DEFENSE CONTRACTORS ACCUSE PENTAGON OF LYING:
"GOVERNMENT DID NOT PLANT UFO REVERSE ENGINEERING STORIES
AS COVER FOR TOP SECRET MILITARY TECHNOLOGY"
AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2025
In June The Wall Street Journal reported that it had learned from sources that the Pentagon had planted fabricated stories within the defense community that the US has retrieved UFOs that were being reverse-engineered. The program was allegedly called "Yankee Blue". This disinformation was passed on to "thousands of officers" in the Air Force from the 1980s until 2023 when the practice was ended. It was said that the Pentagon had purposely "made up" accounts of recovered extraterrestrial technology and used them as "cover stories" for actual defense technology development. Sue Gough, Pentagon spokesperson, and Sean Kirkpatrick, former Director of the US government's official UFO study office, the AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) have also confirmed to various media outlets their supposed knowledge of this program. Former Deputy Director of AARO Tim Phillips has recently stated that he too was aware of Yankee Blue. They have stated that the tactic was used as "a hazing ritual" and that the ET technology cover stories were designed to "protect classified weapons systems."
However, in exclusive interviews with the makers of these "classified weapons systems", two senior defense contractor officials vehemently deny that there ever was a "Yankee Blue". They explain why such a project would never be implemented. They indicate that statements made by Gough and Kirkpatrick cannot be trusted on matters related to UFOs and technology and they offer extraordinary insight into what they believe is really going on.
Links to The Wall Street Journal article and to a related New York Post article are found here:
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https://nypost.com/2025/06/08/
THE DEFENSE CONTRACTORS SPEAK OUT:
WHY "YANKEE BLUE" NEVER EXISTED
The security professionals interviewed have been associated with such defense and aerospace companies as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Raytheon for decades. In their managerial roles they have been tasked to assure security for the classified design, manufacture and test flight of experimental and advanced aeronautical and aerospace craft, including the B-2 Stealth Bomber. Holding Top Secret clearance with SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information) designation, they have directed the handling of classified information and determined who has a "Need to Know" on Special Access Programs (SAPs). They administer the granting of technology access to both internal employees as well as visiting military personnel and elected officials who will be made privy to their classified technologies. They also assure the secrecy of high-security briefings and oversee the handling and transfer of sensitive documents. They have both worked on projects at Area 51.
Due to the nature of their work, the content of what they relate, and the accusations that they make, their names are understandably not releasable. The two defense contractor officials were discreetly approached through contacts within the National Classification Management Society. The two were already well aware of The Wall Street Journal article claiming Pentagon-planted alien craft recovery stories. They were clearly concerned because such activity, were it to have happened, would reflect poorly on their employers and on their profession. The officers that the Pentagon supposedly deceived with such stories would have been in some way made privy to craft that these defense contractors were developing and testing.
These contractors welcomed the opportunity to explain why "Yankee Blue" never existed. Excerpts of emails and phone calls with them follow:
DEFENSE CONTRACTOR 1​
"You don't draw unwanted attention from non-authorized personnel by covering up advanced technology programs with a premise like recovered flying saucers. The last thing that you want to do is get people wondering, to get that kind of scrutiny." He continues, "What is actually done is you minimize the risk of program exposure by not discussing it in any shape or form with those who aren't cleared. Period. That's basic." He states bluntly, "Prying eyes need to be shut. Saying to officers that we are working on reversing alien technology would make them more curious, not less."
He points out fundamental flaws to such a "Yankee Blue" scheme. "Identifying leakers of classified technology is done in a way that is very different than what is said to be Yankee Blue. You insert
very minor details into information provided to a suspected leaker to see if they emerge later, making the leaker traceable. You do not talk about colorful things like working on captured saucers to do that."
