The Home Oversight and Accountability Committee has scheduled a listening to on UFOs, additionally known as unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), for subsequent Wednesday.
The listening to has lengthy been promised by Home Republicans, who pledged to discover unconfirmed claims about UAP sightings from a former U.S. intelligence official and two former Navy servicemen.
“We’re completed with the cover-ups,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) mentioned in a tweet Thursday asserting the listening to.
“Final yr, the Home Intelligence Committee held a listening to on UAPs. They introduced in some Pentagon bureaucrats who solely had two solutions to the questions they have been requested: ‘I don’t know,’ or ‘That’s labeled,’” Burchett mentioned at a press convention Thursday. “This listening to goes to be completely different. We’re going to have witnesses who can converse frankly to the general public about their experiences.”
Members of Congress, the Pentagon and NASA have all pushed again on holding the upcoming listening to, he mentioned.
“There are lots of people who don’t need this to return to gentle,” he continued.
David Grusch, a former U.S. intelligence official, is amongst these scheduled to testify. Final month, he instructed The Debrief that the federal authorities has an undercover program for recovering particles from crashed spacecrafts of non-human origin. The Pentagon says it hasn’t discovered any proof to substantiate Grusch’s declare.
Different witnesses scheduled are David Fravor, a former Navy commander, and Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot ― each of whom declare to have noticed UAPs.
“I can let you know, I feel it was not from this world,” Fravor instructed ABC Information in 2017 about what he witnessed whereas on a coaching mission in 2004.
UAP sightings have been a sizzling matter in Congress in recent times. In 2021, U.S. intelligence officers responded to strain from lawmakers and publicly acknowledged for the primary time that UAP sightings by sure people are deserving of actual consideration. In a report back to lawmakers, intelligence officers examined 144 UAP sightings and have been solely capable of clarify one as a big deflating balloon. They discovered no proof that the UAPs have been related to extraterrestrial life.
Some Democrats are additionally supportive of dismantling the veil of safety round UAPs. Final month, Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) threw his assist behind bipartisan laws to declassify authorities data associated to UAPs.
