Claim Lineage

Immaculate Constellation as a parent USAP

Earliest located source
Michael ShellenbergerDocument dated
Lineage
2 statements · 1 relationship
Record published
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  • A relationship we cannot evidence is marked unknown. Unknown is not independent confirmation, and it is not derivation either.
  • Confidence here is confidence in the evidence for a relationship between two statements. It says nothing about whether the claim is true or whom to believe.

The claim, as made

Stated neutrally, in the terms the speaker used. Not evaluated for truth.

Immaculate Constellation is described, in a report read into a November 13, 2024 House hearing, as a central or parent unacknowledged special access program that consolidates UAP observations from tasked and untasked collection platforms. Recorded as a claim and its lineage, not as a finding that the program exists.

Lineage2

Ordered by source date. Each statement shows who said it, where, the exact place in the source, the recorded wording, and how it relates to earlier statements. Corrections, clarifications, disputes and withdrawals sit under the statement they act on.

  1. Earliest located sourceVerbatimLink to this statement: Michael Shellenberger

    Michael Shellenberger

    Witness; reading a whistleblower report into the record

    House hearing “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,” November 13, 2024

    Document dated
    Added to UAPverse

    Immaculate Constellation serves as a central or parent USAP that consolidates observations of UAPs by both tasked and untasked collection platforms.

    In context Shellenberger attributes the sentence to the report just shared with Congress.

    E01House hearing text, November 13, 2024, Shellenberger oral statementOral statement: parent-USAP sentence

    Relates to

    Earliest located means the earliest source UAPverse has found and can point to at an exact place. It is not proof of where the claim began.

    Acted on by

  2. VerbatimLink to this statement: Sue Gough

    Sue Gough

    DOD spokesperson, as quoted in Shellenberger's written testimony

    Department of Defense statement as recorded in Shellenberger written testimony page 6

    Document dated
    Added to UAPverse

    The DOD has no record, present or historical, of any type of SAP called ‘IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION.’

    In context Quoted by Shellenberger; the original DOD press page was not independently fetched.

    E02Shellenberger written testimony, November 13, 2024, page 6Page 6, Gough quotation

    Relates to

Relationship view

The same statements and relationships as the lineage, drawn as a graph: time runs down the page, every statement is drawn the same size, and each line is labelled with its relationship type. Nothing about position, size or colour ranks a statement or a speaker.

Relationship view: Immaculate Constellation as a parent USAPThe same statements and relationships as the lineage, drawn as a graph: time runs down the page, every statement is drawn the same size, and each line is labelled with its relationship type. Nothing about position, size or colour ranks a statement or a speaker.Sue Gough disputed Michael ShellenbergerdisputedMichael Shellenberger, November 13, 2024 (Earliest located source)1Michael ShellenbergerNov 13, 2024 · earliest locatedSue Gough, November 13, 20242Sue GoughNov 13, 2024

Legend

names as the origin
The later source itself says the earlier statement is where the claim began. Recorded as that source's attribution, never as a finding.
repeated
Says it again in the same or nearly the same words.
quoted
Uses the earlier words in quotation marks.
cited
Points to the earlier statement as its source.
paraphrased
Restates it in different words.
summarized
Shortens it.
amplified
Carries it further or adds emphasis.
asserted independently of
Makes the same claim, with stated evidence that it did not come from the earlier statement. Never assumed.
clarified
Narrows or explains the earlier statement without taking it back.
corrected
Changes a stated fact in the earlier statement.
disputed
Contradicts the earlier statement.
withdrew
Takes the earlier statement back.
relationship unknown to
No evidence either way. Not independent, not derived: unknown. This is the default when nothing is recorded.

A relationship we cannot evidence is marked unknown. Unknown is not independent confirmation, and it is not derivation either.

Sources2

Every statement cites exactly one of these at an exact place in the source.

  1. E01
    House hearing text, November 13, 2024, Shellenberger oral statement

    Oral statement: parent-USAP sentence

    Document dated official hearing text read 2026-09-21

  2. E02
    Shellenberger written testimony, November 13, 2024, page 6

    Page 6, Gough quotation

    Document dated archived written testimony read 2026-09-21

Provenance notes3

What was and was not located. Read these before treating the earliest located source as anything more than that.

  • Earliest located in this record is Shellenberger's November 13, 2024 hearing text quoting the report. He refers to earlier reporting 'last month,' so this is not origin.
  • Gough's denial is located through Shellenberger's written testimony page 6, not an independently fetched DOD release.
  • Independence of later retellings is not assumed.

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