Person
Dylan Borland
Also known as Borland
- Former U.S. Air Force geospatial intelligence specialist (2010–2013)
- Former defense-contractor and counter-WMD analyst (BAE Systems, DTRA)
Dylan Borland is a former U.S. Air Force geospatial intelligence specialist and one of three witnesses at the House Oversight task force's whistleblower hearing on September 9, 2025. He served from 2010 to 2013 as an imagery analyst supporting special-operations ISR, was medically discharged, and then worked for BAE Systems and as a counter-WMD analyst at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
In summer 2012, at about 1:30 a.m. at Langley Air Force Base, he says he saw a light rise near the NASA hangar and become a silent equilateral triangle 100 to 150 feet across. It stopped about 100 feet from him while his phone froze and the air smelled of a lightning storm, then climbed to airliner altitude in seconds. Years later, at BAE, he says colleagues assumed he was read into a program because of his sighting, and that this exposed him to a legacy crash-retrieval program. He filed with the Intelligence Community Inspector General and AARO in 2023, and says the complaint was found "credible, not urgent".
Under oath he said he has direct knowledge of craft "that are not ours", while declining to say in public whether the Langley triangle was American. He describes years of reprisals, from losing his clearance to a disputed AARO memorandum, and says his VA treatment and a car crash were part of the pattern. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna has sought immunity so he can testify fully in a SCIF. His account rests on his own testimony. Kirk McConnell, who championed other witnesses, thinks the base triangles are probably U.S. aircraft.
Sources: September 9, 2025 hearing (transcript and video) · American Alchemy interview · Disclosure Forum 2026
Facts and claims
- claimed Described a 2012 encounter at Langley AFB: a silent, 100-foot-wide triangular craft with a “fluid or dynamic” structure hovered about 100 feet up, and his cell phone froze. — Dylan Borland Source: Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection at 55:03
- claimed He says he enlisted as an Air Force imagery analyst from 2010 to 2013, supporting manned and unmanned ISR for special operations, and was medically discharged in 2013; he later worked at BAE Systems (2015–2018) and as a counter-WMD analyst at DTRA. — Dylan Borland Source: “A Top Government Official Told Me Aliens Run Everything!” -Dylan Borland UNLEASHED at 18:45
- documented Under oath he said he is a whistleblower to the Intelligence Community Inspector General and AARO with “direct firsthand knowledge of and experience with craft and technologies that are not ours”, and that he was later “exposed to classified information from the UAP legacy crash retrieval program” through a position in a special access program. — Dylan Borland Source: Hearing transcript: Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection (Sept 9, 2025)
- claimed He says that at BAE Systems people in a program heard him describe the triangle, assumed he was read in, and that is how he learned of a specific program with access to a historical backlog. — Dylan Borland Source: “A Top Government Official Told Me Aliens Run Everything!” -Dylan Borland UNLEASHED at 58:30
- documented Asked by Rep. Nancy Mace whether the Langley triangle was U.S. technology, he said the answer had to be given in a SCIF and that AARO “have the answer”; asked if it was a foreign government's, he said “I do not, no.” — Dylan Borland Source: Hearing transcript: Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection (Sept 9, 2025)
- documented He testified that, to the best of his understanding, the Inspector General found his complaint “credible, not urgent”, and that since then he has been blacklisted from intelligence agencies and was asked about the complaint in a counterintelligence polygraph as recently as November 2024. — Dylan Borland Source: Hearing transcript: Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection (Sept 9, 2025)
- claimed He says AARO's memorandum for the record of his interview contained inserted details it acknowledged as errors, yet the uncorrected version later reached the ODNI, and that his two drawings were classified under a security classification guide. — Dylan Borland Source: “A Top Government Official Told Me Aliens Run Everything!” -Dylan Borland UNLEASHED at 1:58:03
- claimed He says he is sure the U.S. has recovered craft “not made by humanity”, while stressing he has never claimed they are extraterrestrial, and believes the program has a genetics component consistent with Grusch's “biologics”. — Dylan Borland Source: “A Top Government Official Told Me Aliens Run Everything!” -Dylan Borland UNLEASHED at 52:08
- claimed Former Senate staffer Kirk McConnell says he thinks the black triangles seen near bases are “probably ours”, citing accounts from Eglin and Langley including Borland's sighting. — Kirk McConnell Source: UAP & National Security: Mellon, Gallaudet, von Rennenkampff & McConnell at Disclosure Forum 2026 at 7:24
Connected files
Books
- Inside the U.S. Government Covert UFO Program: New Insights (statement about)
Claims
People
- Bob Lazar (statement about)
- Kirk McConnell (doubted by) — McConnell thinks the base triangles, including Borland's sighting, are “probably ours”
- Glenn Gaffney (statement about)
- Jeremy Corbell (disputes) — Corbell relayed an unnamed ODNI official's claim about Borland's testimony, which Borland disputes
- Jon T. Kosloski (statement about)
- Nancy Mace (questioned by) — She asked him whether the Langley triangle was U.S. technology; he said the answer had to be given in a SCIF
Places
- Langley Air Force Base (witness at) — In 2012 he says he saw a silent triangle 100 to 150 feet across rise near the NASA hangar
Hearings & briefings
Incidents
- Langley AFB triangle (witness)
Concepts
- Crash retrieval & reverse engineering (claims about) — He says he was “exposed to classified information from the UAP legacy crash retrieval program”
Programs
- All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (filed with) — He filed with the ICIG and AARO in 2023, and counts a disputed AARO memorandum among the reprisals he describes
- Legacy program (statement about)
Organizations
- Intelligence Community Inspector General (filed with) — He filed with the ICIG and AARO in 2023; he says the complaint was found “credible, not urgent”
Videos
- Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection (discussed in)
- UAP & National Security: Mellon, Gallaudet, von Rennenkampff & McConnell at Disclosure Forum 2026 (discussed in)
- “A Top Government Official Told Me Aliens Run Everything!” -Dylan Borland UNLEASHED (appears in)
Mentioned in videos
- Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection
- “This is UFO disclosure, as far as it can go”: James Lacatski on Future Visions (WEAPONIZED, April 2026)