This week, a bipartisan group of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> lawmakers formally requested the creation of a select committee to investigate the federal government&#8217;s response to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFOs</a> as interest in mysterious sightings and concerns about flight safety continues to grow.
A letter sent on Tuesday to Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) noted that &#8220;recent&#8221; whistleblower testimony and &#8220;new evidence&#8221; pertaining to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), which is the government&#8217;s preferred term for UFOs, underscore the need for a select panel under the auspices of the House Oversight Committee.
&#8220;Given the Oversight Committee&#8217;s role as the principal investigative body in the House of Representatives and its broad authority to investigate &#8216;any matter&#8217; at &#8216;any time&#8217; under House Rule X, we believe it is proper for the committee to investigate and assess how transparent and accountable the federal government is when it comes to UAP,&#8221; the letter <a href="https://twitter.com/RepEricBurlison/status/1767932015351861491" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a>.
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My colleagues and I formally requested that the Speaker establish a select committee focused on UAP.
Transparency is coming. <a href="https://t.co/Sptwy05fI3">pic.twitter.com/Sptwy05fI3</a>
&mdash; Rep. Eric Burlison (@RepEricBurlison) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepEricBurlison/status/1767932015351861491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) posted a copy of the letter to X on Wednesday. It was signed by Burlison and Reps. Tim Burchett (R-TN), Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Andy Ogles (R-TN), Nancy Mace (R-SC), Troy Nehls (R-TX), and Matt Gaetz (R-FL).
House members <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-reps-see-new-opportunity-for-ufo-select-committee-request-with-speaker-mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously asked</a> then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) for a select committee shortly after a public hearing last summer featuring retired Air Force Maj. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufo-whistleblower-claims-firsthand-access-to-things-he-cant-talk-about-publicly">David Grusch</a>, a former U.S. intelligence and military official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-defense-official-shares-claims-of-off-world-technology-expects-new-revelations-at-ufo-hearing">who claims</a> the government has a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo">UFO</a> retrieval program and is wrongfully keeping Congress in the dark, and former military pilots who talked about UAP encounters and potential risks.
The new letter says the federal government has offered &#8220;little clarity&#8221; on UAP incidents as it continues to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/08/us-alien-spacecraft-program-pentagon-report-00146013" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reveal certain findings</a>, bemoans a &#8220;lack of cooperation and evasion of congressional scrutiny&#8221; from the Pentagon and Intelligence Committee, and notes that it is &#8220;unclear&#8221; how much U.S. taxpayer funds are being spent on analyzing and studying UAP.
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&#8220;Respectfully, we request that the select subcommittee be fully staffed and granted access to all material and information, both classified and unclassified, provided or derived from the Federal Government relating to UAP that formerly or currently is protected by any form of special access or restricted access,&#8221; the letter says.
&#8220;Additionally, the select subcommittee should be granted access to all material and information, both classified and unclassified, possessed by the Federal Government relating to all non-earth or exotic UAP material,&#8221; it adds.

Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO)

House Lawmakers Ask Speaker Johnson For Panel To Investigate Govt Response To UFOs

Congress

Mike Johnson

National Security

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U.S. House of Representatives

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-senate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Senate</a> Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) said on Wednesday that &#8220;credible sources&#8221; have informed lawmakers that information on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFOs</a> has been improperly kept away from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a>.
The top Democrat made the assertion <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/majority-leader-schumer-and-republican-senator-mike-rounds-floor-colloquy-on-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-provisions-in-the-ndaa-and-future-legislation-on-uaps" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during a colloquy</a> with Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) in the Senate chamber, lamenting how significant parts of their <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-moves-to-force-disclosure-of-ufo-secrets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act</a> of 2023 got <a href="https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20231211/FY24%20NDAA%20Conference%20Report%20-%20%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nixed during the conference process</a> to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the next National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Hours later, the Senate <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/12/13/senate-oks-886-billion-defense-bill-with-pay-raises-ukraine-aid/71840431007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> the compromise version of the $886 billion defense policy bill.
&#8220;The United States government has gathered a great deal of information about UAPs over many decades but has refused to share it with the American people. That is wrong and additionally breeds mistrust,&#8221; Schumer said. &#8220;We have also been notified by multiple credible sources that information on UAPs has also been withheld from Congress, which if true is a violation of laws requiring full notification to the legislative branch — especially as it relates to the four congressional leaders, the defense committees, and the intelligence committee.&#8221;
Schumer and Rounds bemoaned the elimination of language from their amendment to the NDAA that would establish a review board to advise the president on what records should be released — or kept secret for national security or other serious reasons — taking cues from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-pledges-to-release-all-jfk-assassination-files-if-re-elected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JFK Assassination Records Act of 1992</a>.
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The House refused to work with us on all the important elements of the UAP Disclosure Act, but we were able to make progress on UAP transparency in the NDAA we just passed.
Watch: <a href="https://t.co/5zbmVMh1NN">pic.twitter.com/5zbmVMh1NN</a>
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&#8220;It is really an outrage the House didn’t work with us on adopting our proposal for a review board, which of course by definition here is bipartisan in the Senate,&#8221; Schumer said. &#8220;Now it means that declassification of UAP records will be largely up to the same entities that have blocked and obfuscated their disclosure for decades.&#8221;
In addition, Rounds alluded to the removal of eminent domain authority they sought to place in the NDAA, calling it &#8220;a requirement as a transparency measure for the government to obtain any recovered UAP material or biological remains that may have been provided to private entities in the past and thereby hidden from Congress and the American people.&#8221; He added, &#8220;We are lacking oversight opportunities, and we are not fulfilling our responsibilities.&#8221;
Schumer claimed the GOP-led House &#8220;refused to work with us on all the important elements of the UAP Disclosure Act during the NDAA conference.&#8221; He did not name any House members in particular, but some <a href="https://twitter.com/UAPJames/status/1733937226306720020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reporting</a> indicates House Intelligence Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) resisted fuller disclosure. Turner previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufo-whistleblower-claims-firsthand-access-to-things-he-cant-talk-about-publicly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">knocked</a> whistleblower testimony given to Congress about there being an alleged UAP cover-up and later <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1729941909097824287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> NewsNation that he viewed Schumer&#8217;s amendment as a “poorly drafted piece of legislation” even though he denied that he was “holding up” the measure.
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The Senate majority leader also acknowledged that &#8220;important progress&#8221; was achieved with other aspects of their amendment that did not get axed. &#8220;For the first time, the National Archives will gather records from across the federal government on UAPs, and have a legal mandate to release those records to the public if appropriate,&#8221; Schumer said. &#8220;This is a major, major win for government transparency on UAPs and it gives us a strong foundation for more action in the future.&#8221;
The U.S. government has started making strides in publicly addressing and studying reports of UAPs with the Department of Defense&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-pentagon-ufo-investigator-calling-it-quits-hopes-anomalous-tech-is-alien-not-other-people-in-our-back-yard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)</a> and other endeavors. And some retired officials, including whistleblower <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufo-whistleblower-claims-firsthand-access-to-things-he-cant-talk-about-publicly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Grusch</a>, are coming forward publicly with claims of there being a <a href="https://twitter.com/UAPJames/status/1735082995801854317" target="_blank" rel="noopener">secret UFO retrieval program</a> while others raise concerns about <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-uap-departmnet-of-defense-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flight safety</a>.
In a NewsNation interview this week, Grusch called the gutting of the UAP Disclosure Act &#8220;the greatest legislative failure in American history.&#8221; He also encouraged the president to take <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufo-whistleblower-calls-for-executive-action-after-greatest-legislative-failure-in-american-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive action</a> to institute a board of advisers and urged Americans to <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/david-grusch-uap-ufo-congress-voting-legislation/?utm_source=t.co&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow&amp;utm_medium=referral" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vote out lawmakers</a> who oppose UFO transparency in future elections.
Schumer took a more diplomatic approach in discussing his colleagues in Congress.
&#8220;We will keep working. I want to assure the American people, Senator Rounds and I will keep working to change the status quo,&#8221; he said, adding later, &#8220;We encourage our colleagues to join us in the further investigation of this issue and in advancing legislation that will complete what we have accomplished in this NDAA.&#8221;

