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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. Its statements that Bouty was convicted in 2004 of kidnapping and manslaughter, sentenced to 30 years, admitted knowing of the captives in Dutroux's cellar and was released in 2012 are contradicted by the trial record, in which she was a witness, not a defendant; several of these details correspond to Michelle Martin.
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Its statements that Bouty was convicted in 2004 of kidnapping and manslaughter, sentenced to 30 years, admitted knowing of the captives in Dutroux's cellar and was released in 2012 are contradicted by the trial record, in which she was a witness, not a defendant; several of these details correspond to Michelle Martin. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport complémentaire, Doc. 713/8-96/97, February 16, 1998, chapter on Nihoul's networks; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/pdf_sections/comm/dutroux/49K0713008.pdf
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[^3]: "Notorious child rapist-murderer convicted." NBC News and Associated Press, June 17, 2004. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5233011 ; "Nihoul acquitté pour les enlèvements." *La Dernière Heure,* June 17, 2004. https://www.dhnet.be/actu/faits/2004/06/17/nihoul-acquitte-pour-les-enlevements-MF73NPYQVBC25I2Y6P54BXIQDA/
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[^4]: Hovine, Annick. "Annie Bouty, ex-compagne de Nihoul, sort ses griffes." *La Libre Belgique,* May 3, 2004; translated from the French. https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/2004/05/03/annie-bouty-ex-compagne-de-nihoul-sort-ses-griffes-VKDQW4MOE5DTLGWMVOWZKUWGYI/
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category: "People"
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tags:
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- Person
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- DefenseContractor
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- USAirForceVeteran
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- HuntsvilleAlabama
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- TechnicalIntelligence
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- ForeignMaterielExploitation
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- EmployeeOwned
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- PoliticalDonor
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alias:
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- William C. Bailey Jr.
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- William C. Bailey, Jr.
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- William C. Bailey
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- William Bailey
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- Bill Bailey Jr.
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- Bill Bailey, Jr.
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- William "Bill" Bailey
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- Bailey, William C.
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- Bill Bailey (Radiance)
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summary: "William C. Bailey Jr. is chief executive of Radiance Technologies, a former Air Force engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, and lead defendant in the dismissed ESOP suit Berry v. Bailey."
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location: "Huntsville, Alabama"
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relations:
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- type: member_of
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with: "[[United States Air Force]]"
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role: "B-52 aircraft maintenance technician, then research and development engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center and Phillips Laboratory (fourteen years of military service per the company biography)"
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- type: employed_by
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with: "[[Radiance Technologies]]"
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start: "2001"
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role: "joined 2001; senior vice president and manager of the Intelligence Systems Group; president from January 15, 2013; chief executive officer"
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with: "[[Radiance Technologies]]"
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start: "2014-05-19"
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role: "director listed on the Alabama Secretary of State record (restated articles entered May 19, 2014); defendant as chief executive and board member in Berry v. Bailey (2024)"
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fn: 2
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with: "[[Business Council of Alabama]]"
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start: "2026"
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role: "listed member of the 2026 board of directors"
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fn: 17
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- type: member_of
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with: "[[Tuberville for Senate]]"
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start: "2026-02-11"
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role: "member of the campaign finance committee announced the week of February 12, 2026"
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fn: 18
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- type: subject_of
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with: "[[Berry v. Bailey]]"
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start: "2024-04-25"
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end: "2025-09-18"
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role: "named defendant; all claims dismissed without prejudice September 18, 2025"
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fn: 3
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- type: funded
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with: "[[Grow the Majority]]"
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start: "2024-05-03"
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end: "2026-06-30"
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role: "five itemized contributions totaling $270,000"
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fn: 6
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- type: funded
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with: "[[Scalise Leadership Fund]]"
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start: "2021-05-04"
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role: "eight itemized contributions totaling $115,000"
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---
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### Identity
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William C. Bailey Jr. is the chief executive officer of [[Radiance Technologies]] of [[Huntsville, Alabama]]. The company's own biography names him "William C. Bailey, Jr.", states that he joined Radiance in 2001, and gives his background as fourteen years of military service as "a B-52 aircraft maintenance technician and as a Research and Development Engineer at the National Air and Space Intelligence Center and the Phillips Laboratory, now the Air Force Research Laboratory." It lists a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from [[Louisiana Tech University]].[^1] The [[Alabama Secretary of State]] record for Radiance lists "William C Bailey" among the five directors entered with the corporation's restated articles on May 19, 2014.[^2] The defendant named "William C. Bailey" in the 2024 suit Berry v. Bailey is described in the pleadings as chief executive officer of Radiance and a member of its board; the identity of the defendant, the company officer and the October 2024 vice chairman of [[Radiance Ignite Technologies]] rests on the same name and office.[^3][^4]
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A William Bailey who directs the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (a Notre Dame graduate and test pilot) is a different person.[^5] A William C. Bailey III appears in FEC records with occupations unrelated to the chief executive's; those rows are excluded from the donation figures below.[^6]
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### Air Force service and early industry career
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The company biography gives the military portion as fourteen years that began in B-52 maintenance and moved to research and development engineering at the [[National Air and Space Intelligence Center]] (NASIC) and at [[Phillips Laboratory]], now the [[Air Force Research Laboratory]].[^1] NASIC is the successor to the [[Foreign Technology Division]] at [[Wright-Patterson Air Force Base]]. A 2017 [[Business Council of Alabama]] member profile states that his career began in the [[United States Air Force]] as a "B-52 mechanic."[^7] Radiance's own December 2001 and September 2002 web pages on foreign materiel exploitation (the 2002 page lists "Hardware Reverse Engineering" and "ELINT, COMINT, FISINT, and MASINT Analysis") name Bill Bailey as the contact for the Intelligence Community support area.[^8]
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### Radiance Technologies
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Radiance began operating on March 15, 1999 under the founders George Clark, John Dennis and Scott Dublin.[^9] On January 29, 2013 the company announced that its board had appointed Bailey president effective January 15, 2013; he had been a Radiance employee for twelve years and had moved up from senior vice president and manager of the Intelligence Systems Group. George Clark, one of the original founders, remained chairman of the board, and the company had ended 2012 with approximately $140 million in revenue.[^10] A later company biography describes Bailey as chief executive of a "$200M 100% employee-owned small business" with "core competencies in developing advanced technologies, integrating systems, performing technical intelligence, and providing engineering services to the Department of Defense."[^1]
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Under his tenure the company won the NOVASTAR contract from NASIC (announced August 19, 2022; a five-award indefinite delivery vehicle, with Radiance's vehicle FA860422DB008 carrying a $4,797,000,000 ceiling to August 18, 2027). Bailey said the award reflected "20 years of hard work" with "our customer, NASIC."[^11] On April 22, 2022 Radiance hired [[Travis Taylor]]; Bailey was quoted calling Taylor "an outstanding and highly qualified scientist."[^12] On May 12, 2022 the company announced [[Jay Stratton]] as "SME for Intel Strategy" and member of "the CEO's Strategy Team", noting that he had most recently been the first director of the [[UAP Task Force]].[^13]
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On March 17, 2025 Radiance opened a Research and Innovation Center in [[Cummings Research Park]]; Bailey said there was "no better place to start a company in this world than Huntsville, Alabama," credited the congressional delegation by name ([[Richard Shelby]], [[Robert Aderholt]], [[Dale Strong]], [[Katie Britt]], [[Tommy Tuberville]]), and described the 100 percent employee ownership as "the rocket fuel."[^14] On April 21, 2026 he was quoted announcing Darien Hammett's promotion to chief operating officer.[^15]
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### Radiance Ignite Technologies
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The October 14, 2024 announcement of the joint venture of Radiance and [[Ignite Fueling Innovation]] names [[Clayton Hinchman]] president and chairman and Bailey vice chairman.[^4] The Alabama Secretary of State record shows the venture's formation on July 10, 2024.[^4]
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### Louisiana ties
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Radiance operates in Shreveport and Baton Rouge. On August 25, 2025 Louisiana Economic Development announced a $370.65 million secure microchip packaging facility in Lincoln Parish with Radiance, Louisiana Tech University and the Louisiana Tech University Foundation; the state committed $20 million in matching funds to the foundation and $17 million to Louisiana Tech. Bailey said the partnership was "a win-win opportunity that will benefit Radiance, Tech, Ruston and the entire state."[^16] Bailey gave $25,000 to Conservative Louisiana on March 31, 2026 and $27,100 in four contributions to the Letlow Victory Fund (August 12, 2022 to March 19, 2026).[^6]
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### Berry v. Bailey
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Heath Berry and four other former Radiance employees sued Bailey, the Radiance directors Robert E. (Bud) Cramer, Jim Scanlon, Jed Deason, Jim Poss, Carol Tevepaugh and John F. Thompson, [[Argent Trust Company]], Argent Financial Group and an Argent officer. The suit was begun in Madison County, Alabama, and removed to the [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama]] on April 25, 2024 as case 5:24-cv-00522 (Judge Corey L. Maze).[^3] The plaintiffs filed a second amended verified complaint on August 21, 2024, pleading eight counts: direct and derivative breach of fiduciary duty against Bailey (Counts I and III), against the board members (II and IV) and against the Argent defendants (V and VI), and two ERISA counts against all defendants (VII and VIII), on behalf of participants in the Radiance Employee Stock Ownership Plan and holders of stock appreciation rights.[^3]
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The plaintiffs alleged that in early 2023 Bailey began exploring a sale of Radiance; that after offers from Axient and BlueHalo the board retained Jefferies, producing about fourteen offers narrowed to five, each "in a range of two times (2X) the ESOP's last appraised value"; that Bailey did not want a sale because he would not remain chief executive; that he fired Radiance president Tim Tinsley in the middle of due diligence; and that he told the board that "product(s) and programs" would lift the valuation when those products and programs "did not even exist." The complaint alleges the board then voted to table the sale and that a "brain-drain" of senior staff followed.[^3] These are the plaintiffs' allegations in a case dismissed without a ruling on the facts.
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The Radiance defendants moved to dismiss on September 4, 2024, calling the suit "a nuisance suit from five former Radiance Technologies, Inc. employees" who now work for competitors, and stating that Radiance had sued two of them (Radiance Technologies, Inc. v. Berry, 47-CV-2024-90092, Madison County Circuit Court; Radiance Technologies, Inc. v. Baker, 5:24-cv-00794, N.D. Ala.).[^3] On September 18, 2025 the court granted the motions to dismiss: the plaintiffs lacked standing for the direct state-law claims, ERISA preempted the remaining state-law claims, and the ERISA claims failed for non-exhaustion of the plan's administrative remedies. The court dismissed all claims without prejudice and closed the case.[^3]
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### Political contributions
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The FEC records itemized contributions under the name William C. Bailey, with employer Radiance Technologies and occupations of chief executive, president, chairman, vice president or senior vice president, from April 24, 2006 (a $1,000 contribution to [[Mike DeWine]]'s U.S. Senate committee) through June 30, 2026: 137 itemized rows totaling $818,118.51. Annual totals run $2,500 (2006), $3,000 (2008), $2,400 (2009), $3,500 (2010), $6,900 (2011), nothing itemized from 2012 through 2017, $4,000 (2018), $12,400 (2019), $14,550 (2020), $26,700 (2021), $64,557 (2022), $106,965 (2023), $108,876 (2024), $253,271 (2025) and $208,500 (January through June 2026).[^6]
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By committee, the largest totals are Grow the Majority ($270,000, five rows, May 3, 2024 to June 30, 2026); [[Steve Scalise]]'s Scalise Leadership Fund ($115,000, eight rows, May 4, 2021 to April 27, 2026); the Tuberville Victory Fund ($35,000, three rows, October 21, 2023 to March 31, 2025); the Letlow Victory Fund of [[Julia Letlow]] ($27,100, four rows, August 12, 2022 to March 19, 2026); Britt Senate Victory ($26,000, April 28, 2025); Conservative Louisiana ($25,000, March 31, 2026); the Johnson Leadership Fund of [[Mike Johnson]] ($20,000, December 31, 2023); the Strong Victory Fund ($17,000, two rows, February 28 and April 27, 2026); and [[Jerry Carl]] for Congress ($15,570.71, three rows, May 22, 2022 to September 26, 2025).[^6]
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Contributions to members of Congress and senators with intelligence, armed services or appropriations roles are itemized as follows: [[Mike Rogers]] for Congress, $14,500 (seven rows, June 29, 2020 to March 18, 2025) and Mike Rogers Victory, $1,000 (October 10, 2023); [[Dale Strong]] for Congress, $14,100 (five rows, June 11, 2021 to March 19, 2024); [[Katie Britt]], Britt for Alabama Inc., $11,200 (five rows, December 31, 2021 to May 2, 2023), Team Katie, $5,800 (October 26, 2022) and Britt Senate Victory, $5,000 (September 27, 2024); [[Tommy Tuberville]], Tuberville for Senate Inc., $9,500 (three rows, March 29, 2021 to July 25, 2025); [[Mike Turner]], Citizens for Turner, $9,200 (four rows, June 30, 2008 to July 31, 2024); [[Robert Aderholt]] for Congress, $7,057 (three rows, June 21, 2021 to September 30, 2025); [[Mo Brooks]] for Congress, $5,300 (two rows, April 25, 2019 and October 5, 2020); and [[Richard Shelby]], Shelby for U.S. Senate, $2,400 (April 2, 2009). Earlier recipients include [[Jeff Sessions]] (Friends of Sessions Senate Committee, $5,000, January 8, 2020) and [[Doug Jones]] (Doug Jones for Senate Committee, fifteen rows totaling $3,200, August 14, 2019 to October 31, 2020).[^6]
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The Radiance PAC (committee C00372979, first filed February 12, 2002) has listed E. Scott Dublin (2002 to 2018), Seth Crochet (2020 to 2024) and Robert Seth Brasher (2026) as treasurer; Bailey is not listed as treasurer. The PAC's own itemized gifts include $37,100 to Rogers, $51,250 to Turner and $25,000 to the Turner Victory Fund.[^6] The Business Council of Alabama lists Bailey on its 2026 board, and [[256 Today]] reported on February 12, 2026 that he is a member of the campaign finance committee of Tuberville's campaign.[^17][^18]
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### UAP-related claims touching Radiance
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Radiance's president Tim Tinsley told [[KLAS-TV]]'s [[George Knapp]] on October 13, 2022, about a hypothetical request to take apart a UFO, "Why not. I'm waiting for one of those," and "No, we provide customer solutions"; Taylor said "Jay and I are working on growing the capabilities, doing reverse engineering of foreign materials." The report states that Radiance "isn't able to confirm the allegations" about crash-retrieval briefings.[^19] The report does not quote Bailey.
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On December 3, 2023 [[Liberation Times]] published [[Daniel Sheehan]]'s statement that [[Lockheed Martin]], [[Raytheon]] and "now Radiance Technologies" were "given particular discrete aspects of the technology to try to figure it out." The same article states that the outlet was unable to substantiate the claim, that multiple sources described it as untrue, and that Stratton and Taylor were "in no way involved in any coverup."[^20]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Radiance Technologies, Inc., "William C. Bailey, Jr., Chief Executive Officer" (leadership page), Wayback capture of November 14, 2025. https://web.archive.org/web/20251114213806/https://www.radiancetech.com/about-us/leadership/bill-bailey/
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[^2]: Alabama Secretary of State, business entity record for Radiance Technologies, Inc., ID 000-195-724 (restated articles, directors, entered May 19, 2014). https://arc-sos.state.al.us/cgi/corpdetail.mbr/detail?corp=000195724&page=name&file=&type=ALL&status=ALL&place=ALL&city=
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[^3]: Berry v. Bailey, No. 5:24-cv-00522-CLM (N.D. Ala.): Doc. 33, second amended and restated verified complaint (August 21, 2024); Doc. 42, Radiance defendants' motion to dismiss (September 4, 2024); Doc. 68, memorandum opinion (September 18, 2025); CourtListener docket 68716598 (filed 2024-04-25, terminated 2025-09-18). https://archive.org/download/gov.uscourts.alnd.189482/gov.uscourts.alnd.189482.68.0.pdf ; https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68716598/berry-v-bailey/
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[^4]: PR Newswire, "Radiance Technologies and Ignite Announce Joint Venture," October 14, 2024 (release 302275375); Alabama Secretary of State, Radiance Ignite Technologies, LLC, ID 001-144-448. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/radiance-technologies-and-ignite-announce-joint-venture-302275375.html
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[^5]: Potomac Officers Club, speaker profile of William Bailey (Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office). https://potomacofficersclub.com/speakers/william-bailey-3/
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[^6]: Federal Election Commission, Schedule A (individual contributions, employer Radiance Technologies) and committee record C00372979, retrieved through the FEC API in October 2026. Itemized rows counted: contributor name William or Bill Bailey (excluding "III"), occupations chief executive, president, executive, chairman, vice president or senior vice president; memo entries excluded. https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/committee/C00372979/
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[^7]: Business Council of Alabama, "Radiance Technologies Shines in the Employee-Owned World," September 7, 2017. https://www.bcatoday.org/tag/bill-bailey/
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[^8]: Radiance Technologies web pages "Foreign Materiel Exploitation" (Wayback, October 27, 2001) and "Intelligence Community Support" (Wayback, September 27, 2002). https://web.archive.org/web/20020927213934/http://www.radiancetech.com:80/ServicesForeignMaterialExp.html
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[^9]: Radiance Technologies, "About Us," Wayback capture of July 11, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170711221013/https://www.radiancetech.com/about-us/
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[^10]: Radiance Technologies, Inc., "William C. 'Bill' Bailey, Jr. Appointed President of Radiance Technologies," January 29, 2013. https://www.radiancetech.com/william-c-bill-bailey-appointed-president-of-radiance-technologies
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[^11]: Radiance Technologies, "Radiance Technologies Wins NOVASTAR Contract for the National Air and Space Intelligence Center," August 2022; USAspending, IDV FA860422DB008. https://www.radiancetech.com/radiance-technologies-wins-novastar-contract-for-the-national-air-and-space-intelligence-center/
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[^12]: ExecutiveGov, April 22, 2022, on the hiring of Travis Taylor. https://www.executivegov.com/?p=233066
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[^13]: PR Newswire, "John F. Stratton Jr. Joins Radiance Technologies as SME for Intel Strategy," May 12, 2022 (release 301546258), Wayback capture. https://web.archive.org/web/20220512145721id_/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/john-f-stratton-jr-joins-radiance-technologies-as-sme-for-intel-strategy-301546258.html
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[^14]: Huntsville Business Journal, "The right stuff: local defense company celebrates success," March 19, 2025. https://huntsvillebusinessjournal.com/news/2025/03/19/the-right-stuff-local-defense-company-celebrates-success
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[^15]: 256 Today, "Radiance Technologies promotes Darien Hammett to chief operating officer," April 21, 2026. https://256today.com/radiance-technologies-promotes-darien-hammett-to-chief-operating-officer/
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[^16]: Louisiana Economic Development, "Radiance Technologies Announces $370 Million Microchip Facility in North Louisiana," August 25, 2025. https://www.opportunitylouisiana.gov/news/radiance-technologies-announces-370-million-microchip-facility-in-north-louisiana-to-bolster-and-secure-national-supply-chains
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[^17]: Business Council of Alabama, 2026 Board of Directors. https://www.bcatoday.org/bca-board-of-directors
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[^18]: 256 Today, "North Alabama business leaders anchor Tuberville's campaign finance committee," February 12, 2026. https://256today.com/north-alabama-business-leaders-anchor-tubervilles-campaign-finance-committee/
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[^19]: KLAS-TV 8 News Now (George Knapp), "Is this company working with alien technology in Nevada?" October 13, 2022. https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/is-this-company-working-with-alien-technology-in-nevada/
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[^20]: Liberation Times, Daniel Sheehan interview, December 3, 2023. Sole source for the Sheehan passages so cited. https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/daniel-sheehan-exposes-five-powerful-republicans-blocking-ufo-disclosure-act-as-the-clock-ticks-down
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Sole source for the passages so cited. Contemporaneous reporting describes Eckerson as the county's elected district attorney who resisted for six months the CHP's pressure to prosecute Sinclair and engaged a retired CHP lieutenant, Bob Kovach, to review its evidence: "Highway Patrol's Crash investigation questioned," United Press International, September 25, 1983 (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/25/Highway-Patrols-Crash-investigation-questioned/7300433310400/).
