An extended-awaited listening to that promised to “pull back the curtain” on UFOs has heard from witnesses about alleged secret crash retrieval packages, communication with non-human intelligence, and authorities intimidation of whistleblowers.
The US Congressional listening to on UAPs on Wednesday, titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,” featured testimony from Dr. Tim Gallaudet, a retired Rear Admiral within the US Navy, former Division of Protection official Luis Elizondo, former NASA administrator Michael Gold and impartial journalist Michael Shellenberger.
A lot of the testimony was rehashed from earlier public claims, together with these made by Elizondo in his August memoir about his function in a Pentagon UFO program — and there was little in the best way of recent proof offered.
“This hearing is intended to help Congress and the American people to learn the extent of the programs and activities our government has engaged in with respect to UAPs and what knowledge it has yielded,” Republican co-chair Nancy Mace mentioned in her opening assertion.
“This includes, of course, any knowledge of extraterrestrial life or technology of non-human origin. If government-funded research on UAPs has not yielded any useful knowledge, we also need to know those facts. Taxpayers deserve to know how much has been spent. They shouldn’t be kept in the dark to spare the Pentagon a little bit of embarrassment.”
Shellenberger, most importantly, supplied the committee with a duplicate of an 11-page alleged whistleblower report describing numerous sorts of UAP proof being illegally withheld from US Congress, together with a supposedly unacknowledged particular entry program (USAP) gathering military-intelligence knowledge on UAPs referred to as “Immaculate Constellation.”
The Pentagon final month categorically denied the existence of any such program after parts of the unnamed whistleblower’s claims have been first reported by Shellenberger on his Public Substack weblog.
The complete doc describes a lot of alleged encounters or observations of UAPs, together with a “large saucer-shaped UAP” 200 to 400 meters throughout that was seen on satellite tv for pc imagery rising from thick clouds earlier than out of the blue reversing path.
“This behavior was evasive in nature and implied that the saucer-shaped UAP had become aware that it was under observation by a space-based collection platform,” the doc said.
It additionally describes the form and behaviors of the most typical sorts of UAPs reported by authorities witnesses, together with pilots between 1991 and 2022.
Spheres or orbs have been probably the most reported form, adopted by discs or saucers, then oval-shaped craft together with “Tic-Tacs.”
Triangle, boomerang, and arrowhead shapes “were by far the rarest,” whereas there have been additionally uncommon stories of “irregular or organic” shapes similar to “floating brain” or “jellyfish” UAPs characterised by a “central mass form from which multiple ‘arms’ or spars hang downward.”
The US authorities allegedly holds infra-red footage of 1 such “Jellyfish” UAP flying throughout the southern border with Mexico.
“In appearance and behavior, footage of this UAP violating the airspace of the southern border resembled the same class of UAPs observed near DoD facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan,” the doc mentioned.
In his written testimony, Gallaudet mentioned his “confirmation that UAPs are interacting with humanity” got here in January 2015 when he witnessed an e mail mysteriously disappear from his inbox on the Navy’s safe community.
Gallaudet was serving because the Commander of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command on the time and his personnel have been collaborating in a naval train off the US east coast.
The e-mail, from a Fleet Forces Command operations officer to all subordinate commanders, bore the topic line “URGENT SAFETY OF FLIGHT ISSUE” and mentioned phrases to the impact, “If any of you know what these are, tell me ASAP. We are having multiple near-midair collisions, and if we do not resolve it soon, we will have to shut down the exercise.”
Hooked up was the now-declassified video generally known as “Go Fast,” depicting a Navy F/A-18 encounter with an unknown object.
Gallaudet mentioned the following day, the e-mail disappeared from all recipients’ inboxes with out clarification, and superiors by no means mentioned the incident once more.
“This lack of follow-up was concerning,” he mentioned.
“As the Navy’s Chief Meteorologist at the time, my primary duty was to reduce safety-of-flight risks. Yet, it was evident that no one at the Flag Officer level was addressing the safety risks posed by UAPs. 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 compartmented program that even senior officials, including myself, were not read into.”
Gallaudet and the opposite witnesses decried the extent of presidency secrecy across the subject, arguing it posed nationwide safety and financial dangers.
Elizondo claimed a small group of individuals inside the authorities had “created a culture of suppression and intimidation” and 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.”
Gold referred to as for an finish to the “stigmatization of the UAP phenomena.”
Democratic committee member Jared Moskowitz agreed that “unnecessary over-classification has led to a void of information which has allowed theories to foster over the decades.”
Underneath questioning from Mace, Gallaudet described seeing satellite tv for pc imagery from 2017 depicting a UAP, however couldn’t present many particulars as they have been “classified.”
“It was a UAP, ma’am,” he mentioned. “The term that the analysts used, they called it the ‘button’. It was a disc-shaped object.”
Requested whether or not the US authorities had carried out secret UAP crash retrieval packages “designed to identify and reverse-engineer alien craft,” Elizondo answered a definitive “yes.”
He added he was conscious of discussions inside the Pentagon that alien our bodies had been recovered “before I was even born.”
“Has there been to your knowledge any communication with a non-human life form?” Republican Eric Burlison requested.
“The term communication is a bit of a trick word because there’s verbal communication, the problem is you also have non-verbal communication, and so I would say definitely yes,” Elizondo mentioned.
“When a Russian reconnaissance aircraft comes into US air space we scramble two F-22s, we are certainly communicating intent and capability. I think the same goes with this. We have these things that are being observed over controlled US air space and … they’re making it pretty obvious they have the ability to even interfere with our nuclear readiness.”
Wednesday’s listening to was a follow-up to July 2023’s Congressional hearings which heard from witnesses together with David Grusch, a former intelligence officer who claimed the US had retrieved crashed non-human craft and our bodies.
Dealing with rising requires transparency from Congress, the Pentagon established a brand new UFO investigation company, the All-domain Anomaly Decision Workplace (AARO), in July 2022.
AARO’s first report, launched in March, concluded there was “no evidence that any [US government] investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology.”
“AARO assesses that the inaccurate claim that the [US government] is reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology and is hiding it from Congress is, in large part, the result of circular reporting from a group of individuals who believe this to be the case, despite the lack of any evidence,” the report mentioned.