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer

Schumer Says ‘Credible Sources’ Claim UFO Info Withheld From Congress

Schumer Says 'Credible Sources' Claim UFO Info Withheld From Congress

Chuck Schumer

Transparency

U.S.

U.S. Senate

Retired Air Force Maj. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufo-whistleblower-claims-firsthand-access-to-things-he-cant-talk-about-publicly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Grusch</a>, a former U.S. intelligence and military official who claims the government is covering up a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFO</a> retrieval program, called for executive action after lawmakers settled on <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1733933361800925559" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watered-down disclosure legislation</a>.
In an interview with NewsNation, part of which aired on Monday night, Grusch called <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-warns-ufo-disclosure-legislation-is-about-to-get-rejected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the gutting of</a> the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act of 2023, championed by Senate Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), &#8220;the greatest legislative failure in American history.&#8221;
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David Grusch has Firsthand Knowledge 💥🛸
David Grusch says that the watering down of the Schumer/Rounds amendment is the greatest legislative failure in American history.
Grusch also reveals that he does in fact have firsthand knowledge and will be able to tell more in a &quot;few… <a href="https://t.co/Ge4AQJiwPd">pic.twitter.com/Ge4AQJiwPd</a>
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The legislation, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-moves-to-force-disclosure-of-ufo-secrets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered as an amendment</a> to the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), sought to set in motion a process for releasing UAP-related records within 25 years of their creation and put together an independent review board to advise the president on whether to keep certain information concealed for national security or other serious reasons.
From <a href="https://sherrill.house.gov/media/press-releases/photo-on-ndaa-conference-committee-sherrill-pushes-for-bipartisan-efforts-to-strengthen-us-national-security-and-protect-service-members" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the conference process</a>, in which negotiators worked to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the NDAA, <a href="https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20231211/FY24%20NDAA%20Conference%20Report%20-%20%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">came a report</a> that stripped out language calling for a independent review board and other provisions such as eminent domain authority and a &#8220;controlled&#8221; disclosure process, instead leaving it to the National Archives to collect UAP documents from across the government while giving federal agencies room to keep them secret.
Grusch offered a different route toward transparency, saying, &#8220;We need to advocate for the Executive Branch, you know, the office of the president through executive action to instate such a body to advise him on the best course of action.&#8221;
But, acknowledging a &#8220;mixed bag of success,&#8221; Grusch also praised lawmakers for advancing some transparency-minded language in the NDAA, in particular a section in the conference report that restricts funds to special-access programs that have not been reported to specific committees in Congress and congressional leadership.
Grusch emerged publicly in June when <a href="https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Debrief broke the story</a> about his allegations of a multi-decade retrieval and reverse-engineering program being illegally kept from Congress and government watchdog investigations into his findings and claims of whistleblower retaliation.
After testifying before Congress in July, during a hearing in which he claimed “non-human” biologics have been recovered from UFO crash sites and spoke about what he learned from 40 witnesses he interviewed while part of a UAP task force, Grusch has faced some skepticism, including from House Intelligence Committee Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufo-whistleblower-claims-firsthand-access-to-things-he-cant-talk-about-publicly" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Turner</a> (R-OH) — who was also critical of <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1729941909097824287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Schumer&#8217;s disclosure legislation</a>.
Grusch told NewsNation that he still faces restraints in what he can divulge to the public but plans to &#8220;generally&#8221; discuss some of his first-hand knowledge in the near future that he was not previously at liberty to acknowledge.
&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t be very up front about my first-hand knowledge until recently. I got some other security approvals through the Prepublication and Security Review process and I did have some first-hand knowledge of some specific parts of the program,&#8221; Grusch said. &#8220;I&#8217;m currently drafting an op-ed that I&#8217;m going to release in a few weeks and I will be discussing what I actually do know first-hand.&#8221;

David Grusch

UFO Whistleblower Calls For Executive Action After ‘Greatest Legislative Failure In American History’

UFO Whistleblower Calls For Executive Action After 'Greatest Legislative Failure In American History'

Whistleblowers

Senate Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) announced on Monday that his legislation to force the federal government to disclose information it has on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFOs</a> is in danger of getting shot down in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a>.
The fate of the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act of 2023 is now being determined as negotiators work to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the next National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in <a href="https://sherrill.house.gov/media/press-releases/photo-on-ndaa-conference-committee-sherrill-pushes-for-bipartisan-efforts-to-strengthen-us-national-security-and-protect-service-members" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the conference process</a>. Lawmakers <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/dear_colleague_112623.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aim to</a> get the defense policy bill <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congress-vows-pass-massive-defense-bill-culture-wars-loom-2023-11-29/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enacted</a> the before the end of the year.
House Republicans are &#8220;attempting to kill another commonsense bipartisan measure passed by the Senate which I was proud to cosponsor with Sen. Rounds as the lead sponsor to increase transparency around what the government does and does not know about unidentified aerial phenomena,&#8221; Schumer said in remarks on the Senate floor.
&#8220;Unidentified aerial phenomena that generated intense curiosity for many Americans and the risk for confusion and misinformation is high if the government isn&#8217;t willing to be transparent,&#8221; he continued.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer calls out House Republicans trying to kill the UAP Disclosure Act in the NDAA. <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSchumer</a> <a href="https://t.co/LO9eeWA3vU">pic.twitter.com/LO9eeWA3vU</a>
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&#8220;The measure I championed with Sen. Rounds would create a board just like we did with the JFK assassination records to work through the declassification of many government records on UAPs. This model has been a terrific success for decades. It should be used again with UAPs. But, once again, House Republicans are ready to kill this bipartisan provision,&#8221; Schumer said.
In a follow-up post to X summarizing his remarks on the amendment, Schumer added, &#8220;We&#8217;ll keep working to get this done.&#8221;
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House Republicans are trying to kill the Senate&#39;s bipartisan measure to increase transparency around UAPS.
The measure I’m championing with Sen. Rounds would create a board to work through the declassification of government records on UAPs.
We&#39;ll keep working to get this done.
&mdash; Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/1731826353152958713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The UAP Disclosure Act, which Schumer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-moves-to-force-disclosure-of-ufo-secrets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unveiled</a> this summer with Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) as an amendment to the Senate&#8217;s version of the NDAA, would give heads of government offices 300 days to organize records in their possession and give them to a review board, members of which would be nominated by the president and approved by the Senate, to determine whether certain documents should remain classified.
Similar to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-pledges-to-release-all-jfk-assassination-files-if-re-elected">President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992</a>, the president will have the ultimate authority to postpone disclosure of UAP records if there is an &#8220;identifiable harm&#8221; to national security, but otherwise calls for their release &#8220;not later than the date that is 25 years after the date of the first creation&#8221; of the documents by the originating government entities.
Among the many provisions in the UAP amendment was a section that said the federal government shall “exercise eminent domain over any and all recovered technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non-human intelligence that may be controlled by private persons or entities in the interests of the public good.”
While it remains to be seen what the final NDAA will look like, the U.S. government has already started making strides in publicly addressing and studying reports of UAPs with the Department of Defense&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-pentagon-ufo-investigator-calling-it-quits-hopes-anomalous-tech-is-alien-not-other-people-in-our-back-yard" target="_blank" rel="noopener">All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)</a> and other endeavors. Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, recently <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1729941909097824287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told NewsNation</a> that he viewed the Schumer amendment as a &#8220;poorly drafted piece of legislation&#8221; even though he denied that he was &#8220;holding up&#8221; the measure.
There remain suspicions that the government has not been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/journalist-suspects-u-s-govt-is-covering-up-some-level-of-ufo-knowledge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fully transparent</a> about what it knows concerning UFOs, and a bipartisan group of House lawmakers who have banded together to form <a href="https://burchett.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-burchett-launches-uap-caucus-leads-letter-intelligence-community-inspector" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the House UAP Caucus</a> have voiced support for passing the 64-page UAP Disclosure Act in conjunction with a one-and-a-half page amendment to the House version of the NDAA that would pushes Department of Defense (DoD) officials to <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/07/14/defense-bill-amendments-target-increased-ufo-transparency-for-public/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declassify records</a> related to publicly known sightings of UAPs in 180 days.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), the congressman who offered that amendment, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-bureaucracy-top-house-ufo-investigator-cautions-disclosure-legislation-may-be-a-dud-offers-additional-pathway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Daily Wire last week</a> that he had spoken to House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) about the UAP issue and &#8220;got him to commit to transparency.&#8221;

