The Red Thread Files
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The Red Thread Files
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Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection

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“Between 2003 and 2005, five UAP incidents occurred at Vandenberg Air Force Base, home to the National Missile Defense Project, a top national security priority”
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“The incursions began on October 14, 2003, when Boeing contractors reported a massive glowing red square silently hovering over two missile defense sites. After several minutes, it drifted further east onto the base and vanished over the hills”
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“a massive triangular craft larger than a football field that hovered silently for about 45 seconds over their entry control point before shooting away at impossible speed”
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“On the evening of February 15, 2023, at approximately 19:15 PST, in the Whiskey 291 warning area off the coast of southern California, I was serving onboard USS Jackson. During that period, I moved between the Interior Communications Center, ICC- 1, and the bridge wing, correlating the sensor picture with visual observations, part of my routine responsibilities for surface and air picture management. What I observed and what our crew recorded was not consistent with conventional aircraft or drones as they appeared on our system. A self-luminous tic-tac-shaped object emerged from the ocean before linking up with three other similar objects. The four then disappeared simultaneously with a high-synchronized, near-instantaneous acceleration”
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“a program called AAWSAP, Advanced Aerospace Weapons Systems Application Program, which is, as far as we know, the largest acknowledged UFO program ever funded by the U.S. Government, which put together an amazing pile of information that members of this Committee and the world, most of which have never seen. The DIA still has not released 95 percent of what was prepared by that program at a cost of millions and millions of dollars”
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“was active, the DIA's contractor, Robert Bigelow of Las Vegas, made a bold attempt to acquire physical proof of UFO crashes. It has been widely reported and suspected that Lockheed Martin is one of the contractors-the defense contractors, that has held this stuff, stored it away in secrecy, and tried to figure out how it works. I have confirmed on the record that Robert Bigelow and a trusted colleague from AAWSAP met with and negotiated with senior executives at Lockheed Martin and hammered out a deal wherein Bigelow's company, BAASS, would receive a quantity of unusual material that had been stashed away and protected at a facility in California. That material was not made here”
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“I saw an approximately 100-foot equilateral triangle take off from near the NASA hangar on the base. The craft interfered with my telephone, did not have any sound, and the material it was made of appeared fluid or dynamic. I was under this triangular craft for a few minutes, and then it rapidly ascended to commercial jet level in seconds, displaying zero kinetic disturbance, sound, or wind displacement”
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“They let me know that they were unable to locate any records, that the records had been destroyed by the Air Force”
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“I gave them to Robert Bigelow and to Jim Lacatski, and they hired a whole team to go through them and retranslate them and analyze it, and they created a structure of how the UFO programs in the USSR and Russia were put together. They said they were real”
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What this document is used for, page by page

Every claim on this map that rests on this document, and every claim tested against it and deliberately not used — in the order you would meet them reading the file itself. Where the check was written down, our wording is followed by the document’s own sentence, so you can hold the two side by side. 29 of 40 name a page.

