A bipartisan congressional briefing is underway, hearing from scientists who say they need a larger role in the investigation into UFOs and other strange phenomena the government has been keeping secret.
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, with help from the UAP Disclosure Fund, is holding a briefing Thursday called ‘Understanding UAP: Science, National Security & Innovation.’
It’s focused on UFOs (or UAPs, as they’re now called) and what the government knows about these unusual sightings.
Luis Elizondo, a former Pentagon official who investigated UAPs before becoming a UFO whistleblower, and Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, are the main speakers.
They’re pushing for the government to release more UAP data and for the development of better ways of detecting these unidentified objects.
The hearing is being led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, the Republican congresswoman from Florida charged by President Trump with overseeing the disclosure of several classified events, including UFO sightings.
Physicist claims secret program has been recovering UFOs since 1950s
Research physicist Dr Eric Davis said during Thursday’s hearing that the US government has been operating a secret program that recovers crashed UFOs since the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s.
Dr Davis worked as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the Pentagon UFO program since 2007.
According to him, the secret program originated after the discovery of a crashed UFO in 1944.
Since then, Davis claimed much of the technology recovered from these wrecks over the years has been secretly moved to Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
All of this activity, Davis said, was being done without congressional oversight or approval, with project code names regularly changing every few years to cover up the Defense Department’s actions.
He previously said that examination of some materials recovered by the program failed to determine their source and led him to conclude, ‘we couldn’t make it ourselves.’
Navy Admiral slams UFO disinformation campaign by government
A retired US Navy admiral slammed an alleged ‘disinformation’ campaign by the US intelligence community which he claimed was covering up military sightings of UFOs.
Tim Gallaudet, a retired Navy Rear Admiral, spoke at Thursday’s hearing, claiming that the Navy ‘has a trove’ of data on UFO sightings from pilots and other personnel who have spotted UAPs while on duty – much of which has not been officially released.
Admiral Gallaudet publicly called on the White House to reveal this information and noted that he had just received reports from members of the Navy who had been involved in recent UFO sightings.
He also compared the urgency needed on this topic to the current climate change emergency researchers are well funded to study in depth.
During the hearing, Loeb referenced fragments of metal that he and his colleagues recovered from the Pacific Ocean in 2023.
The remnants came from a meteor-like object that originated from ‘interstellar space’ and crashed off the coast of Papua New Guinea in 2014. Loeb has not ruled out the possibility that this object could have been an alien craft, or part of one.
‘This is a historic discovery because it represents the first time that humans put their hand on materials from a large object that arrived to Earth from outside the solar system, he said at the time.
Loeb is working to raise funds for another expedition to the location where these fragments were recovered to look for more physical evidence of alien technology.
Astrophysicist says ‘there are objects in the sky’ we can’t explain
Avi Loeb told Thursday’s congressional hearing that ‘there are objects in the sky that we don’t understand’ while explaining the need for increased funding for UFO detection.
Loeb said that at least one billion dollars needs to be committed to improving America’s efforts to track and monitor the movements of UFOs and UAPs.
The Harvard astrophysicist added that he was upset with the lack of data available currently in terms of tracking objects flying over our skies.
Loeb went to discuss the possibility of alien civilizations that could have developed long before humans developed into a modern society.
Days before Thursday’ hearing, the whistleblower behind a stunning report submitted to Congress – exposing what he claims is a secret Pentagon program tracking unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) – revealed his identity and says he fears for his future after speaking out.
Matthew Brown, a former US national security official, publicly identified himself as the whistleblower on an episode of WEAPONIZED – a podcast released Tuesday that is hosted by investigative journalists and UFO experts Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp.
Brown is the author of the Immaculate Constellation Field Report, a document entered into the Congressional Record earlier this year that alleges the Executive Branch has been secretly managing UAP programs for decades – without congressional oversight.
One of today’s main speakers is Avi Loeb, an Israeli-American astrophysicist at Harvard University.
For years, Loeb has been a prominent advocate for more scientific investigation UAP sightings, hypothesizing that extraterrestrials have already visited Earth, and that we may have recovered physical evidence of their technologies.
During the hearing, he plans to give a presentation advocating for more funding for UAP research and urging the US government to share ‘any data or materials concerning what lies outside the solar system.’
Pentagon whistleblower says ‘We are not alone in the cosmos’
Months before Thursday’s briefing, Luis Elizondo, a former military intelligence official turned UFO whistleblower told Congress that there was proof of alien life being kept from the public.
During his testimony back on November 14, 2024, he blasted the US intelligence community for ‘excessive secrecy’ of UAP reports that had lasted decades, adding that it was ‘all to hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos.’
Elizondo resigned from his position, running the Pentagon’s program to investigate UFO sightings to 10 years, and went public with what he knew in October 2017.
On Thursday, Elizondo is serving as the moderator for this new hearing on UFOs.
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UFO congressional hearing live: Top scientists and Pentagon insiders break silence on state secrets
