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At a hearing, a former military intelligence officer who is now a whistleblower claimed that executive branch agencies have been withholding information about the enigmatic objects for years and that Congress is being kept in the dark about UFOs and other unidentified atypical phenomena (UAP).
David Grusch, a 14-year veteran of the Air Force and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and two former fighter pilots with first-hand knowledge of UAP testified before the national security subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee.
Up until early this year, Grusch represented the Pentagon on two task forces looking at UAP. During the course of his work researching classified programs, he claimed to have learned of “a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program” and alerted Congress of it. When he requested access to those programs, he claimed he was turned down.
He also charged the military with misusing funds to hide these operations from congressional oversight. Later, he claimed that he had spoken with officials who had firsthand knowledge of aircraft having “nonhuman” origins and that some of the craft had supposedly “biologics” recovered from them.
Members of both parties expressed uncertainty about how Congress should proceed with the extraordinary allegations, demonstrating the growing willingness of legislators to demand that the executive branch be more forthright about the phenomenon.
Rep. Tim Burchett, a Republican from Tennessee, said: “We’re going to expose the cover-up, and I hope this is just the beginning of many more hearings and many more people coming forward about this.”
In the past, the Pentagon has refuted Grusch’s accusations, but it did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding them.
With the release of multiple video recordings of the encounters, which often show seemingly innocuous objects moving through the air at extremely high speeds without any discernible mode of propulsion, the UAP issue has received significant attention from Congress and the general public in recent years.
As of May, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office at the Pentagon, which Congress established last year to look into the incidents, has looked into almost 800 UAP claims. Although military officials claim that the majority of instances have innocent causes, several others are still unsolved. According to lawmakers, the military has not told Congress what it knows about the objects.
Observations Made by Witnesses During the UAP/UFO Hearing
Along with Grusch, the panel heard testimony from Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot who has spoken out about coming across UAP on training missions, and David Fravor, a pilot who noticed a big object seen in the now-famous “Tic Tac” film while flying off the coast of California in 2004.
All three witnesses agreed that the reporting mechanisms in place are insufficient for investigating UAP incidents and that there is still a stigma attached to pilots and officials who call for greater openness on their personal experiences.
When his crew started noticing unidentified flying objects in 2014, Graves was an F-18 pilot stationed in Virginia Beach. The peak or points of the cubes were contacting the interior of the sphere, and they were described as “dark grey or black cubes inside of a clear sphere.”
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An object between five and fifteen feet in diameter soared between two F-18s and came within 50 feet of the aircraft in one event, he claimed a colleague pilot had told him happened roughly ten miles off the coast. He claimed that at the time, neither an acknowledgment of the incidence nor a method of reporting the contact existed. He claimed that UAP contacts were “not rare or isolated.”
Our national dialogue would change if everyone could view the sensor and video data Graves saw. “I firmly believe that we should set stigma aside and confront the security and safety concern this topic raises. If UAP are foreign drones, this poses a serious threat to national security. If it’s something else, it’s a scientific problem. Unidentified objects pose a threat to flight safety in either scenario. The people of America have a right to know what is going on in the skies. It’s way past due.”
Grusch represented the National Reconnaissance Office at the AARO and the task group that preceded it. In the open hearing on Wednesday, he admitted that he couldn’t respond to numerous questions about what he knew about secret programs, but he said he was “hopeful that my actions will ultimately lead to a positive outcome of increased transparency.”
Fravor described his contact with an item in 2004 off the coast of California. The smooth, flawless oval-shaped object was first seen hovering over the ocean, he informed the panel, before it quickly rose to a height of roughly 12,000 feet. Then it accelerated and vanished. Less than a minute later, it was discovered at a distance of about 60 miles. Fravor revealed the item to other pilots who were preparing to take off when he returned to an aircraft carrier, and they were able to record it on camera.
According to Fravor, “I believe what we experienced was well beyond the material science and capabilities that we had at the time, that we have now, or that we’re going to have in the next 10 to 20 years.”
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Congress Presses for Disclosure of UAP and UFOs
The mysterious incidents have sparked a growing willingness among lawmakers to demand more information from the military and intelligence agencies. Many members of Congress have cited the potential national security threat posed by unidentified objects in or near U.S. airspace as justification for their demands.
The yearly defense budget bill presently being debated in Congress received an amendment from a group of senators from both parties, led by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The bill would require executive branch agencies to turn over UAP documents to a review board with “the presumption of immediate disclosure,” modeling it after legislation intended to make public records about President John F. Kennedy’s murder. Agency demands to keep records secret would need to be justified.
Last summer, a different House panel held the first open hearing on the subject in more than 50 years, during which Pentagon officials testified.
During the session on Wednesday, parliamentarians from both parties vented their frustration over their inability to obtain information regarding UAP from the military and intelligence services, citing a system of overclassification that conceals incident reports from the general public.
“Disclosure ought to happen today. Tomorrow should be the revelation day. The time has arrived, according to Florida Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz.”
Many of us are looking forward to receiving some answers in a more private atmosphere. The chairman of the subcommittee, Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman, predicted that some legislation will result from this.
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