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[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro's Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal.* TrineDay, 2010. Contemporaneous reporting describes Eckerson as the county's elected district attorney who resisted for six months the CHP's pressure to prosecute Sinclair and engaged a retired CHP lieutenant, Bob Kovach, to review its evidence: "Highway Patrol's Crash investigation questioned," United Press International, September 25, 1983 (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/09/25/Highway-Patrols-Crash-investigation-questioned/7300433310400/). Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.,* March 1993, pp. 169-170, 211-214. https://archive.org/details/InslawPROMISBuaReport (which spells the name Docter throughout; "Deeter" in later accounts is a transcription error). The firm's role as counsel of record appears in the reporter listings for *In re INSLAW, Inc.,* 97 B.R. 685 and 106 B.R. 331 (Bankr. D.D.C. 1989), not examined.
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[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice. *Report of Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua to the Attorney General of the United States Regarding the Allegations of Inslaw, Inc.,* March 1993, pp. 169-170, 211-214. https://archive.org/details/InslawPROMISBuaReport (which spells the name Docter throughout; "Deeter" in later accounts is a transcription error). The firm's role as counsel of record appears in the reporter listings for *In re INSLAW, Inc.,* 97 B.R. 685 and 106 B.R. 331 (Bankr. D.D.C. 1989).
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[^1]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681, received July 2, 1977, accepted May 31, 1978. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0 (abstract and dates only; the text is behind a paywall).
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[^1]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. "Information transmission in remote viewing experiments." *Nature,* vol. 274, August 17, 1978, pp. 680-681, received July 2, 1977, accepted May 31, 1978. https://www.nature.com/articles/274680a0.
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[^2]: Marks, David, and Richard Kammann. *The Psychology of the Psychic.* Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1980, pp. 12-41, 129, 151, 177, 185, read through the archive.org search index of the item psychologyofpsyc0000mark_j8m3 (page fragments only).
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[^3]: Marks, David F. "Remote Viewing Revisited." *Skeptical Inquirer,* vol. 6, no. 4, Summer 1982, pp. 18-29. https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/1982/07/22165420/p20.pdf
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[^4]: Puthoff, H. E., and Russell Targ, "Information Transmission in Remote Viewing Experiments: II," and Tart, Charles T., "Reanalysis of SRI Remote Viewing Experiments," January 1979, "submitted for publication to Nature," CIA-RDP96-00787R000200090017-5; published as Tart, Puthoff and Targ, *Nature,* vol. 284, 1980, p. 191, not seen. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Hyman, Ray. "Evaluation of Program on Anomalous Mental Phenomena," September 11, 1995, in *An Evaluation of Remote Viewing: Research and Applications,* American Institutes for Research, September 29, 1995, p. 3-71, CIA-RDP96-00791R000200180006-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Marks, D. F., "Sensory cues invalidate remote viewing experiments," *Nature,* vol. 292, 1981, p. 177, and Marks, D., and C. Scott, "Remote viewing exposed," *Nature,* vol. 319, 1986, p. 444, titles and authors from the journal's pages only.
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[^3]: *Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair,* H. Rept. 100-433, S. Rept. 100-216, November 1987, minority report. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/18221
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[^4]: Halliburton Company, Schedule 14A proxy statement, 2004, Securities and Exchange Commission.
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[^5]: Rangwala, Glen. "The interview with Hussein Kamel," February 2003, quoting the UNSCOM and IAEA note of the meeting of August 22, 1995; Barry, John. *Newsweek,* March 3, 2003.
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[^6]: O'Brien, Cathy, and Mark Phillips. *Trance Formation of America.* 1995. Sole source for the passage so cited.
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[^6]: O'Brien, Cathy, and Mark Phillips. *Trance Formation of America.* 1995. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It places the boarding school in New York; the district attorneys' statement places it in New Jersey.
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It places the boarding school in New York; the district attorneys' statement places it in New Jersey. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^2]: Wright, Marilyn. "Porno Ring Uses Church, Tax Laws" and related articles. *Traverse City Record-Eagle,* 1976-1977, reprinted in U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Crime. *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* hearings, 95th Congress, 1st session, Serial No. 12, 1977. https://archive.org/details/micro_IA41153502_0041
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[^3]: National District Attorneys Association, Task Force on Sexual Abuse of Children, statement and letter of Robert F. Leonard to Benjamin Civiletti, March 4, 1977, in *Sexual Exploitation of Children,* Serial No. 12, 1977.
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[^4]: *Chicago Tribune,* May 1977, reprinted in U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate Juvenile Delinquency. *Protection of Children Against Sexual Exploitation,* hearings, 1977. https://archive.org/details/protectionofchil00unit
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[^1]: "Edward Jay Epstein," obituary placed by the family, Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel, Dignity Memorial, January 2024. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/new-york-ny/edward-epstein-11625388
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[^2]: Internet Archive catalog records for Epstein's books: *Inquest* (New York: Viking Press, 1966), https://archive.org/details/inquestwarrencom00epst; *Legend* ([New York]: Reader's Digest Press, 1978), https://archive.org/details/legendsecretworl00epst; *The Rise and Fall of Diamonds* (Simon and Schuster, 1982), https://archive.org/details/risefallofdiamon0000epst; *Deception* (Simon and Schuster, 1989), https://archive.org/details/deceptioninvisib00epst; *The Assassination Chronicles* (Carroll & Graf, 1992), https://archive.org/details/assassinationchr0000epst; *Dossier* (Random House, 1996), https://archive.org/details/dossiersecrethis00edwa; *The Big Picture* (Random House, 2005), https://archive.org/details/bigpicturenewlog00epst; *How America Lost Its Secrets* (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017), https://archive.org/details/howamericalostit0000epst. Metadata only; the texts of Inquest, Legend, Deception and Dossier are lending-restricted and were not read.
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[^2]: Internet Archive catalog records for Epstein's books: *Inquest* (New York: Viking Press, 1966), https://archive.org/details/inquestwarrencom00epst; *Legend* ([New York]: Reader's Digest Press, 1978), https://archive.org/details/legendsecretworl00epst; *The Rise and Fall of Diamonds* (Simon and Schuster, 1982), https://archive.org/details/risefallofdiamon0000epst; *Deception* (Simon and Schuster, 1989), https://archive.org/details/deceptioninvisib00epst; *The Assassination Chronicles* (Carroll & Graf, 1992), https://archive.org/details/assassinationchr0000epst; *Dossier* (Random House, 1996), https://archive.org/details/dossiersecrethis00edwa; *The Big Picture* (Random House, 2005), https://archive.org/details/bigpicturenewlog00epst; *How America Lost Its Secrets* (Alfred A. Knopf, 2017), https://archive.org/details/howamericalostit0000epst.
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[^3]: Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, "Countering Criticism of the Warren Report," January 1967, paragraph 6 (reference to Epstein's article in the December 1966 issue of Esquire), CIA document C00352448. https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-00352448
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[^4]: Central Intelligence Agency dispatch, "Countering Criticism of the Warren Report," January 1967, to Chiefs, Certain Stations and Bases, paragraphs 2, 3, 6 and 7, CIA document C00352448 (released 2025). https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-00352448
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[^5]: Epstein, Edward Jay. "Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald," *Reader's Digest* condensation, 1978, editors' introduction, JFK record 104-10404-10388 (CIA copy 00364632). https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-00364632
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[^13]: Reuben, William A. "The Documents That Weren't There," *The Nation*, 1985, quoting Epstein in *The New Republic*, CIA-RDP90-00965R000605300023-6. https://archive.org/details/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp90-00965r000605300023-6
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[^14]: Shane, Scott. "Nailing Hammer: Epstein's 'Dossier,'" *Baltimore Sun*, September 8, 1996. https://www.baltimoresun.com/1996/09/08/nailing-hammer-epsteins-dossier/
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[^15]: Silver, Daniel. "Reprobate" (review of Epstein, *Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer*, Random House, 418 pp.), *Commentary*. https://www.commentary.org/articles/daniel-silver/dossier-by-edward-jay-epstein/
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[^16]: Grove, Lloyd. "Edward Jay Epstein, Yet Another Journalist Who Accepted Favors From Jeffrey Epstein," *The Daily Beast*, September 14, 2019. https://www.thedailybeast.com/edward-jay-epstein-yet-another-journalist-who-accepted-favors-from-jeffrey-epstein/ Epstein's own article, "My Tea with Jeffrey Epstein," *Air Mail*, September 14, 2019, is paywalled and was read only to its first paragraphs. https://airmail.news/issues/2019-9-14/my-tea-with-jeffrey-epstein
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[^17]: Epstein, Edward Jay. "My Tea with Jeffrey Epstein," *Air Mail*, September 14, 2019, opening paragraphs (the remainder is behind a subscription wall and was not read). https://airmail.news/issues/2019-9-14/my-tea-with-jeffrey-epstein
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[^16]: Grove, Lloyd. "Edward Jay Epstein, Yet Another Journalist Who Accepted Favors From Jeffrey Epstein," *The Daily Beast*, September 14, 2019. https://www.thedailybeast.com/edward-jay-epstein-yet-another-journalist-who-accepted-favors-from-jeffrey-epstein/ Epstein's own article, "My Tea with Jeffrey Epstein," *Air Mail*, September 14, 2019. https://airmail.news/issues/2019-9-14/my-tea-with-jeffrey-epstein
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[^17]: Epstein, Edward Jay. "My Tea with Jeffrey Epstein," *Air Mail*, September 14, 2019. https://airmail.news/issues/2019-9-14/my-tea-with-jeffrey-epstein
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[^18]: Email chain "Re: Dsk," March 8, 2012, EFTA02012785. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA02012785.pdf
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[^19]: Email chain, April 14, 2012, EFTA01767728. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01767728.pdf
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[^20]: Email chain "Re: Jeffrey Epstein," April 16 to 17, 2012, EFTA00415113. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00415113.pdf
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[^1]: Dinges, John, and Saul Landau. *Assassination on Embassy Row*. McGraw-Hill, 1980, p. 250; Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, file 2-471, "CORU," August 16, 1978. National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book 153, document 13.
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[^2]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, teletype to Director, "Bombing of Cubana Airlines DC-8 Near Barbados, West Indies, October 6, 1976," November 2, 1976, JFK Assassination Records Collection. National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book 153, document 10.
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[^3]: *Miami New Times* retrospective on the 1975 Miami bombings, not read in full; *United States v. Otero-Hernandez,* 418 F. Supp. 572 (M.D. Fla. 1976).
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[^3]: *Miami New Times* retrospective on the 1975 Miami bombings; *United States v. Otero-Hernandez,* 418 F. Supp. 572 (M.D. Fla. 1976).
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[^4]: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami, file 2-471, "Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU)," January 24, 1977. National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book 153, document 12.
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[^1]: US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "INSCOM Project Grill Flame: Progress Report #1," February 21, 1979, with enclosures, CIA-RDP96-00788R001100070001-3. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^2]: US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "List of Events from September 1977 to January 1986," CIA-RDP96-00788R001100020001-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. US Army Intelligence and Security Command, "Briefing - Project Center Lane," c. 1984, CIA-RDP96-00789R002100180002-8. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^3]: Monroe Institute and International Remote Viewing Association biographical notices, and Atwater, F. Holmes. *Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul.* Hampton Roads, 2001, not read; McMoneagle, Joseph. *The Stargate Chronicles.* Hampton Roads, 2002.
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[^3]: Monroe Institute and International Remote Viewing Association biographical notices, and Atwater, F. Holmes. *Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul.* Hampton Roads, 2001; McMoneagle, Joseph. *The Stargate Chronicles.* Hampton Roads, 2002.
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited; the underlying X-witness material is Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, *De X-dossiers: wat België niet mocht weten over de zaak-Dutroux,* Houtekiet, 1999, not examined. Its date for Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) and its placing of the bodies of An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks at Sars-la-Buissière are contradicted by the commission's chronology and by the reports of their recovery at Jumet on September 3, 1996.
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited; the underlying X-witness material is Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, *De X-dossiers: wat België niet mocht weten over de zaak-Dutroux,* Houtekiet, 1999. Its date for Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) and its placing of the bodies of An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks at Sars-la-Buissière are contradicted by the commission's chronology and by the reports of their recovery at Jumet on September 3, 1996.
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[^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport, Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 18, 1997, chronology of August 1996; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf
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[^3]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire...,* rapport complémentaire, Doc. 713/8-96/97, February 16, 1998, chapter V. https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/pdf_sections/comm/dutroux/49K0713008.pdf
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[^4]: Sénat de Belgique. Proposition visant à instituer une commission d'enquête parlementaire chargée d'enquêter sur l'éloignement de deux enquêteurs de la cellule d'enquête bruxelloise « Neufchâteau », déposée par M. Frans Lozie, Doc. 2-563/1, October 9, 2000, développements; translated from the French.
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[^1]: Channon, James B., Lieutenant Colonel. *The First Earth Battalion,* Task Force Delta concept paper, Headquarters, US Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia, 1979, foreword by Colonel D. H. Malone; scan at archive.org/details/FirstEarthBattalionManual, front matter and foreword read.
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[^2]: Service dates and Esalen visits from Ronson, Jon. *The Men Who Stare at Goats.* Simon and Schuster, 2004, as summarized; not verified against service records.
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[^2]: Service dates and Esalen visits from Ronson, Jon. *The Men Who Stare at Goats.* Simon and Schuster, 2004.
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^2]: *Military Review,* vol. 60, 1980, annual index, archive.org item sim_military-review_1980_60_index; the December 1980 issue itself was not obtained. Author note as summarized in search results, not read in the original.
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[^2]: *Military Review,* vol. 60, 1980, annual index, archive.org item sim_military-review_1980_60_index.
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[^3]: Alexander, John B. "The New Mental Battlefield: 'Beam Me Up, Spock,'" *Military Review,* vol. 60, no. 12, December 1980, pp. 47-54, read in a Wayback Machine copy of the Army University Press PDF.
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[^4]: Buzby, Brian, memoranda for the record, "Initial Grill Flame Briefing to MG Stubblebine as CG, INSCOM, 30 June 1981" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220001-0), "Meeting With MG Stubblebine on 30 November 1983" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220010-0), and "Meeting with MG Stubblebine on 6 January 1984" (CIA-RDP96-00788R001700220009-2). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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[^5]: Alexander, John B. *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities,* 2011, as quoted in Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 17-22, 28-29, 61-62, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. The book was not opened (lending-only). Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^5]: Alexander, John B. *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities,* 2011, as quoted in Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, pp. 17-22, 28-29, 61-62, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^6]: DOE F 5631.20, May 8, 1985; Houck note of May 21, 1985; Shannon "Attendees" page, as reproduced in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 15, 166, 188 (page images read directly).
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[^7]: Vallee, Jacques. *Forbidden Science: Volume Three,* as quoted in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 26-27, and in Basterfield, Keith, "Jacques Vallee and the 'Secret Onion,'" https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/atp-aka-secret-onion/. The book was not opened.
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[^7]: Vallee, Jacques. *Forbidden Science: Volume Three,* as quoted in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 26-27, and in Basterfield, Keith, "Jacques Vallee and the 'Secret Onion,'" https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/atp-aka-secret-onion/.
