THE veil of conspiracy and secrecy that have muddled the discussion on whethr there are aliens with far superior intelligence and technology than humans have been lifted with four credible witnesses testifying anew before a bipartisan committee of the US Congress to confirm that “we are not alone in the cosmos”
More than the confirmation, the hearing last November 13, spearheaded by the Committee on Oversight and Accountability chaired by Rep. James R. Comer (R, Kentucky); Rep. Nancy Mace (R, South Carolina); Rep. Robert J. Garcia (D, California); and. Rep. Glenn Grothman (R, Wisconsin), also heard testimonies accusing the Pentagon and the US intelligence community of censorship, deliberate misinformation and physical threats against whistleblowers.
Thus, if there is a ‘conspiracy,’ it is about the US government, the military industrial complex and the intelligence community conspiring to hide the truth from the public.
Their conspiracy could be dated back to the so-called ‘Roswell Incident’ in 1947 when the US Army reportedly recovered the bodies of dead aliens and a “flying disc” (flying saucer). The recovery reportedly took place at Roswell, a remote area in New Mexico.
Immediately, however, the US Army retracted its original statement to the press and claimed what they recovered was the debris of a “weather balloon.”
According to rumors and reports branded over the years as “conspiracy theories” by the US military, the recovered aliens and their spacecraft have been stored at ‘Area 51,’ a highly-classified US Air Force base in Nevada.
“Americans deserve to understand what the government has learned about UAP sightings, and the nature of any potential threats these phenomena pose.
“We can only ensure that understanding by providing consistent, systemic transparency. We look forward to hearing from expert witnesses on ways to shed more light and bring greater accountability to this issue,” Mace and Grothman said in the statement.
The US Congress held its first hearing to unmask the UFO issue and the US government’s effort to conceal its existence and its ongoing effort to “study” alien technology in July 2023.
“The reality is, despite their enormous taxpayer-funded budget, the transparency of the defense department and the intelligence community have long been abysmal.”
Mace added that there have been efforts from some quarters that she did not name to prevent the second public hearing from happening, but they persisted. This second hearing was titled, ‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.’
She added that the record of transparency of both the Pentagon and the intelligence community up to now has been “abysmal.”
“The reality is, despite their enormous taxpayer-funded budget, the transparency of the defense department and the intelligence community have long been abysmal,” Mace said.
Unlike in previous years when reports about UFO sightings and encounters are taboo subjects to the US mainstream media, both hearings were fully covered and reported by the press, a fact easily verifiable by browsing the Internet.
The resource persons are:
Timothy Gallaudet, former US Navy rear admiral and acting administrator of NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration); Luis Elizondo, former military intelligence officer in charge of investigating UFOs; Michael Shellenberger, an independent journalist, pro-peace advocate and founder of Breakthrough Institute focused on the environment; and, Michael Gold, former administrator at NASA (National Aeronautics Space Administration).
A report by USA Today after the hearing said that in 2015, while Gallaudet was chief meteorologist for the US Navy, he received an email warning of “multiple near midair collision” involving an unknown aircraft and an F/A 18 fighter jet of the US Navy asking if he knew of any “classified technology” by the United States being tested.
He said he got the email during a US military exercise in the East Coast but mysteriously, the email was removed from his account the next day.
Gallaudet added a US satellite also captured an image of a flying “disc-shape object” in 2017 but the incident is yet to be reported to the US Congress up to now. He believed the object belongs to a “nonhuman higher intelligence.”
Elizondo, for his part, resigned in protest in October 2017 and lambasted the intelligence community over its “excessive secrecy” surrounding the existence of UFOs, “all to hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos.”
“I believe we as Americans can handle the truth and I also believe the world deserves the truth,” he said, as quoted by USA Today.
Elizondo used to head the Pentagon’s ‘Advance Aerospace Threat Identification Program’ that was, on paper, officially shelved by the Department of Defense (DoD) in 2012 after Congress stopped its funding.
Elizondo also dropped a bombshell, claiming that not only the US, but also its “adversaries” (China, Russia) are in “possession of UAP technology.”
A report by the New York Times on December 16, 2017, after his resignation quoted Elizondo as saying that while Congress stopped funding the program in 2012, it continued with the support from the US Navy and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
“Why aren’t we spending more time and effort on this issue?” Elizondo wrote in his resignation letter to then Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, in protest of the DoD excessive secrecy about UFOs, as quoted in the NYT article.
Elizondo also said he is concerned about America’s national security noting that most sightings of UFO activities have been around military bases and nuclear weapons sites.
Elizondo also dropped a bombshell, claiming that not only the US, but also its “adversaries” (China, Russia) are in “possession of UAP technology.”
“If this was an adversarial technology, this would be an intelligence failure eclipsing that of 9/11 by an order of magnitude,” Elizondo declared.
He also supported the statement made by David Grusch, a Pentagon intelligence officer, during the first July 2023 hearing, that much of the US government’s UAP programs are running without the knowledge and oversight of the US Congress.
As others had testified before, Elizondo said the objects observed have often out-maneuvered U.S. military aircraft and were flying in ways beyond the capabilities of known human technology.
Shellenberger, for his part, claimed his sources told him that the US intelligence community are “are sitting on a huge amount of visual and other information about UAP.”
“And they have for a very long time and it’s not those fuzzy photos and videos we’ve been given,” he added.
While NASA released its own UAP report last September, Gold, its former administrator, called on NASA to do more by conducting its own research on UAPs.
He said this “would make a powerful statement to the scientific community that UAP should be taken seriously.”
An independent study commissioned by NASA consisting of respected experts released in September 2023 recommended that “NASA should contribute to a comprehensive, government-wide approach to collecting future data (on UAPs).”
“The importance of detecting UAP with multiple, well-calibrated sensors is paramount, and NASA could potentially leverage its considerable expertise in this domain to utilize multispectral or hyperspectral data as part of a rigorous data acquisition campaign,” the report said.
‘What aliens?’ Pentagon continues to deny UFOs
Despite this, the Pentagon remains in denial mode—that there are extraterrestrial beings and that it is hiding the truth about UFOs.
USA Today, in an article last March 10, said the Pentagon submitted to Congress a 63-page report dated a month earlier, titled, ‘Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Volume I,’ prepared by the ‘All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office’ (AARO). The AARO is the main Pentagon office tasked to investigate UFOs.
“To date, AARO has found no verifiable evidence for claims that the U.S. government and private companies have access to or have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology,” Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said in a statement accompanying the report.
“Also, AARO has found no evidence that any U.S. government investigation, academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology.”
“All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification.
“As AARO has said before, they will follow the evidence where it leads, wherever it leads,” Ryder said, as quoted by USA Today.
Jon Kosloski, AARO director, in a testimony before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities on November 19, echoed Ryder.
The report by USA Today also said that while Kosloski would not rule out potential explanations on UAP they have “not discovered any verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology.”