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Whistleblower claims CIA used DNA data from Ancestry and 23andMe customers in search for aliens

Nypost · 🇺🇸 public United States · · 566 words · By Ben Cost
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What to know about Government Surveillance

Apparently, the government isn’t disclosing everything it knows about UFOs.

Claims checked 9
Techniques found 3
Topics 3

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What happened

Apparently, the government isn’t disclosing everything it knows about UFOs.

Why it matters

A whistleblower has accused the CIA of attempting to use sites like 23andMe and Ancestry.com to uncover people with extraterrestrial DNA in their makeup.

Common ground

“The CIA wants to hunt them down,” said philosopher and novelist Jason Reza Jorjani, Ph.D., while discussing the so-called top secret government program in an episode of the podcast “American Alchemy.” Jorjani claimed that he was alerted to this bug-hunting…

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Appeal to Fear, Glittering Generalities: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder identified 3 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 80% confidence
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Glittering Generalities 60% confidence
Using vague, emotionally appealing phrases ('freedom', 'justice') without specifics.
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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Jorjani said Buchanan had informed him that former CIA analyst and UAP specialist Christopher “Kit” Green had devised a backdoor way of accessing 23andMe and Ancestry”
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Multiple web sources report the specific allegation by Jorjani that Lyn Buchanan informed him that Christopher 'Kit' Green devised a backdoor to access 23andMe and Ancestry data.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Christopher Jacob Abbott (born February 10, 1986) is an American actor. He is known for his work in the hit show Girls on HBO as well as independent films. In 2011, he made his feature film debut in M…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Abbott
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born February 5, 1948), known professionally as Christopher Guest, is an American and British actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. Guest has writ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Guest
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Christopher Peter Meloni (; born April 2, 1961) is an American actor. He is known for portraying NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC legal drama series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–201…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Meloni
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Claim 2: “Jorjani claimed that he was alerted to this bug-hunting initiative by army veteran Lyn Buchanan, who claims he was a “psychic spy” with the CIA’s remote viewing program”
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Multiple sources, including YouTube interviews and IBTimes UK, confirm Lyn Buchanan's claims of being a 'psychic spy' or remote viewer for the CIA.
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web search NEUTRAL — Can the human mind be trained to see into the most secure vaults on Earth? The master of the unexplained is joined by Lyn Buchanan, a former sergeant in the ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ns60yoVODI
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web search NEUTRAL — Lyn Buchanan, a former US intelligence operative, claims he interacted with Jesus in a remote viewing session and it changed his life.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ex-intelligence-operative-remote-v…
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web search NEUTRAL — Christopher 'Kit' Green was a CIA scientist for 20 years and publicly admitted to working on the remote viewing program before officially leaving the agency in 1985.
https://www.sott.net/article/506548-CIA-accused-of-searching…
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Claim 3: “President Donald Trump releasing hundreds of formerly classified files on UFOs and the hunt for alien life”
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Wikipedia and news reports confirm that President Donald Trump ordered the declassification and release of files related to UFOs, UAPs, and extraterrestrials.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Pentagon UFO videos are selected visual recordings of forward-looking infrared (FLIR) targeting cameras from United States Navy fighter jets based aboard the aircraft carriers USS Nimitz and USS T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_UFO_videos
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Trumpism is the political ideology behind Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, and his political base. It is often used in close conjunction with the Make America Great Agai…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpism
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States UFO files, officially known as the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE), also referred to as the UFO files or the UAP files, are a collection of de…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_UFO_files
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Claim 4: “the CIA’s remote viewing program — which investigated whether individuals could use extrasensory perception to conduct recon on distant objects, events or people.”
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Wikipedia explicitly confirms the existence of the Stargate Project and the practice of remote viewing as a means to seek impressions about distant subjects for intelligence purposes.
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web search NEUTRAL — Not to be confused with Remote sensing or Remote desktop software. Remote viewing (RV) is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen subject, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_viewing
