Pentagon creates legal waiver allowing personnel sworn to UFO secrecy to come forward
The Pentagon is now allowing current and former personnel sworn to secrecy about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) activity to legally share that information with the government.A legal waiver has been created and this will allow past and present service members, civilians and contractors to provide UAP-related National Defense Information to official representatives of PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters, the Trump administration’s UAP task force, the Department of War said Monday.The waiver overrides any existing non-disclosure agreements or Special Access Program Indoctrination Agreements when the information is provided through the authorized PURSUE channel.The move aims to create a pathway to review and potentially declassify UAP-related documents — directly aligning with President Trump’s mandate for comprehensive transparency on UAPs.It expands on a July directive in which the Trump administration ordered the Department of War and the intelligence community to permit former employees with UAP knowledge to come forward to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) or PURSUE.Before Monday’s announcement, anyone with access to classified UAP information remained bound by those same NDAs and Special Access Program Indoctrination Agreements — known as SAPIAs.For decades, fear of legal liability and losing their security clearance kept those with UAP knowledge silent — until now.Under the new waiver, those who come forward to PURSUE cannot be punished, stripped of their clearance or face legal or administrative penalties for breaking their NDAs.“This waiver removes those barriers by explicitly authorizing covered disclosures to PURSUE representatives without triggering breach-of-agreement penalties or standard NDA violations,” the Department of War said.Trump has said repeatedly that he is skeptical about the existence of alien life, but mandated transparency about UFOs after former President Barac...