Lots of claims but no evidence at the latest UFO congressional hearings

SALT LAKE CITY – Hearings held by two US House subcommittees continued inquiries into alleged UFO activity and included numerous claims by former government officials that evidence existed and that the public was being protected by secret programs.

But, despite years of hearings, investigations and testimony about events now classified by the government as unexplained aerial incidents, no hard evidence has been offered to support the claims.

in Written testimony Presented Wednesday, retired Navy Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet said his belief in unexplained aerial phenomena was confirmed nine years ago when he was still on active duty and after an incident off the US East Coast involving Navy pilots aboard an F/A-18 fighter jet.

“I received confirmation that the UAP was communicating with humanity in January 2015 while I was serving as commander of the Naval Meteorological and Oceanographic Command,” Gallaudet wrote. “At the time, my crew participated in a pre-deployment naval exercise off the US East Coast that included the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group.”

Gallaudet said he received an email during the exercise with an ominous message, “If any of you know what these are, tell me ASAP. We're having a lot of near-center collisions, and if we don't fix it soon, we're going to end the exercise.” It has to be closed.” The email included an attached video, unclassified and widely known as “Go Fast” footage, showing “an unidentified object exhibiting flight and structural characteristics unlike anything in our arsenal.”

Gouladet said the email “disappeared” from his account, as well as the accounts of other recipients, the next day, and the incident was never discussed in a follow-up meeting about the exercise by the F/A-18 pilots who captured the fuzzy footage. .

“I have concluded that the UAP information must have been classified in a special access program managed by the intelligence agencies — a compartmentalized program to which senior officials, including myself, were not read,” Gouladet wrote in his testimony.

Also provided by author and former Department of Defense official Luis Elizondo Written testimony to two House subcommittee chairmen alleging a government-led cover-up of unexplained air incidents.

“Let me be clear: UAPs are real,” Elizondo wrote. “Advanced technology built by our government — or any other government — is monitoring sensitive military installations around the world. Moreover, the U.S. has UAP technology, as do some of our adversaries. I believe we are in the middle of a multi-decade, covert arms race — misallocation. funded by taxpayer dollars and hidden from and monitored by our elected representatives.”

Neither Gallaudet nor Elizondo provided evidence to support their claims.

The investigation comes up empty by going deeper

Despite widespread and long-standing conspiracy theories about secret government agencies hiding the remains of confiscated alien spacecraft and possibly even some actual aliens. Results of the inspection Congress ordered a look into the classified operations dating back to the 1940s, expressly discounting those claims that no such evidence existed and saying the story was the result of hearsay.

But the Defense Department's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office's “Historical Record of US Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena” report — an updated nomenclature for UFOs — released in March highlighted an effort called Kona Blue that proposed picking up the former. A government effort, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, was canceled in 2012.

According to the report, those supporting the Kona Blue program were convinced that the (US government) was hiding the (unknown anomalous event or UAP) technology. They believed that creating the program under the (Department of Homeland Security) would move the technology and knowledge of all these alleged programs under the Kona Blue program.”

The Kona Blue proposal was based on the assumption that “advanced aerospace technology and biological samples” were in secret possession of the US government from extraterrestrial sources. The report said the Department of Homeland Security rejected Kona Blue's proposal for “lack of quality.” And further discounts based on those who support the effort.

“It is important to note that no extraterrestrial artifacts or bodies were ever collected – this material was only assumed to exist by Kona Blue lawyers and its purported contract artists,” the report reads. “… this was assumed by the same individuals involved in the (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program).”

Alien spacecraft claim to have been destroyed

Current and former government employees have made numerous claims about extraterrestrial spacecraft and alien remains over the decades, including in 2023 when a former US intelligence official alleged that the government had “intact and partially intact artifacts of non-human origin”.

David Grush, an Air Force veteran and former member of both the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, made public news in June 2023 for claiming he was privy to government secrets.

While working on the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, Grush said several colleagues approached him about his involvement in a crash retrieval program researching alien technology.

“These non-human origin technological vehicles are recovering, call it spacecraft if you will, non-human alien origin vehicles that have either landed or crashed,” Grush told NewsNation.

“I thought it was completely stupid and I thought I had been cheated, it was a prank,” Grusch said. “People started to believe me. Go to me. I've had a number of senior, former intelligence officers come to me, many of whom I've known throughout my career, who have convinced me that they're part of a program.”

There are no secret UAP programs

A Defense Department report released in March said investigators conducted dozens of interviews with people who claimed to have knowledge of secret programs that studied seized extraterrestrial material, but found no credible evidence to support the claims, although some documents and names of the programs interviewees actually named. are in existence.

The report states that “all of the named and described purported covert UAP reverse-engineering programs provided by the interview either do not exist; are misidentified as genuine, highly sensitive national security programs unrelated to external technology exploitation; or are involuntary and unfixed programs, ” reads the report.

Utah's infamous Skinwalker Ranch, which was rumored to be the epicenter of unexplained paranormal activity and UAP sightings, was cited in the report as an area that was investigated by the now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Claims of “shadow figures” and “animals” and “remote viewing” and “human consciousness anomalies” on property near Roosevelt, Utah.