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[^8]: Jones, C. B. Scott, letter to John H. Gibbons, June 13, 1994, with press release and "The Alexander UFO Religious Crisis Survey," OSTP document 9401410, Clinton Presidential Library, OSTP FOIA 01-22, item 17, https://avalonlibrary.net/Grant_Cameron/Clinton_Presidential_Library_collection/OSTP%20-%20FOIA%2001%2022/ (file "1994 06 13_C. B. Scott Jones to John Gibbons").
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[^9]: Career details from Alexander's own books and publishers' biographical notes, not verified against service records.
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[^10]: Boylan, Richard J. "UFO/ET-Disclosure Policy Splits Covert Network," *Perceptions,* http://web.archive.org/web/20130831033026/http://www.think-aboutit.com/ufo/aviary.htm. Sole source.
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It describes Doucé as a Belgian priest arrested and convicted in the 1990s of possessing and distributing child pornography; he was a Protestant pastor, and he was abducted and killed in 1990 without having been tried.
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It describes Doucé as a Belgian priest arrested and convicted in the 1990s of possessing and distributing child pornography; he was a Protestant pastor, and he was abducted and killed in 1990 without having been tried. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^2]: "L'affaire Doucé: un pasteur défenseur des homosexuels éliminé." *Le Monde,* August 10, 2006; translated from the French. https://www.lemonde.fr/ete-2007/article/2006/08/10/l-affaire-douce-un-pasteur-defenseur-des-homosexuels-elimine_802544_781732.html
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Justin F. Gleichauf was an officer of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s [[Domestic Contact Service]], the overt component that interviewed American businessmen and travellers for foreign intelligence. Agency records describe him as "the former Chief of the [[Miami]] and [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] Field Offices."[^1] In an article the agency published in 2001 he described the Miami office's debriefing of Cuban refugees before the missile crisis of 1962.[^2]
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Justin F. Gleichauf was an officer of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]]'s [[Domestic Contact Service]], the overt component that interviewed American businessmen and travellers for foreign intelligence. Agency records describe him as "the former Chief of the [[Miami]] and [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] Field Offices."[^1]
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### The Wackenhut File
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As chief of the Miami office Gleichauf signed the memorandum of December 13, 1967, recording the office's first contact with Wackenhut Services, Inc., made by Gus C. Guerrero, and the [[Wackenhut Corporation]] of [[Coral Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] became a standing contact, organization number A154531, whose reports on [[Chile]], [[Panama]], [[Colombia]], and [[Ecuador]] he signed as field office chief through the end of 1970; from 1971 the sheets carry B. E. Mainwaring as chief. On September 21, 1970, [[George R. Wackenhut]] invited him to a demonstration of a tracking transmitter "less than the size of a half pack of cigarettes" made by the subsidiary Electro-Finders, which he reported to the [[Technical Services Division]]; in May 1972, as chief of the Dallas office, he forwarded the company's brochure for the system from "an old friend" there. A process sheet of April 8, 1970, covering "Presidential Elections/Student Riots at National University/Maintenance Problems with Soviet Supplied Trolley Cars and Jeeps/Hire Soviet Helicopter to be Used During Construction of Pipeline/Recent Insurgency (Colombia)," is signed by J. F. Hennessey with Gleichauf as chief. Another, "Status of Lorenzo D. ('Wimpy') Barry ([[Dominican Republic]])," dated November 13, 1970, gives Gleichauf as both case officer and field office chief, with a copy "passed to JMCOSBA locally."[^3]
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As chief of the Miami office Gleichauf signed the memorandum of December 13, 1967, recording the office's first contact with Wackenhut Services, Inc., made by Gus C. Guerrero, and the [[Wackenhut Corporation]] of [[Coral Gables, Florida|Coral Gables]] became a standing contact, organization number A154531, whose reports on [[Chile]], [[Panama]], [[Colombia]], and [[Ecuador]] he signed as field office chief through the end of 1970; from 1971 the sheets carry B. E. Mainwaring as chief. On September 21, 1970, [[George R. Wackenhut]] invited him to a demonstration of a tracking transmitter "less than the size of a half pack of cigarettes" made by the subsidiary Electro-Finders, which he reported to the [[Technical Services Division]]; in May 1972, as chief of the Dallas office, he forwarded the company's brochure for the system from "an old friend" there. A process sheet of April 8, 1970, covering "Presidential Elections/Student Riots at National University/Maintenance Problems with Soviet Supplied Trolley Cars and Jeeps/Hire Soviet Helicopter to be Used During Construction of Pipeline/Recent Insurgency (Colombia)," is signed by J. F. Hennessey with Gleichauf as chief. Another, "Status of Lorenzo D. ('Wimpy') Barry ([[Dominican Republic]])," dated November 13, 1970, gives Gleichauf as both case officer and field office chief, with a copy "passed to JMCOSBA locally."[^2]
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By 1974 Gleichauf was employed at the company's headquarters, 3280 Ponce de Leon Boulevard. A Domestic Contact Service report of March 19, 1974, numbered OO-A(S)-322 06270-74, on "Possible Identification and Surveillance References of 'CIA Agents'" by the security authorities of a country whose name is redacted, came from him. The case officer, E. B. Ames, wrote: "Mr. Gleichauf, who as you know is the former Chief of the Miami and Dallas Field Offices, currently is employed with a company with extensive contractual arrangements overseas. He learned the information contained in this report quite by chance from a co-worker who returned from [redacted] last week." The report said the authorities "have already identified six 'CIA agents.'" The service's Miami office closed its Wackenhut case on June 30, 1977.[^1][^4]
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By 1974 Gleichauf was employed at the company's headquarters, 3280 Ponce de Leon Boulevard. A Domestic Contact Service report of March 19, 1974, numbered OO-A(S)-322 06270-74, on "Possible Identification and Surveillance References of 'CIA Agents'" by the security authorities of a country whose name is redacted, came from him. The case officer, E. B. Ames, wrote: "Mr. Gleichauf, who as you know is the former Chief of the Miami and Dallas Field Offices, currently is employed with a company with extensive contractual arrangements overseas. He learned the information contained in this report quite by chance from a co-worker who returned from [redacted] last week." The report said the authorities "have already identified six 'CIA agents.'" The service's Miami office closed its Wackenhut case on June 30, 1977.[^1][^3]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Central Intelligence Agency, Domestic Collection Division, case file 65805, "Wackenhut Corp.," JFK Assassination Records Collection, record 104-10291-10017, released 2023. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10291-10017.pdf, pp. 4, 6-7.
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[^2]: Gleichauf, Justin F. "Red Sky in the Morning: The Cuban Missile Crisis," *Studies in Intelligence,* 2001. Cited from memory, not read for this page.
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[^3]: Central Intelligence Agency, Domestic Contact Service, case file 65805, record 104-10291-10016, pp. 24, 29, 30; Central Intelligence Agency, Domestic Contact Service, case file 65805, "Wackenhut Corporation," JFK Assassination Records Collection, record 104-10291-10016, released 2023. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10291-10016.pdf, pp. 35, 45, 55.
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[^4]: Central Intelligence Agency, Domestic Collection Division, case file 65805, "Wackenhut Corp.," JFK Assassination Records Collection, record 104-10291-10017, released 2023. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10291-10017.pdf, p. 3.
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[^2]: Central Intelligence Agency, Domestic Contact Service, case file 65805, record 104-10291-10016, pp. 24, 29, 30; Central Intelligence Agency, Domestic Contact Service, case file 65805, "Wackenhut Corporation," JFK Assassination Records Collection, record 104-10291-10016, released 2023. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10291-10016.pdf, pp. 35, 45, 55.
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[^3]: Central Intelligence Agency, Domestic Collection Division, case file 65805, "Wackenhut Corp.," JFK Assassination Records Collection, record 104-10291-10017, released 2023. https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2023/104-10291-10017.pdf, p. 3.
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. Its full plate number conflicts with the commission's statement that the witness gave three digits, and its date for Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) is contradicted by the commission's chronology.
|
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Its full plate number conflicts with the commission's statement that the witness gave three digits, and its date for Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) is contradicted by the commission's chronology. Sole source for the passages so cited.
|
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[^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport, Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 18, 1997, p. 112 and the chronology of August 1996, pp. 264-266; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf
|
||||
[^3]: "Nihoul acquitté pour les enlèvements." *La Dernière Heure,* June 17, 2004; translated from the French. https://www.dhnet.be/actu/faits/2004/06/17/nihoul-acquitte-pour-les-enlevements-MF73NPYQVBC25I2Y6P54BXIQDA/
|
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[^4]: "Notorious child rapist-murderer convicted." NBC News and Associated Press, June 17, 2004. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5233011
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category: "People"
|
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tags:
|
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- Person
|
||||
- DefenseContractor
|
||||
- MissileDefense
|
||||
- StrategicForesight
|
||||
- HuntsvilleAlabama
|
||||
- IgniteFuelingInnovation
|
||||
alias:
|
||||
- Joshua Logan Grumbach
|
||||
- Joshua L. Grumbach
|
||||
- Dr. Logan Grumbach
|
||||
summary: "Joshua Logan Grumbach is a Huntsville engineer and futurist, former Boeing and Lockheed Martin missile defense manager, and Ignite Fueling Innovation vice president for space, intelligence and missile defense since May 2024."
|
||||
location: "Huntsville, Alabama"
|
||||
relations:
|
||||
- type: employed_by
|
||||
with: "[[Ignite Fueling Innovation, Inc.]]"
|
||||
start: "2023-05"
|
||||
role: "lead scientist/engineer and futurist (May 2023 to April 2024); Vice President and business unit lead for space, intelligence and missile defense (May 2024 onward)"
|
||||
fn: 1
|
||||
- type: employed_by
|
||||
with: "[[Lockheed Martin]]"
|
||||
start: "2022-01"
|
||||
end: "2023-05"
|
||||
role: "Glide Phase Interceptor kill vehicle lead (2022); Next Generation Interceptor advanced programs systems engineering manager (2022 to 2023)"
|
||||
fn: 1
|
||||
- type: employed_by
|
||||
with: "[[Boeing]]"
|
||||
start: "2019-01"
|
||||
end: "2022-01"
|
||||
role: "Missile Defense National Team engineer and manager"
|
||||
fn: 1
|
||||
- type: employed_by
|
||||
with: "[[University of Alabama in Huntsville]]"
|
||||
start: "2019"
|
||||
role: "adjunct instructor"
|
||||
fn: 1
|
||||
- type: member_of
|
||||
with: "[[International Council on Systems Engineering]]"
|
||||
role: "Ignite lists him as associate director"
|
||||
fn: 2
|
||||
- type: employed_by
|
||||
with: "[[Grumbach Enterprises, LLC]]"
|
||||
start: "2023-03-16"
|
||||
role: "affiliation given as Gent Technologies, LLC, Athens, Alabama in a March 16, 2023 paper; the company was a registered federal vendor November 21, 2017 to November 8, 2021"
|
||||
fn: 4
|
||||
created: 2026-10-03
|
||||
updated: 2026-10-03
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Education
|
||||
|
||||
According to his curriculum vitae at the [[University of Alabama in Huntsville]], Joshua "Logan" Grumbach holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering (August 2013), an M.S. in engineering in mechanical engineering (May 2015), an M.S. in aerospace systems engineering (May 2019) and a Ph.D. in aerospace systems engineering (May 2022), all from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. The CV lists an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Career before Ignite
|
||||
|
||||
From August 2013 to February 2016 Grumbach was a mechanical engineer at [[Optical Sciences Corporation]] in Huntsville, designing hardware-in-the-loop test equipment for the [[Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center]] and the [[Missile Defense Agency]] (facilities including the Redesigned Kill Vehicle and Advanced Sensors laboratories) and modeling the point of impact of destructive flight tests for the [[United States Navy]]. From February 2016 to January 2019 he was lead aerospace and propulsion engineer at [[Archarithms, Inc.]], and lead for divert and attitude control module design, integration and test on the Missile Defense Agency's Redesigned Kill Vehicle, including a 2.5-month hot-fire test at the [[White Sands Test Facility]] involving personnel of [[NASA]], the agency, [[Boeing]], [[Raytheon]] and [[Aerojet Rocketdyne]].[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
At Boeing's Missile Defense National Team in Huntsville he held several positions between January 2019 and January 2022: senior aerospace and systems engineer working with [[Army Futures Command]] on ground test scenarios and intelligence reports for the Ballistic Missile Defense System; scenario design lead (September 2019 to July 2020), "analyzing signals, creating threat capability forecasts" for ground tests; system of systems integrator (July 2020 to January 2021); and responsible engineer for discrimination test content and, from November 2020, manager. At [[Lockheed Martin]] he was kill vehicle integrated product team lead for the Glide Phase Interceptor (January to November 2022) and systems engineering manager for advanced programs on the Next Generation Interceptor (November 2022 to May 2023), analyzing "threat data to forecast threat capabilities in 2045."[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Ignite Fueling Innovation
|
||||
|
||||
From May 2023 Grumbach served [[Ignite Fueling Innovation]] as lead scientist/engineer and futurist. His CV describes the post as lead scientist/engineer on "a direct congressional tasking through the United States Space Force (USSF) and elements of the Intelligence Community (IC)," with the "Congressional tasking" continuing through May 2024.
|
||||
|
||||
The CV states that he "pioneered a methodology for assessing novel technology potentials for adversarial technological and strategic surprise utilizing technology readiness assessments and futures methodologies (Framework Foresight and the Manoa Methdology)." It says he led "the development of a 500+ page futures study for the USSF focused on China as the adversary," covering technology assessments, strategic and policy initiatives for the United States and China, and workforce development recommendations, and that "the report is to be delivered to Congress in the June timeframe." It lists support for "the integration of a CONUS sensor gap analyses conducted by Federally Funded Research Centers (FFRDCs) and National Labs," and authorship of "a series of technical whitepapers baselining the current state and perceived benefits of new and emerging technologies including quantum radar, neutrino science, brain-computer interface, and metamaterials" for [[United States Space Force]] science and technology investment.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
The same entry states that he presented "new and novel technologies, sensors, and reports to senior government leadership at the Senior Executive Staff and Congressional Staff level" and "served as the lead technical representative in discussions with the Director of the Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC) and the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of. Defense for Mission Capabilities." The [[Missile and Space Intelligence Center]] is the organization the CV abbreviates "MSIC." The entry also lists him as "chief technical coordinator for a partnership with a multi-billion-dollar US company including assessing strategic advantages, capabilities, and business opportunities for the partnership"; the CV does not name the company.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Since May 2024 he has been vice president and business unit lead for Ignite's space, intelligence and missile defense portfolio: 12 contracts with 10 customers (including the Missile Defense Agency, Space Force, NASA, the Army and intelligence agencies), about 90 personnel and approximately 50 percent of company revenue (about $15 million). The CV credits him with establishing Ignite Labs (four software products, in use from the Army Aviation and Missiles Center to the Space Force Concepts and Technologies Delta), a Fellows Program and Ignite's internal research and development program, and records a recovered Space Force program making up about 10 percent of company revenue, now developing the "Space Force Operating Environment." It lists a copyright for "Tool for High-Level Analysis of Literature and Exploratory Search (THALES) v8.0," January 31, 2025, held by Ignite.[^1] Ignite's leadership page says he leads its Space Force and intelligence portfolios, including support to the [[National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency]] full-motion video mission and a partnership with [[Virgin Galactic]] on "Spaceflight as a Service."[^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Grumbach Enterprises and Gent Technologies
|
||||
|
||||
[[Grumbach Enterprises, LLC]], doing business as Gent Technologies, was a registered federal vendor in the System for Award Management from November 21, 2017 until the registration expired on November 8, 2021, with a primary NAICS code for engineering services (541330) and additional codes including 541715 (research and development in the physical, engineering and life sciences) and 541380 (testing laboratories). The vendor profile gives its unique entity identifier as HK4QM8ZHFU57 and its CAGE code as 802U0.[^3] A search of USAspending by that identifier shows no prime awards. His 2023 paper in the journal Systems Engineering gives his affiliation as "Gent Technologies, LLC, Athens, Alabama."[^4]
|
||||
|
||||
### Publications
|
||||
|
||||
According to his CV, he published four papers in Systems Engineering, three with L. Dale Thomas: "Integration Principles for Complex Systems" (September 28, 2020), "Systems Integration Implications of Component Reuse" (July 18, 2022) and "Quantitative Validation of Complex Systems Integration Principles" (September 20, 2022), and, as sole author, "Adapting a Strategic Foresight Framework to Reuse Integration" (March 16, 2023). It also lists "Read Before Flight" (August 2023).[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Teaching and affiliations
|
||||
|
||||
His 2019 appointment as adjunct instructor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Alabama in Huntsville covers introduction to engineering, systems thinking, strategic foresight and future studies, introduction to computational tools and, at graduate level, introduction to systems engineering. He holds the Project Management Professional and Professional in Business Analysis certifications. Ignite's page lists him as associate director of the [[International Council on Systems Engineering]] and a member of the [[Association of Professional Futurists]].[^1][^2]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Joshua "Logan" Grumbach, curriculum vitae, University of Alabama in Huntsville, https://www.uah.edu/images/fsdir/cv/5172/logan-grumbach-cv-5172.pdf
|
||||
[^2]: Ignite Fueling Innovation, "Our Leadership," https://igniteimpossible.com/our-leadership/
|
||||
[^3]: GovTribe, vendor profile "Grumbach Enterprises, LLC" (data from SAM.gov and the Small Business Administration, updated May 1, 2022), https://govtribe.com/vendors/grumbach-enterprises-llc-802u0 ; USAspending.gov, award search by unique entity identifier HK4QM8ZHFU57.
