The US Congress has held a public hearing on claims the government is covering up its knowledge of UFOs. This comes after Pentagon whistleblowers shared claims of alien technology defying laws of physics.
In recent years, the topic of UFOs has gained traction - and the US military says it is actively trying to investigate the small number of sightings for which there is no obvious explanation.
As the hearing unfolded there were no new revelations about aliens. However, there were some allegations from witnesses that a cover-up exists somewhere in the US government.
Three witnesses took part in the hearing – David Grusch, a former intelligence official and whistleblower who said last month that the US has “intact and partially intact” alien vehicles. As well as David Fravor, an ex-Navy commander who reported seeing an object flying across the sky during a 2004 training mission - and Ryan Graves, a retired Navy pilot who claims he spotted unidentified aerial phenomena off the Atlantic coast “every day for at least a couple years”.
Hidden information
David Grusch told the hearing that the US government conducted a “multi-decade” program which collected and attempted to reverse-engineer crashed UFOs. Grusch led the analysis of unexplained anomalous phenomena (UAP) within a US Department of Defense agency until 2023.
He claimed he had been denied access to secret government UFO programs and said he had faced “very brutal and very unfortunate” retaliation after going public with his claims. He also said he knew of “people who have been harmed or injured” as the government tried to conceal UFO information.
Alleged harm and violence
Grusch also claimed he had personal knowledge of people who have been harmed or injured in efforts to cover up or conceal extraterrestrial technology, after being asked by Tim Burchett.
Burchett also asked Grusch if he has heard of anyone being murdered. The former intelligence official answered: “I directed people with that knowledge to the appropriate authorities.”
The Pentagon’s response
The Pentagon has denied Grusch’s claims of a cover-up. In a statement, a defense department spokesperson said investigators had 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”.
Claims of ‘objects in the sky’ by other witnesses
David Fravor claimed he saw a strange object in the sky while on a training mission in 2004. While Ryan Graves, claimed he saw UAP off the Atlantic coast “every day for at least a couple years”.
The sightings were “not rare or isolated” and were being witnessed by military aircrews and commercial pilots “whose lives depend on accurate identification”, Graves said.
Graves added that UAP objects had been detected “essentially where all navy operations are being conducted across the world”.
When asked if there were any common characteristics to the UAPs that have been cited by different pilots, he said sightings were primarily of “dark grey or black cubes inside of clear sphere” where “the apex or tips of the cube were touching the inside of the sphere”.
Conflicting testimonies?
Grusch’s testimony seemed to be conflicting, which means not everyone was convinced.
In an interview with NewsNation in June, Grusch claimed the government had “very large, like a football-field kind of size” alien craft.
Meanwhile, he told Le Parisien, a French newspaper, that the US had possession of a “bell-like craft” which Benito Mussolini’s government had recovered in northern Italy in 1933.
On Wednesday, he refused to go into detail on those claims, citing issues of security.
Garrett Graff, a journalist and historian who is writing a book on the government’s hunt for UFOs, tweeted: “Very interesting to me that Dave Grusch is unwilling to state and repeat under oath at the #UFOHearings the most explosive – and outlandish – of his claims from his NewsNation interview. He seems to be very carefully dancing around repeating them.”
Potential future legislation
As the hearing came to an end, Republican congressman Glenn Grothman described the hearing as “illuminating” and said he believed legislation would follow.
Grothman, the chair of the House subcommittee on national security, the border and foreign affairs, said: “Obviously, I think several of us are going to look forward to getting some answers in a more confidential setting. I assume some legislation will come out of this.”
