Will Miller on senior officials kept in the dark
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Contents 4
| Date | 2000 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | Will Miller, Peter Gersten, Leslie Kean, Luis Elizondo, David Grusch |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 142 |
| Year | 2000 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2000 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 3 |
Will Miller on senior officials kept in the dark — A retired Navy commander says senior officials are kept away from UAP knowledge.
Will Miller was a retired Navy commander who had held a Top Secret clearance and became involved in UFO research. According to the testimony, he told lawyer Peter Gersten that senior officials, such as a director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, were deliberately kept out of the loop on UFO knowledge, and that the real "keepers of the secrets" were mid-level Defense Department officials and contractors.
Miller also spoke to journalist Leslie Kean, who wrote about UFO secrecy in The Boston Globe in 2000. His view mirrors a long-running theme: that secret programs might be compartmented so tightly that even senior officials are unaware of them.
That idea later featured prominently in the 2020s, when officials like former Pentagon intelligence official Luis Elizondo and whistleblower David Grusch said programs were hidden from Congress and senior leaders. Miller's specific claims aren't documented.
People and topics
- U.S. Navy — The U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Will Miller — Retired Navy commander who discussed UFO secrecy with researchers.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Peter Gersten — Lawyer who directed Citizens Against UFO Secrecy and sued federal agencies for UFO records.
- Defense Intelligence Agency — The Pentagon's military intelligence agency, which ran AAWSAP.
- Leslie Kean — Journalist who co-wrote the 2017 New York Times story on AATIP.
- Luis Elizondo — Former Army counterintelligence officer who says he ran AATIP.
- David Grusch — Former intelligence officer who testified in 2023 that the U.S. has recovered non-human craft.
On the Timeline
- Puthoff–Green emails on a pseudonymous article (31 July 1999) — Puthoff emails Kit Green about a UFO magazine story.
- Proposal for a new Project Blue Book (2000) (24 January 2000) — Bigelow tells Vallée of an idea to push Congress for a new Project Blue Book.
See every 2000 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Insiders and their knowledge (on Cdr. Will Miller) — UFOs Scientific Research · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · archived copy
- Peter Gersten — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- books.google.com · books.google.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Skunk Works — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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