|
||||
[^4]: Crossref record, doi:10.1002/sys.21669, "Adapting a strategic foresight framework to reuse integration," Systems Engineering, March 16, 2023, https://api.crossref.org/works/10.1002/sys.21669
|
||||
|
|
@ -11,24 +11,24 @@ relations:
|
|||
start: 2008
|
||||
end: 2017-10-04
|
||||
role: "GS-15 civilian; information-sharing work with DHS and state, local and tribal law enforcement from 2008, counterintelligence and security for AAWSAP from 2009, Director of National Programs, Special Management Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense (Guantanamo portfolio); resignation effective October 4, 2017, as he wrote"
|
||||
fn: 4
|
||||
fn: 5
|
||||
- type: employed_by
|
||||
with: "[[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]]"
|
||||
start: 2017
|
||||
end: 2020-12
|
||||
role: "chief of security and special programs, in his account; salary cut in half during the period; relationship ended by a call from Tom DeLonge a few days before Christmas 2020"
|
||||
fn: 19
|
||||
fn: 20
|
||||
- type: reported_to
|
||||
with: "[[Garry Reid]]"
|
||||
start: 2017
|
||||
end: 2017-10-04
|
||||
role: "top boss in the Pentagon chain of command, whom Elizondo wrote he kept out of the loop on AATIP; Elizondo wrote that Reid opened an Air Force Office of Special Investigations inquiry after the resignation"
|
||||
fn: 19
|
||||
fn: 20
|
||||
- type: subject_of
|
||||
with: "[[NewsNation]]"
|
||||
role: "NewsNation reported on June 30 and July 29, 2026 on disputes between Elizondo and its correspondent Ross Coulthart and the researcher UAPGerb over his role in the Legacy Program and a rumored disclosure post"
|
||||
start: 2026-06-30
|
||||
fn: 11
|
||||
fn: 12
|
||||
updated: 2026-10-03
|
||||
created: 2026-10-03
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
@ -62,58 +62,59 @@ Elizondo's involvement with AATIP was not without personal cost. He and his fami
|
|||
|
||||
Frustrated by the bureaucratic stonewalling, the refusal of the [[United States Air Force|US Air Force]] to cooperate, and the inability to brief senior leadership like Secretary of Defense [[James Mattis]], Elizondo resigned from the Pentagon on October 4, 2017. His resignation letter to Secretary Mattis, which was later made public, explicitly stated that the Department was not taking the potential threat posed by UAP seriously.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Working with [[Christopher Mellon]] and [[Jim Semivan]], Elizondo went public. He was the primary source for a landmark New York Times article in December 2017 that disclosed the existence of AATIP. The article carried the Navy videos later known as "FLIR1" (Tic Tac) and "[[GIMBAL]]" (the article carried two videos; "GOFAST" followed in March 2018). [[Politico]] reported in 2021 that the [[Washington Headquarters Services]] declassification division approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government; the Department of Defense stated on April 27, 2020 that it authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, which had been circulating in the public domain after "unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017."[^2][^3] This event ignited a global conversation and marked a pivotal moment for the disclosure movement.[^1]
|
||||
Working with [[Christopher Mellon]] and [[Jim Semivan]], Elizondo went public. He was the primary source for a landmark New York Times article in December 2017 that disclosed the existence of AATIP. The article carried the Navy videos later known as "FLIR1" (Tic Tac) and "[[GIMBAL]]" (the article carried two videos; "GOFAST" followed in March 2018). [[Politico]] reported in 2021 that the [[Washington Headquarters Services]] declassification division approved the videos "for unlimited distribution" inside the government; the Department of Defense stated on April 27, 2020 that it authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, which had been circulating in the public domain after "unauthorized releases in 2007 and 2017."[^2][^3] The Office of the Secretary of Defense file released to [[The Black Vault]] under the Freedom of Information Act in August 2019 contains an August 23, 2017 email in which Elizondo asked Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review to "consider our request for unrestricted release"; an August 24, 2017 reply from Russo that if the service-level classification authority verified that removing the metadata made the videos unclassified, "please feel free to move forward with release"; and a DD Form 1910 whose publication-data block reads "Not Applicable. Not for publication. Research and analysis ONLY and info sharing with other USG and industry partners for the purposes of developing a database to help identify, analyze and ultimately defeat UAS threats." Joseph Gradisher, a Navy spokesman, said in 2019 that neither the cognizant Navy offices nor the review office had a record of correspondence responding to a request for unrestricted release of the videos in 2017.[^4] This event ignited a global conversation and marked a pivotal moment for the disclosure movement.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
Post-resignation, Elizondo joined [[To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science]] (TTSA), founded by musician [[Tom DeLonge]], and has worked relentlessly to advocate for UAP transparency. His efforts, in concert with Mellon and others, have been crucial in briefing members of Congress, which led directly to the creation of the [[All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office]] (AARO) and the passage of historic UAP disclosure legislation within the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Recruitment, offices and resignation, in Elizondo's account
|
||||
|
||||
Elizondo wrote that in 2008 he returned to the Department of Defense in the [[Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence]], working on information sharing among the department, the [[Department of Homeland Security]] and state, local and tribal law enforcement, from an eleventh-floor corner office in a building in [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington]] that the Pentagon rented and that housed divisions of [[Boeing]] including Phantom Works, at the GS-15 grade, and that in early 2009 his assistant announced two visitors, Jay Stratton and a colleague he calls "Rosemary Caine," who asked for his counterintelligence and security experience for "a highly classified program led out of our office at DIA," which Stratton said he had helped create under the name AAWSAP, later AATIP, and which they said reported "directly to the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and to Congress." After two more meetings he was taken to a tenth-floor office in a Virginia building where he met James Lacatski, who asked "What do you think about UFOs?"; at a second meeting Lacatski told him the program had the support of the DIA director, Lieutenant General [[Michael D. Maples]], and had been funded by Harry Reid, Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye. Elizondo wrote that an Army friend he calls "John Robert," who served with him in Korea in the 1990s and acted as liaison between another intelligence agency and AAWSAP, had referred him.[^4]
|
||||
Elizondo wrote that in 2008 he returned to the Department of Defense in the [[Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence]], working on information sharing among the department, the [[Department of Homeland Security]] and state, local and tribal law enforcement, from an eleventh-floor corner office in a building in [[Arlington County, Virginia|Arlington]] that the Pentagon rented and that housed divisions of [[Boeing]] including Phantom Works, at the GS-15 grade, and that in early 2009 his assistant announced two visitors, Jay Stratton and a colleague he calls "Rosemary Caine," who asked for his counterintelligence and security experience for "a highly classified program led out of our office at DIA," which Stratton said he had helped create under the name AAWSAP, later AATIP, and which they said reported "directly to the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and to Congress." After two more meetings he was taken to a tenth-floor office in a Virginia building where he met James Lacatski, who asked "What do you think about UFOs?"; at a second meeting Lacatski told him the program had the support of the DIA director, Lieutenant General [[Michael D. Maples]], and had been funded by Harry Reid, Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye. Elizondo wrote that an Army friend he calls "John Robert," who served with him in Korea in the 1990s and acted as liaison between another intelligence agency and AAWSAP, had referred him.[^5]
|
||||
|
||||
He wrote that after the program lost support at DIA, in 2010, he moved its remnants into his own portfolio as Director of National Programs, Special Management Staff, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, which managed national-level special access programs for the National Security Council and the White House and, in his case, Guantanamo Bay; that his base was office 3C503A in the Pentagon; that he "dual-used" existing funds so that a video sent for analysis could be tested both as a possible Russian MiG-25 and as a UAP; and that the only contractors who remained with Stratton and himself were Puthoff, a physician he calls Will Livingston and [[Eric Davis]]. He named as his superiors in this period [[Neill Tipton]], whom he described as running the Intelligence Sharing and Foreign Intelligence Relationship Office, and Tipton's boss John Pede.[^5]
|
||||
He wrote that after the program lost support at DIA, in 2010, he moved its remnants into his own portfolio as Director of National Programs, Special Management Staff, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, which managed national-level special access programs for the National Security Council and the White House and, in his case, Guantanamo Bay; that his base was office 3C503A in the Pentagon; that he "dual-used" existing funds so that a video sent for analysis could be tested both as a possible Russian MiG-25 and as a UAP; and that the only contractors who remained with Stratton and himself were Puthoff, a physician he calls Will Livingston and [[Eric Davis]]. He named as his superiors in this period [[Neill Tipton]], whom he described as running the Intelligence Sharing and Foreign Intelligence Relationship Office, and Tipton's boss John Pede.[^6]
|
||||
|
||||
Elizondo wrote that in 2016 the Joint Staff declined to give Stratton's OPLAN Interloper an Alternative Compensatory Control Measures designation, that in 2017 he sought a briefing of Secretary of Defense James Mattis through a SECDEF liaison, a White House advisor named Brad Byers and a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] liaison officer he calls "Shari Smith," that Tipton agreed to take over AATIP and accepted a draft memo but delayed signing it; and that he resigned in a letter to Mattis "effective 4 October 2017," after more than twenty-two years of service, with a second, shorter letter to his chain of command.[^6] He wrote that his immediate supervisor on the Guantanamo portfolio, John Garrity, telephoned that day to say that Garry Reid, whom he described as controlling security, law enforcement and security clearances for the department, wanted to see him; that Reid said he would have to tell people Elizondo was "acting crazy"; and that Reid seized his computers and files, questioned his staff and began an inquiry through the Air Force [[Office of Special Investigations]] which, he wrote, "found no impropriety in my actions."[^7]
|
||||
Elizondo wrote that in 2016 the Joint Staff declined to give Stratton's OPLAN Interloper an Alternative Compensatory Control Measures designation, that in 2017 he sought a briefing of Secretary of Defense James Mattis through a SECDEF liaison, a White House advisor named Brad Byers and a [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] liaison officer he calls "Shari Smith," that Tipton agreed to take over AATIP and accepted a draft memo but delayed signing it; and that he resigned in a letter to Mattis "effective 4 October 2017," after more than twenty-two years of service, with a second, shorter letter to his chain of command.[^7] He wrote that his immediate supervisor on the Guantanamo portfolio, John Garrity, telephoned that day to say that Garry Reid, whom he described as controlling security, law enforcement and security clearances for the department, wanted to see him; that Reid said he would have to tell people Elizondo was "acting crazy"; and that Reid seized his computers and files, questioned his staff and began an inquiry through the Air Force [[Office of Special Investigations]] which, he wrote, "found no impropriety in my actions."[^8]
|
||||
|
||||
After the [[New York Times]] story of December 16, 2017, Elizondo wrote, the Pentagon spokesperson Dana White confirmed his role in AATIP to Politico, but in 2019 the spokesperson [[Christopher Sherwood]] told reporters that "Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP program," which Elizondo wrote Sherwood privately acknowledged was untrue; that a [[Freedom of Information Act]] response said his electronic files had been deleted as having "no historic value," and that an email transferring AATIP duties to Tipton in 2017 was released in May 2024 after a FOIA appeal; and that after a Defense Department inspector general review Garry Reid was reassigned to DIA as a "special advisor." Elizondo wrote that a Pentagon spokesperson later confirmed that he "provides technical advice on a variety of classified topics for the US Space Force."[^8] The Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office found in 2024 that AATIP "was never an official DoD program" (see Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program).
|
||||
After the [[New York Times]] story of December 16, 2017, Elizondo wrote, the Pentagon spokesperson Dana White confirmed his role in AATIP to Politico, but in 2019 the spokesperson [[Christopher Sherwood]] told reporters that "Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP program," which Elizondo wrote Sherwood privately acknowledged was untrue; that a [[Freedom of Information Act]] response said his electronic files had been deleted as having "no historic value," and that an email transferring AATIP duties to Tipton in 2017 was released in May 2024 after a FOIA appeal; and that after a Defense Department inspector general review Garry Reid was reassigned to DIA as a "special advisor." Elizondo wrote that a Pentagon spokesperson later confirmed that he "provides technical advice on a variety of classified topics for the US Space Force."[^9] The Department of Defense's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office found in 2024 that AATIP "was never an official DoD program" (see Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program).
|
||||
|
||||
### NewsNation, 2025 and 2026
|
||||
|
||||
NewsNation's January 16, 2025 article on [[Jake Barber]] stated that "other whistleblowers, including Lue Elizondo and [[David Grusch]], have alleged a secret government UFO program exists but Barber says he knows it's true because he's part of it," and the full-special article of the same month stated that Grusch and Elizondo "say they've been told about it, they believe it exists, but they weren't a part of it themselves."[^9][^10]
|
||||
NewsNation's January 16, 2025 article on [[Jake Barber]] stated that "other whistleblowers, including Lue Elizondo and [[David Grusch]], have alleged a secret government UFO program exists but Barber says he knows it's true because he's part of it," and the full-special article of the same month stated that Grusch and Elizondo "say they've been told about it, they believe it exists, but they weren't a part of it themselves."[^10][^11]
|
||||
|
||||
On June 30, 2026 NewsNation reported that its special correspondent [[Ross Coulthart]] had said on his "[[Reality Check (NewsNation)|Reality Check]]" podcast that "There are people who bitterly resent and don't think it's a good idea that Lue be appointed to a position of power in UAP transparency, because they think that he was part of a previous agenda that was essentially to try to control the narrative, to restrict what the public is entitled to know about the UAP disclosure," and "I've spoken to people in the [[Legacy Program]] who knew Lue." Elizondo told NewsNation's [[Chris Cuomo]] that "I've committed myself to transparency to the degree that I could," that "I didn't say I worked for the Legacy Program," that "we cannot confirm or deny" statements are not "some sort of implicit 'yes,'" and that "I think Ross is an excellent investigative journalist." The article gives Elizondo's account that he directed the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program and "resigned in 2017 in protest."[^11]
|
||||
On June 30, 2026 NewsNation reported that its special correspondent [[Ross Coulthart]] had said on his "[[Reality Check (NewsNation)|Reality Check]]" podcast that "There are people who bitterly resent and don't think it's a good idea that Lue be appointed to a position of power in UAP transparency, because they think that he was part of a previous agenda that was essentially to try to control the narrative, to restrict what the public is entitled to know about the UAP disclosure," and "I've spoken to people in the [[Legacy Program]] who knew Lue." Elizondo told NewsNation's [[Chris Cuomo]] that "I've committed myself to transparency to the degree that I could," that "I didn't say I worked for the Legacy Program," that "we cannot confirm or deny" statements are not "some sort of implicit 'yes,'" and that "I think Ross is an excellent investigative journalist." The article gives Elizondo's account that he directed the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program and "resigned in 2017 in protest."[^12]
|
||||
|
||||
On July 29, 2026 NewsNation reported that the anonymous researcher known online as [[UAPGerb]] (named Sam in the article), speaking to Coulthart, said Elizondo was part of a "controlled narrative" and noted speculation that he was "being positioned for a role with the National Security Council or as an adviser to the White House"; the article states "Elizondo has not confirmed the rumors." In a [[YouTube]] video Elizondo called the claims false, confirmed he was moving to [[Washington, D.C.]] because "fighting for UAP disclosure is a full-time job," and told Coulthart "please, for the love of God, be more careful with who you decide to have on your program." The article states that Elizondo said one narrative, which he claims the researcher made up, was that he and [[James Clapper]], the former [[Director of National Intelligence]], "had colluded to create a network" for "soft disclosure," and quotes Elizondo: "That is 1,000% not accurate. In fact, we never had such a conversation, and Jim Clapper and I never met to have that conversation."[^12]
|
||||
On July 29, 2026 NewsNation reported that the anonymous researcher known online as [[UAPGerb]] (named Sam in the article), speaking to Coulthart, said Elizondo was part of a "controlled narrative" and noted speculation that he was "being positioned for a role with the National Security Council or as an adviser to the White House"; the article states "Elizondo has not confirmed the rumors." In a [[YouTube]] video Elizondo called the claims false, confirmed he was moving to [[Washington, D.C.]] because "fighting for UAP disclosure is a full-time job," and told Coulthart "please, for the love of God, be more careful with who you decide to have on your program." The article states that Elizondo said one narrative, which he claims the researcher made up, was that he and [[James Clapper]], the former [[Director of National Intelligence]], "had colluded to create a network" for "soft disclosure," and quotes Elizondo: "That is 1,000% not accurate. In fact, we never had such a conversation, and Jim Clapper and I never met to have that conversation."[^13]
|
||||
|
||||
### Resignation and the December 2017 placement
|
||||
|
||||
Elizondo's resignation took effect October 4, 2017, according to the Pentagon; a Pentagon official told Politico that Mattis's receipt of the letter could not be confirmed. His letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis cited "bureaucratic challenges and inflexible mindsets" and the "overwhelming evidence" at "both the classified and unclassified levels," and, [[Keith Kloor]] wrote in *[[The Intercept]]*, "does not mention AATIP or Elizondo's role as its director."[^13][^14] [[Gideon Lewis-Kraus]] wrote that the previous day had been his last day of work, and that on October 4, 2017 [[Leslie Kean]] met him, Hal Puthoff and Jim Semivan in a hotel bar near the Pentagon at the request of Christopher Mellon; Kean told Lewis-Kraus that Elizondo "had incredible gravitas."[^15] Elizondo spoke onstage at the To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science launch later in October 2017.[^15] In an August 2017 email reviewed by Politico he proposed an unclassified "community of interest" database; "Washington Headquarters Services" approved three [[United States Navy|Navy]] videos "for unlimited distribution" within government, and Elizondo, Mellon and others concluded that more was needed. Politico reported in 2021 that the Pentagon "officially acknowledged the existence of the AATIP program and Elizondo's role in it."[^2] In December 2017 Politico quoted Elizondo: "We tried to work within the system. We were trying to take the voodoo out of voodoo science," and he described sightings "often reported in the vicinity of nuclear facilities, either ships at sea or power plants"; the Times quoted his resignation letter's phrase "unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities."[^16]
|
||||
Elizondo's resignation took effect October 4, 2017, according to the Pentagon; a Pentagon official told Politico that Mattis's receipt of the letter could not be confirmed. His letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis cited "bureaucratic challenges and inflexible mindsets" and the "overwhelming evidence" at "both the classified and unclassified levels," and, [[Keith Kloor]] wrote in *[[The Intercept]]*, "does not mention AATIP or Elizondo's role as its director."[^14][^15] [[Gideon Lewis-Kraus]] wrote that the previous day had been his last day of work, and that on October 4, 2017 [[Leslie Kean]] met him, Hal Puthoff and Jim Semivan in a hotel bar near the Pentagon at the request of Christopher Mellon; Kean told Lewis-Kraus that Elizondo "had incredible gravitas."[^16] Elizondo spoke onstage at the To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science launch later in October 2017.[^16] In an August 2017 email reviewed by Politico he proposed an unclassified "community of interest" database; "Washington Headquarters Services" approved three [[United States Navy|Navy]] videos "for unlimited distribution" within government, and Elizondo, Mellon and others concluded that more was needed. Politico reported in 2021 that the Pentagon "officially acknowledged the existence of the AATIP program and Elizondo's role in it."[^2] In December 2017 Politico quoted Elizondo: "We tried to work within the system. We were trying to take the voodoo out of voodoo science," and he described sightings "often reported in the vicinity of nuclear facilities, either ships at sea or power plants"; the Times quoted his resignation letter's phrase "unusual aerial systems interfering with military weapon platforms and displaying beyond-next-generation capabilities."[^17]
|
||||
|
||||
### Pentagon statements beside his account
|
||||
|
||||
December 2017: Politico's [[Bryan Bender]] wrote that Pentagon spokeswoman [[Dana White]] "confirmed to Politico that the program existed and was run by Elizondo." June 1, 2019: spokesperson Christopher Sherwood told *The Intercept* that AATIP "did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena" but that "Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP program while he worked in OUSDI," that he "cannot confirm" White's statement, and that Elizondo "worked for other organizations in DoD." June 13, 2019: [[Susan Gough]] told [[The Black Vault]] that Reid's July 24, 2009 memorandum was authentic and "makes no change to previous statements," and that "Elizondo did interact with the DIA office managing the program while the program was still ongoing, but he did not lead it." Bender wrote on June 2, 2019 that he expected "a much more definitive statement from the Pentagon" and that The Intercept's "assertions and innuendo" were wrong. Elizondo, in the Intercept article, did not respond to requests for comment; he told Kloor earlier in 2019 that he was a government contractor "but it's not what you think it is."[^14][^17]
|
||||
December 2017: Politico's [[Bryan Bender]] wrote that Pentagon spokeswoman [[Dana White]] "confirmed to Politico that the program existed and was run by Elizondo." June 1, 2019: spokesperson Christopher Sherwood told *The Intercept* that AATIP "did pursue research and investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena" but that "Mr. Elizondo had no responsibilities with regard to the AATIP program while he worked in OUSDI," that he "cannot confirm" White's statement, and that Elizondo "worked for other organizations in DoD." June 13, 2019: [[Susan Gough]] told [[The Black Vault]] that Reid's July 24, 2009 memorandum was authentic and "makes no change to previous statements," and that "Elizondo did interact with the DIA office managing the program while the program was still ongoing, but he did not lead it." Bender wrote on June 2, 2019 that he expected "a much more definitive statement from the Pentagon" and that The Intercept's "assertions and innuendo" were wrong. Elizondo, in the Intercept article, did not respond to requests for comment; he told Kloor earlier in 2019 that he was a government contractor "but it's not what you think it is."[^15][^18]
|
||||
|
||||
### Galileo Project
|
||||
|
||||
On October 30, 2021 Elizondo and Mellon became research affiliates of [[Harvard University|Harvard]]'s [[Galileo Project]]; Elizondo was quoted: "Deliberate and methodical research, along with strict rigor will help ensure the tenets of the scientific method are followed."[^18] The October 2021 announcement credits both with "two years of patient public and private lobbying" behind the June 2021 ODNI report.[^18]
|
||||
On October 30, 2021 Elizondo and Mellon became research affiliates of [[Harvard University|Harvard]]'s [[Galileo Project]]; Elizondo was quoted: "Deliberate and methodical research, along with strict rigor will help ensure the tenets of the scientific method are followed."[^19] The October 2021 announcement credits both with "two years of patient public and private lobbying" behind the June 2021 ODNI report.[^19]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: Elizondo, Luis. *Imminent*. William Morrow, 2024.
