House members on Wednesday heard from witnesses who claim the U.S. government is sitting on a trove of information about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) dating back decades.
In his opening remarks, Representative Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) called on President-elect Trump to lift the veil of secrecy regarding UAPs.
He said the push for transparency is “bipartisan, bicameral, and as the new administration takes office, the president-elect has talked about the opportunity to declassify information about UAPs, and I'm confident he will keep that promise.” I look forward to that.”
A former Pentagon official speaking at a House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee hearing argued that such a revelation would demonstrate a “decades-long secret arms race.”
“Let me be clear: UAP is real,” Luis Elizondo said in opening testimony at the hearing. “Sophisticated technology not created by our government or any other government monitors sensitive military facilities around the world. Additionally, the United States, like some of our adversaries, uses UAP technology to monitor sensitive military facilities around the world. I own it.”
Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon's now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which investigated unmanned aircraft, spoke along with three other witnesses during the more than two-hour hearing. and made several bombshell statements in court, casting doubt on the U.S. government's classification process. public realm.
“I believe we are in the midst of a decades-long secret arms race, funded by misallocated taxpayers and hidden from our elected representatives and oversight bodies. I believe,” Elizondo said.
He later added that “excessive secrecy” has led to “serious wrongdoings against our loyal public servants, military personnel and citizens, all to hide the fact that we are not alone in the universe.”
Another witness, journalist Michael Shellenberger, said: “Public” Newsletter On Substack, a Pentagon source confirmed to him the existence of an unauthorized special access program known as “Immaculate Constellation.”
The 12-page report on the Immaculate Constellation, submitted to Congress by Shellenberger and written by a current or former official and UAP whistleblower, states that the executive branch “has not had the knowledge or permission of Congress for some time. “There is a possibility that the UAP has been managed without the use of a UAP.” For decades. ”
The report also claims that Immaculate Constellation collected high-quality images of the UAP and recorded first-hand observations.
“The U.S. military and intelligence agencies store vast amounts of visual and other information, including still photographs, video photographs, and other sensor information, and do so for a very long time,” Shellenberger said. said.
He added that he has heard that there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of such visual evidence, “and what we were provided with was not those blurry photos or videos, but very high-resolution images. It belongs to me,” he added.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R.S.C.), who led the hearing, at one point held up a report that said Immaculate Constellation was “an unapproved special access program that the government says doesn't exist.” declared.
The hearing is part of a larger effort by Congress to investigate whether UAP and government departments are withholding evidence from members of Congress, more than a year after a similar hearing was held in July 2023. It was held at
During the rally, retired Major David Gruesch, a former member of the Pentagon's UAP Task Force, claimed that the U.S. government had been running a secret program for years to reverse engineer inhuman material from UAP ship crash sites. . Two former Navy pilots also reported first-hand sightings of unexplained objects that regularly violate U.S. airspace.
The testimony reignited long-standing suspicions that the U.S. military and other government agencies actively provide known information about possible extraterrestrial activity.
The hearing also prompted a push in Congress to push for more transparency, but lawmakers say the U.S. government is moving too slowly.
In March, the Department of Defense's All Area Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) released a report finding “no evidence” of an alien spacecraft.
“To date, AARO has not verified any claims that the U.S. government or private companies are accessing or reverse engineering extraterrestrial technology,” Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement at the time. “We have not found any possible evidence.”
Mace said authorities are “unable, or perhaps unwilling, to reveal the truth about the government's activities regarding UAP.”
“So if there's no 'there' then why do we spend money there, and how much do we spend there?” It's really not a big deal, it's nothing, so why keep it a secret? Why hide it from the American public? I'm not a mathematician, so I can say that doesn't make sense,” she said.
Elizondo reiterated Grusch's explosive claims Wednesday, telling Mace that the government is running a top-secret UAP crash recovery program aimed at identifying and reverse engineering spacecraft.
He even said he had seen documents regarding compensation for U.S. service members injured during the recovery.
Meanwhile, retired Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet testified that he first encountered an unmanned fighter jet several years ago during a strike group exercise aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.
During a military exercise, he urgently asked on the Navy's secure network if anyone could identify a non-U.S. object that caused multiple near-air collisions, potentially forcing the exercise to be called off. I received an email warning me.
However, he claimed that the email was deleted from his inbox the next day and that senior staff no longer spoke about the incident.
Elizondo later said that in some incidents, unmanned aircraft flew so close to American fighter jets that formations of aircraft were separated “down the middle.”
