Chase Brandon
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Chase Brandon is a former CIA clandestine service officer who served over 25 years at the Agency, including sixteen years (1996–2012) as the CIA's first formal Entertainment Industry Liaison — a role involving vetting and production consultation of Hollywood films and television series with national security themes. In 2012, he publicly stated that the Roswell UFO crash of 1947 involved non-human beings and non-human technology (see 1947 Roswell incident).
2012 Roswell statements
Around the time of his novel's publication, Brandon stated in interviews that he had personally accessed a box of materials in the CIA's Historical Intelligence Collection containing documents and photographs confirming that Roswell involved the recovery of non-human beings and technology of non-human origin. He did not provide documentary evidence, but maintained the account publicly across multiple interviews. His statements predated the main wave of congressional UAP disclosure by approximately five years.
The Cryptos Conundrum
Brandon authored the thriller novel The Cryptos Conundrum (2012), which incorporated fictionalized elements drawn from classified programs. Harald Malmgren — former Presidential advisor and senior intelligence figure — described it as a thinly veiled disclosure vehicle, depicting a celestial object that telepathically communicates timeline information to selected recipients, a secret committee managing non-human intelligence, and a mathematical prodigy navigating a "liminal timeless dominion" with otherworldly beings. Peter Levenda flagged the novel as significant, noting that its committee managing non-human intelligences and navigating timelines raised questions about synchronistic coordination structures above the government itself.