John Ramirez finds no CIA program (2022)
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| Date | 30 January 2022 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Beings & bodies (topic), Nuclear & missile sites (topic), Government programs (topic) |
| People | John Ramirez, John B. Alexander |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 204 |
| Year | 2022 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2022 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 9 |
John Ramirez, a retired CIA analyst, said in a January 2022 interview with George Knapp on Coast to Coast AM that in a 25-year career he never found a formal CIA program studying UAP, although he met many colleagues interested in the subject. In the same interview he described personal encounters with non-human beings.[1][2]
Career
Ramirez served in the Navy as an electronic warfare technician before joining the CIA on 18 June 1984. Until 2009 he worked in the Directorate of Science and Technology, the Directorate of Intelligence and the National Counterproliferation Center, specialising in ballistic missile defence and radar signals analysis; he analysed a large Russian phased-array radar and served as chief of an overseas technical collection base and of an electronic intelligence analysis branch.[1][2]
No program
Ramirez said there was "no CIA office door" marked UFOs and no formal internal briefings on the subject. He pointed to CIA historian Gerald Haines's 1997 study as showing that some part of the agency had always been interested, and said the life-sciences area, which also looked at remote viewing and the paranormal, was most interested. He said he attended UFO conferences as a private citizen after informing the agency.[1][3]
Other claims
In the same interview Ramirez repeated reports that Soviet radars had detected unusual craft, discussed the 1977 Petrozavodsk case and the 1967 Malmstrom missile incident, and said he had seen "reptilian" and "mantis" beings. In later years he appeared on podcasts discussing predictions of an alien-related event in 2027. These claims are unverified.[1][2]
Significance
His statement that he found no formal program is notable because it comes from an insider interested in the subject, similar to the view of Col. John Alexander about the 1980s.[1][4]
People and topics
- Central Intelligence Agency — The U.S. foreign intelligence agency, which has followed UFO reports since the 1940s.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- John Ramirez — Former CIA officer who has spoken about UAP.
- Non-human intelligence — A term for intelligent beings of non-human origin, used in UAP legislation.
- John B. Alexander — Retired Army colonel who organized the 1985 Advanced Theoretical Physics group and wrote UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies and Realities.
On the Timeline
- Energy Department custody claim (2022) (13 January 2022) — Coulthart says non-human material was held by the Energy Department before moving to industry.
- Puthoff on withheld materials science (11 February 2022) — Puthoff says private companies withhold materials science information.
See every 2022 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- "John Ramirez interviewed by George Knapp", UFOs Scientific Research (Feb 2022) · ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com · archived copy
- "Ramirez, John", Anomaly Archives · anomalyarchives.org · archived copy
- Gerald K. Haines, "CIA's role in the study of UFOs, 1947–90", Studies in Intelligence (1997) · cia.gov · archived copy
- John B. Alexander — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- The many experiences of John Ramirez — The Other Topic · theothertopic.substack.com · archived copy
- Kit Green — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Garry Nolan on UFO materials and Kit Green's patient studies (Vice interview) · exo.substack.com · archived copy
- Kit Green in Vallée's journals — Forbidden Science Dispatches · tannerfboyle.substack.com · archived copy
- coasttocoastam.com · coasttocoastam.com · archived copy
Further reading
- UFO documents — CIA Reading Room · cia.gov · 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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