Journalist or investigator

Daniel Sheehan

1994-01-01year known, day not recorded

Harvard-trained constitutional lawyer famous for the Pentagon Papers, Karen Silkwood, and Iran-Contra cases. Served as legal counsel for Harvard psychiatrist John Mack's academic-freedom case and for Steven Greer's Disclosure Project witnesses at the 2001 National Press Club event. Founded the New Paradigm Institute in 2023 to advocate for UAP disclosure. Says that as special counsel to a 1977 Congressional Research Service UFO study requested by President Carter, he personally viewed classified Project Blue Book files at the National Archives, including what he describes as crash-retrieval photographs; this account is his own and is otherwise uncorroborated.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "uap", "ufo", "crash-retriev", "blue book". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

None of this entity's 8 connections has a source you can open. 2 carry no citation at all.

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← Paul Hellyer names a source we do not hold

fellow speaker at the 2013 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure

2013 Citizen Hearing on Disclosure (National Press Club)
← Steven Greer names a source we do not hold

his group's legal counsel at the 2001 press event

Steven Greer Disclosure Project / CSETI events
→ Jimmy Carter names a source we do not hold

served as special counsel to Carter's 1977 congressional UFO study

Official government / corporate service records
→ Project Blue Book names a source we do not hold

says he personally viewed its classified files at the National Archives in 1977

USAF Project Blue Book records; Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956)
→ John Mack names a source we do not hold

his legal counsel in Harvard's academic-freedom inquiry

Harvard inquiry records, 1994-95
→ New Paradigm Institute names a source we do not hold

founded it in 2023

New Paradigm Institute - Sheehan bio
→ George H.W. Bush nothing behind it

claimed as CIA Director he withheld UFO archive access
→ Mikhail Gorbachev nothing behind it

directed the New Paradigm Project at his State of the World Forum