Editorial structure: This companion has two distinct sections with different confidence levels. Part I documents the institutional UAP disclosure actions by the U.S. government — all C1, fully verified, sourced to official records and congressional testimony. Part II documents a viral claim by Pastor Perry Stone that government-connected individuals privately briefed pastors on upcoming UAP disclosure — currently C3, unverified as of May 6, 2026. The two sections are separated by the confidence tier notation. The C3 section is labeled throughout and carries a living document notice. The C1 section is the foundation; the C3 section is the developing story we are tracking.
What the Government Is Actually Doing: Institutional UAP Disclosure [C1]
The most significant UAP disclosure story of 2025–2026 is not a viral claim by a televangelist. It is the documented institutional normalization of UAP as a serious subject of federal records management, congressional oversight, and presidential directive. That story is fully documented and requires no speculation.
January 2025: Trump directed the Pentagon and all relevant federal agencies to 'begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).' [C1 — White House statement]
2025 NDAA provisions: Mandatory Pentagon briefings on UAP intercepts by NORAD and NORTHCOM dating to 2004; AARO directive on UAP classification guides; streamlined federal reporting processes. [C1]
NARA UAP Records Collection: The National Archives established a formal UAP Records Collection. Agencies were required to identify and organize UAP records for disclosure. This moves UAP out of rumor culture and into federal records process. [C1 — NARA public topic page]
September 2025: House Oversight Task Force held a UAP transparency hearing on AARO operations, whistleblower protections, and whether the government has adequately informed the public. [C1 — congressional record]
AARO caseload: Exceeded 2,400 reports as of early 2026. AARO's 2025 annual report remains unpublished. [C1 — AARO]
Aliens.gov: Federal government registered both alien.gov and aliens.gov — outside normal domain registration process, during a period when the government was not accepting new .gov domain requests due to funding lapse. [C1 — documented registration]
April 2026: House Oversight Task Force said it was continuing its investigation and requesting 46 UAP-related videos from the Defense Department — the same videos whose April 14, 2026 disclosure deadline the Pentagon missed (documented in Black Threshold Part II). [C1]
ODNI March 7, 2026: Stated publicly that files related to UAP and extraterrestrial life will be declassified 'soon.' Interagency meetings commenced to discuss how to publicize classified photographs and information. [C1]
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (chair, House Oversight UAP task force), on the record: 'I have seen evidence in a SCIF that leads me to believe there are things we cannot explain. I have observed things that are of nonhuman origin and creation.' [C1 — congressional statement]
Pete Hegseth (Defense Secretary), on the record: 'We're digging in' on UAP files. [C1]
JD Vance, March 2026, on the record: 'I don't think they're aliens. I think they're demons anyway. One of the devil's great tricks is to convince people he never existed.' [C1 — Vance interview with Benny Johnson]
The April 14, 2026 deadline for 46 UAP videos — missed by the Pentagon, confirmed as an active congressional investigation — is documented in Black Threshold Part II. The institutional suppression pattern documented there provides the historical context for understanding the current disclosure pressure.
The pastor briefing claim documented in Part II of this companion broke publicly on May 5–6, 2026 — the date this document was first drafted. As of publication, no government memo, official invitation, transcript, attendee list, or documentary evidence has surfaced to independently confirm the private briefing described by Perry Stone and Alan DiDio. This section is labeled [C3] throughout and will be updated when corroboration emerges or the claim is refuted. The Quanfinity Project treats this as a live, developing story — not a confirmed fact.
The Pastor Briefing Claim [C3 — Unverified as of May 6, 2026]
[C3 — BREAKING CLAIM, CURRENTLY UNVERIFIED] On or around May 5, 2026, Cleveland-based televangelist Perry Stone published a video claiming that pastors had been privately warned by individuals connected to the U.S. government to prepare their congregations for upcoming government disclosures involving non-human craft, materials not from this Earth, and entities described as "reptilian." Stone stated: "Some of the people who were in the meeting were telling us as pastors, you need to prepare your people and you need to get ready to answer them for what you are about to hear being released."
[C3] Pastor Alan DiDio subsequently confirmed on social media that he had been present at such a meeting, describing it as a gathering of roughly half a dozen Christian leaders at an Airbnb in the mountains of Tennessee. The meeting involved discussions of "an investigation going on in the United States government" into "retrieving and reverse engineering technology from non-human intelligence." DiDio's confirmation constitutes a second named source. It does not constitute documentary evidence.
Documented [C3 — Stone video; DiDio social media]: Stone made the claim. DiDio confirmed attending a meeting with these topics.
Not documented: Any government memo, official invitation, transcript, attendee list, or documentary evidence of government officials at the meeting. No third corroborating source. No named government official.
The 'reptilian' framing: Stone specifically referenced 'reptilian-looking creatures' in his description of the alleged disclosure content. The Quanfinity Project documents this accurately as what Stone said — while noting explicitly that the 'reptilian' alien narrative has a documented history in fringe and, in some formulations, antisemitic conspiracy traditions. Documenting Stone's claim does not constitute endorsement of the specific characterization.
Plausibility context [C1]: The institutional backdrop is real. Congress IS pursuing UAP disclosure. The ODNI HAS announced imminent declassification. Rep. Luna HAS stated she has seen evidence of nonhuman origin. Government briefings of community leaders before major announcements are a documented practice. These C1 facts make the C3 claim structurally plausible without making it verified.
Perry Stone's track record: Stone is a televangelist known for prophetic interpretations of current events. His record of prophetic accuracy is outside the scope of this series' verification standards.
[C1] What is documented independently is the collision between UAP disclosure and evangelical theology. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, chair of the House Oversight UAP task force, publicly urged followers to "read the Book of Enoch" — a reference to an ancient Jewish text addressing fallen angels and their offspring, cited by some theologians as relevant to non-human intelligence claims. JD Vance called UAPs "demons" publicly. Whether these theological framings reflect genuine belief, strategic messaging toward evangelical communities, or something else entirely is [OA]. That they are said, on the record, by sitting officials is [C1].
The same evangelical pastoral community is simultaneously being recruited by the Israeli government as formal advocacy ambassadors (documented, FARA-registered, C1) and being allegedly briefed by government-connected individuals on UAP disclosure (C3, unverified). The institutional actors overlapping in both stories — evangelical pastors, the Trump administration, Huckabee's diplomatic network — are documented in the Ambassador Program companion and Holy Lobbies Vol. II.
White House UAP directive [C1]; NARA UAP Records Collection [C1]; House Oversight UAP task force — September 2025 and April 2026 hearings [C1]; AARO reports [C1]; ODNI statement (March 7, 2026) [C1]; Rep. Luna on-record SCIF statement [C1]; JD Vance 'demons' interview (March 2026) [C1]; Hegseth 'digging in' statement [C1]; Perry Stone — pastoral briefing claim (May 5, 2026) [C3]; Alan DiDio social media confirmation (May 5, 2026) [C3]; IBTimes UK UAP pastor reporting (May 6, 2026) [C2]; Charisma Magazine UAP coverage (May 5, 2026) [C2]; USA Herald (May 6, 2026) [C2]; Paraghosts.com UAP disclosure guide (April 2026) [C2]; first.contact UAP disclosure timeline [C2].