Schumer Warns UFO Disclosure Legislation Is About To Get Rejected

The U.S. government is not being fully transparent about what it knows about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFOs</a>, according to a journalist who just wrote a book on the topic.
Garrett Graff, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ufo-inside-garrett-graff-book-review-c2e901ce3b2d45ef5484c6be16da0cdc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">author of</a> &#8220;UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government’s Search for Alien Life Here — and Out There,&#8221; shared insights into his work as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBm_EbQLcII" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during an interview</a> on NBC News Now with host Chuck Todd.
&#8220;There is something real here,&#8221; Graff said. &#8220;There are things out there in our airspace that we do not understand what they are and that those could represent exquisite new adversary technology, but they could also represent science that we don&#8217;t understand&#8221; in areas such as meteorology or astronomy.
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WATCH: <a href="https://twitter.com/vermontgmg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@vermontgmg</a> says he&#39;s convinced the government is &quot;covering up some level&quot; of its knowledge of UFOs — but not &quot;meaningful knowledge of alien spacecraft; alien visitors.&quot;
&quot;I just don&#39;t see the extraordinary evidence or the fingers of a cover-up if that was the case.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Ms6HNIywJX">pic.twitter.com/Ms6HNIywJX</a>
&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1731358988912959704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;I believe that &#8230; the government is covering up some level of its knowledge and understanding about what some of those things are both in in terms of what chunk of that is our government&#8217;s own secret development programs — you know planes, drones, new technologies that we&#8217;re working on — as well as what we&#8217;re sensing and detecting of advanced adversary technology being tested against U.S. forces or around U.S. airspace,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;What I&#8217;m unconvinced of,&#8221; Graff added, &#8220;is that the government is covering up meaningful knowledge of alien spacecraft, alien visitors, extraterrestrial contact — I just don&#8217;t see the extraordinary evidence or the fingers of the cover up that one would expect if that was in fact the case.&#8221;
Todd pressed Graff to comment on the recent strides by the U.S. government to publicly address unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) as reports of mysterious sightings grow and to <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3249303/usdis-ronald-moultrie-and-dr-sean-kirkpatrick-media-roundtable-on-the-all-domai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">engage with the scientific community</a>.
Graff described there being a &#8220;shift&#8221; since 2017 — when The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made waves</a> with a report on the Pentagon&#8217;s secretive efforts to study UFOs — in which &#8220;serious people are talking seriously about this in the national security circles in Washington and on Capitol Hill.&#8221;
In recent months, there has been a push on Capitol Hill, led by a bipartisan group of House and Senate members to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-bureaucracy-top-house-ufo-investigator-cautions-disclosure-legislation-may-be-a-dud-offers-additional-pathway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">enact legislation</a> to force more disclosures as part of a broader defense bill for the coming year. One of those lawmakers, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), was also a guest on the program with Graff. &#8220;Our public wants to know what&#8217;s going on,&#8221; the congressman said.
But part of the &#8220;challenge&#8221; of identifying UAPs, Graff explained, is establishing a &#8220;baseline&#8221; with the help of sensors and other instruments for what may be zipping around the Earth on a typical basis. He did not completely rule out the prospect of extraterrestrial crafts, positing that they may be &#8220;passing all around us all of the time and we don&#8217;t have the technology adequate to notice&#8221; — considering factors such as size and movement speeds across a vast expanse.

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Journalist Suspects U.S. Govt Is ‘Covering Up Some Level’ Of UFO Knowledge

