During a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, experts testified about secret U.S. programs related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). The session, titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,” featured testimony from four specialists, including retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet and former Department of Defense official Luis Elizondo, as reported by NPR.
Elizondo claimed that the U.S. government has been conducting covert UAP research, including the retrieval of materials from non-human craft. He stated, “Advanced technologies not made by our government – or any other government – are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe. Furthermore, the US has UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries.”
He also alleged that individuals providing classified testimonies to government officials faced career threats. Elizondo added that excessive secrecy has led to “grave misdeeds” against civil servants, military personnel, and the public, all in a bid to conceal the truth: “we are not alone in the cosmos.”
Elizondo described the situation as a “multi-decade, secretive arms race — one funded by misallocated taxpayer dollars and hidden from our elected representatives and oversight bodies.”
In addition to Elizondo, Tim Gallaudet and Michael Shellenberger, a journalist and founder of Public news site, shared their insights. Gallaudet, who first encountered UAPs during his time as a Navy meteorologist, emphasized the importance of transparency and supporting whistleblowers. He remarked, “Unelected officials in the US government do not have an exclusive right to this knowledge about the nature of reality. The American people have a right to that knowledge.”
Shellenberger brought attention to the alleged “Immaculate Constellation,” a secret Pentagon initiative to gather and quarantine UFO sightings. A whistleblower allegedly revealed the program, but Department of Defense spokesperson Sue Gough has denied its existence. Shellenberger stressed that the U.S. military and intelligence community hold substantial visual and sensor information on UFOs. “What the American people need to know is that the US, military and intelligence community are sitting on a huge amount of visual and other information: still photos, video, photos, other sensor information, and they have for a very long time. And it’s not those fuzzy photos and videos that we’ve been given. There’s very clear, high resolution [files],” he said.
IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION – Report on the US government’s secret UAP (UFO) program
From a whistleblower and released today by @NancyMace and discussed in today’s Congressional hearing
FULL REPORT pic.twitter.com/FKCywpnhsU
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) November 13, 2024
The hearing followed a year after whistleblower David Grusch accused the Pentagon of running a secret UFO retrieval program, although no physical evidence has been provided to substantiate these claims.
In response, a Pentagon spokesperson stated, “The department has not found any verifiable evidence that any UAP observation represented extraterrestrial activity nor has the department 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.”
