CIA Allegedly Hunting Nordic Aliens Who 'Look Like Tall Scandinavian People' in Small Colorado Towns

A claim circulating again in September 2026 says the CIA searched 23andMe and Ancestry databases for genetic markers allegedly linked to 'Nordic' aliens. The claim was made by philosophy writer Jason Reza Jorjani, who said retired US Army remote-viewing figure Lyn Buchanan told him about the supposed programme.

No evidence has been produced to substantiate it. The allegation remains unverified and is based on podcast discussions and second-hand accounts rather than a published genetic marker, government document or confirmed investigation.

CIA Allegedly Searched 23andMe and Ancestry

Jorjani discussed the claim during an episode of the American Alchemy podcast dated 1 November 2025. He said Buchanan had told him that Christopher 'Kit' Green, a former CIA official, was connected to a system that allegedly accessed consumer genetic databases.

Jorjani claimed the system searched for a genetic variation outside the usual human population. The alleged target was a group known in UFO lore as the Nordics, who are typically described as tall, fair-skinned, blond and blue-eyed.

'They live in like small towns in the Colorado Rockies and they pass because they look like tall Scandinavian people,' Jorjani said.

The location claim has not been independently verified. Nor has any evidence been published showing that people in Colorado, or elsewhere, carry DNA linked to extraterrestrial ancestry.

Jorjani also repeated an alleged story about Buchanan being approached by three Nordics in a diner. According to Jorjani's account, they said they had escaped a 'tyrannical' government on another world and had settled on Earth.

He said the beings had children with humans and wanted their descendants to live ordinary lives. The anecdote remains unverified, and no independent witness, record or biological evidence has been identified.

Buchanan has discussed his involvement in the US government's historical remote-viewing programmes. Those programmes examined whether people could obtain information about distant places or objects through supposed psychic abilities. That background should not be confused with CIA employment.

In a Through a Glass Darkly podcast episode dated 29 March 2023, Buchanan said he was wary of using 23andMe because he believed officials were interested in people whose ancestry results included an 'Other' category.

'There is a wedge on the pie chart, you know Germanic, African and all this. There's a wedge called 'other,' which means unknown unidentifiable and there are, from what I found out, there are government people who are looking into that wedge,' Buchanan said.

That statement records Buchanan's belief. It does not establish that the CIA accessed customer data or was looking for alien ancestry.

DNA Policies Offer No Public Support

The companies' publicly stated data-access policies provide no public support for the allegation. They also do not, by themselves, rule out every form of covert intelligence activity.

23andMe says it does not voluntarily share customer information with law enforcement without valid legal process. Its guidance says the company may be required to respond to a valid court order, subpoena or search warrant, while stating that it uses legal and administrative measures to resist requests.

Ancestry's latest transparency report covers the period from 1 January to 31 December 2025. The company said it received no valid US requests for access to customers' DNA data during that period.

It also said it had never received a classified national-security request, including a National Security Letter or a request under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as of 31 December 2025.

Those figures concern requests reported to Ancestry. They do not prove that no secret access could ever have occurred, but they provide no support for the specific claim described by Jorjani.

The story also invokes Green, who worked at the CIA from 1969 to 1985 and was associated with remote-viewing research.

The chronology raises questions the available account does not answer. Both 23andMe and Ancestry were founded after Green left the agency, although that fact alone does not disprove a later connection.

The Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office has reached broader conclusions about claims involving extraterrestrial activity. In its 2024 historical report, AARO said it found no evidence that any US government investigation had confirmed extraterrestrial technology.

It also found no empirical evidence that the US government or private companies were reverse-engineering such technology.

AARO's findings do not specifically investigate the alleged CIA DNA programme. They therefore cannot prove the claim false. They do, however, provide no official support for the wider assertion that the US government has confirmed extraterrestrial-human activity.

Other public claims have helped keep that narrative alive. Missouri Representative Eric Burlison has said former intelligence officer David Grusch told him President Donald Trump had been briefed about alleged alien species and hybrids.

Burlison also said Grusch could not explain how anyone would identify an alien-human hybrid.

Former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz separately said a uniformed Army member told him about secret facilities allegedly involved in alien-human breeding. Gaetz said there were between six and 12 such sites, while acknowledging that he had not verified the account.

For now, the Colorado story remains an unverified allegation based primarily on second-hand claims. No genetic marker has been produced, no alleged descendant has been independently identified and no government document confirming a CIA search of 23andMe or Ancestry data has been made public.