Security Oath
A security oath is a legally binding agreement sworn or signed by military or government personnel upon gaining access to classified programs, requiring them to maintain secrecy about what they have witnessed under penalty of criminal prosecution. Security oaths appear across multiple UAP whistleblower accounts as a mechanism used to enforce long-term silence about crash retrieval programs, recovered craft, and related classified operations.
RB's Account
Anonymous Marine whistleblower "RB" described signing a security oath upon his honorable discharge from the United States Marine Corps in 1966. The oath specifically pertained to his 1963 guard assignment involving a recovered disc-shaped craft at an undisclosed military base. The penalty for violating this oath was stated as a ten-year prison sentence and a $110,000 fine. RB cited this oath as one reason he never went public with his account and only disclosed it through an intermediary to researcher Michael Johnstone, who then connected him with Leonard Stringfield.
The existence of such oaths for witnesses to UAP-related programs is a recurring element in whistleblower testimony. The severity of the stated penalties — criminal prosecution under federal law — represents a significant institutional deterrent against disclosure and helps explain why many alleged witnesses to crash retrieval programs have either stayed silent entirely or disclosed only anonymously and through intermediaries.