James Fox Stands By Jason Sands After Whistleblower Controversy

Filmmaker James Fox has publicly addressed the controversy around Jason Sands, the whistleblower he included in his recent documentary, and he is not backing away from him. Fox admits Sands would probably have ended up on the edit room floor had he known then what has come out since, but he says he cannot tell his audience that Sands' story is "100% bogus."

Fox, who made The Phenomenon and Moment of Contact, posted his response on social media. I have my own view on Sands, and I will get to that below. First, there is a separate story about the Majestic 12 documents.

A new investigation claims a 1994 Majestic 12 document copies a 1954 Army Ranger manual

A new investigation has just been published by someone called Signals Intelligence, and it focuses on one specific Majestic 12 document. The original Majestic 12 documents surfaced in the 1980s, and then another one came out in 1994. That 1994 document is the subject of this report.

Signals Intelligence appears to have found the original document it was plagiarized from. According to the report, a 1954 Army Ranger technical manual matches up exactly with the 1994 Majestic 12 document. There is a lot to it, and he says he has much more information coming out about the Majestic 12 documents.

I did my own research into it, and it absolutely does line up. In fact, there are too many coincidences to ignore. I am about 95% certain that document was hoaxed, along with all the Majestic 12 documents. Credit goes to Signals Intelligence, who did the work on this.

James Fox says he cannot call Jason Sands a complete fraud

There has been some controversy surrounding Sands, and there is a lot to get into. I am involved with it as well. Because of all that controversy, Fox decided to respond. He opened by saying he hates filming himself but felt it necessary to address some issues, give an update on what he has been working on, and respond to criticism of his previous work.

Fox said the story is incredibly complex and describes it as a decades long coverup. He said he is highly dubious of anyone who makes definitive statements about witnesses, cases or researchers, because he does not think he can make any definitive statements himself, other than that the phenomenon is real. Beyond that, he said, he does not know what is ultimately going on.

He explained that people he cares about, some of whom he has worked with before, urged him to address Sands and told him it had dinged his credibility significantly. His answer was that hindsight is always 20/20, but that "I can't in good faith come on and tell all of you" that the story is "100% bogus," because he does not believe that and would be lying.

Fox details how he tried to verify Sands

Fox acknowledged that aspects have come out since he filmed with Sands, and said he would do things differently knowing them. He said Sands would probably have ended up on the edit room floor.

He then laid out the lengths he went to in order to verify even the basics. He said he obtained Sands' military records himself and met discreetly with people who had been in classified projects with him for the legacy UAP crash retrieval program. He said he contacted Sands' ex-wife and paid her to go up into their attic and dig through boxes for his photographs. He also said he reached out to the person who did the debrief after the alleged encounter at the Nellis test range, which he placed around 1994. "I did as much as I possibly could," he said.

Fox admits mistakes but insists he never intended to deceive

Fox said he has made mistakes and probably will make more. He said he has been at this for over 30 years and has travelled to China, Africa, Australia, Russia, Europe and South America trying to get it right, and that he does not always succeed. "I would never ever intentionally deceive anyone ever," he said, adding that it is not in his nature and that he works diligently but sometimes makes poor decisions.

He told critics they are entitled to keep criticizing him, that it comes with the territory, and that he will not fire back at them online. He did suggest they try doing what he and his team are doing, calling it very difficult, especially with extraordinary claims now in the mix.

Fox says he is still trying to get his message to the president

Fox said he has shifted his focus toward creating a credible platform for the likes of Grusch and others. He acknowledged that people are tired of extraordinary claims and want the classified details needed to verify them, and said he wants that too and has been working on getting it.

Whether that message has reached the president yet, he said he does not know, but he is going to keep plugging away.

Why I think Jason Sands hurts Fox's credibility

I hear what Fox is saying. If things had been different, he probably would not have included Sands, and I understand where he is coming from. What is interesting is that he is tripling down on Sands. I get that you can confirm details about someone behind the scenes, but the problem is that Sands connects to every UFO story you have ever heard. Ask him a question and the answer is always some version of: I have heard of that, I know about that, I have seen that, I have done that.

In the documentary, he tells a story about seeing a blue alien out by Area 51 somewhere. Later it comes out that he was also part of a secret military group going around in helicopters shooting aliens in caves. I am not joking. He also says he saw an Anubis, one of those Egyptian gods, as a huge thing. Of course people are skeptical. Fox seems to think the original story is real somehow. "It's like dude it's right in front of you." Sands may have worked for the government, but I think this does hurt Fox's credibility.

At the same time, I can understand why Fox is doing it. He is standing his ground, and I can respect that. I do not know what I would do in his position. He is trying to save face and be a little diplomatic. Will he use Sands in another documentary? Probably not. Nobody has seen Sands in anything other than that documentary. He has done some podcast interviews, he is in X Spaces all the time, and he did the one Joe Rogan episode. That is it.

If even James Fox does not know, how are the rest of us supposed to?

Is Sands telling his truth? That is for each person to decide. I personally do not think so. That does not mean I hate him or have anything personal against him. I just do not think those things happened to him. Where is the proof? If he can provide it, then prove us all wrong. Until then, I do not believe it, because there is no proof.

What struck me is Fox saying he does not know what is going on. It is funny for him to say that. He is the one dealing with the whistleblowers and the secret information behind the scenes that I know is going on, and even he is not sure. Even he has not seen the proof. So what happens next? I do not know.

Do you think Jason Sands is telling his truth, or should Fox have left him on the edit room floor?