|
||||
[^2]: Bender, Bryan. *Politico Magazine,* May 28, 2021. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/05/28/ufos-secret-history-government-washington-dc-487900
|
||||
[^3]: U.S. Department of Defense. "Statement by the Department of Defense on the Release of Historical Navy Videos," April 27, 2020. https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/ (read through the Internet Archive capture, https://web.archive.org/web/2020id_/https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/2165713/statement-by-the-department-of-defense-on-the-release-of-historical-navy-videos/).
|
||||
[^4]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 3 to 14 (Caine indexed at p. 5; Reid, Bigelow and Maples at pp. 13 to 14). Page numbers are those of the printed index where it lists the passage; the digital copy read carries no pagination, so other pages are interpolated from index entries and may be off by one.
|
||||
[^5]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 82 to 93 (Higgins, Tipton and Pede at pp. 87 to 89; Will at p. 90; office 3C503A at p. 93).
|
||||
[^6]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 147 to 202 (Interloper at pp. 147 and 186; Byers at pp. 189 and 217; Tipton at p. 192; resignation letter at p. 202).
|
||||
[^7]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 202 to 203 and 211.
|
||||
[^8]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 209 to 217 and 238 (Dana White at p. 210; Sherwood at p. 217; deletion at p. 212; Space Force statement at p. 238); photograph captions on the email released in May 2024.
|
||||
[^9]: NewsNation, "UAP whistleblower says UFO retrieval program exists: NewsNation exclusive," January 16, 2025. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/uap-whistleblower-ufo-retrieval-program/
|
||||
[^10]: NewsNation, "Whistleblower reveals UAP retrieval program; object caught on video," January 2025. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/hfr-uap-recovery-video-egg-shaped-object-exclusive/
|
||||
[^11]: Alicia Sitz, "UAP whistleblower Luis Elizondo neither confirms nor denies he was part of government secrecy efforts," NewsNation, updated June 30, 2026. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/luis-elizondo-denies-uap-secrecy-efforts/
|
||||
[^12]: Steph Whiteside and Alicia Sitz, "Elizondo responds to researcher's 'controlled narrative' role rumors," NewsNation, updated July 29, 2026. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/elizondo-uap-role-controlled-narrative/
|
||||
[^13]: Kloor, Keith. "UFOs Won't Go Away." *Issues in Science and Technology,* March 1, 2019. https://issues.org/ufos-wont-go-away/
|
||||
[^14]: Kloor, Keith. *The Intercept,* June 1, 2019. https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/
|
||||
[^15]: Lewis-Kraus, Gideon. *The New Yorker,* May 10, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously
|
||||
[^16]: Bender, Bryan. "The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* December 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/2018id_/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111 ; Cooper, Helene, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean. *The New York Times,* December 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/2023id_/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html
|
||||
[^17]: Greenewald, John, Jr. The Black Vault, June 14, 2019. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-reinforces-mr-luis-elizondo-had-no-responsibilities-on-aatip-senator-harry-reids-2009-memo-changes-nothing
|
||||
[^18]: The Galileo Project, October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy).
|
||||
[^19]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 202 to 217 (resignation at p. 202; Garry Reid indexed at pp. 143 to 144, 202 to 203, 209, 212, 215 to 217, 238 to 239) and pp. 205 to 207, 218 and 219 (offer from Tom DeLonge, salary cut and end of the arrangement).
|
||||
[^4]: [[The Black Vault]], FOIA release of Office of the Secretary of Defense case 18-F-0644, August 2019 (emails of August 23 and 24, 2017 between Luis Elizondo and Michael Russo of the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, with the DD Form 1910; the form's text is poorly legible in the scan and is quoted as transcribed in the research notes), https://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/18-F-0644.pdf ; Joseph Gradisher quoted in "U.S. Navy Confirms Videos Depict Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, Not Cleared for Public Release," The Black Vault, September 2019, https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/u-s-navy-confirms-videos-depict-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-not-cleared-for-public-release/
|
||||
[^5]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 3 to 14 (Caine indexed at p. 5; Reid, Bigelow and Maples at pp. 13 to 14). Page numbers are those of the printed index where it lists the passage; the digital copy read carries no pagination, so other pages are interpolated from index entries and may be off by one.
|
||||
[^6]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 82 to 93 (Higgins, Tipton and Pede at pp. 87 to 89; Will at p. 90; office 3C503A at p. 93).
|
||||
[^7]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 147 to 202 (Interloper at pp. 147 and 186; Byers at pp. 189 and 217; Tipton at p. 192; resignation letter at p. 202).
|
||||
[^8]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 202 to 203 and 211.
|
||||
[^9]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 209 to 217 and 238 (Dana White at p. 210; Sherwood at p. 217; deletion at p. 212; Space Force statement at p. 238); photograph captions on the email released in May 2024.
|
||||
[^10]: NewsNation, "UAP whistleblower says UFO retrieval program exists: NewsNation exclusive," January 16, 2025. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/uap-whistleblower-ufo-retrieval-program/
|
||||
[^11]: NewsNation, "Whistleblower reveals UAP retrieval program; object caught on video," January 2025. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/hfr-uap-recovery-video-egg-shaped-object-exclusive/
|
||||
[^12]: Alicia Sitz, "UAP whistleblower Luis Elizondo neither confirms nor denies he was part of government secrecy efforts," NewsNation, updated June 30, 2026. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/luis-elizondo-denies-uap-secrecy-efforts/
|
||||
[^13]: Steph Whiteside and Alicia Sitz, "Elizondo responds to researcher's 'controlled narrative' role rumors," NewsNation, updated July 29, 2026. https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/elizondo-uap-role-controlled-narrative/
|
||||
[^14]: Kloor, Keith. "UFOs Won't Go Away." *Issues in Science and Technology,* March 1, 2019. https://issues.org/ufos-wont-go-away/
|
||||
[^15]: Kloor, Keith. *The Intercept,* June 1, 2019. https://theintercept.com/2019/06/01/ufo-unidentified-history-channel-luis-elizondo-pentagon/
|
||||
[^16]: Lewis-Kraus, Gideon. *The New Yorker,* May 10, 2021. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentagon-started-taking-ufos-seriously
|
||||
[^17]: Bender, Bryan. "The Pentagon's Secret Search for UFOs." *Politico Magazine,* December 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/2018id_/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/12/16/pentagon-ufo-search-harry-reid-216111 ; Cooper, Helene, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean. *The New York Times,* December 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/2023id_/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html
|
||||
[^18]: Greenewald, John, Jr. The Black Vault, June 14, 2019. https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/pentagon-reinforces-mr-luis-elizondo-had-no-responsibilities-on-aatip-senator-harry-reids-2009-memo-changes-nothing
|
||||
[^19]: The Galileo Project, October 30, 2021. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/galileo/files/mellon-elizondo_announcement_final_2.pdf (Internet Archive copy).
|
||||
[^20]: Luis Elizondo, *Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs* (New York: William Morrow, 2024), pp. 202 to 217 (resignation at p. 202; Garry Reid indexed at pp. 143 to 144, 202 to 203, 209, 212, 215 to 217, 238 to 239) and pp. 205 to 207, 218 and 219 (offer from Tom DeLonge, salary cut and end of the arrangement).
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|
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|
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### Footnotes
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||||
|
||||
[^1]: *Report by the Grill Flame Scientific Evaluation Committee,* December 1979, Manfred Gale, chairman, CIA-RDP96-00788R001300120001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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||||
[^2]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 27 November 1979," S-1168/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1, and "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 10 January 1980," S-1008/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1, both signed Jack Vorona, chairman. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Stoner, William L., Major, GS, "Memorandum of Conversation, Subject: Gale Briefing to ZA, Science Evaluation Group Final Report on GRILL FLAME, 14 Jan 80," CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230017-7. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Gale, M., "Distribution of GRILL FLAME Reports," memorandum for Major Stoner, ACSI, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, January 25, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230023-0; three CIA Reading Room items of February 13, 1980, are titled "Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) Grill Flame Report, Dated November 1979" (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250025-7, R001100080007-6, R001200230026-7), not read. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
|
||||
[^2]: Defense Intelligence Agency, "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 27 November 1979," S-1168/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000130015-1, and "Minutes of the DoD Grill Flame Committee Meeting, 10 January 1980," S-1008/DT-1, CIA-RDP96-00788R002000100009-1, both signed Jack Vorona, chairman. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Stoner, William L., Major, GS, "Memorandum of Conversation, Subject: Gale Briefing to ZA, Science Evaluation Group Final Report on GRILL FLAME, 14 Jan 80," CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230017-7. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. Gale, M., "Distribution of GRILL FLAME Reports," memorandum for Major Stoner, ACSI, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Research, Development and Acquisition, January 25, 1980, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230023-0; three CIA Reading Room items of February 13, 1980, are titled "Scientific Evaluation Committee (SEC) Grill Flame Report, Dated November 1979" (CIA-RDP96-00788R002000250025-7, R001100080007-6, R001200230026-7). Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
|
||||
[^903]: "Grill Flame Review Panel Members," undated roster, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230008-7; Office of the Under Secretary of the Army, memorandum for Mr. Manny Gale, July 17, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230004-1; K. Lytle, Major, Military Assistant, memorandum for Mr. Gale, Advisor for RDA Analysis, ODCSRDA, "Briefing for Dr. Ruth Davis and Mr. Nealsen," August 8, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230013-1; Snyder to Gale, undated (catalogued May 11, 1979, but referring to October and a visit of September 28), CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230038-4, and November 19, 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230042-9; "Findings," "Recommendations," "Estimated Costs," unsigned, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230043-8; SSO Meade to SSO ACSI DA, "Grill Flame DoD Science Evaluation Team Report," LTC Watt, November 1979, CIA-RDP96-00788R001200230047-4. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
|
||||
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|
|
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|
|||
---
|
||||
category: "Finance & Business"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- VentureCapital
|
||||
- Russia
|
||||
- EpsteinFiles
|
||||
alias:
|
||||
- Masha Drokova
|
||||
- Maria Drokova
|
||||
- Mariia Drokova
|
||||
- Maria Aleksandrovna Drokova
|
||||
- Masha Bucher
|
||||
- Mariia Bucher
|
||||
summary: "Former Nashi commissar in Moscow, founder of the San Francisco fund Day One Ventures, and a correspondent of Jeffrey Epstein from March 2017 to June 2019 who arranged press contacts and introductions."