Journalist Suspects U.S. Govt Is 'Covering Up Some Level' Of UFO Knowledge

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One of the biggest champions of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFO</a> transparency in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a> has reservations about the much-hyped disclosure legislation from Senate Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chuck-schumer">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY) that is now being considered as part of the conference process to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the next National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Of particular concern, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) told The Daily Wire on Friday, is how the <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/schumer-rounds-introduce-new-legislation-to-declassify-government-records-related-to-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-and-ufos_modeled-after-jfk-assassination-records-collection-act--as-an-amendment-to-ndaa">bipartisan Senate amendment</a> known as the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Disclosure Act of 2023 is modeled after the <a href="https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">JFK Records Act of 1992</a> — which was passed almost 30 years after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and culminated earlier this year with the completion of a National Archives review that made most <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/politics/jfk-assassination-documents-national-archives-review/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">but not all</a> of the records public.
&#8220;Here we are, 60 years later, and we still don&#8217;t know anything,&#8221; Burchett said, alluding to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-secret-service-agent-who-witnessed-jfk-assassination-raises-questions-about-magic-bullet-theory-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lingering questions about Kennedy&#8217;s death</a>. &#8220;So are we going to create another bureaucracy? I just want transparency. If it deals with UFOs or UAPs, turn it loose. Quit hiding it. Let&#8217;s go.&#8221;
The UAP Disclosure Act, which Schumer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-moves-to-force-disclosure-of-ufo-secrets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unveiled</a> this summer with Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity for the Armed Services Committee, would give heads of government offices 300 days to organize records in their possession and give them to a review board, members of which would be nominated by the president and approved by the Senate, to determine whether certain documents should remain classified. Similar to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-pledges-to-release-all-jfk-assassination-files-if-re-elected">JFK Records Act</a>, the president will have the ultimate authority to postpone disclosure of UAP records if there is an &#8220;identifiable harm&#8221; to national security, but otherwise calls for their release &#8220;not later than the date that is 25 years after the date of the first creation&#8221; of the documents by the originating government entities.
When it comes to the review board, the amendment dictates that nominees cannot have attachments to any legacy programs that may work with unknown technologies or non-human intelligence and it requires an eclectic membership that includes at least one current or former national security official, one current or former foreign service official, one scientist or engineer, one economist, one professional historian, and one sociologist.
Burchett, who launched <a href="https://burchett.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-burchett-launches-uap-caucus-leads-letter-intelligence-community-inspector" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the House UAP Caucus</a> this year amid growing speculation about what the government may be hiding about UFOs, questioned why such a specific makeup for the review board is drawn out in the legislation.
&#8220;Why are these people on there? And you know as well as I do when they do these things — and it wasn&#8217;t Chuck Schumer that wrote it, obviously; it’s a staffer with input from somebody from the outside. Do they have somebody already in mind? And are they already committed to one train of thought or the other? I just don&#8217;t like this,&#8221; he said. Pressed on whether he feared candidates may be &#8220;bought off,&#8221; Burchett suggested that &#8220;compromised&#8221; would be a better term. He also posited that &#8220;lawyers have got enough loopholes in there&#8221; that would protect anyone in the military industrial complex who may be involved in secret UAP programs.
There may be a remedy already in play.
Burchett <a href="https://twitter.com/RepTimBurchett/status/1679211450831630339" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered</a> a one-and-a-half page amendment to the House version of the NDAA that would force Department of Defense (DoD) officials to <a href="https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/07/14/defense-bill-amendments-target-increased-ufo-transparency-for-public/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declassify records</a> related to publicly known sightings of UAPs in 180 days. He and fellow House lawmakers who are pushing for an end to UFO secrecy hope it gets passed along with Schumer&#8217;s much longer (64 pages) legislation.
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&#8220;I think if you have both of them in place, then the information that comes out of the DoD will also be a check, if you will, on the agency that would be collecting information from all the other agencies before it served you,&#8221; Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) told The Daily Wire. &#8220;And that way you could, if one agency said, &#8216;No, we don&#8217;t have information,&#8217; that would be one thing. But if one agency has certain information at all, we can just compare that or question or query agencies, if that makes sense.&#8221;
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), another member of the House <a href="https://burchett.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-burchett-launches-uap-caucus-leads-letter-intelligence-community-inspector" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UAP Caucus</a>, said in an interview, &#8220;Burchett&#8217;s amendment is pretty straightforward &#8212; and obviously, if either of them passed, it&#8217;s a step forward in the right direction, right? But our main concerns with the Schumer amendment was that there&#8217;s this waiting period similar to what happened with JFK, and we just feel that with the amount of pushback in addition to the request for funds that we&#8217;re constantly getting, it&#8217;s really important for transparency that we know what&#8217;s happening and that the American people do as well.&#8221;
Intermixed in the debate over disclosure have been claims <a href="https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/david-grusch-on-joe-rogan-experience/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawmakers-expect-to-get-classified-briefings-on-ufos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">whistleblower David Grusch</a>, a former U.S. intelligence and military official who claims the government is covering up a UFO retrieval program and wrongfully keeping Congress in the dark, and <a href="https://www.liberationtimes.com/home/black-friday-republican-leadership-takes-axe-to-ufo-transparency-legislation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> by the Liberation Times that some in House leadership have been resistant to the UAP transparency push and may try to weaken some provisions — including one in Schumer&#8217;s UAP amendment that concerns the use of eminent domain by the federal government to seize materials from private citizens or entities.
One member who repeatedly gets mentioned as an opponent to the UAP legislation is Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. But Turner <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1729941909097824287" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied to NewsNation</a> on Wednesday that he was &#8220;holding up&#8221; the Senate amendment, even though he opined that it is a &#8220;poorly drafted piece of legislation,&#8221; and insisted that no members of the &#8220;pro-alien caucus&#8221; in the House had spoken to him about any issues regarding UFOs.
When asked by The Daily Wire on Friday if the UAP Caucus had spoken to Turner, Burchett said, &#8220;From what I understand, we have since then.&#8221; Burchett also noted that he had talked with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and &#8220;got him to commit to transparency.&#8221;
The Tennessee Republican also issued a message of caution to people who are cheering on the UAP Caucus, saying, &#8220;If they get the Schumer bill on, all the UFO people are going to cheer, and then they&#8217;re not going to get anything out of it. And then they&#8217;re going to come back and say, &#8216;Hey, what happened?&#8217; It&#8217;s just not going to happen.&#8221; Burchett added later, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a lot of positive vibes on any of this. The same old stuff over and over and over again. I know these UFO people are excited, and I&#8217;m happy for them. But I just know the reality.&#8221;
Still, members of the UAP Caucus say they would be happy with any step forward on transparency, and that effort extends beyond just legislation. Luna said that she anticipates another hearing, though likely not until next year. Burlison said the &#8220;next big step&#8221; for the caucus is to view Grusch&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/realannapaulina/status/1720652194490270037" target="_blank" rel="noopener">inspector general report</a> in a secure setting now that they have permission.
Members also indicated they still would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-reps-see-new-opportunity-for-ufo-select-committee-request-with-speaker-mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">like to see a select committee</a>, which could give them more power to gather evidence, as well as need-to-know authorizations, but Burchett said on Friday that he has yet to speak to Johnson about that particular issue. Yet another member of the UAP Caucus, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN), told The Daily Wire that a select panel would be valuable because it could bring in &#8220;folks from other committees that may either have an interest or lend some area of expertise that would work best on a committee like that. I think it&#8217;s the way forward.&#8221;
As for what drives the UAP caucus, the answers seem to vary. During a press conference this week in which members talked about how their investigative efforts have faced pushback from the U.S. intelligence community and the military, Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) said that people trying to stop disclosure <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMoskowitz/status/1730337510100730301" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;piques the interest.&#8221;</a> Ogles affirmed to The Daily Wire that he&#8217;s been particularly vocal about national security, specifically reports of mysterious craft spotted around nuclear facilities and the prospect of a foreign adversary operating in U.S. airspace. Burchett bemoaned how the government&#8217;s tendency to issue denials when it comes to UFOs does not square with the &#8220;tens of millions of dollars researching something&#8221; that the feds claim &#8220;doesn&#8217;t exist.&#8221;
And when it comes to what lawmakers have gleaned from whistleblowers so far in their investigation, Burchett said he has been apprised of some out-of-this-world stuff. &#8220;Yeah, they are craft that no one, either foreign or domestic, has,&#8221; he told The Daily Wire. Asked about if he&#8217;s seen photos of images, Burchett added, &#8220;Absolutely. And they defy all — some of them defy logic, any kind of logic, in our realm of thinking. But again, if something can travel at those incredible speeds and survive. The human body can&#8217;t survive that. Those Gs, it would just liquefy you, literally. It&#8217;s kind of creepy really.&#8221;

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN)

‘Another Bureaucracy?’ Top House UFO Investigator Cautions Disclosure Legislation May Be A Dud; Offers Additional Pathway

'Another Bureaucracy?' Top House UFO Investigator Cautions Disclosure Legislation May Be A Dud; Offers Additional Pathway

