Video · 21 November 2025
James Clapper on the Air Force's program to track anomalous activity (The Age of Disclosure, clip)
Alieninfoo · 21 November 2025 · 1 min · Watch the original
A 30-second clip from The Age of Disclosure (2025) in which James Clapper, later Director of National Intelligence, says that during his Air Force career there was an active program to track unexplained activity, much of it around the test ranges in the West such as Area 51. Christopher Mellon has described hearing Clapper tell a similar story on the documentary's set.
Uploaded by a third party (Alieninfoo); auto-captions.
Key moments
- 0:03 James Clapper: Clapper: 32 years in the Air Force, his last job “chief air force intelligence” before he became director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
- 0:08 James Clapper: “When I served in the air force uh there was an active program to uh track anomalous uh activities that uh you know we couldn't otherwise explain. Many of them connected with uh ranges out west notably um Area 51.”
Transcript
From automatic captions; names and terms may be misspelled. Check the original video before quoting.
0:00 about 32 years and my last job in the air force was chief air force intelligence prior to becoming director of the defense intelligence agency. When I served in the air force uh there was an active program to uh track anomalous uh activities that uh you know we couldn't otherwise explain. Many of them connected with uh ranges out west notably um Area 51.
Connected files
People
- James Clapper (features)
Documentaries
- The Age of Disclosure (about) — A clip from the documentary, uploaded by a third party
Places
- Area 51 (discusses)
More videos
- Eric Davis: George H.W. Bush told him of crash retrievals and the Holloman landing (The Age of Disclosure, clip)
- Richard Doty on disinformation, Paul Bennewitz and Linda Moulton Howe (Rebelliously Curious with Chrissy Newton, The Debrief, February 2025)
- Rick Doty with George Knapp, part 4: the Bennewitz case and Area 51 (Mystery Wire, 2019 interview)
- Jay Stratton on CUOMO: a non-human being at his window and the Legacy Program (NewsNation, 20 October 2026)
- Test Pilot Watched a 300-Foot Black Triangle Blot Out the Stars Over Edwards | Dan Isbell Part 2
- Air Force Test Pilot Saw a Silent Triangular Craft Over an English Golf Course | Dan Isbell Part I