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This is the official transcript of a July 26, 2023 hearing held by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs. The hearing was titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency." Ryan Graves, David Grusch and retired Commander David Fravor testified. Members pressed for transparency and whistleblower protections, and Graves described a near miss involving a dark 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. BURCHETT. OK. Mr. Fravor, I noticed that in the Tic Tac
video—it is Tic Tac like the candy, not TikTok like the Chinese
Communist app.
Commander FRAVOR. That is correct.
Mr. BURCHETT. Yes, sir. I just want to make that—because my
daughter corrected me on that and called me a Boomer and said,
hey, Boomer, and I said, no, baby, it is Tic Tac like the candy. You
are going to have to just look it up.
And but I would also like to say today is a day of many firsts.
It is a miracle that we are having this meeting and it is also a mir-
acle that my wife has put up with me for 9 years today. Today is
my anniversary. So, I want to tell my wife happy anniversary and
that I love her very much.
As she likes to say, this 9 years have been the best 2 years of
her life.
[Laughter.]
Mr. BURCHETT. So, thank you.
Mr. Fravor, what astonished you the most about the flight capa-
bilities of these Tic Tac, very briefly?
Commander FRAVOR. The performance. Absolute performance. It
was——
Mr. BURCHETT. And you are not aware of any other objects that
anybody in the world has in this world that has those capabilities?
Commander FRAVOR. No. I think it is far beyond, actually, our
material science that we currently possess.
Mr. BURCHETT. Are you aware of any other reconnaissance plat-
forms have tracked or recorded the Tic Tac’s maneuvers, maybe the
NORAD system or any of the others?
Commander FRAVOR. I am not.
Mr. BURCHETT. OK.
Mr. Grusch, thank you for being here, brother, and thank you all
very much.
Have you faced any retaliation or reprisals for any of your testi-
mony or anything on these lines?
Mr. GRUSCH. Yes. I have to be careful what I say in detail be-
cause there is an open whistleblower reprisal investigation on my
behalf, and I do not want to compromise that investigation by pro-
viding anything that may help provide somebody information.
But it was very brutal and very unfortunate. Some of the tactics
they used to hurt me both professionally and personally, to be quite
frank. Yes.
Mr. BURCHETT. It is very unfortunate. As they say, when you are
over the target that is when they do the most firing at you. Do you
have any personal knowledge of people who have been harmed or
injured in efforts to cover up or conceal these extraterrestrial tech-
nology?
Mr. GRUSCH. Yes, personally.
Mr. BURCHETT. Have you heard—have anyone been murdered
that you would—that you know of or have heard of, I guess?
Mr. GRUSCH. I have to be careful asking that question. I directed
people with that knowledge to the appropriate authorities.
Mr. BURCHETT. Maybe in a—if we could get in a confidential
area, a SCIF, we could talk about that. But unfortunately, we were

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