Congressional UFO hearing details alleged secret government programs, descriptions of alien craft
A long-awaited hearing that promised to “pull back the curtain” on UFOs has heard from witnesses about alleged secret crash retrieval programs, communication with non-human intelligence, and government intimidation of whistleblowers.The US Congressional hearing on UAPs on Wednesday, titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,” featured testimony from Dr.Tim Gallaudet, a retired Rear Admiral in the US Navy, former Department of Defense official Luis Elizondo, former NASA administrator Michael Gold and independent journalist Michael Shellenberger.Much of the testimony was rehashed from previous public claims, including those made by Elizondo in his August memoir about his role in a Pentagon UFO program — and there was little in the way of new evidence presented.“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 said in her opening statement.“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 significantly, provided the committee with a copy of an 11-page alleged whistleblower report describing various types of UAP evidence being illegally withheld from US Congress, including a supposedly unacknowledged special access program (USAP) collecting military-intelligence data on UAPs called “Immaculate Constellation.”The Pentagon last month categorically denied the existence of any such program after portions of the unnamed whistleblower’s claims were first reported by Shellenberger on his Public Substack blog.The full docu...