From “Born Secret” to Black Projects — Why We Never See the Most Advanced Tech

Eric Weinstein points out something most people don’t know: in physics, certain ideas are born classified, illegal to publish, even if you discover them on your own. The Born Secret doctrine means that anything with potential weapons, propulsion, or energy implications can vanish into secrecy the moment it’s conceived. Share them without clearance, and you could be prosecuted under the Espionage Act of 1917.

Now think about what that means for the world we live in…

If you stumbled upon a new way to manipulate spacetime, tap into zero-point energy, or create a non-rocket propulsion system, it would almost certainly be locked away, because it shifts military and geopolitical power.

This is the same secrecy architecture that has controlled UFO/UAP research for decades. Every credible insider who’s spoken out describes the same pattern; anything exotic in aerospace or energy gets shunted into Special Access Programs so deep they’re “waived” from standard oversight. This is the black budget world, where the most revolutionary breakthroughs live without ever reaching the public.

When you hear “national security,” it doesn’t just mean protecting the nation. It often means protecting the monopoly on certain truths.

Why the DOE is the Perfect Place to Hide the World’s Biggest Secrets…

Most people think of the Department of Energy as the part of government that manages energy policy, renewables, oil, electricity grids and so on, but in reality its most important function has nothing to do with those things at all.

The DOE manages the nuclear arsenal through the National Nuclear Security Administration and runs a network of highly specialised research facilities such as Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge.

To work at the highest levels inside these programs you need what is known as ‘Q clearance’ (Q?), which is the DOE’s top level of security access. It is roughly equivalent to, and in some cases more sensitive than, the Department of Defense’s Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance, and it gives access to what is called “Restricted Data”: information relating to the design of nuclear weapons, the production of special nuclear materials, and in some cases advanced areas of physics or propulsion technology.

Under the Atomic Energy Acts of 1946 and 1954, any knowledge that falls into these categories is considered “born secret”, which means it is automatically classified from the moment it comes into existence. The DOE therefore has the legal authority to control entire areas of research and to remove potentially revolutionary ideas in energy or propulsion from the public sphere if they are deemed to have national security implications.

Because this classification system is so impermeable, many programs are invisible even to members of Congress and so it has become easier to hide information under the DOE’s jurisdiction than under almost any other agency. Freedom of Information Act requests do not apply to “Restricted Data”, which means the public has no legal mechanism to compel disclosure of what is inside these programs.

This is one of the reasons some researchers and whistleblowers believe that certain UFO or exotic technology projects are housed within DOE-controlled facilities.

In that environment, secrecy can be maintained indefinitely, ensuring that some of the most advanced research never reaches the public domain.