When the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pentagon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pentagon</a>&#8216;s chief <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFO</a> investigator announced he would step down from the role next month, he hinted at just how distressing his findings regarding <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-reps-see-new-opportunity-for-ufo-select-committee-request-with-speaker-mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)</a> have been.
Sean Kirkpatrick, the outgoing director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), said he believes &#8220;the best thing that could come out of this job is to prove that there are aliens,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/07/pentagon-ufo-boss-00125883" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to POLITICO</a>.
&#8220;If we don’t prove it’s aliens, then what we’re finding is evidence of other people doing stuff in our backyard,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And that’s not good.&#8221;
What Kirkpatrick appeared to be alluding to was the national security implications of the hundreds of UAP incidents AARO has been looking into since the office was set up in the <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3368109/dod-working-to-better-understand-resolve-anomalous-phenomena/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">summer of 2022</a>.
Just last month, Kirkpatrick reportedly <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/18/politics/us-ufo-reports-pentagon/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emphasized to CNN</a> that most sightings involve benign objects, such as balloons or drones, while others may be more nefarious in nature.
&#8220;There are some indicators that are concerning that may be attributed to foreign activity, and we are investigating those very hard,&#8221; he said at the time.
There has long been rampant speculation about what certain UAP may be, particularly those that appear to defy the laws of physics, leading some to suspect there may be extraterrestrial beings visiting Earth, or something else.
Retired Air Force Maj. David Grusch, a former U.S. intelligence and military official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-defense-official-shares-claims-of-off-world-technology-expects-new-revelations-at-ufo-hearing">who claims</a> the government is covering up a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo">UFO</a> retrieval program, stoked that sense of wonder with congressional testimony over the summer in which he talked about there being non-human &#8220;biologics&#8221; in some of the recoveries.
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Kirkpatrick, who said the congressional UAP hearing was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/congress-ufos-uaps-pentagon-aliens-631ad4d174ee9559580935ec11afcf3f">&#8220;insulting&#8221;</a> to members of his team, <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3575588/aaro-director-dr-sean-kirkpatrick-holds-an-off-camera-media-roundtable/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> in a press briefing that his office has &#8220;no evidence of any program having ever existed as a to do any sort of reverse engineering of any sort of extraterrestrial UAP program.&#8221;
The report from POLITICO, published on Tuesday evening, revealed that Kirkpatrick plans to leave his role in December. &#8220;I’m ready to move on. I have accomplished everything I said I was going to do,” he said.
Kirkpatrick also reportedly said he has a few tasks yet to finish up and that once he steps down, his deputy Tim Phillips will take command of AARO in an acting capacity until a full-time director is selected by the Pentagon.

Top Pentagon UFO investigator Calling It Quits, Hopes Anomalous Tech Is Alien, Not ‘Other People’ In ‘Our Back Yard’

Top Pentagon UFO investigator Calling It Quits, Hopes Anomalous Tech Is Alien, Not 'Other People' In 'Our Back Yard'

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House</a> members say they want to try again to get approval for a select committee on unidentified anomalous phenomena, or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UAP</a>, now that the chamber has a new speaker.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) told The Daily Wire on Thursday that he&#8217;s already spoken with Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mike-johnson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) to gauge support for his endeavor to get <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a> more access to secret UAP information.
&#8220;He seems very receptive,&#8221; Burchett said in an interview. When asked if he thinks Johnson might be open to a select committee, he replied, &#8220;I do &#8212; because he’s not beholden to the defense contractors.&#8221; When pressed on whether he would ask for a select committee, Burchett noted that he has already done so informally, but would need to make the request officially.
Another lawmaker, Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO), told The Daily Wire he also wants to press Johnson for a select committee and he would like to see Burchett as chairman of the panel.
&#8220;Give him the authority, let him chase this rabbit,&#8221; Burlison said of Burchett. &#8220;And I think that, at the end of the day, there&#8217;s a lot of money being spent, a lot of tax dollars being spent, and the American people and members of Congress know what is going on.&#8221;
Burlison explained that a select committee would give members a &#8220;need-to-know&#8221; authority on UAP. &#8220;Because right now, a lot of the intelligence is only available to individuals who are on committees that &#8216;need to know.&#8217; And those committees are not focused on this topic at all. And so, if we create a committee that has a purpose for this, it&#8217;s hard to deny us that we should not have access to the information,&#8221; he added.
A request for a select committee would be the second one this year.
Burchett <a href="https://twitter.com/RepTimBurchett/status/1684956861898919936" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> with a bipartisan group of fellow House members in late July, formally requesting a select UAP committee right after the bombshell testimony of retired Air Force Maj. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufo-whistleblower-claims-firsthand-access-to-things-he-cant-talk-about-publicly">David Grusch</a>, a former U.S. intelligence and military official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-defense-official-shares-claims-of-off-world-technology-expects-new-revelations-at-ufo-hearing">who claims</a> the government is covering up a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo">UFO</a> retrieval program and wrongfully keeping Congress in the dark. Grusch left members wanting to know more as he cautioned there was only so much that could be said outside of a classified setting.
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/RepTimBurchett/status/1684956861898919936" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> from Burchett and his colleagues, which specifically asked that their proposed select committee be given subpoena power, was addressed to Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who served as speaker at the time. Burchett <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uap-caucus-denied-select-committee-disclosure-act-being-debated-in-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The Daily Wire</a> in September that the request had been denied. Since that time, the House voted to remove McCarthy as speaker. Johnson was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-elects-mike-johnson-as-speaker" target="_blank" rel="noopener">picked</a> as the new speaker on Wednesday.
Before The Daily Wire spoke to them on Thursday, Burchett and Burlison, as well as other members of the House Oversight Committee, attended a classified briefing on Capitol Hill with representatives of the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DOD OIG) — one of two government watchdogs Grusch had approached with classified information and claims of retaliation related to his disclosures.
Some lawmakers walked away from the SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility) lamenting how they learned nothing new. Reps. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) and Anna Paulin Luna (R-FL) told reporters they were told that they <a href="https://twitter.com/DCNewsPhotog/status/1717568794363584891" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lacked</a> the proper clearance to get certain information. This &#8220;defeats the purpose&#8221; of government oversight, Luna said.
&#8220;Nothing unexpected, and nothing new to report,&#8221; Burchett told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I mean, these guys, their offices are so compartmentalized. It&#8217;s like looking down the barrel of a .22 rifle — and they&#8217;re not lying, but they are so compartmentalized.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1717580303651201300" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> posted to X by NewsNation&#8217;s Joe Khalil, the DOD OIG said, &#8220;The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General is not responsible for determining the classification of the information in our oversight work, nor do we determine the level of security clearances for congressional leaders,&#8221; adding, &#8220;The DoD OIG is committed to being as transparent and communicative as possible with our congressional leaders, and welcome and further opportunity to discuss our body of work.&#8221;
Because the briefing was classified, members were restricted in what they could divulge.
Burlison told The Daily Wire that the briefing did not alter his &#8220;perspective&#8221; on the UAP issue, but did emphasize that he thinks &#8220;we need to get more information&#8221; on the topic.
Asked if &#8220;some degree of answers were provided based on what was alleged,&#8221; Burlison replied, &#8220;Some degree &#8212; but, and it&#8217;s really frustrating because I can&#8217;t say what was said, but I&#8217;ll just say, my viewpoint about the UAP phenomenon has not changed. My worldview of what we&#8217;re seeing, what we&#8217;re experiencing, is that it&#8217;s likely U.S. experimental, whether it&#8217;s from the private sector or being done through a black operation within the Department of Defense or Energy.&#8221;
He also commented: &#8220;I&#8217;ll just say this: UFOs are not keeping me up at night. They weren&#8217;t before, and after this meeting, they weren&#8217;t. They aren&#8217;t now. I told a constituent that what keeps me up at night is the national debt, the war in Ukraine, and the war in Israel, and the potential for World War III. And so there&#8217;s nothing that shattered my worldview today.&#8221;
The other inspector general with whom Grusch had engaged as a whistleblower was Intelligence Community Inspector General Thomas Monheim. <a href="https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Debrief</a> reported in June that Monheim found Grusch&#8217;s claims to be &#8220;credible and urgent&#8221; in July 2022 and a whistleblower reprisal investigation was opened. The report also noted that Grusch got in contact with staffers for the congressional intelligence committees, but Grusch reportedly indicated that he was limited in what he could share because staffers lacked the proper clearances and authority.
In a recent letter to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uap-caucus-denied-select-committee-disclosure-act-being-debated-in-house">the UAP Caucus</a>, Monheim said his office “has not conducted any audit, inspection, evaluation, or review of alleged UAP programs within the responsibility and authority of the DNI [Director of National Intelligence] that would enable this office to provide a fulsome response to your questions.” Monheim is now <a href="https://twitter.com/reptimburchett/status/1715053620574474633" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expected</a> to meet with members of Congress for a UAP-focused classified briefing in mid-November.
At least one House lawmaker isn&#8217;t getting his hopes up just yet.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t expect anything from this,&#8221; Burchett told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Until we get some private government contractor who&#8217;s ticked off about something, that&#8217;s dealing with some of this stuff, [who] comes forward. A lot of it&#8217;s farmed out to them because it&#8217;s un-FOIA-able. We&#8217;re never going to get anywhere — just going to be our word against theirs. And people in Congress don&#8217;t have the guts to take them on because the defense contractors grease this place incredibly well.&#8221;

