Overview
A post published Nov. 6, 2026, links to a Substack article titled “Pt. 2 | Lockheed Martin Crashed UFO Craft | Transfer and Analysis Attempt.” The article revisits allegations that material purportedly recovered from an unidentified craft was held by Lockheed Martin and that officials associated with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) sought to transfer it to a program funded by the late Sen. Harry Reid. However, the supplied excerpt contains only part of the article, and does not provide independent evidence verifying that a crashed craft, nonhuman technology or related materials existed.
The account builds on an earlier article published by the same author nearly two years ago. It references statements attributed to astrophysicist Eric Davis, Stanford immunologist Gary Nolan and Reid concerning an alleged effort involving James Ryder, described as a vice president of Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division. According to the article, the proposed transfer would have involved the DIA’s Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications Program, commonly known as AAWSAP, which was established with congressional support and funding associated with Reid.
Reid’s Public Statement
The article quotes Reid from a 2021 interview with The New Yorker, in which the former Senate majority leader said he had been told for decades that Lockheed Martin possessed retrieved materials. Reid stated: “I was told for decades that Lockheed had some of these retrieved materials, and I tried to get, as I recall, a classified approval by the Pentagon to have me go look at the stuff. They would not approve that.” He added that he did not know the relevant classification details.
That quotation confirms Reid publicly discussed reports of materials held by Lockheed Martin, but it does not establish that he personally examined such materials or that their origin was extraterrestrial. The excerpt also does not include statements from Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon, the DIA or other agencies responding to the allegations.
Alleged Transfer Effort
The article further describes an alleged dispute over ownership and control. It claims that material originally associated with the CIA’s Science and Technology Directorate was sent to Lockheed Martin for analysis and was not returned. It attributes to witnesses the assertion that Glenn Gaffney, then director of the CIA directorate, objected to an attempted transfer to AAWSAP. These claims are presented by the author as part of a broader effort to obtain highly classified technology from defense contractors, but the supplied material does not identify the witnesses or provide documentation independently establishing the chain of custody.
The post also points to a 2009 letter from Reid’s office requesting that AAWSAP’s classification be elevated from Top Secret to a Special Access Program. The stated rationale included protecting “the methodology used to identify, acquire, study, and engineer the advanced technologies associated with [AAWSAP].” The author argues that this language reflected an effort to facilitate the acquisition of advanced materials and says DIA official Jay Stratton drafted the letter. The excerpt does not include Stratton’s alleged later confirmation or enough surrounding documentation to assess that interpretation.
What the Record Shows
AAWSAP was a real government-funded program associated with the study of aerospace and anomalous phenomena, but its existence alone does not verify claims that it obtained crashed-UFO debris or technology of nonhuman origin. The available text primarily documents an author’s interpretation of public statements, a congressional letter and accounts attributed to unnamed or unspecified witnesses. It does not supply laboratory records, chain-of-custody documents, agency findings or physical evidence supporting the central allegations.
Although the post’s broader promotional wording references Stratton, former Pentagon official Sean Kirkpatrick and a program or initiative called PURSUE, those subjects are not substantively addressed in the supplied excerpt. Readers should therefore distinguish between documented statements about Reid’s interest in classified materials and unverified claims about the nature, ownership or transfer of any alleged craft debris.