He wanted to be clear on this: "I have never been asked to be involved in a SAP (Special Access Program) that did not actually exist. We don't concoct like that, least-wise one where the technology you have is kept secret by pretending that there is even a greater technology involved. It makes no sense. When the Pentagon mentioned 'hazing' as another reason that these stories were made up by them, I was really wondering what they mean by that. We do not play games or joke around with national security. It would be grounds for dismissal."
"I know many Generals. They all understand the seriousness of classified craft and weapons development. I am 100% certain that none of them would ever accept that kind of story-telling as a way to cover up a technology."
DEFENSE CONTRACTOR 2
"I have never heard of Yankee Blue, and none of my colleagues have either. And we go way back. This Yankee Blue claim goes against everything that I have ever been taught about project and program security." (This individual holds degrees in Homeland Security and in Intelligence Studies.)
Asked if UFOs are ever used in any way as a cover for military technology, he replied, "Let me put it like this: Covert flight technology is out there. And for good reasons, there are folks out there who are happy for you to not know. They are really happy when you mistake an experimental overflight for a flying saucer. But to deliberately plant faked stories of extraterrestrial recovery to military officers is another matter entirely. There would be no need to do that. It just has never happened. You do not keep things secret by attaching some sort of mystery like that to it."
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"Officers and Intel and Congress people all visit us. They are amazed and really wowed by our advanced craft. No matter how 'exotic' they may seem to be though, there is no mistaking that they are made by human beings. They would laugh if they were told it was made by creatures from somewhere else."
There is another reason for him to believe that Yankee Blue never existed: "You really have to ask yourself why after all these years, that the Pentagon would suddenly admit to a thing like this Yankee Blue. It's suspicious to me. Why did they waste the time of their own people and Congress on those UFO hearings that were in the news? Some fellows testified that they heard we have extraterrestrial technology. If the Pentagon knew all along that they themselves created these stories, why didn't they inform everyone on this way long before?"
And he was not disparaging of the possibility of actual alien craft retrieval: "If that kind of hardware does exist, it would be beyond me. I secure things that are terrestrial. If that ever happened, it would be a whole other set of people and other programs. There are layers and layers."
THE REAL REASON FOR THE "YANKEE BLUE" EXPLANATION
One of the security professionals offered his opinion on why the Pentagon says it generated reports of recovered extraterrestrial craft engineering to protect classified terrestrial technology. What he says is revealing:
"My personal belief is that the Pentagon is caught in a corner. Let's say that maybe there could be something to all of this testimony about the government possessing those kinds of extraterrestrial items. The government feels now that the best way to deal with this is for them to say that they themselves created the extraterrestrial retrieval stories to cover up top-secret terrestrial advances. This would have the effect of casting doubt on every whistleblower who might ever come forward. Future whistleblowers to possible real alien tech could then be easily dismissed as having heard 'Yankee Blue' stories."
AIR FORCE CONTRADICTS PENTAGON ON YANKEE BLUE
In June the private Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) advocacy organization "The Black Vault" filed an information request (Tracking # 2025-06002-F) for any information held relating to a project "Yankee Blue." A reply was received from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) Chief of Information Release that directly contradicts the Pentagon and AARO. It stated unequivocally that "no records matching your request" were found and that there is no indication of a Yankee Blue project.
However, former Director of the AARO Tim Phillips told New York Post reporter Steve Greenstreet that same month (on video) that there were "stacks" of documents, faked "Hollywood-level" photos, and "props" that were found that related to the Yankee Blue project. But neither Phillips nor any official has produced any such evidence of this. And they have obviously not shared any such evidence with the Air Force or the AARO, given the FOIA reply.
And strangely, of the supposed "thousands of officers" that were fooled by the project over at least four decades, not one has come forward to say that they believe they were deceived.
IDENTIFYING THE PERSON BEHIND YANKEE BLUE
New information being developed for a forthcoming article will name the originator of the Yankee Blue fiction and will expose how, when and why this convoluted explanation for reports of recovered UFO technology was devised.