Rep. Tim Burchett

GOP Reps See New Opportunity For UFO Select Committee Request With Speaker Mike Johnson

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/u-s-house-of-representatives">House</a> members expect to receive classified briefings related to retired Air Force Maj. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufo-whistleblower-claims-firsthand-access-to-things-he-cant-talk-about-publicly">David Grusch</a>, a former U.S. intelligence and military official <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-defense-official-shares-claims-of-off-world-technology-expects-new-revelations-at-ufo-hearing">who claims</a> the government is covering up a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo">UFO</a> retrieval program.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) first shared the news to X on Tuesday, nearly three months after Grusch <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-ufo-hearing-is-over-whats-next">testified</a> to a House Oversight panel, saying lawmakers were given the go-ahead to be briefed in a SCIF (sensitive compartmented information facility). Joe Khalil, a News Nation correspondent, later explained what the briefings might entail.
&#8220;CONFIRMED- I’m told there will be 2 members only briefings: One w/DOD Inspector General, the other w/Intel Community Inspector General,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1714455056039240154">said</a> on Wednesday. &#8220;The Intel Community IG, according to UAP / UFO whistleblower David Grusch, has specific info Grusch provided that he couldn’t share publicly.&#8221;
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CONFIRMED- I’m told there will be 2 members only briefings: One w/DOD Inspector General, the other w/Intel Community Inspector General. 
The Intel Community IG, according to UAP / UFO whistleblower David Grusch, has specific info Grusch provided that he couldn’t share publicly. <a href="https://t.co/Cb4t6hIVWv">https://t.co/Cb4t6hIVWv</a>
&mdash; Joe Khalil (@JoeKhalilTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1714455056039240154?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/">The Debrief</a> first reported in early June that Grusch, who alleges a multi-decade retrieval and reverse-engineering program has been illegally kept from Congress, provided classified information to both inspectors general and that a whistleblower reprisal investigation had been opened. In his testimony before Congress in July, Grusch went as far as to testify under oath that &#8220;non-human&#8221; biologics have been recovered from UFO crash sites.
Since he came forward, Grusch has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufo-whistleblower-claims-firsthand-access-to-things-he-cant-talk-about-publicly">faced skepticism</a> due to his insistence that there is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-testifies-he-knows-exact-locations-of-ufos">some information</a> he could not divulge to lawmakers outside of a classified setting and because he said there are certain details he learned second-hand, from other officials while leading efforts to study unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), the government&#8217;s preferred term for UFOs.
&#8220;This would take thousands and thousands of people for such an unbelievable cover-up to be occurring,&#8221; House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ufo-whistleblower-claims-firsthand-access-to-things-he-cant-talk-about-publicly">said</a> in a Fox News interview. &#8220;And for people to speak with such confidence over something that they do not know is, I think, something certainly everybody needs to be concerned about.&#8221;
Still, lawmakers have been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-uap-caucus-launched-members-send-letter-to-intel-community-inspector-general-seeking-answers">pushing for more transparency</a> ever since the hearing, prompting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uap-caucus-denied-select-committee-disclosure-act-being-debated-in-house">a letter to the UAP Caucus</a> from Intelligence Community Inspector General Thomas Monheim that said his office “has not conducted any audit, inspection, evaluation, or review of alleged UAP programs within the responsibility and authority of the DNI [Director of National Intelligence] that would enable this office to provide a fulsome response to your questions.”
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The Department of Defense set up the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to investigate UAP reports. AARO&#8217;s director, Sean Kirkpatrick, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/18/politics/us-ufo-reports-pentagon/index.html">told CNN</a> in a Wednesday report that he has &#8220;no evidence that suggests anything extraterrestrial in nature,&#8221; but he encouraged anyone who might have information to contact his team.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), who has been a leader in pushing for Congress to get more access to secret UFO information, <a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1714471639591669939">told News Nation</a> that he expects the classified briefings to take place by Christmas, though he suggested the plan might be in flux as the House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-jordan-loses-ground-in-second-house-speaker-vote-loss">struggles to fill its speaker vacuum</a>, among other issues.
“I’ll believe it when I see everything. They’re scrambling right now. They’re nervous, and they should be,” Burchett said, adding that people at the Pentagon &#8220;should be&#8221; nervous.

