Constitutional attorney, public speaker, and political activist Daniel Sheehan claims he has seen classified evidence within Project Blue Book that contradicts a recent report presented by AARO, the Pentagon’s UFO office.
Daniel Sheehan Says He Saw UFO Photographs
On March 8, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released a 63-page public report covering more than 70 years of U.S. history related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). The report concluded that there is no evidence of extraterrestrial technology on Earth and that no spacecraft of non-human origin has been recovered.
The report immediately sparked reactions from lawmakers, former officials, whistleblowers, and investigators who, in recent years, have pushed for declassification efforts, challenging what they describe as a reluctant intelligence community that has so far succeeded in maintaining secrecy.
One of the latest responses came from Dr. Daniel Sheehan, who has been involved in numerous public interest cases, including the Pentagon Papers case, the Watergate break-in case, the Silkwood case, the Greensboro massacre case, and the La Penca bombing case, among others. More recently, he represented former intelligence official Lue Elizondo, one of the key figures who brought attention to UAP disclosures.
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“I am taking the extraordinary step of notifying the public and the media that I know Dr. Kirkpatrick and his associates at AARO are deliberately lying when they falsely claim they have not been provided with any substantive evidence of the existence of a secret U.S. government program to recover crashed UFOs,” Sheehan wrote on his X account.
“Because I personally provided Dr. Kirkpatrick, under oath, with the fact that I was granted access to still-classified Project Blue Book files concerning more than 700 UFO sightings that could not reasonably be explained as any natural phenomenon and were simply mislabeled as UFOs,” he continued.
“At that facility (the National Archives), our government representative showed me several official photographs of an ongoing recovery operation of a UFO craft,” he added.
In a subsequent interview with investigative journalist Ross Coulthart, the attorney clarified that the event during which he was granted identification and access to view the photographs took place in the spring of 1977, early in President Jimmy Carter’s term.
Regarding what the images showed, he described a flying saucer approximately 15 meters in length that had crashed into snow, surrounded by soldiers wearing heavy coats—possibly resembling the Soviet Sverdlovsk incident.
Sheehan further clarified that although the photographs were black and white, a large indentation in the ground caused by the object’s impact was clearly visible. The object reportedly bore strange symbols engraved on its surface, which he said he could not identify as belonging to any known language on Earth.