House Oversight Committee members are set to undergo a classified briefing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), commonly known as UFOs, next week.
The covert meeting, shrouded in mystery, underscores a surging interest among lawmakers from both ends of the spectrum that are demanding increased government transparency on the extraterrestrial front.
The briefing, scheduled for next Tuesday morning in the Office of House Security, will be conducted by the Office of Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, Thomas A. Monheim.
Previously, a bipartisan group of Oversight Committee members, led by Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), had sought more details on UFOs, including potential programs for reverse engineering or recovering crashed UFOs.
This initiative came after a bombshell revelation from former intelligence honcho David Grusch, hinting at the government harboring ‘nonhuman biologics’ from a recovered UFO.
Next Tuesday’s briefing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) will be conducted by the Office of Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, Thomas A. Monheim, pictured
Members of the House Oversight Committee are scheduled to undergo a classified briefing next week on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). Pictured, an artist’s impression of the alleged 1933 UFO crash outside Magenta, Italy shows a craft shaped like a saucer (file)
David Grusch – a former high-ranking intelligence official – is one of three military whistleblowers who testified under oath that they know firsthand about secret programs involving technology far surpassing the US’ capabilities
Last year Grusch alleged US military and defense contractors were stonewalling on evidence of crashed UFOs, recovered ‘beings,’ and UFO-related deaths.
Grusch’s testimony has been corroborated in classified hearings with other defense sector witnesses, according to comments made by Republican Florida Senator Rubio last JUne, who has voiced concerns these classified UFO programs are ‘accountable to no one.’
The lawmakers have formed a Congressional UAP Caucus and include reps Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), and Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.).
It is behind closed doors in the halls of Congress, a tooth-and-nail fight has been raging over disclosure of what the government knows about UFOs.
On one side are whistleblowers and former top intelligence officials, who claim knowledge of a secret program that has allegedly retrieved crashed flying saucers – and who have convinced top lawmakers to back them, including Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, Senate intelligence committee ranking member Marco Rubio, and Senate armed services committee member Mike Rounds.
On the other is the $112 billion defense company Lockheed Martin, and two powerful House Republicans to whom it donates thousands of dollars: House intelligence committee chair Mike Turner, and House armed services committee chair Mike Rogers.
Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray plays a video of a UAP during a hearing before a subcommittee of the House Intelligence Committee in May 2022 – the first public hearing on UFOs on Capitol Hill since the 1960s
Senators Mike Rounds, Chuck Schumer and Marco Rubio were in favor of the bill and have backed whistleblowers and former top intelligence officials
UFO activists blame congressmen Mike Turner and Mike Rogers who are funded by big defense company Lockheed Martin for watering down the bill
The fight began in July last year, when Schumer introduced a groundbreaking bill that would mandate a panel of experts with presidential-level authority to sift through government UFO records with the aim of disclosing them to the public.
It also gave the government the power to seize any ‘technologies of unknown origin’ or even ‘biological evidence of non-human intelligence’ held by private companies.
The apparent references to alien bodies and tech were shocking, in a piece of legislation put forward by senators as senior as Schumer and Rounds.
And proponents of the amendment point to its fierce opposition by senior House Republicans as a sign that they touched a nerve.
Sources close to the bill’s drafting said lawmakers decided to put forward the legislation after classified briefings by whistleblowers who allegedly worked on crashed UFOs recovered by the US government and handed to defense contractors, in secret programs not disclosed to Congress.
Schumer and Rounds said their bill was modeled on the 1992 law that led to the disclosure of records about President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.
The bill’s original text (pictured) stated that President Joe Biden would have 90 days to appoint a nine-person Review Board responsible for investigating each record and determining if they are considered UAPs that should be disclosed to the public
Last fall, a NASA advisory panel’s unprecedented new report was released as UFO fever has reached a tipping point in the US.
It analyzed more than 800 cases across three decades – albeit with a budget of just $100,000 and only about nine months to conduct their work.
The panel noted that, to date, most UFO sightings are recorded with sensors and other equipment intended for nonscientific purposes, under accidental or ‘serendipitous’ circumstances that are far from ideal.
Evidence from nearly all UFO cases, in other words, was not collected with enough scientific rigor for experts to reach reliable conclusions in the panel’s view.
‘Coupled with incomplete data archiving and curation,’ the NASA panel wrote, ‘this means that the origin of numerous UAP [UFOs] remain uncertain.’
A Department of Defense document from last summer revealed characteristics of the typical UFO, including the colour and the shape, velocity, and flight level
Ever since the first UFO sighting more than 75 years ago, popular culture has usually depicted them as flying saucers, as round as wheels. Pictured, cover of the pulp science fiction magazine Amazing Stories from October 1957
Whistleblowers with knowledge of a classified UFO ‘reverse engineering’ program have opted to testify to the Senate intelligence committee, in part over their reported mistrust of Dr. Kirkpatrick and his Pentagon UFO office. Above, a page from Project 1794 declassified in 2012
A still from a previously released unclassified U.S. government video appearing to show unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)
‘Unidentified aerial phenomena’ or UAP that check off these ‘observables’ appear to display either one or all of the following: (1.) gravity-defying behavior, (2.) eerily low observability on radar or other sensors, (3.) sudden or instantaneous accelerations, (4.) hypersonic speeds without signatures like ‘sonic booms,’ and (5.) so-called ‘trans-medium’ travel between air, sea and outer space.
Space Force’s strategy document, titled ‘Space Doctrine Publication 3-100, Space Domain Awareness,’ outlines the military branch’s mission to monitor a vast orbital range that includes everything from low earth orbit (LEO) to the moon
It’s unclear from the Space Force STARCOM document, however, whether these five, established UFO techno-signatures overlap with their own ‘abnormal observables.’
It’s also unclear what ‘patterns of life’ have been detected from orbital unknowns.
Across US military branches, the term ‘patterns of life’ has been used to reference the thermal heat signatures given off by living human targets, for everything from drone warfare to troop deployment surveillance.
The Pentagon’s departing UFO investigation chief, physicist Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, also used the term to indicate UAP mysteries that would include extraterrestrial craft.
‘We are executing a rigorous science and technology plan to ensure controlled calibration of sensors, patterns of life, and signature characterization development,’ Kirkpatrick said in December 2022.
The world’s UFO hotspots are revealed – as Pentagon admits hundreds of objects have been spotted ‘all over the world’
The US government is notoriously secretive when it comes to sharing what it knows about extraterrestrial life.
But in a possible bid for transparency, the Department of Defense has released a new document disclosing the ‘world’s UFO hotspots’.
It includes a map disclosing where the most sightings of unidentified objects have been recorded, based on reports between 1996 and 2023.
The map discloses where the most sightings have been recorded based on reports between 1996 and 2023 – naming Japan and the coasts of the US as particular hotspots
Among them Nagasaki and Hiroshima in Japan, the east and west coasts of the US including California, as well as parts of the Middle East.
Another remote mountain village in Japan has already been described as a hotspot for mysterious sightings.
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