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Lawmakers Expect To Get Classified Briefings On UFOs

In the run-up to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-10-most-incredible-exchanges-from-the-house-uap-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blockbuster Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) hearing</a> on July 26 during which former intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower David Grusch made extraordinary allegations of black-budget crash retrieval and reverse engineering programs, UFO Twitter was buzzing about how the hearing could impact the public debate.
In the immediate aftermath of the hearing, a handful of representatives from both sides of the aisle promised the American people a concerted push for transparency. This group (later designated the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-uap-caucus-launched-members-send-letter-to-intel-community-inspector-general-seeking-answers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UAP Caucus</a>), as well as their allies in Congress, have pursued further access.
On July 27, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) — alongside Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) — co-signed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/burchett-more-witnesses-have-come-forward-since-uap-hearing-select-committee-with-subpoena-authority-requested" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a letter</a> to Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) asking for a Select Committee “outside the jurisdiction of any standing committee” and “with subpoena authority.”
Speaking with The Daily Wire on Tuesday, Burchett said that the request for a Select Committee had been denied, adding that the move would &#8220;limit us.&#8221;
In August, the UAP Caucus sent a letter to Thomas Monheim, the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG), asking him to provide information relating to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena</a> that had allegedly been provided to him by Grusch.
Monheim responded to the letter on September 15 (the deadline set by the UAP Caucus), claiming that the ICIG “has not conducted any audit, inspection, evaluation, or review of alleged UAP programs within the responsibility and authority of the DNI that would enable this office to provide a fulsome response to your questions.”
While the public-facing battle for transparency lights up the stage, what’s taking place behind the curtain may prove more consequential.
According to a new report by <a href="https://public.substack.com/p/dozens-of-government-ufo-whistleblowers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Public</a>, more than two dozen whistleblowers — government employees and contractors — have over the last few months provided information to the ICIG, the Department of Defense Inspector General, and Congress. Others, according to individuals who spoke with Public, have taken their testimony to the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
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As Public’s Michael Shellenberger notes in the piece, the mere presence of additional whistleblowers does not, without further data, validate claims of crash retrieval and reverse-engineering programs — but it could indicate that something undisclosed is indeed occurring outside the watch of Congress.
Speaking with The Daily Wire about the article, Shellenberger noted that one of his sources “claims to have been part of a legacy program,” and that another source “claims to have seen a craft operating without conventional propulsion.”
“All of [them] were very scared — and with the kind of fear that I think is really hard to fake, and struck me as very genuine,” Shellenberger said. “I&#8217;m not saying that it&#8217;s not possible that there&#8217;s not some psychogenic or social contagion going on, but if there is, it&#8217;s really a peculiar one.”
Public states that testimony “has included both first-hand and second-hand reports of crash retrieval and reverse-engineering programs by U.S., Russian, and Chinese governments; the testing of materials obtained from retrieved craft; active and ongoing government disinformation operations; kinetic military action with UAPs; contact and collaboration with nonhuman intelligence (NHIs); and the successful reverse-engineering of a triangle-shaped craft with unconventional propulsion.”
According to Public, the whistleblowers who spoke with the publication did so on condition of anonymity due to fear of retribution — up to and including death — which echoes a claim made by Grusch during his testimony in July.
Many skeptics have asserted that claims of crash retrieval and reverse-engineering programs are a psy-op designed as a cover for a black-budget U.S. weapons program, or to distract the American public from current political crises.
Public addresses this perspective, noting that UAP disinformation campaigns do appear to have been waged — citing former Air Force intelligence officer Richard Doty, who has stated on numerous occasions that he spread UFO-related disinformation while at the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. However, as noted to Public by former Pentagon appointee Marik von Rennenkampff, a disinformation campaign waged through the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) would put individuals at risk of prosecution, jail time, and fines, and is, therefore, an unlikely avenue for such an endeavor.
Another possibility is social contagion. “And I continue to believe that there is some probability that this is a social contagion, psychogenic in some way,” Shellenberger said. However, the journalist also posed a rhetorical question — why is there such apparent pushback from various elected officials and intelligence personnel to something that is psychogenic?
“And this is among grown adults who have high levels of access to intelligence and high levels of clearance — and so if it is psychogenic, you&#8217;ve got a completely different problem on your hands,” Shellenberger noted.
Regardless of the source of the phenomenon — disinformation, social contagion, non-human intelligence — disclosure advocates note that transparency is vital.
As for what’s next, the <a href="https://www.democrats.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/uap_amendment.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UAP Disclosure Act</a>, which was introduced by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), and would be signed into law as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, is being debated among members of House committees.
The act, which is based on legislation aimed at declassifying records related to the JFK assassination, would create a nine-member UAP Records Review Board, and would mandate that every government office turn over records pertaining to UAP in a timely fashion. Additionally, it would give the government “eminent domain” over “all recovered technologies of unknown origin and biological evidence of non-human intelligence that may be controlled by private persons or entities in the interests of the public good.”
&#8220;Any and all such material, should it exist, shall be made available to the Review Board for personal examination and subsequent disclosure determination at a location suitable to the controlling authority of said material and in a timely manner,&#8221; the text of the Disclosure Act reads.
The nine Review Board members will be nominated by the president following recommendations from several groups, including the leaders of the House and Senate, as well as the UAP Disclosure Foundation — and none of the nominees “shall have had any previous or current involvement with any legacy program or controlling authority related to the collection, exploitation, or reverse engineering of technologies of unknown origin, or the examination of biological evidence of living or deceased non-human intelligence.”
“All review board nominees shall be granted the necessary security clearances and accesses, including any and all relevant Presidential, departmental, and agency special access programs, in an accelerated manner,” according to the text of the bill.
The panel must include at least one of each of the following: a current or former national security official, a current or former foreign service official, a scientist or engineer, an economist, a professional historian, and a sociologist.
The Senate&#8217;s Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will hold confirmation hearings shortly after the nominations.
According to Public, sources have said that Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) — whose district includes Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and who, according to Open Secrets, received almost $200,000 from individuals and PACs associated with the defense industry in the 2022 election cycle — has “tried to kill” the UAP Disclosure Act.
Others in prominent positions are also attempting to seed doubt about the legislation, per Public.
The Daily Wire reached out to more than 70 representatives on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Armed Services Committee to ask for comment on the UAP Disclosure Act.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, a member of the UAP Caucus, responded with the following statement: “I support full disclosure of UAP incidents and encounters because the United States government is not being honest with the American people. I’m going to continue fighting in conference to keep language in the Disclosure Act that achieves nothing less than full disclosure.”
We received additional responses from the communications staff of several other representatives asking for deadlines, stating an intent to get back to us, or deferring to other staff. No further contact has been made.
The result of the debate on the UAP Disclosure Act language should be made available in the near future.
While there isn’t another UAP hearing scheduled yet, certain members of the House and Senate seem intent on having one — and with the number of whistleblowers gaining in the wings, disclosure advocates are hoping it could make an even bigger splash than the first.

