Person · Registry ID 109
John Lee Ratcliffe
CIA Director (appointed January 2025)
3 positions on the chart2 evidence records
Positions on the chart (3)
Registry record
- Past roles
- U.S. Representative (2015–2020); Director of National Intelligence (May 2020–January 2021)
- Credentials
- Attorney; former U.S. Attorney for Eastern District of Texas; senior intelligence official
- UAP involvement
- Served as DNI during UAPTF formation; publicly discussed additional UAP reports and multi-sensor observations in March 2021
- Principal disclosures
- Said some UAP reports were difficult to explain and more sightings existed than publicly disclosed; favored release of information
- Evidence contributed
- March 19, 2021 Fox News interview with Maria Bartiromo; contemporaneous press and DoD briefing card
- Knowledge type
- Senior intelligence official relaying intelligence assessments; not a documented firsthand UAP eyewitness
- Corroboration
- Public interview corroborated by contemporary press and March 23, 2021 DoD briefing card; individual underlying sensor cases not independently examined
- Assessment
- Documented UAP public statements; no demonstrated nonhuman origin or direct supervision of Stratton
- Last reviewed
- 2026-11-07
Evidence (2)
- Former DNI John Ratcliffe publicly said more UAP reports existed than were publicly known, including pilot and satellite observations and some multi-sensor cases Claim unverifiedFirsthand
- Ratcliffe said some UAP reports described difficult-to-explain movement, and that he had sought declassification before leaving office UnverifiedFirsthand