Editing Immaculate Constellation

Approved for release by ODNI on 6 November 2024, FOIA Case # DF-2025-00021

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**Description of Alleged “IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION” Program**

(U//FOUO) Starting around 9 October, 2024, open press broke a story about a supposed unacknowledged Special Access Program (uSAP) regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Referred to as “IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION,” this uSAP was allegedly created in 2017 and houses highly classified UAP evidence (i.e., videos, images, documentation) but is supposedly being managed without appropriate Congressional awareness or oversight.

The journalist who broke the story alleges that his source is a U.S. Government whistleblower who came across the material “accidentally,” but this whistleblower has supposedly written a report delivered to Congress about the uSAP.

A second source referred to in a U.K. publication (not the original outlet that broke the story) confirmed to the U.K. publication that the uSAP exists and is authentic.

This uSAP supposedly has high‐quality evidence of encounters with UAP that have not been shared with AARO or other people managing the UAP mission.
(U) A DoD spokesperson (Sue Gough) denied that IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION exists or that any evidence for it exists, stating “The Department of Defense has no record, present or historical, of any type of SAP called ‘IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION’.“

(U//FOUO) The press has reported that IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION will be raised and discussed at the open hearings with AARO in November 2024.
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