A congressional hearing on Wednesday aimed at “exposing the truth” behind unidentified anomalous phenomena seems to have raised more questions than it answered.
The Committee on Oversight and Accountability conducted the hearing titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,” featuring testimony from former military personnel who claim the U.S. government has been hiding UFO evidence from the public for decades.
The November 13 testimony was the third round of hearings on the subject in the past two and a half years.
In May 2023, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray and Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie testified before the legislators and presented declassified images of UFOs, also known as UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena), as The Dallas Express reported.
In July 2023, other aerospace, intelligence, and military leaders testified about recorded encounters and experiences with alleged “non-human” aircraft. David Grusch, a former Pentagon official, testified under oath that the Pentagon had been running a covert program to study downed UAP spacecraft and extraterrestrial pilots and was financing the decades-long program by misappropriating funds, USA Today reported.
At the most recent hearing on November 13, Timothy Gallaudet, a retired rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, testified that his crew witnessed unidentified objects in the sky while on a training mission off the East Coast. Navy personnel immediately emailed him to inform him of the encounters.
The email describing multiple near-midair collisions was accompanied by a video of UAP captured by a Navy aircraft. However, the next day, the email and video that had been sent to him and his colleagues disappeared without explanation.
Gallaudet claimed that there is a disinformation campaign in the highest levels of government, including the Pentagon, to discredit reports of UAP and the whistleblowers who make them.
Journalist Michael Shellenberger testified about his recent reporting on the “Immaculate Constellation,” which he said is a wide-ranging UAP research project that the Pentagon denies exists. He said his sources claim the intelligence communities have “hundreds, maybe thousands” of clear, high-resolution photos and videos of UAP.
Army veteran and former Defense Department official Luis Elizondo testified that the U.S. is working to develop military capabilities based on technology it has retrieved from UAP.
“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 stated. “And I believe we are in the midst of a multidecade, secretive arms race — one funded by misallocated taxpayer dollars and hidden from our elected representatives and oversight bodies.”
Elizondo criticized the intelligence community for its many years of “excessive secrecy” surrounding UAP reports to “hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos.”