Document · 13 November 2024
Michael Shellenberger written testimony + appendices
The journalist Michael Shellenberger's 212-page written testimony for the House Oversight hearing of 13 November 2024, with appendices. Its argument is about oversight: the law requires that special access programmes and intelligence compartments be reported to Congress, including the "Gang of Eight", but he argues that for UAP this is not happening, partly through a White House loophole for waived programmes that are not covert action.
The appendices reproduce the "Immaculate Constellation" whistleblower report, which alleges an unacknowledged programme collecting and controlling UAP imagery, and a long chronology of UAP-related government documents and events. The chronology mixes primary documents, such as the Twining and Bolender memos, with disputed material derived from MJ-12, so individual items should be traced to their originals.
The Department of Defense said it has no record of a programme called Immaculate Constellation.
Sources: Shellenberger written testimony (2024)
Facts and claims
- documented 212 pages: written testimony plus appendices, including the Immaculate Constellation report and a long chronology. The chronology mixes primary documents (such as the Twining and Bolender memos) with disputed material such as MJ-12-derived sources, so individual items should be traced to their originals. Source: doc-shellenberger-testimony.pdf
Key moments: Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth
- 56:33 Michael Shellenberger: Shellenberger: the whistleblower report says Immaculate Constellation is a parent USAP consolidating UAP imagery and signature intelligence from tasked and untasked platforms; cases include orbs forcing an F-22 out of its patrol area.
- 57:46 Michael Shellenberger: Shellenberger: a second source described a 13-minute HD video, found on SIPRNet, of a white orb coming out of the ocean about 20 miles off Kuwait, joined by a second orb.
- 1:21:56 Michael Shellenberger: Asked for evidence for Immaculate Constellation, Shellenberger says the report described cases new to him, so it was not circular reporting, and that more than one other source confirmed the program's name.
- 1:34:09 Michael Shellenberger: Shellenberger: after publishing he was told, by a single source he could not confirm, that the USAP is managed by the Department of Defense but held at the White House.
Connected files
Documents
- Bolender memo (cites)
People
- Michael Shellenberger (authored by)
- Leonard Stringfield (cites)
Hearings & briefings
- Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth (submitted to)
Mentioned in this file
- House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (Organization)
- Waived SAP (Concept)
- Immaculate Constellation (Program)
- Unacknowledged: An Exposé of the World's Greatest Secret (Book)
- Nathan F. Twining (Person)
- FBI file: Majestic 12 (Document)
- Department of War (Department of Defense) (Organization)
More documents
- The United States Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community Are Withholding Information About Anomalous Phenomena From Congress
- Hearing transcript: “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth”
- David Grusch — written opening statement, House Oversight hearing (July 26, 2023)
- David Fravor — written statement, House Oversight hearing (July 26, 2023)
- House Oversight Task Force letter requesting UAP videos from the Department of War (31 March 2026)
- George Knapp, written testimony to the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, 9 September 2025