KONA BLUE Declassified: The SAP Proposal That Listed ‘Consciousness Studies’ Alongside Non-Human Technology
The full declassified KONA BLUE proposal — originally classified TOP SECRET//KONA BLUE//NOFORN — is now publicly available via AARO. Beyond confirming the programme’s goal of protecting ‘non-human biologics,’ the document reveals that ‘consciousness studies’ was an explicit research objective alongside advanced technology. It also confirms the programme was a ‘Congressional interest item’ — meaning elected representatives were actively requesting it.
What the Document Actually Says
The KONA BLUE proposal, now declassified and released by AARO in partnership with DHS, was classified at the TOP SECRET//NOFORN level — the same classification tier as the most sensitive intelligence programmes. The proposal lists its research objectives explicitly:
This project will investigate, identify and analyze sensitive information, advanced materials and technologies to increase the basic knowledge of potential emerging and/or disruptive scientific and technical data… A unified approach will be used for data collection and analysis, advanced technology acquisition, applied technology theory demonstration, and consciousness studies.
— KONA BLUE declassified proposal — DHS S&T, 2011
Consciousness Studies — What This Implies
The inclusion of ‘consciousness studies’ as an explicit research objective in a programme designed to protect the retrieval and exploitation of non-human biologics is not a bureaucratic coincidence. It connects directly to the Jake Barber testimony — psionic protocols used in UAP interaction and retrieval operations. It connects to the remote viewing programmes (STARGATE, SCANATE) that ran under DIA from 1972 to 1995. And it connects to the broader pattern identified by Jesse Michels: DMT entity contact and NHI contact share structural similarities.
A government programme protecting ‘non-human biologics’ does not include consciousness studies as a research objective unless consciousness is somehow relevant to the subject matter. That relevance is exactly what UAP whistleblowers have been describing — that interaction with non-human intelligence involves dimensions of awareness and perception that conventional physics cannot account for.
Congressional Interest — Elected Officials Knew
The proposal states explicitly: ‘This research is a Congressional interest item.’ Senators and representatives were not merely passive recipients of briefings — they were actively requesting this programme. The later narrative that Congress was being denied access to UAP information is accurate for the programmes that actually existed. But KONA BLUE shows that some members of Congress were already aware enough to actively lobby for a DHS SAP to protect non-human biological material.
The Timeline Lock
KONA BLUE was proposed in 2011 — the same year as the Pax River material transfer attempt involving Lockheed Martin and Robert Bigelow, also blocked by CIA Director of Science and Technology Glenn Gaffney. The same year. Two separate attempts to transfer or protect UAP-related materials, both blocked, both in 2011. The pattern suggests a specific window in which the programmes came closest to civilian transfer — and was shut down twice.