Printed page 21 claim
Sean KirkpatrickAnna Paulina Luna she called him "a documented liar" in her opening statement as chairwoman
our wording was correctedthe record disagrees with itself
Printed page 41 claim
Jasmine CrockettAnna Paulina Luna ranking member to Luna's chair at the 2025 UAP transparency hearing
Printed page 73 claims
Jeffrey NuccetelliVandenberg UAP Incursions (2003-2005) personally witnessed one of the five and investigated others as they occurred
Vandenberg UAP Incursions (2003-2005)National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) the launches the base was flying at the time were assessed by it as the most important in 25 years, per the same sworn testimony
Printed page 82 claims
Alexandro WigginsUSS Jackson Encounter (2023) stood the watch, correlated the radar picture with the visual, and made the report
USS Jackson Encounter (2023)UAP Transparency & Whistleblower Protection Hearing (2025) described under oath at this hearing, with the ship video played into the record
Printed page 104 claims
Defense Intelligence AgencyJames Lacatski he initiated its AAWSAP program
caveat: scopedour wording was corrected
What this page does not carry. Knapp's testimony says Lacatski 'was the guy who initiated a program called AAWSAP', and calls him its inspiration at turn 171. Initiating a program and running it are different jobs. The witness gives a specific verb twice and it is not the one this link carried. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.reviewed 2026-08-21 · decided by the operator
George KnappBob Lazar reported his Area 51 / S-4 account in 1989
our wording was corrected
James LacatskiAAWSAP initiated it at the Defense Intelligence Agency, per sworn testimony
AAWSAPDefense Intelligence Agency the Defense Intelligence Agency programme under which the work was contracted; 95 percent of what it produced is testified to be unreleased
Printed page 114 claims
Robert BigelowBAASS its owner, described at the 2025 hearing as "the DIA's contractor"
caveat: scopedour wording was corrected
What this page does not carry. Knapp's testimony gives 'Bigelow's company, BAASS', establishing ownership; the NYT of 16 Dec 2017 is also cited. Founding is carried by ordinary usage for a wholly-owned entity. The caution limits only the founding DATE and the corporate filing, both modifiers. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.reviewed 2026-08-21 · decided by the operator
George KnappRobert Bigelow testified he negotiated with Lockheed Martin executives for retrieved material
George KnappBoris Sokolov interviewed him about the Ministry of Defense program he ran
our wording was corrected
BAASSAAWSAP named in sworn testimony as the company of the DIA's contractor while the programme was active
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Dylan BorlandLangley AFB Triangle (2012) stood beneath it; by his own account nobody else saw it
Printed page 261 claim
Vandenberg UAP Incursions (2003-2005)AARO told the witness the Air Force records of these events had been destroyed and could not be located
the record disagrees with itself
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Jeremy CorbellGeorge Knapp frequent UFO-podcast collaborators
Printed page 292 claims
George KnappJames Lacatski testified about his AAWSAP program and its unreleased findings
George KnappJames Lacatski co-wrote two books with him
caveat: scopedour wording was corrected
What this page does not carry. Claim: Knapp co-authored Skinwalkers at the Pentagon with Lacatski. The testimony has him saying he co-wrote two books with Lacatski; only the TITLE comes from elsewhere.reviewed 2026-08-21
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Defense Intelligence AgencyBAASS received George Knapp's Soviet UFO files through it, under the AAWSAP program
our wording was corrected
George KnappAAWSAP gave his Soviet Ministry of Defence material to its principals and testified to what the programme was and what it withheld
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George KnappGlenn Gaffney named him at the Sept 2025 UAP hearing, in answer to a question about whether a UAP classification guide exists
caveat: scopedour wording was correctedthe record disagrees with itself
What this page does not carry. The transcript supports the naming exactly: at turn 300 Knapp answers Rep. Begich's question about who holds UAP classification authority with 'Glenn Gaffney, CIA.' The alleged blocked transfer is nowhere in the transcript, so the motive clause is dropped. The reworded claim is both sourced and more informative than the original. Operator decision, 2026-08-21.reviewed 2026-08-21 · decided by the operator
George KnappJames T. Ryder named him in oral testimony at the Sept 2025 House UAP hearing, in answer to a question asking for specific individuals
our wording was corrected
James T. RyderUAP Transparency & Whistleblower Protection Hearing (2025) named in oral testimony at this hearing by George Knapp, in answer to a question asking for specific individuals
our wording was corrected
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Mikhail GorbachevRonald Reagan both are recorded as having traded public statements about an outside threat, per testimony at the 2025 hearing
our wording was corrected
Printed page 461 claim
George KnappBoris Sokolov testified that Sokolov described 40 incidents in which Russian warplanes were sent to intercept UFOs and were ordered to fire on them
caveat: scoped
What this page does not carry. Claim: Knapp interviewed Sokolov in Moscow and Sokolov described intercepts. Both are in the testimony. The caution corrects a NUMBER (40, not 45) that appears in secondary accounts, not in our claim.reviewed 2026-08-21
No page named11 claims — the document is named, the page is not
David GruschDylan Borland both testified before House Oversight, at separate hearings - Grusch 26 July 2023, Borland 9 September 2025
our wording was corrected
Luis ElizondoDylan Borland both testified before House Oversight, at separate hearings - Elizondo 13 November 2024, Borland 9 September 2025
our wording was corrected
Anna Paulina LunaDylan Borland questioned in hearing
Eric BurlisonTim Burchett task force allies
Eric BurlisonAnna Paulina Luna task force allies