Tom Rogan

Background

Tom Rogan is a British-educated foreign policy writer and editor for the Washington Examiner, one of the most prominent conservative U.S. newspapers. Born and raised in London, England, he holds a BA in War Studies from King's College London, an MSc in Middle East Politics from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), and a graduate diploma in law from the University of Law, London. His educational foundation spans military strategy, regional geopolitics, law, and international affairs—disciplines that inform his scrutiny of national security institutions and intelligence claims.

Journalism Career

Rogan has built a career as a serious foreign policy journalist, with bylines in major outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reuters, The Atlantic, National Review, The Telegraph, The Guardian, and The Independent. His typical coverage focuses on Russia–US relations, China policy, Middle Eastern affairs, and European defense capabilities. He brings to UFO/UAP journalism the rigor expected in national security reporting: demanding documentation, interviewing officials, and testing claims against available evidence. This approach distinguishes him from both pure skeptics and uncritical believers—he investigates the institutional behavior around UAP rather than the phenomena themselves.

UAP Investigation & Disclosure Work

Since approximately 2020, Rogan has written extensively on unidentified aerial and underwater phenomena, treating the topic as a serious national security and institutional accountability issue. His UAP coverage includes interviews with Luis Elizondo, the former director of the Pentagon's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), from whom Rogan reported that the U.S. Navy "has the data" indicating detection of high-speed underwater objects of unknown origin. He has analyzed the USS Omaha UAP footage and other military encounters, treating them as evidence worthy of serious investigation.

Rogan has also covered the David Grusch whistleblower narrative, expressing skepticism about extraordinary claims while simultaneously arguing that government transparency is essential and that serious investigation is warranted. His position—skeptical of the claims themselves but forceful about the need for disclosure and institutional accountability—represents a middle position rarely heard in mainstream media, where coverage tends toward either dismissal or credulity.

Stance on Disclosure

In his opinion piece "More Transparency about UFOs Is a Good Thing" (published in the Washington Examiner), Rogan argued that the U.S. government's historical secrecy around UAP has been counterproductive and that transparency serves both scientific and democratic interests. He has characterized the recent increase in serious attention to UAP as a "striking evolution" from decades of dismissal, acknowledging that institutional failure to investigate has left a vacuum filled by fringe narratives. His journalism suggests that government secrecy, institutional bias against the topic, and genuine mysteries all coexist—and that sorting them out requires transparency, not defensive silence.