|
||||
location: "San Francisco"
|
||||
relations:
|
||||
- type: member_of
|
||||
with: "[[Nashi]]"
|
||||
role: "commissar and Moscow branch leader; described as a commissar at age 18 in February 2008"
|
||||
start: 2008-02-26
|
||||
fn: 1
|
||||
- type: founded
|
||||
with: "[[Day One Ventures]]"
|
||||
role: "Managing Member of the general partner of Day One Ventures Fund I, L.P. (Form D signed January 12, 2018)"
|
||||
start: 2018-01-12
|
||||
fn: 5
|
||||
- type: director_of
|
||||
with: "[[Day One Ventures Management LLC]]"
|
||||
role: "exempt reporting adviser, SEC file 802-118147, San Francisco"
|
||||
fn: 6
|
||||
- type: represented
|
||||
with: "[[Jeffrey Epstein]]"
|
||||
role: "described by Epstein on July 21, 2017 as helping him with public relations ('masha is helpiing me with PR'); arranged press interviews and contacts, March 2017 to June 2019"
|
||||
start: 2017-07-21
|
||||
end: 2019-06-06
|
||||
fn: 10
|
||||
- type: subject_of
|
||||
with: "[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]"
|
||||
role: "named in an FD-1023 confidential human source report of October 19, 2020 (sole source)"
|
||||
start: 2020-10-19
|
||||
fn: 20
|
||||
created: 2026-10-03
|
||||
updated: 2026-10-03
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
||||
### Nashi
|
||||
|
||||
Maria Drokova, called Masha, was described by [[The Christian Science Monitor]] on February 26, 2008 as an 18-year-old "commissar" of the pro-Kremlin youth movement [[Nashi]], speaking "excellent English." She told the paper, "My grandfather was a state official, my father was a state official; I want to be useful for my state," and gave Nashi's ideology as "freedom and justice." The same article reported that Nashi claimed about 100,000 members and counted the state-owned company [[Gazprom]] among its donors; [[Andrei Zolotov]] of [[Russia Profile]] said Nashi was "organized by people whose only religion is success and mimicry."[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
[[The Moscow Times]] reported on March 13, 2017 that she led the group's Moscow regional branch, that [[Vladimir Putin]] honored her "for service to the fatherland" in 2008, and that she kissed him on the cheek at a youth festival in 2009 (the photograph that gave the 2012 documentary "Putin's Kiss" its title). The same report states that the 2010 beating of the journalist [[Oleg Kashin]], which many at the time attributed to Nashi activists, shook her faith in the group; Kashin appears in the 2012 Danish documentary about her.[^2] Her own account in February 2026 was that she "saw Putin's corruption and evil up close" by her late teens.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### Move to the United States
|
||||
|
||||
On March 12, 2017 she posted from [[San Francisco]] that she had received a [[United States]] green card ("The most beautiful green I've ever seen"), thanking her immigration lawyer.[^2] The Epstein correspondence begins thirteen days later (below). [[Forbes]] reported in February 2026 that she has said she gave up Russian citizenship after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.[^4]
|
||||
|
||||
### Day One Ventures
|
||||
|
||||
Day One Ventures Fund I, L.P. (CIK 1727427) filed its first Form D on January 16, 2018 (signed January 12, 2018) as "Mariia Drokova, Managing Member of the General Partner of the Issuer"; it reports a first sale on December 25, 2017, $11,807,200 sold and 8 investors, under Rules 506(b) and Section 3(c)(7). Amendments reported $13,458,213 sold to 12 investors (October 30, 2018) and $19,182,213 to 25 investors (October 29, 2019).[^5]
|
||||
|
||||
Day One Ventures Fund II, L.P. (a [[Cayman Islands]] issuer) filed a Form D on November 24, 2020, reporting a first sale on October 22, 2020, $52,550,000 sold and 33 investors. Fund III (Texas) filed a Form D on February 16, 2024 naming "Mariia Bucher" as managing member of its general partner with the first sale yet to occur, and a D/A on April 16, 2025 reporting a first sale of February 26, 2024, $7,443,000 and 23 investors.[^5] [[TechCrunch]] reported on February 10, 2026 that Day One closed a $150 million third fund in 2024, for $450 million in total assets under management; Forbes reported that Day One credits itself with early backing of xAI, World and Valar Atomics, and gave its founding as 2018 with a $20 million seed fund.[^3][^4] Day One Ventures Management LLC is an active exempt reporting adviser (SEC file 802-118147), San Francisco, with no disclosures flagged on the IAPD record.[^6]
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A 2018 announcement of a $2.6 million seed round for the startup [[Invisible Technologies|Invisible]], preserved in the [[Epstein Files|Epstein Library]], lists [[Backed Ventures]], [[Loup Ventures]], [[Horizons Alpha]] and Day One Ventures as investors.[^7] The Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2019 named her in venture capital, according to the Deutsche Bank presentation quoted below. TechCrunch notes that the Epstein files carry her primarily under the name Drokova; later filings and press use Bucher.[^3]
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### Correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein, 2017
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The first document in the [[Jeffrey Epstein]] Library mentioning her is dated March 25, 2017: a sender whose name is redacted wrote to Epstein, "Would you like to be connected to Masha Drokova?" and later "Masha Drokova doesn't want to be assistant. She made her first million at age of 20, now she just invests in companies and creates her own VC, collected abt 10 MLn USD since 6 months." On April 5, 2017 the same writer asked whether to schedule her for Wednesday or Thursday; Epstein replied "yes for masha."[^8] A schedule kept by [[Lesley Groff]] lists "1:00pm Appt w/Masha Drokova" on May 18, 2017, and on May 23 Drokova wrote, "Thank you for the interesting meeting last week. You are fun."[^9]
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In the same May 23 message she told Epstein that he needed "a media who's be able to write about researches you're supporting" and recommended the site Futurism, "25M unique good quality audience per month," naming its founder [[Alex Klokus]] by LinkedIn link.[^9] Between May 27 and June 7, 2017 she wrote to him, "I think you need to talk to the audience directly. Media is an outdated dying resource," listing options that began with a "leak" to a top newspaper on how much he spent donating to science, an exclusive interview and a documentary; Epstein answered "good first draft" and "I like your plan for media, how to operationalize."[^10] On July 21, 2017 Epstein wrote to a scientist, copying her, "masha is helpiing me with PR, I told her she might want to speak to you."[^10]
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On August 24, 2017 she wrote that a news site was "almost done with their article" and needed answers to use as his quotes; the article's title, as linked, was "Private Donor Helps Fund Scientists After Trump's Proposed 'Anti-Science' Budget Cuts." She added, "it's just a start. we'll do more and push them up to the top in google search." Epstein replied, "good work. thx."[^11] On September 4 she reported that the article's author had received warnings from the site asking for its removal; on September 5 the thread is titled "Fixed. The article is back."[^11]
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Between September 8 and October 6, 2017 the documents record her arranging or proposing interviews and contacts for Epstein with reporters at several outlets, among them a Futurism editor interview set for September 18 at 1:30 p.m. ("His name is Alex Klokus," she told Groff that morning), a Nature correspondent, and two business and technology reporters, one of whom met him on September 28.[^9][^12] On October 11 Epstein wrote of one resulting article that it "was good not great."[^12]
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### Message of September 24, 2017
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In an email thread of Sunday, September 24, 2017, Epstein asked "where are you?" and Drokova answered "In Moscow." Later that day she wrote to Epstein, "btw, do you know any adequate Russian oligarchs?" Epstein replied, "adequate? len blavatni[k]" (the last letter is cut off in the copy). Drokova's next message in the thread reads: "I've heard good things about him too. could you connect me with him? I'm looking for right investors for my fund. adequate Russians with Western mentality is the easiest target. if smart American introduce one Russian to another Russian, the first one will pay double attention :) meeting Len through Russian friends would be that helpful." The copies preserve the thread; no document read records whether an introduction to [[Len Blavatnik]] followed.[^13]
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### The September 30, 2017 instruction
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On Saturday, September 30, 2017 Epstein wrote to [[Richard Kahn]] and Drokova: "rich send masha 25k, masha feel free to give some to" a third party (name omitted here). Drokova replied the same morning, "It's not needed, really," and wrote that she had her own ways to support the third party. She added, "Please don't worry about m[e] helping with reporters. It is interesting and I enjoy it. Learning from yo[u] is worth much more." Epstein answered that he appreciated it and wanted the third party not to know the source; Drokova wrote that she would give the third party an amount of her own money "without a need to lie that it's not from you." On October 4, 2017 Kahn wrote to Epstein, "reminder we still do not have her banking info please advise." No later document read shows whether the 25k was sent.[^14] Through a spokesperson in February 2026 she said she never provided bank details to Epstein's accountant; she has also said she was not paid for her work for Epstein.[^3]
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### Bryan Johnson, October 2017
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On October 2, 2017 Drokova forwarded to Epstein a "Note from Alex (Futurism founder)": "I was sitting with Bryan Johnson today, who was telling me about everything he's working on at Kernel ... I feel like they would mutually [benefit] from a conversation, if Jeffrey was interested!" Epstein replied, "always interested."[^15] Klokus, as Futurism's chief executive, wrote that evening to [[Bryan Johnson]] and Drokova that he had "spoken with Masha about the potential value of him and Jeffrey chatting. Masha has spoken with Jeffrey," and "@Masha: I'll let you take it from here." Klokus is not on any Epstein recipient line in the library.[^15] Epstein, in Florida, proposed a call; a Zoom meeting was scheduled for October 6, moved from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Epstein's request and then delayed to 5:15 p.m. by Groff. Drokova wrote at 5:14 p.m., as quoted in a later message, "I managed to free up earlier and join Jeffrey and Bryan too." No document records the call's occurrence, length or content, and no later Johnson correspondence with Epstein about it or a payment was found.[^15]
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### Palm Beach, December 2017
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On December 25, 2017 Epstein wrote: "plese coordinate with masha and her friend to visit and stay in palm beach we pay all," adding "Breakers or four seasons." Drokova answered, "book 4seasons." A [[Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach]] invoice (no. 359665) lists the guest as "Ms. Maria Drokova," arrival December 25 and departure December 27, 2017, balance due $0.00.[^16] On December 29 an assistant to Epstein wrote that the "total for reimbursement is 7027.48" and that the check would be mailed. A [[Deutsche Bank]] Trust Company Americas check no. 1146, dated December 29, 2017, drawn on the account of Jeffrey Epstein, payable to "Mariia Drokova" for $7,027.48 (printed with asterisk fill) with the memo "PB Expense reimbursement," is in the library.[^16] On April 13, 2018 an assistant wrote that Drokova "did not cash her reimbursement check 1146 issued no 12/29/17 in the amount of 7,027.48"; Kahn answered on April 16, "if you have not already reached out then don't chase her.. if reached out and no response please just let it be."[^16]
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### Introductions, 2018 and 2019
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The Library records Drokova introducing Epstein, by email, to a number of founders, investors, researchers and reporters between October 2017 and June 2019, usually with the line "Please meet each other" and followed by scheduling mail from Groff; the individuals are not named on this page. She wrote on February 8, 2018 of a portfolio founder, "One of my favorite portfolio founders ... is in New York next week."[^7][^17] Among the other correspondence, Epstein introduced her to scientists and technologists, one of whom she then contacted about a Day One investment, writing, "I run Day One Ventures fund and based in San Francisco."[^17] On May 12, 2018 she wrote that her "fund is growing in all meanings, portfolio almost doubled in valuation over the last four months," and on May 16, 2019 (Skype log), "I would never create my fund without the ideas and knowledge you shared with me and I do much love my work."[^17]
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On December 23, 2018 Epstein wrote, "re your ten woman swat team make a list of 20 candiddates. plus 10 smartest guys. lets begin." On December 24 Drokova replied with a list of named professionals, women and men, each with an occupation, and a set of five shared qualities ("Smart," "Ambitious," "Learning fast," "High level of energy," "Trust their instincts"). Epstein wrote on December 27, "lets test your list. . get everyone sskype or video contact. I will spend 10 minutes with each , both men and women." Over the following days she sent individual introduction emails to Epstein and persons on the list, and on December 31 wrote, "Tell me honestly what you think of everyone you met so I can better curate the rest of list." The names on the list are omitted from this page.[^18]
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### Deutsche Bank presentation, September 12, 2019
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Page 39 of a Deutsche Bank presentation to the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York|United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York]] dated September 12, 2019 (marked as pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 6(e)) contains a row with recipient "Maria Drokova," date 12/29/2017, amount "$7,027," column "C," account name "Jeffrey Epstein." The bank's text on the page states: "Maria 'Masha' Drokova is the Founder and General partner of a venture capital firm called Day One Ventures. She was recently named to Forbes' 2019 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital. She has garnered attention because she previously led a Russian patriotic youth movement called Nashi, which has been implicated in harassing people critical of President Putin's regime."[^19]
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### FBI report, October 2020
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An FD-1023 report of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] ([[Los Angeles]]; contact October 16, 2020; report date October 19, 2020) records a confidential human source (CHS) stating that Drokova "is based in [[Silicon Valley]]," runs Day One Ventures, and "used to be Russian President Vladimir Putin's main contact in the Russian Youth movement." The source said that when they spoke Drokova "did not talk at all about technology; instead, she looked at CHS and said, 'You knew Epstein, didn't you.'" and called Epstein a "wonderful man" for whom it was "a crying shame what had being done to him." The source concluded that "Day One Ventures was in Silicon Valley to steal technology." The conclusion is the source's; the document contains no corroboration.[^20]
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### Public statements
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After the February 2026 release, Drokova (publishing as Masha Bucher) posted on X that she first connected with Epstein while looking for protection from the Russian government: "He made me feel I could be safe from the regime, someone with power and connections who could shield me from those threats." She wrote, "I was naive; I didn't dig deep enough early on," said she believed his account of his 2008 plea (that "a girl had lied about her age"), apologized "to my founders, team, and investors" and wrote, "I now see clearly how profoundly dark and evil he was." She said she introduced Epstein to four journalists, never visited his island, and was not paid for her work, and that she has given up her Russian passport and met with some of Epstein's victims.[^3] A Russian journalist disputed her account that she and her family were at risk.[^4] Asked earlier by [[The Washington Post]] (2022) about an email that touted Russian oligarch connections, she denied writing it and said, "I'm not a spy, even though that sounds romantic."[^3]
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Christa Case Bryant, "Nashi and the Young Guard: two paths toward building support for Putin," The Christian Science Monitor, February 26, 2008, https://csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2008/0226/p13s01-woeu.html
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[^2]: "Former Pro-Putin Activist Celebrates U.S. Green Card on Instagram," The Moscow Times, March 13, 2017, https://themoscowtimes.com/news/former-pro-putin-activist-celebrates-us-green-card-on-instagram-57408
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[^3]: Julie Bort, "VC Masha Bucher, Epstein associate and Day One founder, explains herself," TechCrunch, February 10, 2026, https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/vc-masha-bucher-epstein-associate-and-day-one-founder-explains-herself ; Rya Jetha, "Epstein fallout: VC Masha Bucher breaks her silence after revelations," San Francisco Standard, February 10, 2026, https://sfstandard.com/2026/02/10/epstein-vc-masha-bucher-breaks-silence-revelations/ (quotations from her post on X as reproduced by those outlets; the spokesperson statement and 2022 Washington Post denial as reported there)
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[^4]: Iain Martin, "How Jeffrey Epstein helped his publicist become a big-time venture capitalist," Forbes, February 4, 2026 (Forbes Australia edition February 6, 2026), https://www.forbes.com.au/?p=176227 . Forbes states she did not comment before publication.
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[^5]: SEC Form D filings: Day One Ventures Fund I, L.P., CIK 1727427, accessions 0001727427-18-000001 (filed January 16, 2018), 0001727427-18-000002 (October 30, 2018), 0001727427-19-000001 (October 29, 2019), https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1727427/000172742718000001/primary_doc.xml ; Fund II, CIK 1831965, 0001831965-20-000001, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1831965/000183196520000001/primary_doc.xml ; Fund III, CIK 2009720, 0002009720-24-000001 and 0002009720-25-000001, https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2009720/000200972025000001/primary_doc.xml
|
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[^6]: SEC Investment Adviser Public Disclosure, Day One Ventures Management LLC, SEC file 802-118147, firm search, https://api.adviserinfo.sec.gov/search/firm?query=Day%20One%20Ventures (disclosure flag "N"; scope ACTIVE).
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[^7]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA02617074 (Invisible seed round announcement, 2018) and EFTA02237418, EFTA02526434 (February 8 to 17, 2018), https://www.justice.gov/epstein
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[^8]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA01051501, EFTA01051107, EFTA01050997, EFTA01050152 (March 25 to April 5, 2017), https://www.justice.gov/epstein . The introducer's identity is redacted in every copy read.
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[^9]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA01047005 (Data Set 9, May 23, 2017); EFTA00451355 (May 18, 2017 schedule); EFTA02223354 (Data Set 11, September 18, 2017); EFTA01017255 (Groff schedule, September 18, 2017), https://www.justice.gov/epstein . The September 18 interview is a scheduled item; no document records that it occurred.
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[^10]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA01043912, EFTA00697281, EFTA01045132, EFTA00663730 (May 27 to June 7, 2017, "Plant Neurobiology - Invitation to collaborate"); EFTA01040034 (July 21, 2017), https://www.justice.gov/epstein
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[^11]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA02341792, EFTA02393920, EFTA00703262 (August 24, 2017); EFTA01035000 (September 4, 2017), https://www.justice.gov/epstein
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[^12]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA02614477, EFTA00501845 (September 20, 2017); EFTA00460201, EFTA02225143 (September 30 to October 9, 2017); EFTA00992990 (October 11, 2017), https://www.justice.gov/epstein
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[^13]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA02362053 (September 24, 2017, message beginning "yes! super energized because of that," Drokova to Epstein, containing the "adequate Russian oligarchs" sentence) and EFTA02362021 (September 24, 2017, Drokova to Epstein, "Re:", quoting Epstein's "adequate? len blavatni" and her request for the connection), https://www.justice.gov/epstein . Both read as page images; the quoted text appears with the "=" line-break artifacts of the underlying email export removed.
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[^14]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA00997798 (Richard Kahn to Epstein, "Masha," October 4, 2017, forwarding the September 30 message); EFTA02597093 (Drokova to Epstein, September 30, 2017, 10:47 AM); EFTA02598199, EFTA01003089 (further copies), https://www.justice.gov/epstein
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[^15]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA00999952 (Data Set 9, October 2, 2017); EFTA01000443 (October 3, 2017); EFTA02227011 (Data Set 11, October 3, 2017, 12:11:32 PM); EFTA00460043, EFTA00460518, EFTA02226959, EFTA02226363 (October 5 to 6, 2017), https://www.justice.gov/epstein
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[^16]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA00937443, EFTA00466145 (December 25 to 27, 2017); EFTA02233814 (December 29, 2017, "Please issue reimbursement check for Masha..."); EFTA00316379 (check no. 1146); EFTA02241817 (April 13 to 16, 2018), https://www.justice.gov/epstein
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[^17]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA00967226, EFTA00965760 (November 1 to 3, 2017); EFTA01058821 (May 12, 2018); EFTA01612654 (Skype log, May 16, 2019), https://www.justice.gov/epstein
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[^18]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA01010555 (December 23 to 24, 2018) and related EFTA01010299, EFTA01010171, EFTA01009982, EFTA01009870 (December 27 to 31, 2018), https://www.justice.gov/epstein
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[^19]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA01681902, page 39 of a Deutsche Bank presentation to the U.S. Attorney, SDNY, September 12, 2019, https://www.justice.gov/epstein . The description of Drokova is the bank's.
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[^20]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library: EFTA00090314, FBI FD-1023, "CHS reporting document," Los Angeles, date of contact October 16, 2020, date of report October 19, 2020, https://www.justice.gov/epstein .
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### Footnotes
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited; the underlying X-witness material is Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, *De X-dossiers: wat België niet mocht weten over de zaak-Dutroux* (Houtekiet, 1999), not examined. It describes Bourlet as assigned to the case by Connerotte, which inverts their roles, and gives August 13, 1996, for Dutroux's arrest, contradicted by the commission's chronology.
|
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[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited; the underlying X-witness material is Bulté, Annemie, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, *De X-dossiers: wat België niet mocht weten over de zaak-Dutroux* (Houtekiet, 1999). It describes Bourlet as assigned to the case by Connerotte, which inverts their roles, and gives August 13, 1996, for Dutroux's arrest, contradicted by the commission's chronology.
|
||||
[^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport complémentaire, Doc. 713/8-96/97, February 16, 1998, chapter V; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/pdf_sections/comm/dutroux/49K0713008.pdf
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||||
[^3]: Sénat de Belgique. Proposition visant à instituer une commission d'enquête parlementaire chargée d'enquêter sur l'éloignement de deux enquêteurs de la cellule d'enquête bruxelloise « Neufchâteau », déposée par M. Frans Lozie, Doc. 2-563/1, October 9, 2000, développements; translated from the French.
