Pentagon Reopens Search for Alleged “Yankee Blue” Memo After Initial Denial

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SOURCE: BlackVault — theblackvault.com (Tier 2)
CATEGORY: BUREAUCRACY
CREDIBILITY SCORE: 74/100  |  EVIDENCE SCORE: 30/100
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TAGS: dod, pentagon, foia, archive

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A newly released FOIA appellate decision has remanded a case back to the Department of War (DoW) for additional searches related to an alleged 2023 memorandum described by the Wall Street Journal. According to the newspaper, the Secretary of Defense’s office issued a directive ordering the immediate halt of an Air Force hazing ritual known as “Yankee Blue,” which involved fabricated claims of reverse-engineering non-human technology. The DoW originally stated that no such memorandum was found, but the appeal has now been granted, and the case remanded for a new search. An Unverified Claim and a Growing Controversy In June 2023, the Wall Street Journal published claims that a directive from the Secretary of Defense’s office had been circulated across the military services “ordering the practice to stop immediately.” The article tied the alleged directive to a hazing ritual in which service members were falsely told that they were working on operations involving retrieved non-human craft. The WSJ did not publish the memo, identify its specific date, or provide sourcing for the claim. Following publication, no document surfaced publicly, and no military component acknowledged knowledge of the directive. In September 2025, the DoW stated in a formal FOIA response to The Black Vault that it had located no such memorandum. On October 1, when asked again about the WSJ claim, Pentagon spokesperson Susan Gough stated, “Regarding the alleged memo: I cannot confirm the existence of any

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