Daniel Sheehan on post-war control of UAP information
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| Date | October 2021 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Luis Elizondo, Daniel Sheehan |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 203 |
| Year | 2021 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2021 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 10 |
Daniel Sheehan, a constitutional and public-interest lawyer, said in 2021 interviews that information about UFOs had been controlled by a narrow group since the end of the Second World War, and that alien technology recovered at Roswell in 1947 had been monopolised for Cold War advantage.[1][2]
Background
Sheehan was born in 1945 in Glens Falls, New York, and graduated from Harvard College (1967) and Harvard Law School (1970). He worked on cases including the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate break-in, Karen Silkwood and the La Penca bombing, and founded the Christic Institute and the Romero Institute. In 1986 the Christic Institute brought a conspiracy suit on behalf of journalists Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey; it was dismissed in 1988 and the institute was ordered to pay substantial costs.[1]
UFO work
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Sheehan has acted as counsel to Harvard psychiatrist John Mack and to Steven Greer's Disclosure Project. In 2021 he represented Luis Elizondo, former head of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, in a dispute with the Department of Defense. In May 2021 Politico reported Elizondo's 64-page complaint to the Pentagon inspector general accusing officials of a campaign to discredit him, and quoted Sheehan on its effects.[1][3]
The 2021 account
In an August 2021 interview summarised by Gaia, Sheehan described roughly 30 wealthy families that, in his telling, had consolidated power after the Civil War and by 1947 controlled the military-industrial complex. He said that when technology from the Roswell crash was studied, this group kept it to itself to benefit the United States and its allies in the Cold War, a strategy he said lasted until the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. He also said officials had switched from "UFO" to "UAP" to shed the old term's baggage.[2]
Assessment
Sheehan offered no documents for these claims, which draw on his own experience and on what he says sources told him.[2]
People and topics
- Luis Elizondo — Former Army counterintelligence officer who says he ran AATIP.
- Daniel Sheehan — Constitutional lawyer who said he saw classified Blue Book photos and later represented Luis Elizondo.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Project Blue Book — The Air Force's public UFO investigation from 1952 until its closure in December 1969.
On the Timeline
- Elizondo on unfair corporate advantage (21 October 2021) — Elizondo says alien technology could give one company an unfair advantage over another.
- Eric Haseltine on UAP-like weapons (29 November 2021) — A former NSA officer says the U.S. lacks weapons that could create UAP-like effects.
See every 2021 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- Daniel Sheehan (attorney) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Constitutional attorney explains history of government UFO secrecy", Gaia (Aug 2021) · gaia.com · archived copy
- Luis Elizondo — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Daniel Sheehan talks to Politico about Elizondo (2021) · cryptoscatology.blogspot.com · archived copy
- The fight for UFO truth: Danny Sheehan — California Insider · californiainsider.com · archived copy
- Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Documents on the vetting of 'Skinwalkers at the Pentagon' — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: book review — Bad UFOs (Robert Sheaffer) · badufos.blogspot.com · archived copy
- AARO historical report finds no evidence of alien technology (2024) — Space.com · space.com · archived copy
- AARO Report on the Historical Record, Volume I — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Hangar 18 (the legend and 1980 film) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Skunk Works — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Harry S. Truman — 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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