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National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
  • On the record: Sentient flagged a Tic Tac-like object in 2021; the NRO advised the UAP Task Force; Grusch was its Task Force liaison.
  • The claims: anonymous retrieval witnesses and Gerb's model place it among the legacy program's administrators.

The US agency that builds and runs spy satellites, founded in 1961 and acknowledged only in 1992. An NRO document shows its Sentient system flagged a Tic Tac-shaped object in 2021, and it consulted the UAP Task Force. UAP Gerb places it at the administrator level of the legacy program, and an anonymous retrieval-team witness says his briefings carried NRO headers.

On the record

  • The 1995 carry-over funds scandal ($1.7 billion to $3.7 billion).

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'Recent Sentient Highlights' (data 6 May 2021, released 2022): an airborne object under 10 m, Tic Tac-shaped, that 'vaguely resembles' Navy detections, likely not a sensor artefact.NRO 'Recent Sentient Highlights' (2021)firsthandOn the recordNRO FOIA release (The Black Vault)
In 2021 NGA, NASIC, DIA and the NRO consulted with the UAP Task Force on GEOINT assets.National Reconnaissance Office - UFO Crash Retrievals, Surveillance, and Legacy Program GatekeepersfirsthandOn the record7 May 2021 email (Black Vault FOIA, 2024)
Founded 1961, its existence declassified 18 Sep 1992; in 1994-96 a headquarters cost overrun and $3.7bn of forward funding led DCI Deutch to fire its director and deputy.firsthandOn the recordNRO history; SSCI hearing 10 Aug 1994
The NRO administers legacy work: overhead ISR of UFOs, ISR for crash retrieval, and first user of ARVs; Immaculate Constellation is a separate reactive USAP that probably uses Sentient.National Reconnaissance Office - UFO Crash Retrievals, Surveillance, and Legacy Program GatekeepersspeculationLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
A witness who served in a Nevada-based crash-retrieval rapid reaction team saw briefing binders headed 'Joint Operations Task Force, NRO' and a badge with an NRO watermark; one operation recovered an egg-shaped craft half-buried in a Central or South American jungle.National Reconnaissance Office - UFO Crash Retrievals, Surveillance, and Legacy Program GatekeepersanonymousLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
Retrieval programs are run by CIA DS&T and DO, NURO, the Navy, the NRO, SPACECOM, NGA and JSOC.National Reconnaissance Office - UFO Crash Retrievals, Surveillance, and Legacy Program GatekeepersanonymousLeadChristopher Sharp
The National Underwater Reconnaissance Office was formed in 1969 by a CIA-Navy agreement under Helms after the K-129 loss, with SecNav John Warner its first director; 'from the day NURO was formed, the CIA took charge'. Assets tied to it include USS Halibut, Parche and Seawolf, NR-1 and the Glomar Explorer.US Navy UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordRichelson, The US Intelligence Community; Blind Man's Bluff (cited by UAP Gerb)
'One entire government agency, the National Underwater Reconnaissance Office, is protected by a SAP'; a 1975 Senate Select Committee submission lists NSDM 40 with NRO and NURO operations.US Navy UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering ProgramsfirsthandOn the recordAFIO publication; 1975 Church Committee submission (cited by UAP Gerb)
He was director of NURO as DNI from 13 Sep 1974 and 'got a pretty hot letter' for mentioning it.US Navy UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering ProgramsfirsthandSourced, unconfirmedBobby Ray Inman
NURO has been folded inside the Navy Special Program, and Inman may have known of a 1973 Glomar recovery of a downed craft.US Navy UFO Crash Retrieval & Reverse Engineering ProgramsspeculationLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)
NRO Programs A (Air Force), B (CIA DS&T), C (Navy) and D (CIA aircraft); the 1996 Brown-Aspin report says NRO work is done 'primarily by contractors'.National Reconnaissance Office - UFO Crash Retrievals, Surveillance, and Legacy Program GatekeepersfirsthandOn the recordNRO history; Brown-Aspin Commission (1996), cited by UAP Gerb
From 1992 the SSCI probed NRO finances; in 1995 its carry-over funds were put at $1.7 billion, then $3.7 billion, and DCI John Deutch forced out director Harris and deputy Hill.John DeutchfirsthandOn the recordpublic record (cited by UAP Gerb)
People named in the Wilson-Davis notes told Gerb that carry-over appropriations were used to fund UFO legacy program operations.Wilson–Davis memoanonymousLeadUAP Gerb (Sam)

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The Aerospace Corporation orgCentral Intelligence Agency orgImmaculate Constellation orgDefense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) orgJASON advisory group orgThe MITRE Corporation orgNRO Program B orgNational Underwater Reconnaissance Office (NURO) orgOffice of Naval Research (ONR) orgSAIC orgSpecial Access Program Oversight Committee (SAPOC) and Senior Review Group orgTRW Inc. orgWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution orgBobby Ray Inman personDavid Grusch personDonald Kerr personEdgar Fouché personEdward C. 'Pete' Aldridge Jr. personR. Evan Hineman personJohn Deutch personMary Sturtevant personPaul Kaminski personRichard Bissell Jr. personRobert Cardillo personSean Kirkpatrick personUAP Gerb (Sam) personWilliam Perry personPine Gap, Australia placeNRO 'Recent Sentient Highlights' (2021) documentDeputy Secretary of Defense memo creating the SAPOC (5 January 1994) document

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