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To the best of my knowledge, members of the Joint Staff in general are only aware of UFOs and any related secrecy issues from what they read and watch on TV. In fact, there are no secrecy issues related to UFOs since the consensus is that they have not been proven to exist and therefore do not hold a place in the list of secrecy topics about which Joint Staff members are forbidden to speak. That said, however, if a person were to encounter documents or other information related to the Subject of UFOs that 1 te oa aos aaa 1 1 ‘ ted information. _ The phenomenon is ignored as if it was an unproven myth despite the existence of classified information about it. I know for a fact that such information resides within several "three-letter agencies." That is no surprise, since multiple agencies in the past have tracked these objects, received reports on these objects, and created reports related to military and/or civilian encounters with these objects and/or their effects. Especially where surveillance and detection systems are concerned, a reasonable person might assume that agencies tasked with detecting and monitoring air, space, and sea via various technical surveillance systems would periodically detect these UFOs/crafts or have reports of such sent to them, which they would then disseminate to appropriate authorities/end users with the need to know. Would it be possible to keep something like this secret? CDR Miller referenced the possibility of an Unacknowledged Special Access Program (USAP) as one potential location for a group controlling access to UFO information. USAPs are one of the known mechanisms in place within the Department of Defense for controlling sensitive information without public knowledge of its existence. An investigative report by Bill Sweetman in Jane's International Defense Review sheds tremendous light on the extent to which the DoD is capable of keeping secrets. These "black projects" within the DoD, officially called Special Access Programs (SAPs), are structured so that those involved in one component do not know what is going on in another, preventing knowledge of the bigger picture. Buried even deeper is the USAP referred to by Miller, a black program so sensitive that the fact of its existence is a "core secret," defined in U.S. Air Force regulations as "any item, progress, strategy or element of information, the compromise of which would result in unrecoverable failure." This means that all participants are required to deny the very existence of the program if confronted, since even "no comment" is considered a confirmation. [1] Cover for these projects is supported by "the dissemination of plausible but false data, or disinformation." Often, the false information accompanies some truth, so that the two are indistinguishable and the truth is thereby discredited. "Presented with a wall of denial, and with no way to tell the difference between deliberate and fortuitous disinformation, most of the media has abandoned any serious attempts to investigate classified programs," writes Sweetman. Perhaps, as has been revealed on occasion throughout the decades, some of the leaked "official" documents and shadowy characters with wild claims, emerging from the deep, dark intelligence world, could be part of an official disinformation program, protecting the USAPs exclusive ownership of the truth by confusing those getting closer to it. We simply don't know. were classified, then that person would be bound not to discuss that classified