A long-awaited hearing that promised to “pull back the curtain” on UFOs Heard from witnesses about alleged secret casualty recovery programs, communications with non-human intelligence, and government intimidation of whistleblowers.
Testimony was given Wednesday at a U.S. Congressional hearing on UAPs, titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.” Dr. Tim GallaudetA retired rear admiral in the US Navy, former Defense Department official Luis ElizondoFormer NASA Administrator michael gold and freelance journalist Michael Shellenberger,
Much of the testimony was repeated from previous public claims, including those made by Elizondo. August Memoirs There was little in the way of information – and new evidence presented – about his role in the Pentagon UFO program.
Republican co-chair Nancy Mace said in her speech, “The purpose of this hearing is to help Congress and the American people learn more about how many programs and activities our government has engaged in with respect to UAPs and what knowledge has been gained from them. ” opening statement,
“Of course, this includes any knowledge of extraterrestrial life or technology of non-human origin. If government-funded research on UAP has not yielded any useful knowledge, we need to know those facts as well. Taxpayers have a right to know how much has been spent. “They should not be kept in the dark to save the Pentagon a little embarrassment.”
Most importantly, Shellenberger provided the committee with a copy of the 11-page alleged whistleblower report, which provided a variety of details. uap evidence Illegal information is being withheld from the US Congress, including an allegedly undisclosed Special Access Program (USAP) collecting military-intelligence data on UAPs, referred to as the “Immaculate Constellation”.
The Pentagon flatly denied the existence of any such program last month, when excerpts of the anonymous whistleblower’s claims were first reported by Shellenberger on his blog. public Substack Blog.
Several alleged encounters or observations of UAPs are described throughout the document, including a “large saucer-shaped UAP” at a distance of 200 to 400 metres, which was seen on satellite imagery emerging from dense clouds before suddenly changing direction. Was seen to happen.
“This behavior was evasive in nature and implied that the saucer-shaped UAP was aware that it was under surveillance by a space-based collection platform,” the document said.
It also describes the size and behavior of the most common types of UAPs reported by government witnesses, including pilots, between 1991 and 2022.
Shells or spheres were the most commonly reported shapes, followed by discs or saucers, then oval-shaped crafts including “tic-tac”.
Triangle, boomerang, and arrow-shaped shapes were “by far the rarest”, while there were also rare reports of “irregular or organic” shapes such as a “floating brain” or “jellyfish” UAPs were characterized by a “central mass form”. from which several ‘arms’ or spars hang downwards.”
The US government reportedly has infra-red footage of one such “Jellyfish” UAP flying over the southern border with Mexico.
“In appearance and behavior, the footage of this UAP violating southern border airspace was identical to the same class of UAPs seen near DOD facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan,” the document said.
In his written testimony, Gallaudet said his “confirmation that the UAPs are interacting with humanity” came in January 2015 when he noticed an email mysteriously disappearing from his inbox on the Navy’s secure network.
Gallaudet was serving as commander of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command at the time and his personnel were participating in a naval exercise off the US East Coast.
The email to all subordinate commanders, from the Fleet Forces Command Operations Officer, had the subject line “Urgent Safety of Flight Issue” and words to the effect, “If any of you know what these are, please let me know.” Please tell us as soon as possible. We are facing many conflicts in the air, and if we do not resolve it soon, we will have to stop the practice.
Now declassified video was attached which is called “Come fast,” Depiction of a Navy F/A-18 encounter with an unidentified object.
Gallaudet said that the next day, the email disappeared from all recipients’ inboxes without explanation, and superiors never discussed the incident again.
“This lack of follow-up was worrying,” he said.
“As the Navy’s chief meteorologist at the time, my primary duty was to minimize flight safety risks. Yet, it was clear that no one at the flag officer level was addressing the security risks posed by UAP. Instead, pilots were left to mitigate these threats on their own, without guidance or support. I concluded that the UAP information must have been classified within a special access program managed by an intelligence agency – a compiled program that even senior officials, including me, had not read.
Gallaudet and other witnesses condemned the level of government secrecy on the subject, arguing that it could pose national security and economic risks.
Elizondo claimed that a small group of people within the government “have created a culture of repression and intimidation” and that “excessive secrecy has led to grave misdeeds against loyal civil servants, military personnel, and the public – concealing the fact that For we are “not alone in the universe.”
Gould called for an end to the “stigmatization of the UAP incident”.
Democratic committee member Jared Moskowitz agreed that “unnecessary over-classification has led to a lack of information that has allowed theories to be promoted for decades.”
Under questioning from Mace, Gallaudet described seeing satellite imagery depicting UAPs from 2017, but could not provide further details because they were “classified”.
“It was a UAP, madam,” he said. “The term the analysts used was they called it a ‘button.’ It was a disc-shaped object.”
When asked whether the U.S. government conducted secret UAP crash recovery programs that were “designed to identify and reverse-engineer alien craft,” Elizondo answered definitively “yes.”
He said he was aware of discussions inside the Pentagon that alien bodies had been recovered “even before I was born.”
“Has there been any communication with any non-human life form to your knowledge?” Republican Eric Burlison asked.
“The word communication is a little bit of a tricky word because there’s verbal communication, the problem is you also have non-verbal communication, and so I would definitely say yes,” Elizondo said.
“When a Russian reconnaissance aircraft comes into American airspace and we collide with two F-22s, we are certainly communicating intent and capability. I think the same applies to this. We have these things that are being observed over controlled American airspace and… they are making it clear that they also have the potential to interfere with our nuclear preparedness.
Wednesday’s hearing was a sequel to a July 2023 congressional hearing that heard from witnesses, including former intelligence official David Grush, who claimed the US recovered a crashed non-humanoid craft and bodies.
Facing increasing demands for transparency from Congress, the Pentagon established a new UFO investigation agency, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), in July 2022.
AARO’s first report, released in March, concluded that “There is no evidence that any (U.S. government) investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sightings of UAPs are the result of extraterrestrial technology.” represents.”
“AARO assesses that the false claim that the (U.S. government) is reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology and hiding it from Congress is, in large part, the result of circular reporting from a group of individuals who believe this is the case, Despite the lack of any evidence,” the report said.
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