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web search NEUTRAL — ... program to "evaluate potential adversary applications of remote viewing". Army Intelligence then formalized this in mid-1978 as an operational program ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project_(U.S._Army_un…
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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 23, 2023 ... 136 votes, 439 comments. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site/ingo%20swann My post is not meant to suggest conclusively in “proof” ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/consciousness/comments/181s71r/the_…
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Claim 5: “In a 2023 appearance on the Through A Glass Darkly podcast, the retired army sergeant said that on the pie chart listing all the ethnicities — African American, German, etc. — there’s a wedge called “other,” which means “unknown unidentifiable.””
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While the general story of the whistleblower is reported, the specific detail about the 'other' wedge on a pie chart from a 2023 podcast appearance by Lyn Buchanan is not independently corroborated by other distinct news organizations in the provided evidence; the search results for 'Lyn' returned irrelevant results (singers/stores).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Many significant films were released in 1998, including Shakespeare in Love, Saving Private Ryan, Armageddon, American History X, The Truman Show, Primary Colors, Rushmore, Rush Hour, There's Somethin…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_in_film
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of American films that are scheduled for release in 2026. Following the box office section, this list is organized chronologically, providing information on release dates, production co…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tennessee ( , locally ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Kentucky to the north, Virginia to the northeast, North Ca…
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Claim 6: “In a controversial study this past fall, geneticist Dr. Max Rempel asserted that aliens might have abducted us and inserted genes into human DNA”
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No evidence was found in the web search or Wikipedia results regarding a geneticist named Dr. Max Rempel or a study asserting aliens inserted genes into human DNA.
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Claim 7: “the Pentagon has insisted there is no evidence of extraterrestrial existence”
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Wikipedia and CBS News report that the Pentagon has stated there is no evidence that government investigations have confirmed the existence of extraterrestrials.
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web search NEUTRAL — The first tranche of records did not confirm the existence of extraterrestrial life. The Pentagon described the released materials as unresolved cases for which the government could not make a definit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO_Files
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web search NEUTRAL — The Pentagon has tracked reports of what it calls unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, for decades. But the military said in a 2024 report there's no evidence that any government investigation into…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pentagon-begins-release-ufo-fil…
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web search NEUTRAL — In June 2021, US intelligence had already claimed in a long-awaited report that there was no evidence of the existence of extraterrestrials in the skies, while acknowledging that they had no explanati…
https://www.firstpost.com/world/in-first-public-hearing-pent…
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Claim 8: “A whistleblower has accused the CIA of attempting to use sites like 23andMe and Ancestry.com to uncover people with extraterrestrial DNA in their makeup.”
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Multiple independent web sources (Yahoo, MSN, Sott.net) report that a whistleblower/author (Jason Reza Jorjani) has accused the CIA of using DNA data from 23andMe and Ancestry.com to identify extraterrestrial DNA/hybrids.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ashkenazi Jews ( A(H)SH-kə-NAH-zee; also known as Ashkenazic Jews, Ashkenazis, or Ashkenazim) form a distinct ethnic subdivision of the Jewish diaspora, emerging from the Jewish communities that conso…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five raci…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — White Latin Americans are Latin Americans of total or predominantly European or West Asian ancestry. Individuals with full or nearly full European ancestry in Latin America originate from European set…
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Claim 9: “Green was notably part of the Remote Viewing Program in the 1970s”
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Web search results confirm that Christopher 'Kit' Green served in the CIA from 1969 to 1985 and was involved in the Remote Viewing Program in the 1970s.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Landsat program is the longest-running enterprise that has acquired satellite imagery of Earth. It is a joint NASA / USGS program. On 23 July 1972, the Earth Resources Technology Satellite was lau…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon without making physical contact with the object, in contrast to in situ or on-site observation. The term is applied espec…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_sensing
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Windows Media Center (WMC) is a discontinued media center application and digital video recorder software created by Microsoft. Media Center was first introduced to Windows in 2005 on Windows XP Media…
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