Experts Testify During UFO Hearing in Congress

Updated November 13, 2024 at 1:27 PM ET

Is intelligent alien life darting around in space – and even in the skies above us here on Earth? Has the US government been hiding unexplained phenomena and using secret alien discoveries to boost its own technology?

These are among the questions that members of Congress discussed Wednesday during a joint hearing by subcommittees of the House Oversight Committee. The title: “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon: Uncovering the Truth.”

Four experts testified at the public hearing. That’s possible view the procedure here.

The Pentagon released a report in March saying it has found no evidence of alien spacecraft.

Extraordinary moments occurred in a similar hearing last year, especially with the retirement of Major David Grusch, formerly part of the Pentagon UAP Task Forcealleged that the U.S. government has recovered non-human “biological agents” from crash sites and has long run a secret reverse-engineering program to collect progress from salvaged ships.

Grusch is not among the witnesses for the 2024 hearing. Instead, witnesses include:

Tim Gallaudet, retired rear admiral, U.S. Navy; CEO of Ocean STL Consulting, LLC

“The confirmation that UAPs are interacting with humanity came to me in January 2015,” Gallaudet said in his written testimony.

He describes being part of a Navy exercise prior to the deployment off the US East Coast, which culminated in the famous ‘Go Fast’ video, in which the sensors of a Navy F/A-18 jet ‘an unidentified recorded an object that showed flight and structural features unlike anything else’. in our arsenal.”

He was among a group of commanders involved in the exercise who received an email with the video, which was sent by Fleet Forces Command’s operations officer, Gallaudet said.

“The next day, the email disappeared from my account and those of the other recipients without any explanation,” he said.

Luis Elizondo, author and former Defense Department official

Elizondos testimony is short and is sure to provoke scrutiny, alleging that there is a secret arms race taking place on the world stage.

“Let me be clear: UAP is real,” he writes. “Advanced technologies not created by our government – or any other government – monitor sensitive military installations around the world. Furthermore, the US possesses UAP technologies, as do some of our adversaries.”

Elizondo is a former intelligence officer who later managed “a highly sensitive special access program on behalf of the White House and National Security Council,” his spokesman said. official biography.

“In 2012, (Elizondo) was the top ranking individual in the Defense Department’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a secret Pentagon unit that studied unidentified anomalous phenomena,” his biography says, adding that he resigned in 2017.

Michael Gold, former NASA Administrator of Space Policy and Partnerships; member of the NASA UAP Independent Study Team

Goud’s testimony emphasizes the need for government agencies and academics to “overcome the pernicious stigma that continues to hinder scientific dialogue and open discussions about unexplained phenomena.”

“As the saying goes, the truth is out there,” Gold said, “we just have to be brave and courageous enough to face it.”

Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public, a news channel on the Substack platform

Shellenberger’s testimony covers some 214 pages, including a lengthy timeline of UAP reports from 1947 to 2023.

Shellenberger is urging the White House and Congress to take action, calling for passage of UAP transparency legislation and cuts to funding for related programs that are not disclosed to lawmakers.

“UAP transparency is bipartisan and critical to our national security,” his written testimony states.

Reports of UFOs and UAPs are now more centralized

In 1977, President Carter asked NASA to investigate resuming UFO investigations, but the agency and the Air Force believed “Nothing would be gained by further investigation.”

But in recent years there have been increasing efforts to compile and centralize reporting on unexplained phenomena.

In July 2022, the US government established the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AAROto standardize reporting methods and data collection. It collects UAP reports from the military and from the Federal Aviation Administration, including sightings reported to air traffic control by civilian pilots. The agency does not provide a way for the general public to file a UAP report. It does accept “reports from current or former U.S. Government employees, service members, or contract personnel with direct knowledge of U.S. Government programs or activities related to UAP dating back to 1945.”

The agency adds that potential filers should not submit “information that is potentially CLASSIFIED, or unclassified information that cannot be publicly released (e.g., subject to export control regulations).”

There are also many historical documents available

Due to high public interest, a number of documents relating to UFO investigations are available online, including: folder “case files” related to UAPs on the US Navy website. The FBI also has an online one “vault” of recordscovering the period from 1947 to 1954.

As for the famous Project Blue Book managed by the US Air Force from 1947 to 1969, documents related to the project are now kept by the US Air Force. National Archiveswhich contains 37 cubic feet of files, along with at least 5 other cubic feet of documents.