Me: "Dylan Borland said that he provided the AARO with three drawings. He says that two of those drawings were classified by the AARO, although AARO couldn't classify anything; you had to go to other agencies that did have classification guides. So would that mean in that case that he saw something, it may not have been alien, but it was something very very sensitive that he drew."
Tim Phillips: "Correct. You are correct, AARO were not a cabinet-level office. We don't have the authority to classify. We have to go by classification guides - derivative classifiers. So they would use the classification guides, say for the Department of Defence or the Director of National Intelligence or CIA. But that's how we classify - it's called derivative classification. And he's correct. Someone would come in, and we'd look at it. If we thought it was going to compromise sensitive government capabilities secrets, there are methods and ways to protect that and classify it accordingly."
Christopher Sharp@ChrisUKSharp
The Pentagon's UAP Office - AARO - can classify materials brought forward by whistleblowers based on the classification guides of relevant agencies. AARO had no authority to classify - the DoW & CIA, etc. would classify materials it deemed could compromise sensitive gov capabilities.
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