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New ‘Leak Network’ account examines the private messages behind UFO credibility battles

Courtney Marchesani’s new article follows information circulating around Jason Sands and his critics. Sara Bond says the material draws on two and a half years of records.

The public arguments over UFO whistleblowers have a less visible side: private conversations, messages passed between acquaintances, and details that surface long after they were first discussed.

Courtney Marchesani turns to those exchanges in The Leak Network, published on Medium. Her account examines how employment information and private discussions moved among people involved in disputes over Jason Sands and other UFO personalities.

Following the messages

One thread concerns a person referred to as “Rob Wood” and questions about the contractor Azimuth. Marchesani describes a January 2025 message asking Sara Bond whether she had raised the company with Sands. Bond did not put the question to him until July 2026, according to the article.

Marchesani also examines an allegation that information about a prominent Sands critic’s employer circulated before his public disclosure. That part rests on a confidential source’s account, rather than a timestamped message reproduced for readers.

Her central argument concerns the movement of information, not a demonstrated intelligence operation. She plans to pursue further allegations in a second instalment.

Bond says records have been backed up

In her September 13 post on X, Bond said she and Marchesani had spent the preceding week gathering material from themselves and confidential sources. She said copies of their records were held by others, alongside a recording of her own account.

For readers following these disputes, the chronology offers a different starting point from choosing which personality to believe. When a claim first appeared, and how it reached a wider audience, can matter as much as who eventually repeated it.

The account also leaves a question for Marchesani and Bond: what persuaded them to take Sands seriously in the first place, and has reviewing these records changed their view? Tracing the messages explains the focus of this investigation, but doesn’t answer that question.

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