Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR)
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OrgGovernment AgencyThe Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review is the Pentagon office that clears books, statements and testimony by current and former personnel, including UAP insiders.
The Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review is the Pentagon office that clears books, statements and testimony by current and former personnel, including UAP insiders.
The Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review (DOPSR) is the Pentagon office that reviews material before public release to ensure it does not disclose classified or otherwise protected national security information. It sits within Washington Headquarters Services, a Pentagon support agency, and handles official Defense Department material as well as manuscripts, articles, speeches and statements written by service members, employees and contractors. Its authority rests on the nondisclosure agreements people sign when they receive access to classified information.
The review function is older than the office's current name. A Security Review Branch was set up in the newly created Office of the Secretary of Defense in March 1949 as the department's first operational security review activity. Under Defense Department policy, retired and separated service members, former employees and contractors, and non-active-duty reservists are expected to submit material through the prepublication process so that what they release does not compromise national security. The Supreme Court's principal ruling on prepublication review came in Snepp v. United States in 1980, a case involving a former CIA officer.
DOPSR became a fixture of UAP debate because most prominent insiders are bound by those agreements. Before former intelligence officer David Grusch went public in June 2023 with allegations of a hidden crash-retrieval program, he submitted the information he planned to share with journalists, and it was "cleared for open publication" on April 4 and 6, 2023, according to documents the reporters received. Luis Elizondo's 2024 memoir Imminent likewise went through Pentagon manuscript clearance before publication.
Clearance disputes continued in 2026. Grusch sued the Defense Department in federal court in Virginia in March 2026 under the Freedom of Information Act, seeking records of any unauthorized-disclosure complaint made about him in 2023; in a public interview he said the Department of the Air Force had filed such a complaint after he went public despite his clearance. The department told the court that its intelligence oversight office found no records of unauthorized disclosures involving him, that a separate email search turned up potentially responsive material, and that it released 40 pages in May; both sides have since moved for summary judgment, with a hearing set for November 20, 2026. Former UAP Task Force director Jay Stratton submitted his memoir to DOPSR before its October 2026 publication and said at a September conference that reviewers "took nothing out that was UAP-related."
The office's role is narrow: it decides whether material can be released without harming national security, not whether its claims are true, a distinction commentators have stressed as cleared UAP books multiplied. That position has made DOPSR clearance a frequently cited marker in the disclosure debate, separating insiders who speak through the review system from those who speak outside it.
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A close reading of Jay Stratton’s Out of the Shadows explores what the Pentagon’s DOPSR review may leave unsaid and how the book compares with Lue Elizondo’s Imminent. We discuss the similarities between their accounts and the questions readers may still have. Watch the full video https://t.co/4z7o2xJQPv
Some people have suggested that Grusch's comments on Rogan concerning humans being harmed by NHI are somehow "new". However, it's clear that this was part of Gruschs view back when he did his first public interview. Although we cannot be sure that he was discussing the same event as on Rogan, it’s still intriguing. Did he receive a DOPSR to reveal more? Or did he receive that information via an unclassified channel? Transscript: Q: Have human beings been hurt or killed by a non-human intellig...
🚨UFO DISCLOSURE: LESS PANTO, MORE PROOF! 2023: Congressional UFO hearings and whistleblower protections. 2025: The Age of Disclosure documentary. 2026: Jay Stratton releases DOPSR approved, Out of the Shadows, followed by accusations from Sean Kirkpatrick. We've gone from congressional testimony to documentaries, book deals and now accusations of national security violations shielded by whistleblower protection. Meanwhile, the evidence we've been promised is still kept behind closed doors. I...
"I wrote the security-classification guide." ~@jaystratton (Is that guide too restrictive, and part of the reason why we're not getting to see any OMG videos? [Quoted] "[The U.S. government - DOPSR] took nothing out [my book] that was UAP related." ~Stratton 🔥🛸👽 New Stratton: “I Can Tell You A Lot More Than People Think” — Including UAP Events He’s Never Publicly Explained 👽🛸🔥 "The meetings I've been sitting in, even recently, I'm like...why are we back to the drawing board for somethin...
Fox News reports on September 18, 2026, on three newly released UAP videos: 1952: A digitized clip from the National Archives taken by Navy photographer Delbert Newhouse in Utah. The footage shows objects appearing to move in a "drone swarm" formation, long before drone technology existed. 2023: A law enforcement officer's smartphone video from Colorado shows multiple orbs hovering over a military installation for extended periods. 2025: Drone footage from over the Middle East captures six ob...
Jay Stratton says nothing UAP-related was removed from his forthcoming book, Out of the Shadows, during its government security review. Speaking at PhenomeCon on September 11, 2026, Stratton explained why he felt confident submitting the manuscript to the Defense Office of Prepublication and Security Review, or DOPSR: “I wrote the security classification guide … so I know what’s classified and what isn’t.” His description of the outcome was equally direct: “At the end of the day, they took no...
Former U.S. government official Jay Stratton spoke at PhenomeCon on September 11, 2026, about his upcoming book, Out of the Shadows, and his leading role in government UAP investigations since 2005. He emphasized that he personally established major UAP programs, including AAWSAP, AATIP, and the UAP Task Force and criticized the government for dismantling that interagency framework and forcing new initiatives to start over repeatedly. Stratton revealed that DOPSR removed no UAP-related conten...
Jay Stratton at PhenomeCon: “And there are pieces of the history that fundamentally change the history many people believe they know about the United States gov [Quoted] "[The U.S. government - DOPSR] took nothing out [my book] that was UAP related." ~Stratton 🔥🛸👽 New Stratton: “I Can Tell You A Lot More Than People Think” — Including UAP Events He’s Never Publicly Explained 👽🛸🔥 "The meetings I've been sitting in, even recently, I'm like...why are we back to the drawing board for someth...
