Liberation Times — “New Allegations Link Clapper and O’Sullivan to UFO Shoot-Down and Retrieval Program” (2026)
Source: Liberation Times (liberationtimes.com), reporting by Christopher Sharp (profile). On allegations that former DNI James Clapper and former Principal Deputy DNI Stephanie O’Sullivan oversaw a UAP shoot-down/retrieval program. URL: https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/new-allegations-link-former-national-intelligence-leaders-clapper-and-osullivan-to-ufo-shoot-down-and-retrieval-program Captured: 2026-06-16 (requests + readability). Analysis: clapper-former-dni. What this is: the load-bearing source for the Clapper/O’Sullivan “Golden Domes” allegation — three anonymous sources to Liberation Times, plus Clapper’s own on-record Age of Disclosure statement (a USAF program that tracked anomalies near Area 51) and David Grusch’s Megyn Kelly accusation that Clapper managed the crash-retrieval issue.
Multiple sources have told Liberation Times that, during the Obama administration, senior intelligence figures James Clapper and Stephanie O’Sullivan oversaw a program relating to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
The sources allege the effort involved the shootdown and recovery of exotic vehicles thought to be of non-human origin.
Three separate sources told Liberation Times that Clapper allegedly ran the program alongside O’Sullivan, dating back to his tenure as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from 2007 to 2010
During that period, O’Sullivan led the CIA’s Directorate of Science and Technology before being promoted in 2009 to become the agency’s third-most senior officer.
One source alleged to Liberation Times that Clapper and O’Sullivan oversaw a program codenamed ‘Golden Domes,’ which the source claimed was jointly run by the CIA and the United States Air Force (USAF), where Clapper previously served.
The source further alleged that the program could detect and track UAP even when ‘cloaked’ and as they physically manifested.
The same source claimed the program employed a mix of electronic and laser-based capabilities intended to bring down what the source described as ‘exotic non-human vehicles.’
Sources were unable to offer Liberation Times a clear explanation for why the U.S. government would choose to engage UAP, including whether any such actions were taken routinely, in specific circumstances, or in relation to any potential understandings or rules of engagement involving other purported non-human factions.
In the recently released documentary ‘The Age of Disclosure’, James Clapper alleged that a secretive USAF program had been actively monitoring UAP, particularly over the highly classified Area 51 facility in Nevada - an epicentre of cutting-edge military development and testing.
Clapper, a former Chief of USAF Intelligence, stated:
“When I served in the Air Force, there was an active program to track anomalous activities that we couldn’t otherwise explain - many of them connected with ranges out west, notably Area 51.”
In a recent interview with journalist Megyn Kelly, former intelligence official, USAF veteran, and UAP whistleblower David Grusch claimed that James Clapper managed a UAP program, stating:
“I’m a little bit disappointed as a fellow Air Force officer…. That’s all he said in the documentary: that there was a program he was aware of.
“In fact, without being inappropriate, I will say that General Clapper was well aware of the crash retrieval issue, managed the crash retrieval issue, and, when he was a DNI [Director of National Intelligence], USDI [Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security], DIA [Defense Intelligence Agency], he placed people in critical roles to manage this issue, both publicly - and I’ll just say not publicly as well - and I’ll allow the audience to distill what I’m saying at the, at the risk of being inappropriate or going too far with my discussion.
“So General Clapper, Stephanie O’Sullivan, other folks in the IC [Intelligence Community] that are well aware of this issue, that were in rooms discussing this issue, I ask you to be greater leaders on this. I should not be the only former military officer and intelligence official that is being completely candid with the information that they were exposed to.”
Grusch’s lawyer, Charles McCullough III served as the Intelligence Community Inspector General, reporting directly to then–Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
In that role, according to his biography, McCullough ‘oversaw intelligence officers responsible for audits, inspections, and investigations. Furthermore, he was responsible for inquiries involving the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as well as the entire Intelligence Community.’