracked UAP/UFOs, particularly over Area 51.
‘Congress must investigate.’
Between 1963 and 1995, Clapper served in the U.S. Air Force, rising to the rank of Lieutenant General.
His career in intelligence continued at the highest levels, with leadership roles at the Defence Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, before he served as Director of National Intelligence from 2010 to 2017 under President Barack Obama.
Within a period of retirement, Clapper moved into the private sector.
Public records show that from 1998 to 2001 he served as director of intelligence programs at SRA International, a major Beltway contractor that worked extensively for the US intelligence community.
Liberation Times understands that SRA International supported the CIA office responsible for weapons and proliferation analysis, an organisation whose lineage runs from the Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) to the Office of Scientific and Weapons Research (OSWR), and by the early 2000s to the Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation and Arms Control Center (WINPAC).
Liberation Times understands from sources that SRA was the incumbent contractor on OSWR’s intelligence support and information-systems work and continued in a similar role after the office was reorganised as WINPAC.
OSWR would eventually evolve into WINPAC. In between, its functions passed through the Office of Weapons Technology and Proliferation (OWTP) and the Office of Transnational Issues (OTI).
The weapons-technology component of OTI became the ‘WI’ (weapons intelligence) element within WINPAC, which was later reorganised as the Weapons and Counterproliferation Mission Center (WCPMC).
OTI itself was subsequently restructured as the Transnational and Technology Mission Center.
According to sources, the WCPMC produces coordinated assessments for senior policymakers on foreign advanced weapons systems and technologies across the space, air, land, sea and undersea domains, including UAP.
With decades of experience at the heart of the U.S. intelligence and defense apparatus, Clapper is uniquely positioned to have insight into the U.S. government’s most closely guarded secrets.
