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AARO / Phillips on Yankee Blue and Doty
All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office · 2026
NCND on a named individual; verbal denial
Request
Whether AARO interviewed Richard Doty as source of USAF 'Yankee Blue'.
Outcome
AARO FOIA: neither confirm nor deny (Hume expected this for named-person requests). Separately, Tim Phillips told Hume that Doty was not interviewed and was not the source, and called the program Yankee Black.
Name-check file for the USAF counter-intel overlay.
Names on this file
Tim Phillips
Deputy Director, AARO
Told Hume, in his official AARO capacity, that he had been briefed by the UK on 'mystery drones' and specifically on RAF Lakenheath. Hume's subsequent AARO FOIAs returned no records of those briefings. Phillips also denied to Hume that Richard Doty was interviewed for Yankee Blue.
Richard Doty
Former AFOSI
Tim Phillips denied to Hume that Doty was interviewed by AARO or was the source of the USAF Yankee Blue (Phillips said 'Yankee Black') program.
RG Hume
Independent FOIA researcher
UK researcher who files FOI/FOIA against MOD, DSTL, AARO, NNSA, DOE, FBI, CIA-adjacent holdings, EPA, CBP and police. Publishes as @rgh_ufos. Has said his name is on requests, has appeared in BBC and Mail Online, and was cited by Jesse Michels for the NNSA Starfish Prime response.
Cases
Source posts
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- 2026-03-18
to AARO asking about Doty and got a NCND, which I expected due to other foia requests I have seen asking about individuals.
- 2026-02-28
Tim Phillips denied that Doty was interviewed by AARO or was the source of the USAF "Yankee Blue" program (admittedly he called it Yankee black).