Organization
Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)
- On the record: PJ protects Air Force SAPs and lists 'recover' in its mission; FBI 'Guardian Angel' agents are read in; Terry Phillips ran it to 2021.
- The claims: Gerb's sources say PJ enforces legacy secrecy; Doty's Kirtland role shows AFOSI used disinformation.
The Air Force's criminal-investigation and counterintelligence agency, founded in 1948. Its Office of Special Projects (PJ) secures Air Force special access programs and has the stated mission to 'secure, recover, and protect' sensitive technologies, with offices at Palmdale, El Segundo, Wright-Patterson and Kirtland. In UFO history it is the agency of Richard Doty and the 1980 Kirtland disinformation affair. UAP Gerb's sources call PJ the legacy program's enforcement arm, under its former executive director Terry Phillips, now Northrop Grumman's security chief.
Claims (7)
Founded in 1948 under Gen. Vandenberg; about 2,600 staff. Region 7 provides counterintelligence and security for SAF special access programs, and the Office of Special Projects (PJ) has the mission to 'secure, recover, and protect' sensitive technologies at 31 acknowledged locations, among them the Pentagon, Crystal City, Hanscom, Palmdale, El Segundo, Wright-Patterson, Las Vegas, Kirtland and Dahlgren.The Hidden Wing - US Air Force UFO Reverse Engineering ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordAFOSI fact sheets (cited by UAP Gerb)
Since late 1979 a 'Guardian Angel' cadre of about eight FBI agents in Los Angeles and at headquarters has been briefed into Air Force SAPs.The Hidden Wing - US Air Force UFO Reverse Engineering ProgramsfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedFBI/AFOSI history (cited by UAP Gerb)
Terry Phillips was Air Force SAP security director and PJ executive director (Dec 2016-Dec 2021), the first PJ executive director at SES level, before Leidos and Northrop Grumman.The Hidden Wing - US Air Force UFO Reverse Engineering ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordpublic bio; OSI Today podcast (cited by UAP Gerb)
A FOIA'd Army counterintelligence reply says the records of the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit went to AFOSI with Blue Book when the unit was disbanded in the late 1950s.RoswellThe 'Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit' report (22 July 1947)The Manhattan Project 2.0 - the Secrecy of UFO Crash Retrieval Programs [VOL.1]firsthandSourced, unconfirmedArmy CI FOIA reply (cited by UAP Gerb)
AFOSI agent Richard Doty ran UFO disinformation at Kirtland in 1980 and says he was read into the 'Yankee Black' SAP in 1979.firsthandSourced, unconfirmedRichard Doty
PJ is the legacy program's enforcement arm: Phillips and his successor Lee M. Russ are 'attack dogs', and reprisals against Grusch and Borland may have come from PJ.anonymousLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
AFOSI was formed in 1948 partly to protect Roswell-era recoveries, and Doty's stories are disinformation to shield that work.The Hidden Wing - US Air Force UFO Reverse Engineering ProgramsspeculationLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
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Connected
Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) orgDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) orgDOE Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI) orgKirtland Air Force Base orgThe MITRE Corporation orgAir Force Plant 42 (Palmdale) orgUnited States Air Force orgRichard Doty personTerry Phillips personUAP Gerb (Sam) personCrystal City, Virginia placeAFOSI report on MSgt Ralph Brown's saucer story (27 April 1953) documentDoD Inspector General UAP evaluation files (FOIA, 2025) documentThe 'Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit' report (22 July 1947) document
Sources
- UAP Gerb: The Hidden Wing, US Air Force UFO reverse engineering programs
- UAP Gerb: Special Access Required, Vol. 2
- UAP Gerb: The Manhattan Project 2.0, Vol. 1
- UAP Gerb: the MITRE Corporation
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- UAP Gerb: Deep Underground Military Bases (D.U.M.Bs.) - UFO Legacy Programs
- UAP Gerb: The Hidden Wing - US Air Force UFO Reverse Engineering Programs
- UAP Gerb: The Manhattan Project 2.0 - the Secrecy of UFO Crash Retrieval Programs [VOL.1]
- UAP Gerb: Northrop Grumman & TRW - UFO Reverse Engineering, Material Exploitation, & Legacy Programs [Vol.2]
- UAP Gerb: Special Access Required - the Secrecy of UFO Crash Retrieval Programs [VOL.2]