Schriever Wargame File Claim
| Schriever Wargame File Claim | |
| Claim made | April 29, 2025 |
|---|---|
| Claimant | Matthew Brown |
| Exercise | Schriever Wargame 2018 (Air Force Space Command), October 2018 |
| Location | Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama |
| Related program | Immaculate Constellation (alleged) |
| Evidence public | None: no file, metadata or access log released |
| Status | Unverified; disputed |
The Schriever Wargame file claim concerns an account by Matthew Brown, who said in April 2025 that he found a briefing about the alleged program Immaculate Constellation in a computer folder labeled “2018 Schriever Wargame” [1]. The Schriever Wargame is a real, publicly acknowledged U.S. space and cyberspace exercise [3]. Skeptics argue the file was probably fictional wargame material; Brown and supporters say it was a genuine intelligence briefing [2].
The Schriever Wargame
The Schriever Wargame is a series of space and cyberspace exercises run by the U.S. Air Force, and later the Space Force, since 1998 [4]. The 2018 edition, the twelfth, was hosted in October 2018 by the LeMay Center for Doctrine Development and Education at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama [3][5]. About 350 military and civilian experts from more than 27 U.S. commands and agencies, plus partners from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, took part [3]. The notional scenario was set in 2028 and imagined a peer competitor exploiting space and cyberspace, with a focus on the Indo-Pacific region [3].
Brown’s account
In April 2025 Brown said he was an Office of the Secretary of Defense contractor and policy analyst in 2018, and that while sorting misfiled documents on a shared classified server he found a roughly 12-to-15-slide briefing in a folder labeled “2018 Schriever Wargame” [2]. He says it described Immaculate Constellation as a program created after AATIP was exposed, with a banner but no special access program markings, and that a supervisor told him to delete it; a SAP control officer reportedly dismissed it as a joke [2]. He recalls a slide about a large black triangle near Russian intelligence vessels off Kamchatka; later retellings differ in details [2]. No copy, metadata or access log has been made public [2].
The wargame explanation
On May 2, 2025, Jason Colavito wrote that Brown had mistaken fictional wargame documents for UFO revelations, noting that the exercise is promoted openly by the Space Force; he also said David Grusch had listed consulting on that wargame in a résumé he gave Congress [6]. Wargame professional Kevin Williamson wrote on LinkedIn on May 1, 2025 that wargame materials can resemble intelligence products to those unfamiliar with them, according to Anomaly Archives [7]. A Space Force spokesperson was reportedly quoted in May 2025 saying “Immaculate Constellation” was not a scenario title, codeword or element of the 2018 wargame, though no official release has been located [2]. Brown himself initially considered the wargame explanation, according to one analysis [2].
The analysis adds that the explanation narrows the question without settling it, because a genuine briefing could have been misfiled under an exercise label [2].
Assessment
Documented: the Schriever Wargame 2018 occurred as described [3][5]. Claimed: that an Immaculate Constellation briefing sat in a folder bearing its name. Unverified and unfalsifiable on public evidence: the file’s content, its authenticity and its deletion. The wargame explanation is plausible but not demonstrated, and the Defense Department denies the program exists. Status: unverified and disputed.
See also
- Immaculate Constellation
- Matthew Brown
- Michael Shellenberger
- November 2024 House Oversight UAP hearing
- David Grusch
- AATIP
References
- ^ “Matthew Brown: Immaculate Constellation Report Author/Whistleblower,” Metabunk forum thread, April 29 to May 14, 2025. metabunk.org
- ^ “The Schriever File: Immaculate Constellation or Wargame Scenario?” The Galactic Mind. thegalacticmind.com
- ^ “Air Force Space Command Conducts Schriever Wargame 2018,” GPS World, October 11, 2018. gpsworld.com
- ^ “Schriever wargame,” Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
- ^ “LeMay Center hosts AFSPC wargame,” Air University. airuniversity.af.edu
- ^ Jason Colavito, “Misinformation Abounds in a Busy Week for Government UFO Fantasies,” May 2, 2025. jasoncolavito.com
- ^ “Brown, Matthew – alleged Immaculate Constellation whistle blower,” Anomaly Archives. anomalyarchives.org