Home lawmakers on Wednesday heard from witnesses who declare america authorities is sitting on a trove of data on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) stretching again a long time.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), in his opening remarks, referred to as on President-elect Trump to throw off the veil of secrecy on UAPs.
He mentioned the push for transparency has been “bipartisan bicameral, and as we get into a new administration, the President-elect has talked about opportunities to declassify information on UAPs and I hope he lives up to that promise.”
Talking throughout the Home Committee on Oversight and Accountability subcommittee listening to, one earlier Pentagon official claimed such a reveal would present a “multi-decade, secretive arms race.”
“Let me be clear: UAP are real,” Luis Elizondo mentioned in his opening testimony throughout the listening to. “Advanced technologies not made by our government — or any other government — are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe. Furthermore, the U.S. is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries.”
Elizondo, the previous head of the Pentagon’s now defunct Superior Aerospace Menace Identification Program (AATIP), charged with investigating UAPs, spoke alongside three different witnesses in a greater than two-hour listening to that referred to as into query the U.S. authorities’s classification course of and entered a number of bombshell claims into the general public sphere.
“I believe we are in the midst of a multi-decade, secretive arms race, one funded by misallocated taxpayer dollars and hidden from our elected representatives and oversight bodies,” Elizondo mentioned.
He later added that “excessive secrecy” has led to “grave misdeeds against loyal civil servants, military personnel and the public, all to hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos.”
One other witness, journalist Michael Shellenberger, who publishes the “Public” e-newsletter on Substack, mentioned Pentagon sources acknowledged to him the existence of an Unacknowledged Particular Entry Program (USAP) generally known as “Immaculate Constellation.”
A 12-page report on Immaculate Constellation — delivered to Congress by Shellenberger and authored, he says, by a present or former official and UAP whistleblower — claims that the chief department “has been managing UAPs without congressional knowledge or authorization for some time, possibly decades.”
The report additionally claims that Immaculate Constellation has gathered high-quality photos of UAPs, in addition to recorded first-hand observations.
“The U.S. military and intelligence community are sitting on a huge amount of visual and other information — still photos, video photos, other sensor information — and they have for a very long time,” Shellenberger mentioned.
He added that he’s been informed there are lots of, perhaps hundreds of items of such visible proof “and it’s not those fuzzy photos and videos that we’ve been given, it’s very high resolution.”
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who led the listening to, at one level held up the report and declared Immaculate Constellation was an “unacknowledged special access program that your government says does not exist.”
The listening to, half of a bigger effort by Congress to research UAPs and whether or not authorities sectors are withholding proof from lawmakers, takes place greater than a yr after an analogous listening to held in July 2023.
Throughout that now gathering, retired Maj. David Grusch, previously a part of the Pentagon’s UAP Process Drive, claimed that the U.S. authorities has future a secret program to reverse-engineer nonhuman materials from crash websites of UAP vessels. And two former Navy pilots relayed first-hand sightings of unexplained objects routinely violating U.S. airspace.
The testimony reignited long-held doubts that the U.S. navy and different high-level authorities businesses have been forthcoming with what it is aware of about attainable extraterrestrial exercise.
The listening to additionally set off a push in Congress for extra transparency, however lawmakers say motion by the U.S. authorities has been too sluggish.
The Pentagon’s All-Area Anomaly Decision Workplace (AARO) in March issued a report that mentioned it has discovered “no evidence” of alien spacecraft.
“To date, AARO has found no verifiable evidence for claims that the U.S. government and private companies have access to or have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology,” Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder mentioned in an announcement on the time.
Mace mentioned the workplace “is unable, or maybe unwilling, to carry ahead the reality in regards to the authorities’s actions regarding UAPs.
“So if there is no there there, then why are we spending money on it, and by how much? Why the secrecy if it’s really no big deal and there’s nothing there, why hide it from the American people? Because I’m not a mathematician, but I can tell you that doesn’t add up,” she mentioned.
Elizondo on Wednesday repeated Grusch’s explosive claims, telling Mace that the federal government has carried out secret UAP crash retrieval packages meant to determine and reverse-engineer alien craft.
He even mentioned he had seen documentation on compensation for U.S. personnel injured throughout a retrieval.
Retired Navy Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, in the meantime, testified he first encountered UAPs a couple of years in the past throughout a strike group train aboard the usTheodore Roosevelt plane provider.
Throughout the navy drill, he obtained an e-mail on the Navy’s safe community urgently asking if anybody might determine non-U.S. objects that brought on a number of near-midair collisions, warning the train might need to be shut down.
However the subsequent day, he claimed, the e-mail had been wiped from his inbox and senior workers wouldn’t discuss the entire occasion.
Elizondo later mentioned that UAP have flown so near American fighters in some incidents that they’ve cut up plane formations “right down the middle.”
