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Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth (hearing transcript)

U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability · 2024-11-13 · 52 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is the transcript of a joint hearing held November 13, 2024 by two subcommittees of the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, chaired by Rep. Nancy Mace. The witnesses were Tim Gallaudet, Luis Elizondo, Michael Shellenberger and Michael Gold. They addressed government secrecy, AARO's transparency, a Pentagon document on the alleged Immaculate Constellation program, threats to pilot safety, and UAP activity near nuclear and military sites. Members also discussed UAP disclosure legislation.

  • p. 5 …Without objection, the Chair may declare a recess at any time, and I recognize myself for…
  • p. 6 …The reality is, despite their enormous taxpayer-funded budgets, the transparency of the Defense Department and…
  • p. 7 …it in real time now, and Mr. Burchett will enter it into the record, but 12…
  • p. 9 …Since then, the Joint Chiefs have implemented standards for UAP reporting across the services. The intelligence…
  • p. 12 …In the time of heightened distrust of our government institutions, I believe more transparency is not…
  • p. 14 …At the time, my personnel were par- ticipating in a predeployment naval exercise off the U…
  • p. 15 …others to do the same, and it is my hope over time that a number of…
  • p. 17 …and help restore the American public’s trust at a time when the public’s trust…
  • p. 18 …authorization for some time, quite possibly decades. Furthermore, these individuals have revealed the name of an…
  • p. 19 …The Pentagon, the intelligence community is treating us like chil- dren. It is time for us…
  • p. 23 …That is a crazy idea, right? The hypocrisy and the logic. OK. Mr. Shellenberger, I am…
  • p. 24 …And the more extraordinary those discoveries, the more extraordinary those new beliefs, it is very difficult…
  • p. 26 …of the deep state since you worked in government for a long period of time. But…
  • p. 29 …working with former leadership of AARO at the time as well. Mr. BURCHETT. And we punish…
  • p. 36 …the human body can withstand about 9 g-forces for a short period of time be…
  • p. 37 …on the panel. So, just real quick, because I am running out of time. Lue? Mr…
  • p. 39 …just briefly, as I close my time, explain why the UAP Disclosure Act would be critical…
  • p. 40 …I think at the time when this first—this reality became evident to the U.S…
  • p. 41 37 There is also, then, the philosophical argument that the Depart- ment of Defense and the…
  • p. 42 …the government, as well as the inability to get people classifica- tions in a timely and…
  • p. 43 …The problem is, the supposed collection of these biologi- cal samples occurred before my time, in…
  • p. 45 …To the rest of the panel, was the Wall Street Jour- nal article the first time…
  • p. 46 …I am running out of time. The last thing is that we need authori- ties. Law…
  • p. 48 …Nothing beyond what is in the report and then the specific case that I mentioned with…
  • p. 50 …be like us, and every time we look out into the universe, we are humbled relative…
  • p. 51 …any- where in the world. So, Mr. Ogles, you are just in time, babe. I will…
  • p. 52 …This UAP issue may be the greatest issue of our time, and it is being hid…
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elements within the military and the IC are in violation of their
constitutional duty to notify Congress of their operations.
President-elect Donald Trump and former President Barrack
Obama have both said that the government has information about
UAPs that it has not released.
There are other explanations for UAPs, that they represent a
new form of life or nonhuman life. Current dominant alternative
theories, including those put forward by AARO, are that UAPs are
some kind of natural phenomenon we do not yet understand, like
ball lighting or plasma. They could also be part of some new U.S.
or foreign government weapons program, such as drones, aircraft,
balloons, CGI hoaxes, or birds.
Whatever UAPs are, Congress must be informed, as must the
people of the United States. We have a right to know what UAPs
are, no matter what they are.
However, we now have existing and former U.S. Government offi-
cials who have told Congress that AARO and the Pentagon have
broken the law by not revealing a significant body of information
about UAPs, including military intelligence data bases that have
evidence of their existence as physical craft.
One of those individuals is a current or former U.S. Government
official acting as a UAP whistleblower. This person has written a
report. This is the report that says the executive branch has been
managing UAP/NHI issues without congressional knowledge, over-
sight, or authorization for some time, quite possibly decades.
Furthermore, these individuals have revealed the name of an ac-
tive and highly secretive DoD unacknowledged special access pro-
gram, or USAP. The source of that document told Public, me, that
the USAP is a strategic intelligence program that is part of the
U.S. military family of longstanding, highly sensitive programs
dealing with various aspects of the UAP problem.
The new UAP whistleblower claims that the U.S. military and IC
data base includes videos and images taken using infrared, for-
ward-looking infrared, full motion video, and still photography.
The report that was just shared with Congress says Immaculate
Constellation serves as a central or parent USAP that consolidates
observations of UAPs by both tasked and untasked collection plat-
forms.
Immaculate Constellation includes high-quality imagery intel-
ligence and measurement and signature intelligence of UAPs, the
whistleblower’s report adds. The sources of this intelligence are a
blend of directed and incidental collection capacities, capabilities,
position in low Earth orbit, the upper atmosphere, as well as mili-
tary and civilian aviation altitudes and maritime environments.
The report to Congress details in detail various UAPs, including
spheres/orbs, discs/saucers, ovals, triangles, boomerang/arrowhead,
and irregular/organic. The report describes various incidents found
in the human intelligence data bases.
One involved orbs surrounding and forcing an F–22 out of its pa-
trol area. In another incident, the crew of a Navy aircraft carrier
watched a small orange/red sphere rapidly descend from a high al-
titude of 100 to 200 yards directly above the flight deck of the CVN
aircraft carrier.

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