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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. 3 …David Grusch, Former National Reconnaissance Office Representative, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, Department of Defense Oral…
  • p. 6 …We must demand transparency from the Department of Defense, our intelligence community, and our defense industry…
  • p. 10 …Now, I understand fully the Department of Defense is hesitant to share information that could also…
  • p. 11 …within the Department of Defense and more—and to mandate more of Congress of UAPs. We…
  • p. 15 …OF DAVID GRUSCH FORMER NATIONAL RECONNAISSANCE OFFICER REPRESENTATIVE UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA TASK FORCE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE…
  • p. 19 …The military and Department of Defense has stated that UAP represent a critical aviation safety risk…
  • p. 28 …In the 2003 timeframe, a large group of Boeing contractors were operating near one of the…
  • p. 30 …Based on conventional advanced tech I was briefed to the preponderance of the Defense Department’s…
  • p. 32 …You know, in 2020 the Department of Defense re- leased several videos of UAPs including Mr…
  • p. 35 …I was told the Depart- ment of Defense maybe 60 percent of their assets are unaccounted…
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UNIDENTIFIED ANOMALOUS PHENOMENA:
IMPLICATIONS ON NATIONAL SECURITY,
PUBLIC SAFETY, AND GOVERNMENT
TRANSPARENCY
HEARING
BEFORE THE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL SECURITY,
THE BORDER, AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
OF THE
COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT
AND ACCOUNTABILITY
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
ONE HUNDRED EIGHTEENTH CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION
JULY 26, 2023
Serial No. 118–53
Printed for the use of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability
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