{"type":"people","slug":"dylan-borland","title":"Dylan Borland","url":"https://disclosdex.com/people/dylan-borland","description":"Former Air Force intelligence specialist whose 2025 testimony made a 2012 Langley triangle claim public","date":"2025-09-09T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Whistleblower"],"updated":"2026-05-18T13:33:53.000Z","disclosureRating":4,"connectionCount":10,"content":{"markdown":"Dylan Borland is a former U.S. Air Force intelligence specialist who appears in the public record as a UAP witness and federal whistleblower through congressional testimony about a claimed 2012 sighting, later claimed exposure to legacy programs, and alleged retaliation after disclosures to the [All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office](/programs/aaro) and the Intelligence Community Inspector General.[^1][^2][^3]\n\n## Intelligence Work Before the Claim\n\nIn his written statement to the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, Borland identified himself as an American citizen, veteran, and Intelligence Community professional.[^3] He said he served as a U.S. Air Force \"1N1\" geospatial intelligence specialist in an active-duty enlisted capacity from 2010 to 2013, and that he was stationed at Langley Air Force Base from 2011 to 2013 while supporting 24-hour manned and unmanned aerial vehicle operations for Special Operations Forces during the Global War on Terror.[^3] Borland also said he later worked for BAE Systems and Intrepid Solutions as a senior analyst specializing in video, radar, and advanced electro-optical imagery for aerial, naval, and ground order-of-battle identification.[^3]\n\nNo cited public source independently verifies Borland's personnel file, contractor records, ethnicity, or biographical details beyond the House materials, so his nationality, service, field, and affiliations are attributed to his testimony and the House witness listing.[^2][^3]\n\n## The Langley Triangle Account\n\nBorland's UAP account centers on a summer 2012 incident at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia.[^3] He said his team was on weather standby, that he returned to his barracks at about 1:30 a.m., and that he saw an approximately 100-foot equilateral triangle fly from near the NASA hangar to within roughly 100 feet of where he stood.[^3] In his written account, Borland said the object interfered with his telephone, made no sound, appeared to have fluid or dynamic material, remained above him for several minutes, and then ascended to commercial-jet altitude within seconds without sound, wind, or visible kinetic disturbance.[^3][^4]\n\nThe claim appears in House witness materials and oral hearing records; the object has not been independently identified in the public record cited here.[^2][^3][^4] The House hearing page lists him as a UAP witness and U.S. Air Force veteran, and the Congress.gov and GovInfo records preserve the hearing as \"Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection\" on September 9, 2025.[^2][^4][^5]\n\n## From Internal Disclosure to Public Testimony\n\nBorland's written statement says his later whistleblower decision came after years of alleged reprisals and after what he described as exposure to classified information from a UAP legacy crash-retrieval program through a sensitive position inside a Special Access Program.[^3] He said he agreed to meet with AARO at the end of March 2023, but withheld sources-and-methods information because he distrusted AARO's public assessments and wanted to protect current and former federal personnel who he said had firsthand exposure to technologies of unknown origin.[^3]\n\nAfter [David Grusch](/people/david-grusch) testified publicly in 2023, Borland said he was asked to go to the Intelligence Community Inspector General and did so in August 2023.[^3] Borland described that ICIG intake as a video-recorded, under-oath interview focused on assessing how much he knew rather than moving forward with an investigation.[^3] The underlying AARO interview file, ICIG complaint, classified attachments, and any case adjudication naming him are not in the public record cited here.[^3][^4][^7][^8]\n\n## Retaliation Claims and the Hearing Platform\n\nBorland alleged that his professional career was deliberately obstructed because of his knowledge of claimed legacy UAP programs, and he described more than a decade of reprisals from government agencies.[^3] His written statement lists alleged medical malpractice by Veterans Affairs staff, denial of work performed while enlisted, forged or manipulated employment documents, workplace harassment, manipulation of security-clearance records, blacklisting from intelligence-community agencies, and attempts to probe his ICIG complaint during a November 2024 counterintelligence polygraph for unrelated work.[^3]\n\nChairwoman Anna Paulina Luna's September 3, 2025 announcement said the hearing would examine UAP disclosure concerns, DoD and intelligence-community transparency, AARO's effectiveness, and whistleblower protection; the witness list named Jeffrey Nuccetelli, Alexandro Wiggins, [George Knapp](/people/george-knapp), Dylan Borland, and Joe Spielberger.[^1][^2] The committee's hearing wrap-up later framed Borland's remarks as part of a broader whistleblower-protection argument, quoting his statement that individuals coming forward about UAP felt discarded and isolated.[^6]\n\nDefenseScoop reported that Borland was testifying publicly for the first time and that he told lawmakers he faced severe retaliation after the Langley account and related information he said he uncovered afterward.[^9] Stars and Stripes described him as a former geospatial intelligence specialist at Langley and reported that he said AARO interviewed him in 2023 about the incident but dismissed his claims.[^10]\n\n## Unreleased Evidence and Official Caveats\n\nOfficial House and Congress records show that Borland was listed as a witness, submitted written testimony, and testified in the [September 9, 2025 UAP transparency hearing](/events/2025-09-09-restoring-public-trust-uap-hearing); the same records preserve his claimed firsthand sighting, claimed official disclosures, and retaliation allegations.