![]() government has recovered ‘nonhuman biologics.’ He also said he’d suffered retaliation after reporting this information to his superiors and to multiple inspectors general. government was operating with secrecy and above congressional oversight with regards to UAP – even claiming that crashed UAPs had yielded biological material of nonhuman origin. He sought whistleblower protection after claiming that the U.S. His high level of security clearance meant he saw reports that were unknown to the public. The real bombshell came from David Grusch, an Air Force intelligence officer who retired with the rank of major. “If everyone could see the sensor and video data that I have, there is no doubt that UAP would be a top priority for our defense, intelligence and scientific communities,” Graves said. Graves also said that only 5% of UAP sightings by military and commercial pilots are reported by the pilots that spot them. He alleged that all UAP videos since 2021 are classified by the Pentagon as secret or higher. Most are commercial pilots at major airlines. He testified that the group has 5,000 members and has taken information from 30 witnesses. Graves founded Americans for Safe Aerospace to create a center of support and education for aircrew affected by UAP encounters. The description was striking – a dark gray cube inside a clear sphere – quite different from the classic “flying saucer.” He recounted a situation in which two jets had to take evasive action as they encountered a UAP. While stationed at Virginia Beach in 2014, he says, UAP sightings were so frequent among his crew that they became part of daily briefs. The second witness, Ryan Graves, was an F-18 pilot for over a decade. So the subcommittee is using its overall charge of oversight and accountability to get some answers. Congress is getting frustrated with the lack of transparency over UAP sightings. ![]() Sean Kirkpatrick from the Department of Defense said that only 2% to 5% of these are anomalous, and the meeting drew no firm conclusions. The panel is considering 800 sightings accumulated over 27 years, with 50 to 100 new reports coming in each month. The panel will help NASA advise intelligence agencies and the Department of Defense on how to evaluate mysterious sightings. Most recently, NASA convened a panel in June 2022, which held its first public hearing in May this year. As such, the subcommittee decided that there was not yet enough evidence to claim UAPs are extraterrestrial. ![]() While officials noted 18 occasions in which aerial objects had moved at considerable speed without visible means of propulsion, nobody had found unexplained wreckage or records of the military having either received communications from or having fired shots at UAPs. Little new light was shed on the true nature of the sightings, but the officials tried to clarify the situation by ruling things out. Then in May 2022, a House Intelligence subcommittee held the first congressional hearing in over half a century on military reports of UAPs. In November 2021, the Pentagon formed a new group to coordinate efforts to detect and identify objects in restricted airspace. In June 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report on the phenomena. Public interest in UAPs surged in 2017 after three Navy videos were leaked and The New York Times reported on a shadowy UAP program run by the Pentagon. The House subcommittee hearing follows a flurry of activity over the past few years. While the hearings brought attention to UAPs and could lead to more reporting from people who work in the military and aviation, the testimonies did not produce evidence to fundamentally change the understanding of UAPs. ![]() I’m also on the advisory council for an international group that strategizes how to communicate with an extraterrestrial civilization should the need ever arise. I’m an astronomer who studies and has written about cosmology, black holes, exoplanets and life in the universe. By holding a hearing on UFOs – now called “unidentified anomalous phenomena” by government agencies – the subcommittee sought to understand whether these UAPs pose a threat to national security. Chris Impey, University of Arizona Published: 27 July 2023Ī congressional subcommittee met on June 26, 2023, to hear testimony from several military officers who allege the government is concealing evidence of UFOs. ![]()
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