Investigative journalist Jon Fleetwood has uncovered Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) documents that suggest the federal government may be preparing for more than just hypothetical threats. During a new interview with Maria Zeee this week, Fleetwood joined the chorus of other leading experts to warn of a troubling pattern: government pandemic simulations that often precede real-world crises.

At the heart of his findings is DARPA’s recent Request for Information (RFI) seeking tools to simulate man-made or natural outbreaks, and technologies to monitor those events in real time. Among the most controversial proposals is the deployment of biosensors that could blanket entire cities, tracking infections, mobility, and even genomic data of individuals. “This isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s in DARPA’s own documents,” Fleetwood said. “They’re calling it ‘biosensor density deployment’—and it’s about controlling populations during future outbreaks, not just responding to them.”

DARPA’s track record has already come under scrutiny. In 2012, the agency partnered with Moderna to explore mRNA “vaccine” technology. Four years later, Moderna filed a patent for a spike protein sequence, one that scientists would later find identical to a portion of the COVID-19 virus. “There’s a 1 in 3 trillion chance that was a coincidence,” Fleetwood claimed, citing peer-reviewed analysis and patent filings.

From Operation LAC to Operation Sea Spray, Fleetwood detailed how U.S. officials previously released live pathogens over major American cities without public consent to study transmission. These Cold War-era experiments resulted in illnesses and deaths, yet the truth was quietly buried under national security pretexts. Now, decades later, the same dangerous thinking appears to be resurfacing.