In November 2025, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper mentioned, apparently inadvertently, that there was a covert US Air Force program tracking UAP. The US Air Force declined to respond to Liberation Times’ questions about it on multiple occasions.
The disclosure came in a public interview setting. Clapper — who had previously denied knowledge of UAP programs in Congressional testimony — referenced what appeared to be a separate, undisclosed USAF tracking initiative. The statement was not retracted or clarified.
The Context
This is the same Clapper that Liberation Times sources allege oversaw the Golden Domes UAP shootdown-and-recovery program during the Obama administration. It is the same Clapper who, as DNI from 2010 to 2017, oversaw the entire US intelligence community — including the period when AAWSAP was running, when Grusch says the reverse engineering programs were operating, and when the UAP transparency movement says the cover-up was most active.
His reference to a covert USAF tracking program — however brief — is significant because it comes from the man who would have had visibility into every classified UAP-related activity across all agencies during his tenure.
The Air Force’s silence is equally significant. Project Blue Book ended in 1969. The official line since then has been that the Air Force runs no UAP investigation program. If Clapper’s reference was accurate, that official line is false.
Source: Liberation Times, Christopher Sharp — November 22, 2025.