US House of Representatives Hearings on UFOs

Rep. Nancy Mace: "If you believe we have crashed craft, as stated earlier, do we have the bodies of the pilots who piloted this craft?"

David Grusch: "As I have stated publicly already in my News Nation interview, biologics came with some of these recoveries. Yes. "

You honestly think that numerous people connected to the military at very high levels, and many retired, and a former NASA administrator, would have a conspiracy and all tell the exact same bald faced lie?

...biologics came with some of these recoveries.

...that there is an active program to reverse engineer alien technology...

I think that if there were a conspiracy, it would be unlikely to be so dramatic.

If a retired admiral, a former NASA administrator, and the former head of a defense department program are all cooperating on an absolute fabrication, that in itself is huge news.

How would "some unexplained observations" explain a former admiral, the former head of the program to investigate UFOs for the Defense Department, and a former NASA administrator saying that they have an active program to reverse engineer recovered alien equipment and they have alien bodies in their possession...

Grusch went public last summer with the claims he had previously disclosed to the Intelligence Community Office of the Inspector General. He said that the Pentagon was operating a secret program dedicated to retrieving crashed UAPs and was in possession of nonhuman craft and biological remains of nonhuman beings. He also suggested white-collar crime was being committed to hide the program and even suggested people had been killed to protect the program.

As someone associated with the UAP Task Force, Grusch said he was denied access to the program. He based his claims on interviews with witnesses familiar with the program. Grusch also said he went to All-domain Anomaly Office Director Sean Kirkpatrick with the information but did not get a response. source

The Pentagon program currently working to address sightings of U.F.O.s — or U.A.P., for “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” as they are now called — “continues its review of the historical record of U.S. government U.A.P. programs,” said Sue Gough, a Department of Defense spokesperson.

To date, Gough added, the program “has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.” source

Many UAP can often be explained as drones or weather events, Gold admitted. But for those few reports that defy explanation, Gold insisted they'd be better captured with instruments tailored to study the phenomena so as to prevent us relying on cellphones and fighter jets' cockpit gun cameras. source

Recent mysterious sightings in our night sky cannot be written off as hallucinations, mass delusions, or hoaxes. Something is indeed happening. But what? For weeks, objects that appear to be drones have been spotted up and down the East Coast, primarily in New Jersey but also in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Nearly every morning brings new photographic and video evidence of odd occurrences, in addition to fresh eyewitness testimony.

Here are the facts in their simplest form: Night after night, people are reportedly seeing large aerial machines moving slowly across the sky. Some of these aircraft appear to be as big as cars. Often, they fly solo; other times, they glide in pairs or in groups. They have reportedly hovered for up to six hours at a time. They also frequently fly at lower altitudes than small airplanes. Many videos appear to show a rhythmic, steady blinking—white, red, and green flashes. And then, just like that, the lights may vanish—especially if detected.

This is not the stuff of urban legend or internet conspiracy. Even government officials are demanding answers. Last night, Andy Kim, the Democratic senator-elect from New Jersey, ventured out to a reservoir with a local police officer, who had reportedly been spotting the drones nightly. Kim returned with his own video evidence, and shared multiple clips in a thread on X. “We often saw about 5-7 lights at a time that were low and not associated with aircraft we could see on the [flight] tracker app. Some hovered while others moved across the horizon,” Kim wrote. “We clearly saw several that would move horizontally and then immediately switch back in the opposite direction in maneuvers that plane can’t do.”

Larry Hogan, the former Republican governor of Maryland, had a similar experience last night. “I personally witnessed (and videoed) what appeared to be dozens of large drones in the sky above my residence in Davidsonville, Maryland (25 miles from our nation’s capital),” Hogan wrote on X. He, too, shared visuals—and he articulated another knotty truth: “The public is growing increasingly concerned and frustrated with the complete lack of transparency and the dismissive attitude of the federal government.”

Earlier this week, Brian Bergen, a New Jersey state representative, walked out of a Department of Homeland Security briefing about the issue. “It was worthless,” he told a cable-news reporter. “It was the biggest amateur-hour presentation I’ve ever seen about anything. It was ridiculous. There were no answers.” Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey went so far as to send a letter to President Joe Biden about the issue: “I write with growing concern about reports of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in and around New Jersey airspace,” he said. “New Jersey residents deserve more concrete information about these UAS sightings and what is causing them.” Governor Kathy Hochul of New York said on X that her office is working with federal partners to investigate the sightings.

Yesterday, the DHS and the FBI released a joint statement specifically about the Jersey sightings: “We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or public-safety threat or have a foreign nexus.” The statement went on to say that, contrary to reports, many of the reported sightings are of manned aircraft, and that there have been no reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted airspace.

These recent events are strikingly similar to other sightings earlier this year. As the independent journalist Matt Laslo has reported, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York was briefed in February on classified intelligence about unidentified craft near U.S.-military sites in Nevada, and in April, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona spoke about similar incidents at an Air Force outpost in his state. But those instances pale in comparison with the sustained presence of aerial oddities over Langley Air Force Base, in Virginia, last December—a development with profound defense implications, given the base’s proximity to the U.S. Capitol.

Notably, these crafts seem markedly different from the ones in the infamous videos from 2015. Those objects, which were spotted by Navy pilots, darted about with unbelievable speed and maneuvers that almost suggested an unknown technology or propulsion mechanism. The ones seen over the past few weeks seem more quotidian. One possibility is that all of these sightings can be traced back to drone hobbyists, though that’s far from guaranteed.

This morning, I spoke with my colleague Shane Harris, who covers national-security affairs and has written about unexplained aerial phenomena for years. He was struck by how many of these sightings have taken place in densely populated areas (the Northeast Corridor includes the highest concentration of people in the United States) and noted that, accordingly, we are more likely to have a plethora of evidence, given that so many people have recording devices on them at all times. “That has led to an abundance of data—which is not to say it’s all good data,” Shane said. “The videos may be fuzzy, and it might not be clear exactly where they were shot.”

He told me that he interpreted the relative vagueness of the FBI and DHS comments to mean that they might actually not know what these things are. “They’re only going to say as much as they can stand behind, and they’re not going to try to wade too far into speculation, because they know where that leads,” he said. But the fact that government officials such as Kim and Hogan have explored the issue speaks to the growing fascination with this subject.

In an earlier era, if you were a “serious” person asking questions about strange happenings in the sky, you’d likely be mocked. The late Senator Harry Reid made a sustained effort to legitimize the broader topic of unidentified aerial phenomena, even after he retired. But at this point, curiosity about increased sightings is a logical reaction. Nobody is saying that the New Jersey drones are the products of aliens or our geopolitical enemies. The objects are simply unidentified. In other words: The truth is out there, and for now, we’re still waiting for it.