A caboodle of startling and wild allegations were made in the late US congressional committee on unidentified anomalous phenomena ( UAP ) , or unidentified flying object as they ’re more commonly known . While the public hearing suggests that posture on the subject are starting to change in the US government , evidence for some of the bolder claim was lacking .
Thesecond public sense of hearing on UAP – entitle “ Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena : Exposing the Truth ” – aim home on Capitol Hill on November 13 . you could watch the whole event in the video below .
One of the most colorful testimony came from Luis Elizondo , former head of the Pentagon ’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program .
itemise hiswritten testimony , Elizondo alleged : " Let me be clear-cut : UAP are real . sophisticated technologies not made by our Government – or any other government – are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe . Furthermore , the US is in willpower of UAP technologies , as are some of our adversaries . "
" I think we are in the thick of a multi - decade , closelipped arms wash — one funded by misallocated taxpayer dollars and hidden from our elected representatives and lapse trunk , " he added .
Elizondo suggested that the US government has carried outsecret UAP crash retrieval programsthat seek to reverse applied scientist the obtained technology . However , he take that he could n’t go into item about specific crash recovery because of software documentation he had signed .
When necessitate whether the technology was being created by private company or “ non - human tidings , ” Elizondo allege : “ It may be both . ”
The auditory sense also have testimony from Michael Shellenberger , a diarist and founder of the media outletPublic , who has published a history aver that the Pentagon is ladder a occult UFO curriculum called“Immaculate Constellation ” . He claimed he ’s been severalize that the political program had “ hundreds , maybe one thousand ” of images , videos , and filing cabinet showing UAPs exist .
Congresswoman Nancy Mace , the professorship of the hearing , exact she was tell that even mentioning the name of the program could get you in a lot of problem with the intelligence agencies , aver : " Rep. [ Anna Paulina ] Luna just told me , if I say ' Immaculate Constellation ' I ’ll be on some list , perhaps a FISA warrant . ”
“ So come at me , bro , I guess , ” she gag .
When asked whether they consider the federal government is “ wittingly concealing grounds of UAPs to the public , ” all four expert spectator said yes . However , when need about the nature of UAPs , there were some mixed opinions .
" firm evidence that they ’re non - human , higher intelligence , " take Dr Tim Gallaudet , a retired Rear Admiral in the US Navy who ’s led efforts to destigmatize the bailiwick of UAPs .
“ truly do not be intimate , ” commented Shellenberger .
“ Do n’t sleep together , but we must encounter out , ” said Michael Gold , a member of the NASA UAP Independent Study Team .
Gold later aver : " I call up plausibly the vast majority of UAP are monotone , experimental aircraft , weather condition [ … ] But there is a percent that is n’t . "
Throughout the auditory sense , the expert witnesses and some of the representative stressed the need for heavy transparency and documentation of UAPs .
Despite often being considered an involvement of crackpots andconspiracy theorist , UAP sighting have been given regenerate interest in recent years thanks toseveral publicize sightings . Although no blockbuster revelations have yet been made , the latest public hearing reflects this shifting position of UAPs within the US administration .
“ This listening is intended to aid Congress and the American people to learn the extent of the syllabus and activities our government has engaged in with respect to UAPs — and what knowledge it has yield . That include , of course , any knowledge of extraterrestrial life or technology of non - human origin , ” Subcommittee Chairwoman Mace say in theopening remarks .
“ If politics - funded research on UAPs has NOT knuckle under any useful knowledge , we require to cognise that , too . taxpayer deserve to experience how much has been invested . They should n’t be kept in the dark to spare the Pentagon overplus , ” she added .
