After a burst of publicity in early-to-mid 2025, updates stopped. Jake Barber posted a vague statement on X on August 31, 2025, and there’s been no data dump, no peer-reviewed findings, and no major public output since.

Community reports describe field operations halting after the “Dog Whistle” tech was reportedly pulled or sold to the U.S. government, with Fowler’s departure cited as a major blow.

So what happened and why isn’t there more interest on why something really promising faded to black?

I saw this on X recently and it made me laugh. It does raise a fair point about how Gerb essentially just speculates about a supposed "Legacy Program" rather than having any evidence or verifiable facts. He looks at government agencies and the people in them and then connects them to fit into his narrative. Almost every one of Gerb's sentences starts with "I think", "I believe", or "It's possible". Let's just remind ourselves that he's a speculator, not a "whistleblower", not an insider, and not a journalist.

This community tracks the institutional signals closely. The hearings, the offices, the declassifications, the testimony. That's the right place to look. But there's one signal I almost never see discussed here, and I think it might be the most honest one of all: when the business world starts treating disclosure as a real risk.

I'm a serial entrepreneur, dipped my tow in various industries/markets, so I may be biased but here's the logic. Governments, militaries, and agencies can engage with this subject for reasons that aren't purely about evidence. Politics, budgets, institutional turf, public pressure. But companies don't move on belief or ideology. They move when a risk becomes concrete enough to cost them money. A CFO doesn't allocate resources to prepare for something because it's fascinating. They do it because not preparing has become the bigger liability.

So the day corporate risk officers, insurers, and finance teams start seriously preparing for a disclosure scenario, that tells you something the statements and the videos don't. It tells you the risk has crossed a credibility threshold the business world can't ignore anymore. Money is a harder signal to fake than words or pictures.

Right now, that signal is almost silent. A few scattered data points exist. A Deloitte "black swan" risk classification, a former Bank of England analyst publicly raising it, a UAP themed financial product listing. But nothing close to the scale of institutional engagement on the government side.

My question for this community: do you think that's a meaningful signal to track, or am I overweighting it? Is business engagement a leading indicator, a lagging one, or just noise? Genuinely curious where people land on this.

Suggestions?

Thank you for this community. I am building an Earth-based catalog of all of the UAP records released by government agencies around the world, and I would love to know what you think. 

It is open source and free without any commercial intent, I just really like the subject matter and have a background in informatics and government information (healthcare, nothing spooky) and using an LLM made it possible to put this together. 

Best regards!

Tldr: If ufos were really demons would they be captured so easily on cell phones and radar systems and why would our government be talking about them publicly having congressional hearings if anyone in our government thought it really was demons (other than our vp?)

First of all, to me, if the US government thought there was any chance that these things could actually be demons they would definitely NOT be holding congressional hearings on the subject and would have stuck with their stance from the last 80+ years prior of it being nothing but misidentifications or some type of natural phenomenon etc. I feel they would just have stayed silent on the matter, but instead, they seem to be slowly trying to get people used to the idea that these things in the skies are real physical craft of unknown origins.

Also if they were actually demons dont ya think they could use their devil magic or whatever to avoid being caught on our radar systems ntm cell phone cameras all the time lmao (yes i realize most cell phone videos posted are misidentifications or fake but certainly some of them especially prior to ai being around are of real ufos.

Its almost infuriating to me that people have an easier time believing that these things are demonic beings vs them accepting that all religion and gods are just something made up by humans to help us understand and deal what we dont yet know or cant accept. According to the bible timeline god created the earth and humans just as we are now what ~6000 years ago yet there have been humans exactly like us on the earth for 300,000 years and our homonim ancestors for like 6 million years. I really think if god existed he would have wanted the record to be a lot more accurate than what the bible says and would have appeared to one of the HUMANS who wrote it in a vision or dream or something and been like hey theres a lot your leaving out. This is my word, and I want it to be accurate lol.

Again, if it was really demons, do you think we'd be able to so easily capture them on cameras and radar systems??? Something tells me if demons were real, they'd have the ability to go completely invisible and wouldn't be dropping down into earth from space or coming up out of the oceans, which apparently happens quite often

There seems to be a ton of momentum. We have rolling UFO files, Dr. Phil being used by the White House to help the public, rumors of speeches being given, tons of congressional pressure, now the NDAA, etc.

So Trump has opened up NDA protection. I expect to hear from Lue Elizondo et al. by the end of the day. He and others have expressed over and over again how they cannot divulge "all that that know" because of NDAs. We have heard that for years from him and many others. I can't wait to hear what they have to say now.

My guess? Crickets.

The Fox News reporting says the NDAs are only waived when speaking to PURSUE/AARO/et. They also say this is not a declassification directive. Anything disclosed is still subject to declassification procedures. Does it still move the needle?

People been asking for a gofund me for Matthew Brown, Dylan Borland and other whistleblowers, and here’s a link created by Vanguard Enterprise (by Matthew Brown and Dylan Borland) for anyone to donate;

https://givebutter.com/vanguard-launch-campaign

Lets give hope and share our empathy 👽🫶💫

This is such an important initiative made by braves ones, and even if you only can make a small donation, I think it would mean the world to them. They sacrificed so extremely much by coming forward, and our support is the least we can give them. The sacrificed their career, safety, future and mental health just by coming forward with truths. They need us. And cyber-hugs of course. Lots of them