Experts testify before lawmakers that the U.S. is running secret UAP programs. Is intelligent alien life darting around in space — and even in the skies above us here on Earth? Has the U.S. government been covering up unexplained phenomena, and using secret extraterrestrial discoveries to boost its own technology? Will we ever find out if intelligent life is here on earth already? Find out next on the X-Files…. LIVE!
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The Pentagon issued a report in March saying that it has found no evidence of extraterrestrial spacecraft.
Four experts testified in Wednesday’s public hearing. You can watch the proceeding here.
NPR reports
Extraordinary moments unfolded in a similar hearing last year, most notably when retired Maj. David Grusch, formerly part of the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force, alleged that the U.S. government has recovered nonhuman “biologics” from crash sites and has long operated a secret reverse-engineering program to glean advances from recovered vessels.Grusch isn’t among the witnesses for the 2024 hearing.
Instead, those testifying include:
Tim Gallaudet, retired rear admiral, U.S. Navy; CEO of Ocean STL Consulting, LLC
“Confirmation that UAPs are interacting with humanity came for me in January 2015,” Gallaudet said in his written testimony.
He describes being part of a pre-deployment naval exercise off the U.S. East Coast that culminated in the famous “Go Fast” video, in which a Navy F/A-18 jet’s sensors recorded “an unidentified object exhibiting flight and structural characteristics unlike anything in our arsenal.”
He was among a group of commanders involved in the exercise who received an email containing the video, which was sent by the operations officer of Fleet Forces Command, Gallaudet said.
“The very next day, the email disappeared from my account and those of the other recipients without explanation,” he said.
Luis Elizondo, author and former Department of Defense official
Elizondo’s written testimony was brief and alleged that a secretive arms race is playing out on the global stage.
“Let me be clear: UAP are real,” he wrote. “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 is a former intelligence officer who later “managed a highly sensitive Special Access Program on behalf of the White House and the National Security Council,” according to his official bio.
“By 2012, [Elizondo] was the senior ranking person of the DOD’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, a secretive Pentagon unit that studied unidentified anomalous phenomena,” his bio states, adding that he resigned in 2017.
Michael Gold, former NASA associate administrator of space policy and partnerships; member of NASA UAP Independent Study Team
Gold’s written testimony stressed the need for government agencies and academics to “overcome the pernicious stigma that continues to impede scientific dialogue and open discussions” about unexplained phenomena.
“As the saying goes, the truth is out there,” Gold said, “we just need to be bold enough and brave enough to face it.”
Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public, a news outlet on the Substack platform
Shellenberger’s testimony ran to some 214 pages, including a lengthy timeline of UAP reports from 1947 to 2023.
Shellenberger pressed the White House and Congress to act, calling for the adoption of UAP transparency legislation and cutting funds for any related programs that aren’t disclosed to lawmakers.
“UAP transparency is bi-partisan and critical to our national security,” his written testimony stated.
U.S. accused of having UAP crash retrieval programs
An early exchange between Elizondo and Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who led the hearing as chairwoman of the subcommittee on cybersecurity, IT and innovation, suggested that whatever UAPs are, the U.S. is intent on learning more about them — including efforts to recover any objects that might crash.