US Officials Push for More Government Transparency on UFOs

Three US military veterans who have retired are going to testify on Wednesday at a House hearing about a strange phenomenon: UFOs. They want to warn everyone that these sightings could be a problem for the country’s security. They think the government has been keeping too many secrets about this issue.

A special group in the House of Representatives called the Oversight Subcommittee arranged this hearing on UFOs. The lawmakers who wanted this hearing are asking the government to be more open and share more information about these mysterious sightings.

Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot said, “If UAP are foreign drones, it is an urgent national security problem. If it is something else, it is an issue for science. In either case, unidentified objects are a concern for flight safety.”

Hearing about the mysterious sightings

The US government calls these mysterious sightings “UAPs” (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) and has shared reports about them in recent years. Some of these sightings still have no clear explanation, while others have been linked to things like balloons, drones, birds, weather events, or even floating debris like plastic bags.

During the hearing, Graves and David Fravor, a retired US Navy commander, spoke about their own experiences of witnessing UAPs while in the military.

Another person, David Grusch, who used to work as an intelligence officer in the Air Force, claimed that the government had kept its research on these unidentified sightings a secret. He also said he reported this information to the intelligence community inspector general.

The hearing is the most recent effort by lawmakers, intelligence officials, and military personnel to investigate unexplained aerial phenomena and discuss them nationally.

No government officials gave testimonies during Wednesday’s hearing (July 26th, 2023). However, in April, Sean Kirkpatrick, who leads the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (established by Congress to focus on UAPs), testified before a Senate subcommittee.

He revealed that the US government was actively monitoring around 650 potential cases of unidentified aerial phenomena.

At the hearing, video evidence from two of these incidents was presented. Kirkpatrick made it clear that there was no indication of extraterrestrial life, and his office had not come across any credible evidence of objects defying the laws of physics.

Potential threats to US national security

Lawmakers have been putting pressure on the Department of Defense to address these sightings, seeing them as potential threats to national security.

Both Garcia and Representative Jared Moskowitz, a Democrat from Florida, emphasized the significance of bipartisan collaboration in Congress to address the matter effectively.

They believe that by working together across party lines, they can push for greater government transparency regarding the issue at hand.

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“Many Americans are deeply interested in this issue, and it shouldn’t take the potential of nonhuman origin to bring us together,” Moskowitz said.

Graves pointed out that there is still a stigma surrounding the reporting of UAP incidents, both for commercial and military pilots.

“Right now, we need a system where pilots can report without fear of losing their jobs,” Graves said. “There is a fear that the stigma related to this topic is going to lead to professional repercussions either through management or through their yearly physical check.”

Last year’s congressional hearing

Last year, the House Intelligence Committee organized the first congressional hearing on UAPs in many decades. Additionally, Kirkpatrick’s testimony at the Senate hearing marked the first time in recent memory that the matter had been discussed in the Senate.

Among the 650 cases being monitored by the government, Kirkpatrick mentioned, “We’ve prioritized about half of them to be of anomalous interesting value, and now we have to go through those and go ‘How much of those do I have actual data for?'”