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The former Navy pilot who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-10-most-incredible-exchanges-from-the-house-uap-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> in front of U.S. Congress during the much-anticipated hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) over the summer called the display of two so-called non-human alien corpses in a Mexican congressional hearing &#8220;a huge step backwards for this issue.&#8221;
Mexico&#8217;s Congress made global headlines on Tuesday after alleged experts who study extraterrestrials unveiled 1,000-year-old &#8220;alien corpses&#8221; nestled in a glass display during its first hearing on UFOs.
But Ryan Graves, the former Navy pilot and Americans for Safe Aerospace executive director who appeared in the first U.S. congressional public hearing investigating reported military encounters with alleged crafts of non-human origins since the 1960s, said in an X-post following the hearing that the spectacle &#8220;disappointed&#8221; him.
&#8220;After the U.S. Congressional UFO hearing, I accepted an invitation to testify before the Mexican Congress hoping to keep up the momentum of government interest in pilot experiences with UAP,&#8221; Graves said. &#8220;Unfortunately, yesterday&#8217;s demonstration was a huge step backwards for this issue.&#8221;
&#8220;My testimony centered on sharing my experience and the UAP reports I hear from commercial and military aircrew through ASA&#8217;s witness program. I will continue to raise awareness of UAP as an urgent matter of aerospace safety, national security, and science, but I am deeply disappointed by this unsubstantiated stunt.&#8221;
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After the U.S. Congressional UFO hearing, I accepted an invitation to testify before the Mexican Congress hoping to keep up the momentum of government interest in pilot experiences with UAP. Unfortunately, yesterday’s demonstration was a huge step backwards for this issue. My…
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Graves was one of three witnesses who addressed the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs during the hearing on UAPs in late July. He was joined by Retired Navy Commander David Fravor and decorated military veteran and intelligence official-turned-whistleblower David Grusch.
During sworn testimony before Congress, Grusch, an Air Force veteran and former National Geospatial Intelligence Agency member, said he is aware of where the U.S. government is allegedly covertly keeping UAPs.
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Grusch claimed he knows the &#8220;exact locations&#8221; based on interviews of &#8220;over 40 witnesses over four years&#8221; when asked about UFOs, the popular term used to describe UAPs. Though Grusch declared that he was limited in what he could disclose publicly, he stated that the locations had been provided to the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) and &#8220;some&#8221; to the congressional intelligence panels.
The Department of Defense released a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-ufo-hearing-is-over-whats-next" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> insisting that its All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which has been tasked with investigating UFOs, &#8220;has not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.&#8221; In addition, AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick said the hearing was &#8220;insulting&#8221; to members of his team.
Mexico held a similar hearing on Tuesday that featured Mexican journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan, who testified under oath that the creatures recovered near Peru&#8217;s ancient Nazca Lines were &#8220;non-human beings that are not part of our terrestrial evolution,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/journalist-presents-mexican-congress-alleged-non-human-alien-corpses-ufo-hearing-not-alone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
Maussan also reportedly said that Autonomous National University of Mexico researchers analyzed two corpses that were approximately 1,000 years old.
&#8220;These aren&#8217;t beings that were found after a UFO wreckage,&#8221; Maussan said. &#8220;They were found in diatom mines and were later fossilized.&#8221;
&#8220;Whether they are aliens or not, we don&#8217;t know, but they were intelligent, and they lived with us,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They should rewrite history.… We are not alone in this vast universe. We should embrace this reality.&#8221;
The Independent <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alien-corpses-in-mexico-found-congress-ufo-b2411144.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Maussan has previously made claims of &#8220;alien&#8221; discoveries that have since been debunked, including five mummies found in Peru in 2017 that turned out to be the remains of human children.
Peruvian Culture Minister Leslie Urteaga told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/alien-bodies-presented-mexican-congress-panned-stunt-2023-09-14/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> that South America&#8217;s scientific institutions have not identified the remains displayed during the Mexico&#8217;s UFO hearing as non-human and said that the Ministry of Culture has filed a criminal complaint against Maussan and his associates.
&#8220;I am going to ask for information to see what has happened &#8230; about the removal of pre-Hispanic objects, because I understand they are part of pre-Hispanic bone remains,&#8221; she said.
Maussan told the outlet on Thursday that his claims have not been countered.
&#8220;What they want is to take away the force that this discovery has, but only with testimonies, with questioning and without a single piece of evidence,&#8221; Maussan said. &#8220;We have been doing investigations for years&#8230; they want to come here to investigate with just talk.&#8221;

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UFO Whistleblower ‘Disappointed’ With Mexico’s Display Of ‘Non-Human Alien Corpses’

UFO Whistleblower 'Disappointed' With Mexico's Display Of 'Non-Human Alien Corpses'

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nasa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NASA</a> appointed a new director of UAP research, a position meant to oversee studies into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ufo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UFOs</a>. Although NASA refused to identify the person upon making the <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-shares-unidentified-anomalous-phenomena-independent-study-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> on Thursday, hours later — after being confronted about a lack of transparency — the agency changed course and released a name.
Bill Nelson, the administrator of NASA, shared the plans for a new top UFO investigator upon the release of an independent study team&#8217;s <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/science-pink/s3fs-public/atoms/files/UAP%20Independent%20Study%20Team%20-%20Final%20Report_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) based on unclassified data that offered no evidence of extraterrestrial life but did call for more investigation into objects they could not explain and beyond.
“NASA’s new Director of UAP Research will develop and oversee the implementation of NASA’s scientific vision for UAP research, including using NASA’s expertise to work with other agencies to analyze UAP and applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to search the skies for anomalies,&#8221; Nelson said. &#8220;NASA will do this work transparently for the benefit of humanity.&#8221;
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Here&#39;s the complete NASA press conference on the &quot;Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Independent Study Report.&quot;
A few of my text alerts bled onto the audio towards the end. Sorry about that. They were from Kirkpatrick. 😀<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ufos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ufos</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ufoX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ufoX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/uapX?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#uapX</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ufotwitter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ufotwitter</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/aliens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#aliens</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/uap?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#uap</a> <a href="https://t.co/3UDMhos7AA">pic.twitter.com/3UDMhos7AA</a>
&mdash; Joe Murgia (@TheUfoJoe) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheUfoJoe/status/1702403029566374191?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 14, 2023</a></blockquote>
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NASA later released an updated press release that <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/update-nasa-shares-uap-independent-study-report-names-director">said</a> Mark McInerney had been appointed director of UAP research.
&#8220;McInerney previously served as NASA’s liaison to the Department of Defense covering limited UAP activities for the agency. In the director role, he will centralize communications, resources, and data analytical capabilities to establish a robust database for the evaluation of future UAP,&#8221; the news release said. &#8220;He also will leverage NASA’s expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and space-based observation tools to support and enhance the broader government initiative on UAP. Since 1996, he has served various positions at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland; the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; and the National Hurricane Center.&#8221;
Earlier in the day, despite a stated commitment for transparency, NASA officials initially resisted disclosure of whom the agency had chosen to lead its UFO endeavor when pressed during a news conference to discuss the independent study&#8217;s findings and NASA&#8217;s plans for disclosure by filmmaker <a href="https://twitter.com/Unexplained2020/status/1702355706249125964" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Fox</a> and reporters. The decision to keep the name under wraps stood in contrast to how the Department of Defense handled the announcement of its UAP office last year, <a href="https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3100053/dod-announces-the-establishment-of-the-all-domain-anomaly-resolution-office/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">naming</a> Sean Kirkpatrick as the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
NASA Associate Administrator Nicola Fox <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQcqOW39ksk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">conceded</a> that her agency had already appointed someone to the role some time ago, but declined to name the individual, saying, &#8220;We will not give his name out now.&#8221; Dan Evans, NASA’s assistant deputy associate administrator for research, said harassment and even threats directed at members of the research group were &#8220;beyond the pale&#8221; and factored into the agency&#8217;s decision not to announce the new director&#8217;s name.
NewsNation&#8217;s Joe Khalil asked the panel whether their decision to withhold the identity of the lead UAP investigator would be permanent and noted that &#8220;it seems to cut against the dedication to being open and transparent&#8221; to keep the name secret.
&#8220;At the time, yes, we are withholding that name. Let&#8217;s not forget that we&#8217;ve only just received this report,&#8221; Evan replied. &#8220;And what we need to do now as an agency is come together and provide a cohesive and coherent response to it that addresses multiple findings and recommendations, okay? We&#8217;re only announcing initial actions today. Will that person&#8217;s name be disclosed, as to your specific question? Potentially, yes. But again, we need to ensure that the scientific process and method is free. Okay? That&#8217;s my response.&#8221;

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NASA Reveals UAP Director After Transparency Standoff

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