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The Albuquerque Tribune of Friday, April 8, 1983 printed on page 6, as a jump from page A-1 under the headline "U.S. reports tell of sightings," an account of Air Force reports on Kirtland. It described Bennewitz as "president of a local electronics firm" living adjacent to the northern boundary of the Manzano base, and reported that he said he saw four "saucer or hat-shaped objects lined up behind the outside fence" of the Manzano area on February 2, 1980, and filmed them from about 2,500 yards. It quoted an Air Force report written months later as saying he produced still photographs and 2,600 feet of 8mm film "depicting unidentified aerial objects flying over and around Manzano Weapons Storage Area and Coyote Canyon Test Area," and reported that the investigator, Miller, a former Project Blue Book investigator, concluded only that "no conclusions could be made whether these objects pose a threat to Manzano-Coyote Canyon areas." It reported that on November 19 (1980) Bennewitz was told the Air Force would not investigate and "was not in a position to evaluate the information and photographs he has collected," and that former Senator [[Harrison Schmitt]] had inquired why the Air Force declined; the AFOSI forms above date the corresponding statement to Doty and November 17, 1980.[^17]
|
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|
||||
The Tribune quoted George Pearce, the Kirtland public affairs officer, as saying Bennewitz "said he was in contact with alien beings through his computer and wanted us to investigate," and that he told Bennewitz Project Blue Book had ended in 1969, and quoted Colonel John Aday, Kirtland chief of public affairs, as saying UFOs are no threat to national defense and that he had "no idea" what the 1980 sightings were. It reported that Bennewitz had briefed UFO enthusiasts in Albuquerque earlier that week, saying there was an alien base inside a mesa near [[Dulce, New Mexico|Dulce]], that the aliens intended to enslave the earth, that he had seen aliens on a video screen, "green and about 4 feet tall," and that cattle mutilations supplied the aliens' needs through gene splicing; the paper said he planned a book. It also reported that the Kirtland sightings were described in Air Force reports sent to the [[Mutual UFO Network]] in December 1982, and quoted MUFON international director Walter Andrus, by telephone from [[Seguin, Texas]], as saying MUFON had filed Freedom of Information Act requests and that the reports had been held confidential until MUFON received the documents; the paper gave MUFON as having more than 1,000 members, about a dozen in New Mexico.[^17] A search of the newspaper archive also lists an [[Albuquerque Journal]] item of April 9, 1983, page 5, and an [[Alamogordo Daily News]] item of April 11, 1983, page 12, which were not read.
|
||||
The Tribune quoted George Pearce, the Kirtland public affairs officer, as saying Bennewitz "said he was in contact with alien beings through his computer and wanted us to investigate," and that he told Bennewitz Project Blue Book had ended in 1969, and quoted Colonel John Aday, Kirtland chief of public affairs, as saying UFOs are no threat to national defense and that he had "no idea" what the 1980 sightings were. It reported that Bennewitz had briefed UFO enthusiasts in Albuquerque earlier that week, saying there was an alien base inside a mesa near [[Dulce, New Mexico|Dulce]], that the aliens intended to enslave the earth, that he had seen aliens on a video screen, "green and about 4 feet tall," and that cattle mutilations supplied the aliens' needs through gene splicing; the paper said he planned a book. It also reported that the Kirtland sightings were described in Air Force reports sent to the [[Mutual UFO Network]] in December 1982, and quoted MUFON international director Walter Andrus, by telephone from [[Seguin, Texas]], as saying MUFON had filed Freedom of Information Act requests and that the reports had been held confidential until MUFON received the documents; the paper gave MUFON as having more than 1,000 members, about a dozen in New Mexico.[^17]
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|
||||
### Moore's account
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||||
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|
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Vanden Boeynants faced no charges from X-Dossier allegations, with testimonies barred from Dutroux's 2004 trial due to reliability issues with X-witnesses' DID. The 1997 dossier leak detailed his name, but investigations halted after his 2001 death from natural causes. No assets or records were seized linking him to crimes. The 2005 Wikileaks summary reiterated claims, but no legal action occurred post-mortem.[^1]
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|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. It places his premiership in 1978-1981 and a kidnapping in 1974; contemporaneous reporting gives two terms, from 1966 and 1978, and the kidnapping of January 1989.
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||||
[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. It places his premiership in 1978-1981 and a kidnapping in 1974; contemporaneous reporting gives two terms, from 1966 and 1978, and the kidnapping of January 1989. Sole source for the passages so cited.
|
||||
[^2]: "Aldo Moro, Paul Vanden Boeynants, Baron Empain: ces kidnappings célèbres ayant marqué le monde politique et économique." RTBF, October 10, 2020; translated from the French. https://www.rtbf.be/article/aldo-moro-paul-vanden-boeynants-baron-empain-ces-kidnappings-celebres-ayant-marque-le-monde-politique-et-economique-10604463
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[^3]: Tempest, Rone. "Mystery, Doubts Shroud Kidnaping of Belgian." *Los Angeles Times,* February 4, 1989. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-02-04-mn-1507-story.html
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|
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category: "Technologists"
|
||||
tags:
|
||||
- Person
|
||||
- Entrepreneur
|
||||
- Longevity
|
||||
- VentureCapital
|
||||
- SpaceIndustry
|
||||
- Transhumanism
|
||||
alias:
|
||||
- Peter Diamandis
|
||||
- Peter H. Diamandis
|
||||
- Peter H Diamandis
|
||||
- Peter Diamandis, MD
|
||||
- Dr. Peter Diamandis
|
||||
summary: "Founder and chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, described in his biographies as co-founder of Singularity University, BOLD Capital Partners and Human Longevity; director of Planetary Resources and Celularity; emailed by Epstein's office in 2013."
|
||||
location: "Santa Monica, California"
|
||||
relations:
|
||||
- type: founded
|
||||
with: "[[XPRIZE Foundation]]"
|
||||
role: "Founder and Chairman, reportable compensation $254,129 for 2024"
|
||||
fn: 1
|
||||
- type: director_of
|
||||
with: "[[Singularity University]]"
|
||||
role: "director of Singularity Education Group, with Ray Kurzweil, Naveen Jain and Erik Anderson"
|
||||
start: 2017-11
|
||||
fn: 2
|
||||
- type: founded
|
||||
with: "[[BOLD Capital Partners]]"
|
||||
role: "named as executive officer on the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020 fund Form D filings"
|
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start: 2015-11
|
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|
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|
||||
with: "[[Planetary Resources]]"
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role: "director, with Bryan Johnson, per the October 2015 Form D"
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start: 2015-10
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fn: 7
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- type: director_of
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with: "[[Celularity]]"
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role: "director per the 2017 and 2018 Form D filings"
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start: 2017-09
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fn: 12
|
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- type: director_of
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with: "[[Fountain Life]]"
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role: "director per Form D filings of 2021 and 2023"
|
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start: 2021-01
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fn: 13
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- type: director_of
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with: "[[Hyperloop Technologies]]"
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role: "director per the June 2015 Form D"
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start: 2015-06
|
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fn: 14
|
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- type: funded
|
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with: "[[Solari Capital]]"
|
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role: "limited partner, per Diamandis in Fortune"
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start: 2026-09
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fn: 15
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created: 2026-10-03
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updated: 2026-10-03
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---
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|
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### XPRIZE Foundation
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|
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Peter Diamandis, who according to his SALT biography earned degrees in Molecular Genetics and Aerospace Engineering from the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] and holds an M.D. from [[Harvard Medical School]], is the founder and chairman of the [[XPRIZE Foundation]] (formally X Prize Foundation Inc), a [[Culver City, California]] public charity (EIN 52-1876879, [[Internal Revenue Service|IRS]] ruling date June 1, 1999). Its Form 990 for tax year 2024 reports total revenue of $47,528,889, contributions and grants of $41,198,091, expenses of $49,132,340 and total assets of $146,450,974; Part VII lists Diamandis as "Founder & Chairman," 40 hours a week, with reportable compensation from the organization of $254,129 and other compensation of $41,922. The same Part VII lists him with comparable figures for each year from 2016 ($267,211) through 2022 ($259,828).[^1]
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|
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The 2024 board consists of [[Amir Ansari]], [[Anu Jain]], [[David Blundin]], [[Don Walker]], [[Eric Esrailian]], [[Gil Elbaz]], [[Gregg Maryniak]] (secretary), [[Helene Desmarais]] (until April), [[James Gianopulos]], [[Jeffrey Shames]], [[John Frank]], [[Kelly Vlahakis-Hanks]], [[Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux]], [[Lauren Selig]], [[Mark Siegel]], [[Robert Weiss]] (vice chairman), [[Salim Ismail]] and [[Vanessa Speer]]; [[Anousheh Ansari]] is chief executive officer, with reportable compensation of $1,017,714. Ismail is listed from tax year 2018, Blundin in 2022 and 2024, and [[Avi Reichental]] in 2022.[^1] The 990 data read for 2016 through 2024 contain no Schedule L transaction and no text reference to [[BOLD Capital Partners]], [[Abundance]], [[Singularity University]], [[Human Longevity, Inc.|Human Longevity]] or [[Fountain Life]].[^1] Donor names on Schedule B are not public for this organization.
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|
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### Singularity University and Futurism
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|
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The 2008 founding of Singularity University by Diamandis and [[Ray Kurzweil]] at the [[NASA Ames Research Center]] is described on the [[Singularitarianism]] page. [[Singularity Education Group]] (CIK 1723877, [[Moffett Field, California]]), the operating entity, filed a Form D on November 30, 2017 listing as directors Kurzweil, Diamandis, [[Erik Anderson]] and [[Naveen Jain]], with [[Rob Nail]] as chief executive officer; it reported $22,465,475 sold of a $33,440,670 offering to 42 investors, first sale December 22, 2015.[^2]
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|
||||
The 2017 About page of [[Futurism, LLC|Futurism]], then run by [[Alex Klokus]], listed Diamandis (XPRIZE) among its "experts" beside [[Kaila Colbin]] of Singularity University and [[Joseph Lubin]] of [[ConsenSys]].[^3] A press release of [[Recurrent Ventures]] dated July 26, 2021 states that Futurism, "Founded in 2014," "was acquired by Singularity University in 2019 as an independent media organization."[^3] Klokus's biography on the [[SALT Conference]] site says he "built and sold" Futurism.[^4]
|
||||
|
||||
### BOLD Capital Partners
|
||||
|
||||
The BOLD Capital Partners Form D filings begin on November 13, 2015 (BOLD Capital Partners, L.P., Culver City, $200,000,000 offering, none sold at filing), with Diamandis, [[Teymour Boutros-Ghali]], [[Emilio Diez Barroso]] and [[Neal Bhadkamkar]] as executive officers. Diamandis is named again on BOLD Capital Partners S2 (March 18, 2016), BOLD Capital Partners II (December 8, 2017, $200,000,000) and BOLD Capital Select (June 3, 2020, $100,000,000). BOLD Capital Partners III (October 29, 2021, $250,000,000), the 2022 to 2026 special-purpose vehicles for [[Viome]] and others, and BOLD Capital Partners SX2 (May 23, 2025) name the other three men only.[^5] A capture of the firm's About page dated July 17, 2019 calls Diamandis "a General Partner of BOLD," says he received "a Masters in Aeronautics from MIT and a MD from Harvard Medical School," and lists the companies he has "co-founded" as XPRIZE Foundation, Human Longevity Inc., Celularity and Singularity University.[^6] The SALT biography of Diamandis gives BOLD as "a venture fund with $250M investing in exponential technologies."[^4]
|
||||
|
||||
### Planetary Resources, Human Longevity and Bryan Johnson
|
||||
|
||||
The Form D of [[Planetary Resources]], Inc. ([[Redmond, Washington]]) filed October 21, 2015 lists [[Eric Anderson]] as chairman and director, [[Chris Lewicki]], [[Michael Murray]] and [[Joseph Landon]] as executive officers, and Peter Diamandis and [[Bryan Johnson]] as directors; it reports $12,233,209 sold of a $19,988,688 offering to 16 investors, first sale October 6, 2015. Amended filings of May 26 and November 16, 2016 carry the same two directors and report $20,734,417 and $34,783,603 sold to 28 and 29 investors.[^7] [[Fortune]] reported on October 20, 2014 that Johnson's $100 million fund had invested in Planetary Resources, [[Vicarious]], [[Matternet]] and Human Longevity.[^8]
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||||
|
||||
Human Longevity, Inc. ([[San Diego]]) filed Form D notices from 2019 through 2024 naming [[David Karow]], [[James Hu]] and [[Wei-Wu He]] (and from 2024 [[James Huang]] and [[Helmut Schuehsler]]); Diamandis is not named in them. They report $20,060,630 sold to one investor (first sale June 14, 2019), $6,919,380 to 11 investors (2021), $10,500,000 to four (2023) and $31,999,999 to 18 (August 21, 2024).[^9] Human Longevity, Inc. is the plaintiff in Human Longevity, Inc. v. [[J. Craig Venter Institute]], Inc., No. 3:18-cv-01656, filed July 20, 2018 in the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of California]].[^10]
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||||
|
||||
### Other Form D directorships
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||||
|
||||
Diamandis is named as a director or executive officer on Form D filings for [[Panjia]], LLC (November 16, 2011) and [[Humin]], Inc. (June 18, 2012), both with [[Ankur Jain]] and [[William A. Owens]]; [[Hyperloop Technologies]], Inc. (June 11, 2015, with [[Shervin Pishevar]], [[David Sacks]], [[Joe Lonsdale]] and [[Jim Messina]], $8,694,990 sold to 10 investors); [[Planetary Power]], Inc. (September 14, 2015); [[Celularity]] Inc. (September 28, 2017: $40,000,004 sold to 16 investors, with [[Robert Hariri]], [[John Sculley]], [[Bill Maris]] and [[Andrew von Eschenbach]]; and November 13, 2018: $77,699,988 sold to five investors); [[Verijet]] Holding Company, LLC (December 19, 2019); [[C19 Corp.]] (April 3, 2020) and [[Vaxxinity]], Inc. (March 17, 2021; $1,352,949,307 sold to 81 investors as filed), both with [[Mei Mei Hu]]; Fountain Life Holdings, LLC (January 21, 2021; $2,140,000 sold) and Fountain Life, LLC (December 14, 2023; $87,120,522 sold to 61 investors), both with [[Tony Robbins]]; [[Lifeforce Digital]] Inc. (February 17, 2022, with Robbins); and XPV Fund 1, LP (April 22, 2025; $300,000,000 offered under [[Rule 506(c)]], with David Blundin).[^11][^12][^13][^14]
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||||
|
||||
Abundance Lila II, LLC ([[Miami|Miami, Florida]]), a pooled investment fund, reported $53,150,000 sold to 56 investors on a Form D filed July 21, 2026, first sale July 6, 2026, with Diamandis as executive officer and director; Abundance X Capable, LLC ([[Santa Monica]]) filed on October 1, 2026 reporting $3,750,000 sold to two investors. Both were signed by [[Kenneth Machida]], head of finance.[^11]
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||||
|
||||
### AJ Scaramucci and Solari Capital
|
||||
|
||||
[[Bustle]] reported on August 1, 2017 that [[AJ Scaramucci]] ([[Alexander Scaramucci]], the oldest son of [[Anthony Scaramucci]]) was, according to his [[LinkedIn]] page, an "entrepreneur in residence" working "with Peter Diamandis across all of his ventures: XPRIZE, Human Longevity Inc., Planetary Resources, Bold Capital Partners, Singularity University, [[Abundance 360]]."[^15] His SALT biography says he was an entrepreneur-in-residence "alongside Dr. Peter Diamandis building Cellularity," and lists Planetary Resources among his earlier roles.[^4] Fortune reported on September 24, 2026 that Scaramucci traced his thesis to reading Diamandis's book "Abundance" in April 2012, reached Diamandis through Chris Lewicki of Planetary Resources, and by 2015 was an entrepreneur-in-residence "building the CAR-T cell therapy startup Cellularity and the education venture [[Abundance Group]]." Diamandis told Fortune that he had known Scaramucci "for the better part of 15 years," that Scaramucci had been a member of his "Strike Force" (an entrepreneur-in-residence program in which, in Diamandis's words, an entrepreneur travels with him and sits in on board meetings "12-15 hours a day"), and that he was "happy to be a limited partner in" [[Solari Capital]], whose backers Fortune also lists as [[Ron Conway]], [[Jim Breyer]], [[Stephen Pagliuca]] and [[Eric Schmidt]].[^15]
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||||
|
||||
A Form D of [[Theo Rewards, Inc.|Theo Rewards, Inc.]] (February 3, 2020) lists Klokus and an "Ankur Jain" as co-chief executives; the Panjia and Humin filings above carry the same name with Diamandis. The filings do not identify the two as one person.[^16]
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||||
|
||||
### SALT and the UAP speakers
|
||||
|
||||
The SALT Conference speaker page for Diamandis is tagged "SALT [[Las Vegas]] 2019"; SALT Las Vegas 2019 also lists AJ Scaramucci and Anthony Scaramucci. Speaker pages for [[Avi Loeb]] ("SALT New York 2022") and [[Garry Nolan]] ("SALT iConnections New York 2023") are on the same site, as are pages for Alex Klokus and AJ Scaramucci for those events.[^4] No record located in a search of the SEC's EDGAR system, the XPRIZE 990 filings or the SALT site connects Diamandis or a Diamandis entity to a UAP organization.
