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This is the official transcript of a July 26, 2023 hearing held by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency." Witnesses Ryan Graves, David Grusch and retired Commander David Fravor testified under oath. Members pressed for transparency, and Graves described a near midair encounter with a cube inside a clear sphere.

  • p. 3 …Ryan Graves, Executive Director, Americans for Safe Aerospace Oral Statement ........................................................................................................ 10 Mr. David Grusch, Former National…
  • p. 9 …to be here as well. To Mr. Graves, I am particularly grateful to you to spend…
  • p. 10 …UFOs by the Defense Intelligence Agency. Mr. Graves and Commander Fravor’s experiences with UAPs have…
  • p. 13 …Our first witness is Lieutenant Ryan Graves. He is the Ex- ecutive Director of Americans for…
  • p. 14 …STATEMENT OF RYAN GRAVES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AMERICANS FOR SAFE AEROSPACE Mr. GRAVES. Thank you, Chairman Grothman…
  • p. 19 …I am going to start with Mr. Graves. Are your pilots, or pilots that you interact…
  • p. 20 …Mr. GROTHMAN. OK. Each of you? Mr. GRAVES. I would also like to add from a…
  • p. 21 …and pilots’ interaction with UAPs. Particularly, Mr. Graves, one of the, I think, concerns from Mem…
  • p. 22 …order to investigate. Mr. GARCIA. Mr. Graves? Mr. GRAVES. I will concur with everything Mr. Fravor…
  • p. 23 …technology we have today. Mr. Graves? Mr. Fravor? Mr. GRAVES. Yes. The objects that are being…
  • p. 25 …Mr. RASKIN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Graves, you reported UAP encounters during training flights, I…
  • p. 26 …what the convergence of descriptions is? Mr. GRAVES. Certainly. We were primarily seeing dark gray or…
  • p. 28 …for you before I move to Mr. Graves is you received prior approval from the Defense…
  • p. 29 …to safety for potential airline passengers? Mr. GRAVES. I have been made privy to conversations with…
  • p. 32 …we all eagerly await its results. Mr. Graves, how might NASA’s research influence the commer…
  • p. 33 …the agency to talk about it. Mr. Graves, can you discuss the importance of seeking scientists…
  • p. 36 …I wanted to pick up on. Mr. Graves, you mentioned specifically during the answer to one…
  • p. 37 …them. Ms. OCASIO-CORTEZ. OK. Mr. Graves? Mr. GRAVES. I was an operator, so I was…
  • p. 38 …start with Mr. Graves and go on down the panel. Mr. GRAVES. Some of the initial…
  • p. 39 …American people? All of you, yes. Mr. GRAVES. I will say yes to that. Mr. GRUSCH…
  • p. 42 …In all of the phenomenon, perhaps, Mr. Graves, that you have ana- lyzed have we ever…
  • p. 43 …I want to thank each of you for being here to discuss a topic of grave…
  • p. 47 …essentially collecting reconnaissance in- formation? Mr. Graves? Mr. GRAVES. Yes. Mr. OGLES. Mr. Grusch? Mr. GRUSCH…
  • p. 48 …in UAP data collection and housing? Mr. GRAVES. I do not have an answer. Mr. GRUSCH…
  • p. 50 …right level. Mr. RASKIN. OK. And, Mr. Graves, you said that there are dozens of fellow…
  • p. 51 …Mr. GRAVES. Yes. Mr. RASKIN. And with no self-evident propulsion system? Mr. GRAVES. No wings…
  • p. 52 …the public to report these sightings? Mr. GRAVES. Right now I do not think there is…
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Mr. GRUSCH. Certainly, closed door and assurances that breaking
their NDA they are not going to get administratively punished for
so.
Mr. BURCHETT. I yield, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. GROTHMAN. Thank you. We are going to do something a little
bit out of the ordinary here. We are going to give three people a
chance at additional 3 minutes.
So, Mr. Burchett, do you want to keep going?
Mr. BURCHETT. Why don’t you come back to me, Mr. Chairman?
Ms. Luna, if she is on—is she on that list?
Ms. LUNA. I am on the special list.
Mr. GROTHMAN. Sure.
Ms. LUNA. Chairman, I would like to submit for the record an ar-
ticle by News Nation and it follows Mr. Grusch’s full interview, for
the record.
Mr. GROTHMAN. Without objection.
Ms. LUNA. Thank you. Mr. Grusch, why is it that you refer to
the phenomenon as nonhuman intelligence? Why deviate from the
basis of extraterrestrial life?
Mr. GRUSCH. I think the phenomenon is a very complex and I
like to leave an open mind analytically to specific origin.
Ms. LUNA. When you say specific origin are you referring—can
you elaborate on that for those that might not——
Mr. GRUSCH. If it is a traditional extraterrestrial origin or some-
thing else that we do not quite understand from an either biologi-
cal or astrophysics perspective. I just like to keep an open mind on
what it could be.
Ms. LUNA. OK. And referring to your News Nation interview you
had referenced specific treaties between governments. Article Three
of the nuclear arms treaty with Russia identifies UAPs.
It specifically mentions them. To your knowledge, are their safety
measures in place with foreign governments or other superpowers
to avoid an escalatory situation in the event that a UAP malevolent
event occurs?
Mr. GRUSCH. You are referring to actual—a public treaty in the
U.N. register—it is funny you mentioned that—the agreement on
measures to reduce the risk of outbreak of nuclear war signed in
1971. Unclassified treaty publicly available, and if you cite the
George Washington University National Security Archives you will
find the declassified, in 2013, specific provisions and the specific
red line flash message traffic with the specific codes pursuant to
Article Three and Article—also situation two, which is in the pre-
viously classified NSA archive.
What I would recommend—and I tried to get access but I got a
wall of silence at the White House—was those specific incidents
when those—message traffic was used. I think some scholarship on
that would open the door to a further investigation using those
publicly available information.
Ms. LUNA. Thank you. And then my last question with 51 sec-
onds remaining, you mentioned white collar crimes potentially
being—taking place in regards to a cover up. Can you please elabo-
rate?

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