U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI)

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AFOSI is the Air Force and Space Force investigative agency for counterintelligence, criminal matters, fraud, cyber threats, and force protection.

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The Air Force Office of Special Investigations is the federal investigative and counterintelligence agency serving the Department of the Air Force. Established in 1948, AFOSI investigates felony crimes, fraud, espionage, terrorism, cyber threats, and risks to Air Force and Space Force personnel and resources. Its agents operate at installations and deployed locations worldwide.

AFOSI records differ from scientific or operational case files. An agent may investigate security, deception, unauthorized disclosure, or foreign activity connected to an incident without determining its physical nature. Reports can contain witness statements, leads, and liaison material whose source status must be preserved. AFOSI has operated since 1948 and maintains field offices and specialized units around the world. Its agents investigate offenses involving Air Force and Space Force personnel or resources, conduct counterintelligence, and provide threat information to commanders. It is separate from installation security forces and from technical laboratories that analyze sensors or materials. Case files can include interviews, forensic work, liaison reporting, and command notifications, with release constrained by privacy, law-enforcement, and security rules.

The organization appears in historical UFO cases and allegations of intimidation, disinformation, or witness contact. Its relationship to the USAF and base security makes involvement plausible where an event affects protected assets. That does not validate every “men in black” narrative or show that AFOSI possessed recovered technology.

AFOSI’s role in UAP investigations is bounded by law-enforcement and counterintelligence authority. A credible account identifies the case number, office, purpose, and disposition. Contact by an agent proves an investigation occurred, not the extraordinary explanation a witness may attach to it.

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independent3d ago

Probed ingest of: Joe Rogan Experience #2545 - Jesse Michels

The records put him at Kirtland AFOSI. This is what followed. https://t.co/4CV3NPfnjV #UAP https://t.co/aRAla57ebc [Quoted] Yes. 1980 FOIA AFOSI forms (28 Oct signed by Maj Cseh) name SA Richard C. Doty interviewing Bennewitz at Kirtland. His DD214 lists AFSC 82170 Special Investigations Technician for 8 yrs 6 mos including that Kirtland duty. 1988 Larry Bryant FOIAd 25 pages of his USAF service records. https://t.co/ZDwhok4JSN

Yes. 1980 FOIA AFOSI forms (28 Oct signed by Maj Cseh) name SA Richard C. Doty interviewing Bennewitz at Kirtland. His DD214 lists AFSC 82170 Special Investigations Technician for 8 yrs 6 mos including that Kirtland duty. 1988 Larry Bryant FOIAd 25 pages of his USAF service records. https://t.co/ZDwhok4JSN [Quoted] @UAPDr I used to consider Doty 49% credible, as some of his stories did fit well into actual Cold War counterespionage. That number goes down every time I hear him. Has anyone inde...

Rick Doty: “I know it is real. The Air Force sergeant who smuggled it out worked in the audio visual lab at Groom Lake and gave it to Victor.” 👽 Former AFOSI counterintelligence officer Rick Doty has now publicly confirmed key details of the 1991 Alien Interview footage on a major podcast. He states the cameraman was a USAF Staff Sergeant in the Audio-Visual Department at Groom Lake who copied and removed the material during the period when records were being digitized. Doty says he spoke wi...

Richard Doty reveals the one terrifying alien abduction case that convinced him UFO's are real. The extraterrestrials tortured her & they were malevolent. 😱👽 “They took her fingernails off, her toenails off, bleeding from the eye, ruptured her eardrum once… That convinced me that they weren’t humans doing this to her.” Former AFOSI Special Agent Richard Doty told Chris Ramsey about a multi agency surveillance operation on an Air Force sergeant who was repeatedly abducted and subjected to to...

independentAug 21

Probed ingest of: Ex-AFOSI Agent Shares WILD Alien Encounters - Richard Doty | ep. 100

🚨 NEW: The U.S. Air Force is reportedly refusing to release video of an alleged 100-foot triangular craft filmed over a Colorado military installation. According to a new report from the @nypost, multiple sources familiar with the case say two videos recorded in 2023 remain classified by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). The footage reportedly shows a massive black triangular object maneuvering over the mountains before appearing to blend into the surrounding clouds. Th...

A pair of classified videos allegedly showing a 100-foot black triangular UFO over a Colorado military base remain locked away despite President Trump’s new order aimed at encouraging more UFO whistleblowers to come forward, sources familiar with the footage told The Post. Two videos, recorded on a service member’s personal cellphone on consecutive nights in 2023, are among the pieces of evidence whistleblowers say still cannot be discussed or released publicly because they remain classified...

independentAug 7

Probed ingest of: The MITRE Corporation - UFO Reverse Engineering, USO Tracking, & Legacy Programs

independentAug 2

Probed ingest of: They Told UAP Whistleblowers To Come Forward. The Last Man Who Did Says It's A Trap.

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Dr. Dan2
Interstellar2
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