In a new interview with podcaster Stephen Diener on 8 July 2025, Representative Burlison said that many Special Access Programs (SAPs) relating to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) “operate directly under the supervision of the White House.”
Sources tell Liberation Times that the drive for secrecy starts inside the White House itself, pushed by career officials who span administrations and work in two offices so sensitive their names cannot be disclosed publicly.
According to those sources, UAP missions are acknowledged at the highest levels of the White House but remain hidden from most Cabinet agencies behind elaborate cover programs.
If true, the claim suggests UAP missions are far more centralised – and politically sensitive – than previously reported.
One defense source pointed to Dan Sherman’s book ‘Above Black: Project Preserve Destiny’ as a useful primer on how such compartmentalisation works.
His description of layered secrecy mirrors today’s system, according to the source.
The six layers of secrecy are said to be as follows:
- Public layer (Unclassified) – Information released to the public, which may or may not reveal an organisation’s true purpose
- Controlled layer (For Official Use Only) – Unclassified data restricted to prevent outsiders from piecing together a sensitive picture
- Secret – Material whose unauthorised disclosure could seriously harm national security
- Top Secret + code-word compartments – Highly sensitive operations organised under code names
- Black missions – Conventional clandestine projects and missions, such as CIA–JSOC efforts to recover foreign hardware. Knowledge is limited to the President and a handful of lawmakers (the “Gang of Eight”)
- Programs-within-programs – Genuine UAP activities concealed inside black missions and projects. Even presidents can be kept at arm’s length; probing questions are often deflected with a limited briefing on the outer mission or project.
What has been alleged by whistleblowers, such as former senior intelligence official David Grusch, resembles Sherman’s description.
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