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||||
|
||||
### Epstein correspondence
|
||||
|
||||
Documents in the [[Department of Justice]] [[Jeffrey Epstein]] library show [[Lesley Groff]], signing as "Assistant to Jeffrey Epstein," writing to Diamandis at 12:55 p.m. on May 1, 2013: "Jeffrey wants you to please contact him whenever you come to New York...he would love to get together." Diamandis, signing as "Chairman/CEO, X PRIZE Foundation," answered: "Please meet Connie Fox who runs my insane (but wonderful) life. Connie, Can you figure out when I'm next in NYC & schedule time with Jeffrey?" [[Connie Fox]] replied that evening that Diamandis would be in New York around June 14 and 15, "but his travel has not been confirmed," and proposed circling back at the beginning of June; on May 2 she wrote "Great, thank you" to the next message. The documents read record no meeting and no money.[^17]
|
||||
|
||||
A November 8, 2010 email from [[Al Seckel]] to Epstein forwards a message from [[Neil Jacobstein]], president of Singularity University, asking for a conversation about a science and technology education grant that "leverages our team projects"; no grant appears in the documents read.[^17] Epstein's mailbox also received two Futurism newsletters, dated October 9 and October 12, 2017, each advertising "a live AMA on October 13th" with Kurzweil and Diamandis.[^17]
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|
||||
On October 2, 2017 [[Masha Drokova]] forwarded to Epstein a note from Klokus about a meeting with Diamandis's fellow Planetary Resources director Bryan Johnson, and on October 6, 2017 Epstein, Johnson and Drokova were scheduled for a video call arranged by Groff and Kernel's executive assistant; see Bryan Johnson. The library search returns about 316 documents carrying Diamandis's name, most of them duplicate copies, newsletters and mailings; about 270 carry his name on a sender, recipient or quoted-sender line.[^17]
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|
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### Footnotes
|
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|
||||
[^1]: X Prize Foundation Inc, Form 990, EIN 52-1876879, tax years 2016 (object ID 201713199349312736), 2017 (201843199349314589), 2018 (201913229349300866), 2020 (202123199349331027), 2021 (202223199349330172), 2022 (202323199349328517), 2024 (202543219349322039), Part I, Part VII Section A, Schedule R; IRS e-file XML via https://gt990datalake-rawdata.s3.amazonaws.com/EfileData/XmlFiles/202543219349322039_public.xml and the IRS index at https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/990/xml/2025/index_2025.csv. Organization data: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/521876879.json.
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||||
[^2]: Singularity Education Group, Form D, CIK 1723877, accession 0001723877-17-000001, filed November 30, 2017. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1723877/000172387717000001/primary_doc.xml
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||||
[^3]: Futurism, "About," Wayback Machine capture of June 16, 2017, https://web.archive.org/web/20170616122143id_/https://futurism.com/about ; Recurrent Ventures, "Recurrent Ventures Acquires Futurism from Singularity University," July 26, 2021, https://recurrent.io/recurrent-ventures-acquires-futurism-from-singularity-university/
|
||||
[^4]: SALT speaker pages (the Diamandis biography gives the MIT degrees, the M.D., the title "Founder & Executive Chairman" of XPRIZE and BOLD as "a venture fund with $250M"): Peter H. Diamandis, https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/peter-diamandis ; AJ Scaramucci, https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/aj-scaramucci ; Alex Klokus, https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/alex-klokus ; Avi Loeb, https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/avi-loeb ; Garry Nolan, https://archive2.salt.org/speakers/garry-nolan
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||||
[^5]: SEC Forms D: BOLD Capital Partners, L.P. (CIK 1653181, 0001653181-15-000001); S2 (1669652, 0001669652-16-000001); II (1724470, 0001724470-17-000001); SX (1809563, 0001809563-20-000001); Select (1813841, 0001813841-20-000001); III (1881895, 0001881895-21-000002); SX2 (2062969, 0002062969-25-000001); SPVs CIK 1945831, 1952354, 1949294, 1897646, 2032792, 2017417, 2127274. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1653181/000165318115000001/primary_doc.xml
|
||||
[^6]: BOLD Capital Partners, "About," Wayback Machine capture of July 17, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190717010732id_/https://www.boldcapitalpartners.com/about/
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||||
[^7]: Planetary Resources, Inc., Form D, CIK 1656177, accession 0001656177-15-000001, filed October 21, 2015; Forms D/A 0001656177-16-000002 (May 26, 2016) and 0001656177-16-000003 (November 16, 2016). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1656177/000165617715000001/primary_doc.xml
|
||||
[^8]: JP Mangalindan, "Crazy, insane start-ups are this tech investor's meat and potatoes," Fortune, October 20, 2014. https://www.fortune.com/2014/10/20/crazy-fund-startups
|
||||
[^9]: Human Longevity, Inc., Forms D, CIK 1781303, accessions 0001781303-19-000001 (July 1, 2019), 0001781303-22-000002 (October 11, 2022), 0001781303-23-000001 (April 7, 2023), 0001781303-24-000001 (D/A, August 21, 2024). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1781303/000178130319000001/primary_doc.xml
|
||||
[^10]: CourtListener docket header, Human Longevity, Inc. v. J. Craig Venter Institute, Inc., No. 3:18-cv-01656 (S.D. Cal., filed July 20, 2018). https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7596559/human-longevity-inc-v-j-craig-venter-institute-inc/.
|
||||
[^11]: SEC Forms D: Abundance Lila II, LLC (CIK 2145163, 0002145163-26-000001); Abundance X Capable, LLC (CIK 2157998, 0002157998-26-000001); XPV Fund 1, LP (CIK 2065311, 0002065311-25-000001); Lifeforce Digital Inc. (CIK 1911639, 0001911639-22-000001). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2145163/000214516326000001/primary_doc.xml
|
||||
[^12]: Celularity Inc., Forms D, CIK 1716918, accessions 0001716918-17-000001 (September 28, 2017) and 0001716918-18-000001 (November 13, 2018). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1716918/000171691817000001/primary_doc.xml
|
||||
[^13]: SEC Forms D: Fountain Life Holdings, LLC (CIK 1836992, 0001836992-21-000001); Fountain Life, LLC (CIK 2003777, 0001137439-23-001464); Verijet Holding Company, LLC (CIK 1795587, 0001795587-19-000001). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2003777/000113743923001464/primary_doc.xml
|
||||
[^14]: SEC Forms D: Hyperloop Technologies, Inc. (CIK 1634332, 0001634332-15-000002); C19 Corp. (CIK 1808960, 0001808960-20-000001); Vaxxinity, Inc. (CIK 1851657, 0001851657-21-000002); Planetary Power, Inc. (CIK 1653035, 0001653035-15-000001); Panjia, LLC (CIK 1534799, 0001534799-11-000001); Humin, Inc. (CIK 1551111, 0001551111-12-000001). https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1634332/000163433215000002/primary_doc.xml
|
||||
[^15]: Joseph D. Lyons, "Alexander Scaramucci, The Mooch's Oldest Son, Is Working In Los Angeles," Bustle, August 1, 2017, https://www.bustle.com/p/who-is-alexander-scaramucci-the-moochs-son-is-entrepreneur-73739 (secondary, citing LinkedIn and the Daily Mail); Nick Lichtenberg, "Exclusive: AJ Scaramucci comes out of stealth with a $350 million bet on 'Programmable Reality,'" Fortune, September 24, 2026, https://fortune.com/2026/09/24/exclusive-aj-scaramucci-comes-out-of-stealth-with-a-350-million-bet-on-programmable-reality/
|
||||
[^16]: Theo Rewards, Inc., Form D, CIK 1801852, accession 0001801852-20-000001, filed February 3, 2020. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1801852/000180185220000001/primary_doc.xml
|
||||
[^17]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library (Epstein Files Transparency Act release): EFTA00391312, Data Set 9, Groff and Diamandis, May 1, 2013, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00391312.pdf ; EFTA00391056, Data Set 9, Connie Fox, May 1, 2013, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00391056.pdf ; EFTA00391062, Data Set 9, May 2, 2013, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00391062.pdf ; EFTA02417160, Data Set 11, Seckel to Epstein, November 8, 2010, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02417160.pdf ; EFTA02386439 (October 9, 2017) and EFTA02343891 (October 12, 2017), Data Set 11, Futurism newsletters to jeevacation@gmail.com, https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02386439.pdf and https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02343891.pdf ; the Drokova, Klokus and Johnson chain (EFTA00999952 and others) is cited on the Bryan Johnson page. The count of about 316 documents is from a name search of the library run on October 3, 2026.
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@ -40,6 +40,6 @@ Ron Blackburn is a retired [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] lieutenant colo
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### Footnotes
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|
||||
[^1]: Alexander, John B. *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities,* 2011, as quoted in Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, p. 20, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf. The book was not opened.
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||||
[^1]: Alexander, John B. *UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities,* 2011, as quoted in Elizondo, Daniel, and The Hermetic Penetrator, "The Loose Threads Report," Anomaly Archives, 2022, p. 20, https://anomalyarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF-Loose-Threads.pdf.
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[^2]: Houck and Shannon notes as reproduced in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 15 and 188 (page images read directly; originals not seen).
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||||
[^3]: Vallee, Jacques. Journal entries of February, May and August 1990, as quoted in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 21 and 66-67 and the sections on EMP testing and on Ed Dames, which gives volume numbers only for the May and "1990" mesa entries (*Forbidden Science: Volume Four*); the February and August 1990 entries fall in the period of that volume. The books were not opened. No Blackburn publication or Air Force Weapons Laboratory record was found. Sole source for the passages so cited.
|
||||
[^3]: Vallee, Jacques. Journal entries of February, May and August 1990, as quoted in the Loose Threads Report, pp. 21 and 66-67 and the sections on EMP testing and on Ed Dames, which gives volume numbers only for the May and "1990" mesa entries (*Forbidden Science: Volume Four*); the February and August 1990 entries fall in the period of that volume. No Blackburn publication or Air Force Weapons Laboratory record was found. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ Senate lobbying records name no client or registrant called Americans for Safe A
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||||
[^1]: Ryan Graves, witness biography, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing of July 26, 2023. https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/116282/witnesses/HHRG-118-GO06-Bio-GravesR-20230726.pdf
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||||
[^2]: House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency," July 26, 2023, Serial No. 118-53. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-118hhrg53022/html/CHRG-118hhrg53022.htm
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||||
[^3]: Hafner, Katherine. "...Claim UFO sightings: Unidentified objects seen flying up to 30,000 feet." *Daily Press* (Newport News), May 30, 2019, p. A1, via newspapers.com image 593332765 (a *Virginian-Pilot* staff story; the first words of the headline and the page 5 jump were not read).
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||||
[^3]: Hafner, Katherine. "...Claim UFO sightings: Unidentified objects seen flying up to 30,000 feet." *Daily Press* (Newport News), May 30, 2019, p. A1, via newspapers.com image 593332765 (a *Virginian-Pilot* staff story).
|
||||
[^4]: OpenCorporates, Americans for Safe Aerospace, District of Columbia N00007627058 and North Carolina 3088984, retrieved October 3, 2026. https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_dc/N00007627058 ; https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_nc/3088984 . The incorporation date is hidden behind a login; the earliest dated filing shown is March 16, 2023.
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[^5]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, Americans For Safe Aerospace, EIN 922948733. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/922948733.json
|
||||
[^6]: Internal Revenue Service, Form 990-EZ, Americans for Safe Aerospace, tax periods ended December 31, 2024 and 2025 (object IDs 202502389349200045 and 202611399349200506), as recorded on the vault page for the organization.
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||||
[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. Its dates for the abduction (May 26, 1996) and for Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) are contradicted by the commission's report; its placing of the abduction at Farciennes is not supported by the report, which records the investigation as run from Tournai.
|
||||
[^1]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Its dates for the abduction (May 26, 1996) and for Dutroux's arrest (August 13, 1996) are contradicted by the commission's report; its placing of the abduction at Farciennes is not supported by the report, which records the investigation as run from Tournai. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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||||
[^2]: Chambre des Représentants de Belgique. *Enquête parlementaire sur la manière dont l'enquête, dans ses volets policiers et judiciaires, a été menée dans l'affaire Dutroux-Nihoul et consorts,* rapport, Doc. 713/6-96/97, April 18, 1997, pp. 86-88 and the chronology of August 1996; translated from the French. https://www.dekamer.be/FLWB/PDF/49/0713/49K0713006.pdf
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||||
[^3]: "Nihoul acquitté pour les enlèvements." *La Dernière Heure,* June 17, 2004; translated from the French. https://www.dhnet.be/actu/faits/2004/06/17/nihoul-acquitte-pour-les-enlevements-MF73NPYQVBC25I2Y6P54BXIQDA/
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[^4]: "Notorious child rapist-murderer convicted." NBC News and Associated Press, June 17, 2004. https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5233011
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[^1]: Commissione parlamentare d'inchiesta sul terrorismo in Italia e sulle cause della mancata individuazione dei responsabili delle stragi, audizione del signor Stefano Delle Chiaie, stenographic record no. 25, Rome.
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[^2]: Dinges, John. *The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents*. New Press, 2004, pp. 130-133.
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[^3]: Press obituaries and secondary accounts of the 1987 arrest and the 1989 and 1991 acquittals, not read in the original reporting; the manner of his transfer from Venezuela, by extradition or by handover, is given differently in the accounts.
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A March 9, 2025 question-and-answer session after the [[South by Southwest]] premiere of "The Age of Disclosure" is catalogued with Gallaudet, Nolan, [[Karl Nell]], [[Hal Puthoff]], [[Jim Semivan]] and the producer [[Dan Farah]].[^10]
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In June 2026 Loeb gave DefenseScoop a roster of twelve members of a UAP Science Advisory Council that includes Gallaudet (oceanography), Nolan, Skafish, [[Michael Shermer]] and [[Ben Lamm]]. Gallaudet told DefenseScoop that he hoped to apply his ocean-science and government-leadership experience "to help the council most effectively accomplish its mission and support the new UAP Governance Board."[^2]
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In June 2026 Loeb gave DefenseScoop a roster of twelve members of a UAP Science Advisory Council that includes Gallaudet (oceanography), Nolan, Skafish, [[Michael Shermer]] and [[Ben Lamm]]. Gallaudet told DefenseScoop that he hoped to apply his ocean-science and government-leadership experience "to help the council most effectively accomplish its mission and support the new UAP Governance Board."[^2] The Sol Foundation described the council in a June 22, 2026 release as announced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence "with the support of the FBI"; Loeb wrote on June 16, 2026 that "I was tasked by the White House, the Pentagon's All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Intelligence Community, to assemble" it. A search of the Federal Register on October 3, 2026 returned no document naming the council, and no ODNI, AARO or White House release establishing it was located.[^11]
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[^8]: House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, joint hearing, November 13, 2024. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-118hhrg57440/html/CHRG-118hhrg57440.htm
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[^9]: The Sol Foundation, home page, "People" section, https://thesolfoundation.org/ , read October 3, 2026.
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[^10]: Anomaly Archives, "Nell, Karl E.," appearances list. https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/nell-karl/
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[^11]: Sol Foundation, release "Sol Foundation Co-Founders Named to UAP Science Advisory Council," June 22, 2026 (modified July 13, 2026), https://thesolfoundation.org/sol-foundation-co-founders-named-to-uap-science-advisory-council/ ; Avi Loeb, "More Details on the UAP Science Advisory Council," Medium (avi-loeb.medium.com), June 16, 2026, read in a Wayback Machine copy; Federal Register search for "UAP Science Advisory Council," https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents.json?conditions%5Bterm%5D=%22UAP+Science+Advisory+Council%22 (count 0 on October 3, 2026).
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[^1]: Newton, Casey. "The withering email that got an ethical AI researcher fired at Google." *Platformer,* December 2020, publishing Gebru's email and Jeff Dean's email to employees in full. https://www.platformer.news/the-withering-email-that-got-an-ethical/
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[^2]: Bender, Emily M., Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?" *Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency,* 2021, pp. 610-623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922 (text not examined).
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[^2]: Bender, Emily M., Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?" *Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency,* 2021, pp. 610-623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922.
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[^3]: Distributed AI Research Institute. Press release, December 2, 2021. https://dair-institute.org/press-release/
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[^4]: Gebru, Timnit, and Émile P. Torres. "The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence." *First Monday* 29, no. 4, April 2024. https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636
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[^1]: Frenkiel, Olenka. "Belgium's silent heart of darkness." *The Observer,* May 5, 2002. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/05/dutroux.featuresreview
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[^2]: Sénat de Belgique. Proposition visant à instituer une commission d'enquête parlementaire chargée d'enquêter sur l'éloignement de deux enquêteurs de la cellule d'enquête bruxelloise « Neufchâteau », déposée par M. Frans Lozie, Doc. 2-563/1, October 9, 2000. The proposal does not name the "so-called protector."
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[^3]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Sole source for the passages so cited. The same book's statement that he died by suicide in 1995 is contradicted by *The Observer*'s 2002 report that he was living on the Belgian-Dutch border, and is not repeated here.
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[^3]: Dovey, S. *Eye of the Chickenhawk.* Thehotstar, 2023. Its statement that he died by suicide in 1995 is contradicted by *The Observer*'s 2002 report that he was living on the Belgian-Dutch border. Sole source for the passages so cited.
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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies.* Dell, 1997.
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[^2]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis.* Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
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[^3]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Research and Development, memorandum ORD-413-73, "Briefing by Stanford Research Institute," January 24, 1973, CIA-RDP96-00787R000400070029-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. "Experiments - Uri Geller at SRI, August 4-11, 1973," CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110003-2, not read.
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[^3]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Research and Development, memorandum ORD-413-73, "Briefing by Stanford Research Institute," January 24, 1973, CIA-RDP96-00787R000400070029-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. "Experiments - Uri Geller at SRI, August 4-11, 1973," CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110003-2.
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[^4]: Targ, Russell. "Experiments: Uri Geller at SRI, August 4-11, 1973," memorandum of August 13, 1973, CIA-RDP96-00787R000700110003-2. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection.
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