Documents / Hearing transcript

Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency (hearing transcript)

U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability · 2023-07-26 · 54 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is the printed transcript of a July 26, 2023 hearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, chaired by Rep. Glenn Grothman. Ryan Graves, David Grusch and retired Navy Commander David Fravor testified on unidentified anomalous phenomena. Members pressed for transparency, whistleblower protection and better pilot reporting. Graves described a near mid-air collision with a dark cube inside a clear sphere off the Eastern Seaboard.

  • p. 10 …Now, pilots have reported encounters for years and because of the stigma around reporting these incidents…
  • p. 14 …tary veterans who have confided their similar encounters with me. Today I would like to highlight…
  • p. 15 …Soon these encounters became so frequent that aircrew would discuss the risk of UAP as part…
  • p. 19 …trained and briefed on how to handle encounters with UAPs? Mr. GRAVES. No. Right now, military…
  • p. 20 …Was this incident the only UAP event that you encountered while you were a pilot? Commander…
  • p. 21 …30 pilots right now that have had encounters with UAPs. But you have also, I believe…
  • p. 22 …not pi- lots who may have UAP encounters? Do either of you have any sug- gestions…
  • p. 25 …Graves, you reported UAP encounters during training flights, I think, and have since come forward to…
  • p. 26 …system- atic inventory of all of such encounters. Is that right? Mr. GRAVES. Yes, and I…
  • p. 44 …It took over 15 years for your encounter with the Tic Tac to be declassified. Do…
  • p. 50 …I wonder was this the first time that you encountered a UFO or a UAP in…
50
Obviously, I think several of us are going to look forward to get-
ting some answers in a more confidential setting. I assume some
legislation will come out of this.
Mr. BURCHETT. I apologize, Mr. Chairman. I need to compliment
the folks in my office that did a lot of the work on this. Rachel and
Noah sitting behind me here, they are very quiet and humble. But
without them this thing would not have come off like it did. So, I
apologize.
Mr. GROTHMAN. Thank you. I think we are going to want to look
into what we can do to make more of this information public. I
think there is certainly a time period after which it should always
be made public and people have been concerned about these issues,
like I said, since I was in high school.
But in any event, I would like to thank everybody who was here
sticking through the entire hearing.
Without objection, the Members will have five legislative days to
submit materials and to submit additional written questions for the
witnesses, which will be forwarded to the witnesses for their re-
sponse.
If there is no further business, without objection, the Sub-
committee stands adjourned.
[Whereupon, at 12:22 p.m., the Subcommittee was adjourned.]
Æ

Cases discussed

About this file

Hearing transcript, from the hearings collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 54 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.