Webdesk: One of three former US military soldiers who spoke Wednesday before a House Oversight Subcommittee said the US was seeking to hide a project that “recovers and reverse-engineers unidentified flying objects (UFOs) or unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).
Lawmakers requested the meeting to encourage the government to disclose UFOs.
“If UAPs are foreign drones, it is an urgent national security problem,” said former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, who established Americans for Safe Aerospace to report UFO sightings. Science addresses other issues. Unidentified objects pose a flying safety risk.”
The government called the objects UAPs and provided information in recent years, although some of them remain unexplained.
Authorities described them as “balloon or balloon-entities,” drones, birds, weather occurrences, or flying trash like garbage bags.
Graves and former US Navy commander David Fravor testified about their military UFO sightings.
While, David Grusch, a retired Air Force intelligence officer, claimed that the government hid its UFO study and “reported information to the intelligence community inspector general.”
“The technology we faced was far superior than anything that we had,” Fravor claimed of a 2004 sighting.
Legislators, intelligence officials, and military personnel investigating UFOs are holding a nationwide hearing.
“This an issue of government transparency,” Tennessee Republican Representative Tim Burchett stated.
“We’re not bringing little green men or flying saucers into the hearing. Just the facts. I hope this is the first of many hearings to expose the cover-up.
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In April, Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which Congress created to study UFOs, told a Senate subcommittee that the US government was tracking 650 probable UFO incidents and showed footage from two of them.
Kirkpatrick stressed that his organisation discovered “no credible evidence” of extraterrestrial life or items that defy physics.
Moreover, Lawmakers grilled the Department of Defence on the sightings as national security threats.
“UAPs, whatever they are, may pose a serious threat to our military and civilian aircraft, and that must be understood,” California Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia said.
While, UAP reporting should increase, not decrease. Knowing more makes us safer.”
Moreover, Florida Democrat Jared Moskowitz stated, “Many Americans are deeply interested in this issue, and it shouldn’t take the potential of nonhuman origin to bring us together.”
Grusch said that the US government possessed UAPs and their “non-human” pilots’ remains. When challenged, he admitted he had only heard this from others. “I’ve never seen that,” he remarked.
While, Grusch offered the panel a list of “cooperative and hostile witnesses” who may enlighten Congress on UAP programmes.
Witnesses and senators protested that the US administration overclassified unidentified sighting information.
Moreover, Graves said pilots need a method to report without fear of losing their jobs. “There is a fear that the stigma related to this topic will lead to professional repercussions either through management or their yearly physical check.”
“We’ve prioritised about half of them to be of anomalous interesting value,” Kirkpatrick said of the government’s 650 cases. “How much of those do I have actual data for?”
