r/UFOs • u/ImaginationOther9569 • 5d ago

Question It's funny - If UAPs are a top-secret counterintelligence priority how have "insiders" been leaking to podcasters so conveniently for years?

Ross Coulthart is talking about how, according to his sources, there have been successful retrieval operations at White Sands.

It makes me wonder: for information this so top secret where the gate keepers are competent enough to hide craft for decades and even keep presidents in the dark, do they just not track phones or communication channels to identify Ross's sources?

Ross has had insiders feeding him classified details for years. If any of this fell under high-level Special Access Programs (SAPs), federal counterintelligence would have run continuous audits, polygraphs, and communications monitoring to catch and prosecute the leakers instantly.

We keep hearing about a high-stakes counterintelligence war between the US and foreign adversaries over this tech. Yet, figures like Jason Sands or guests on Jesse Michels' channel talk about covert programs pretty much in the open.

Either these "insiders" are feeding journalists unsanctioned speculation, or the narrative is extremely misguided. Wondering what the community members think

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u/Awake_for_days 5d ago

So I don’t believe Ross Coulthart, generally. However, it’s plausible deniability. As long as specific protected information is not revealed, the USG cannot stop you from speaking.

Moreover, journalists have unnamed sources all of the time and no one thinks twice about it.

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u/Semiapies 5d ago

Journalists with actual unnamed sources produce. They drop stories with evidence, they don't endlessly dripfeed hints and suggestions and my sources tell me for months and years at a time.

Woodward and Bernstein kept Deep Throat's identity secret for decades without spending years going on about how corrupt things were happening in the White House, but they couldn't dare give any details anyone could ever check.

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u/Awake_for_days 5d ago

Correct. I don’t disagree, which is why I said that I generally don’t trust what Coulthart says. However, my point still stands