[^2][^3][^4][^5] The cited public sources do not supply sensor data, photographs, radar tracks, named corroborating witnesses for the 2012 Langley event, released ICIG findings, or AARO case files validating the alleged object or legacy program exposure.[^2][^3][^4][^7][^8]\n\nAARO's 2024 historical report said it found no evidence that any U.S. government investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel had confirmed a UAP sighting as extraterrestrial technology, and no empirical evidence that the U.S. government or private companies had been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology.[^7] ODNI and DoD's FY 2024 consolidated UAP report said AARO had received 757 reports in its covered period, resolved many to prosaic objects, left many others unresolved because of data limits, and had discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology.[^8] Borland's classified-material and legacy-program claims remain unreleased in the cited public record.[^3][^4][^7][^8]\n\n## References\n\n[^1]: [U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: \"Luna Announces Hearing on Transparency Relating to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena\" (September 3, 2025)](https://oversight.house.gov/release/luna-announces-hearing-on-transparency-relating-to-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena/)\n[^2]: [U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: \"Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection\" hearing page (September 9, 2025)](https://oversight.house.gov/hearing/restoring-public-trust-through-uap-transparency-and-whistleblower-protection/)\n[^3]: [Dylan Borland: \"Whistleblower Statement for the House of Representatives Task Force\" (House Oversight PDF, September 2025)](https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Borland-Written-Testimony.pdf)\n[^4]: [Congress.gov: \"Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection\" House event 118584 text (September 9, 2025)](https://www.congress.gov/event/119th-congress/house-event/118584/text)\n[^5]: [U.S. Government Publishing Office: \"Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection\" printed hearing record, Serial No. 119-44 (2025)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-119hhrg61718/pdf/CHRG-119hhrg61718.pdf)\n[^6]: [U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: \"Hearing Wrap Up: Government Must Be More Transparent About UAPs\" (September 9, 2025)](https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-government-must-be-more-transparent-about-uaps/)\n[^7]: [All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office: \"Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, Volume I\" (March 2024)](https://media.defense.gov/2024/Mar/08/2003409233/-1/-1/0/AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Vol_1_2024.pdf)\n[^8]: [Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Department of Defense: \"Fiscal Year 2024 Consolidated Annual Report on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena\" (November 14, 2024)](https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/DOD-AARO-Consolidated-Annual-Report-on-UAP-Nov2024.pdf)\n[^9]: [Brandi Vincent, DefenseScoop: \"Military whistleblowers share new evidence of alleged UAP at transparency hearing\" (September 9, 2025)](https://defensescoop.com/2025/09/09/military-whistleblowers-share-new-evidence-alleged-uap-ufo-hearing/)\n[^10]: [Linda F. Hersey, Stars and Stripes: \"Lawmakers accuse Pentagon officials of 'lack of transparency' over UFO sightings by military personnel\" (September 10, 2025)](https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-09-10/unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-whistleblower-reprisal-19046217.html)","readingTime":"6 min read"},"relatedRecords":[{"ref":{"type":"events","slug":"2025-09-09-restoring-public-trust-uap-hearing","title":"Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection","url":"https://disclosdex.com/events/2025-09-09-restoring-public-trust-uap-hearing"},"direction":"outbound","weight":1},{"ref":{"type":"people","slug":"andy-ogles","title":"Andy Ogles","url":"https://disclosdex.com/people/andy-ogles"},"direction":"inbound","weight":1},{"ref":{"type":"people","slug":"joe-spielberger","title":"Joe Spielberger","url":"https://disclosdex.com/people/joe-spielberger"},"direction":"inbound","weight":1},{"ref":{"type":"people","slug":"eric-burlison","title":"Eric Burlison","url":"https://disclosdex.com/people/eric-burlison"},"direction":"inbound","weight":1},{"ref":{"type":"programs","slug":"aaro","title":"All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)","url":"https://disclosdex.com/programs/aaro"},"direction":"outbound","weight":1},{"ref":{"type":"people","slug":"anna-paulina-luna","title":"Anna Paulina Luna","url":"https://disclosdex.com/people/anna-paulina-luna"},"direction":"inbound","weight":1},{"ref":{"type":"people","slug":"david-grusch","title":"David Grusch","url":"https://disclosdex.com/people/david-grusch"},"direction":"outbound","weight":1},{"ref":{"type":"people","slug":"tim-burchett","title":"Tim Burchett","url":"https://disclosdex.com/people/tim-burchett"},"direction":"inbound","weight":1},{"ref":{"type":"people","slug":"george-knapp","title":"George Knapp","url":"https://disclosdex.com/people/george-knapp"},"direction":"outbound","weight":1},{"ref":{"type":"people","slug":"dina-titus","title":"Dina Titus","url":"https://disclosdex.com/people/dina-titus"},"direction":"inbound","weight":1}],"citation":{"canonicalUrl":"https://disclosdex.com/people/dylan-borland","title":"Dylan Borland","publisher":"Disclosdex","retrievedFrom":"https://disclosdex.com/api/v1/people/dylan-borland","license":"CC-BY-4.0"},"occupation":"UAP witness, former U.S. Air Force geospatial intelligence specialist, and federal whistleblower","externalLinks":["https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Borland-Written-Testimony.pdf"],"witnesses":["U.S. House Committee on Oversight witness in September 9, 2025 UAP hearing"],"evidence":["House Oversight witness list and hearing document portal for Borland","Written and oral testimony records submitted under oath","Congress.gov and GovInfo hearing record for House event 118584"]}