George Knapp's four legacy programs
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| Date | 19 December 2022 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Government programs (topic) |
| People | George Knapp, Bob Lazar, David Grusch |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 214 |
| Year | 2022 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2022 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 5 |
According to the testimony, in December 2022 Las Vegas journalist George Knapp said he knew of at least four "legacy programmes" holding recovered UAP material, which whistleblowers were telling Congress about. He did not name them.[1][2]
Knapp
Knapp, an investigative reporter with KLAS-TV's I-Team in Las Vegas and a host of the radio programme Coast to Coast AM, broke the Bob Lazar Area 51 story in 1989. With biochemist Colm Kelleher he wrote Hunt for the Skinwalker (2005), and with Kelleher and DIA scientist James Lacatski Skinwalkers at the Pentagon (2021), about the AAWSAP programme. He co-hosts the Weaponized podcast with filmmaker Jeremy Corbell.[1]
Context
In October 2022 journalist Christopher Sharp of Liberation Times reported that information about alleged retrieval and reverse-engineering programmes had been verified by Congress, quoting Knapp on Coast to Coast AM as saying it was clear "somebody has been sharing information" with lawmakers. The 2023 defence authorization act, passed in December 2022, set up protected channels for reporting such programmes.[2]
Later developments
"Legacy programmes" became a central phrase in David Grusch's 2023 testimony, in which he said the United States had a decades-long crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering programme. In March 2024 the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office reported that it had found no verifiable evidence of such programmes, concluding that the named programmes either did not exist or were misidentified real national-security programmes. Knapp himself testified at a House hearing on UAP in September 2025.[3][4][5]
People and topics
- George Knapp — Las Vegas journalist who broke the Bob Lazar story and co-wrote Skinwalkers at the Pentagon.
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Bob Lazar — Man who claimed in 1989 that he worked on alien craft at S-4 near Area 51.
- Skinwalkers at the Pentagon — A 2021 book about AAWSAP by Lacatski, Kelleher and Knapp.
- Legacy program — A term for alleged long-running secret programs said to hold recovered non-human craft.
- David Grusch — Former intelligence officer who testified in 2023 that the U.S. has recovered non-human craft.
- AARO — The Pentagon office set up in 2022 to investigate UAP.
On the Timeline
- Committees told more than the public (2022) (18 December 2022) — A journalist says certain congressional committees have been told more than the public.
- John Ramirez on a Navy compartment (20 December 2022) — A retired CIA official describes a Navy compartment as sensitive as the Manhattan Project.
See every 2022 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- George Knapp, Wikipedia (disambiguation) · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Christopher Sharp, "Exclusive: more UFO hearings are coming as whistleblowers are called forward and legacy programs are verified by Congress", Liberation Times (Oct 2022) · liberationtimes.squarespace.com · archived copy
- David Grusch UFO whistleblower claims — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- "Pentagon UFO office finds 'no empirical evidence' for alien technology in new report", Space.com (Mar 2024) · space.com · archived copy
- "Military whistleblowers share new evidence at alleged UAP hearing", DefenseScoop (Sep 2025) · defensescoop.com · archived copy
Further reading
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- AARO official site · aaro.mil · 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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