Three prominent UAP whistleblowers are asking President Donald Trump to release them from secrecy obligations they say prevent them from publicly discussing classified information — a request that goes beyond the Pentagon’s new PURSUE disclosure channel.
Three prominent figures in the UAP disclosure movement are asking President Donald Trump to release them from secrecy obligations they say prevent them from publicly discussing classified information about unidentified anomalous phenomena.
Former intelligence officer David Grusch, former Air Force geospatial intelligence specialist Dylan Borland and former national security official Matthew Brown have joined in the public appeal, the New York Post reported Sept. 19, 2026. Filmmaker James Fox is supporting the effort, and Republican Reps. Eric Burlison of Missouri and Anna Paulina Luna of Florida expressed support for greater disclosure in comments to the newspaper.
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The request comes days after the Pentagon announced a targeted legal waiver connected to the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, or PURSUE.
According to a Sept. 14, 2026, Pentagon statement, current and former Defense Department personnel and contractors may provide UAP-related National Defense Information to designated PURSUE representatives. The waiver supersedes certain civil and administrative provisions of nondisclosure and Special Access Program agreements — but only for communications directed to PURSUE.
It does not authorize those individuals to disclose classified information publicly.
That distinction is now at the center of the whistleblowers’ request.
Each man has previously made significant UAP allegations, but their extraordinary claims remain unverified.
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Grusch testified before Congress in 2023 that he had been informed of a secret UAP crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering program. Asked about alleged recovered biologics, he said people with direct knowledge had assessed them as “nonhuman.” Grusch did not claim firsthand knowledge of those alleged recoveries.
Borland testified before a House task force in September 2025 that he witnessed an approximately 100-foot triangular object near a NASA hangar at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia in 2012. His account remains an allegation; no publicly released evidence has independently established the object’s origin.
Brown publicly identified himself in 2025 as the author of a report alleging the existence of a secret UAP program called “Immaculate Constellation.” A report bearing that name was entered into the record of a 2024 House UAP hearing. The Pentagon has said it has no record of a Special Access Program by that name.
The new appeal therefore raises a narrower question than whether the whistleblowers’ underlying claims are true: Will the administration extend its UAP disclosure initiative beyond protected government channels and authorize these individuals to tell the public what they say they know?
For now, PURSUE provides a route into the government. Grusch, Borland and Brown are asking for a route beyond it.
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