US Hearing House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation

The first open congressional hearing on the subject in more than fifty years: Moultrie and Bray testify

On 17 May 2022 the Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by Andre Carson, held an open hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena with Under Secretary Moultrie and Mr. Bray. Carson said the last congressional hearing on the subject had been half a century earlier and pressed for an update on the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group. Bray told the subcommittee that the UAP Task Force held no material and had detected no emanations suggesting anything nonterrestrial, and that there had been at least 11 near misses. Moultrie said he knew of no official programme between Project Blue Book and AATIP. The session recessed at 10:28 a.m. for a closed session.

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• Carson said Congress had rewritten the charter of the organisation now called the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, or AOIMSG, and that it did not yet have a named director (pp. 2 to 3).
• Bray said: "When it comes to material that we have, we have no material," and that the task force had detected no emanations suggesting anything nonterrestrial in origin (p. 34).
• Moultrie said he was "Not aware of anything that is official" done between Project Blue Book and AATIP (p. 35).
• Bray told the subcommittee there had been no collision but "at least 11 near misses", and that no attempt had been made to communicate with the objects (p. 40).
• Gallagher asked about a reported Malmstrom Air Force Base incident and entered the so-called Admiral Wilson memo into the record; Bray said that data was not within the task force's holdings (pp. 36 to 39).

Documents

• Hearing transcript Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (hearing transcript, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation, 17 May 2022) House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence· 2022-05-17· 53 pp.