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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/DeclassifyUAP on 2025-11-12 17:50:46+00:00.
Original Title: I recently asked former CIA Director John Brennan about UAP and his previous statement on them potentially being another form of life, and whether he was privy to intelligence assessments stating that this is a possibility
People may remember the event that George Mason University Schar School’s Hayden Center did on UAP a couple years back, featuring Sean Kirkpatrick. They hold events fairly regularly that include high-level defense and intelligence officials, and I was able to attend the recent one that had John Brennan, former Director of the CIA (March 2013 to January 2017). Former DNI James Clapper was also supposed to be there, but he wasn’t able to attend. General Hayden (the center’s namesake) was on the panel — he ran both CIA and NSA at points.
Brennan had made a statement in 2020 on this podcast about UAP, which was quite interesting to me: https://youtu.be/LdQ7L0ugZJc?t=403
In that clip, he muses that some "people” might consider UAP to be indications of some other form of life that we’re encountering.
I decided to follow up on that with my question, and his response expanded, in my view, his original statement. He indicated to me and the audience that in fact he is open to the possibility that some UAP may indicate another form of life. I personally think that’s a pretty significant acknowledgement, considering he ran the CIA. He’s not some “whistleblower."
I don’t feel he really answered my question on intelligence assessments clearly, although he did appear to say that they leave open the possibility that some UAP incidents may be indicative of NHI/other forms of life present in our environment.
I believe the US government should issue a report to the public acknowledging what their intelligence assessments about UAP include as possibilities for the real outlier cases. This report could be analogous to ODNI’s Covid Origin report, which acknowledged that some agencies had indeed assessed lab leak as a possibility for the genesis of the Covid outbreak in Wuhan, China.
Here’s that ODNI Covid Origin report: https://www.intelligence.gov/publics-daily-brief/publics-daily-brief-articles/odni-releases-declassified-assessment-on-covid-19-origins
I think it’s likely multiple assessments have been generated over the decades by a number of US Federal agencies, and they probably include various possibilities for what’s behind truly-outlier UAP. These may be low confidence, and might well include NHI or the technosignature thereof as an explicitly listed possibility. A frank acknowledgement of this assessment would be the next big step in “disclosure,” as far as I'm concerned.
US voters, consider taking about 30 seconds to let your elected officials know that you support government UAP transparency and declassification efforts. I made it very easy to do this, via my website:
http://declassifyuap.org/action