A bipartisan congressional briefing is underway, hearing from scientists who say they need a larger role in the investigation into UFOs and other strange phenomena the government has been keeping secret.
The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, with help from the UAP Disclosure Fund, is holding a briefing Thursday called ‘Understanding UAP: Science, National Security & Innovation.’
It’s focused on UFOs (or UAPs, as they’re now called) and what the government knows about these unusual sightings.
Luis Elizondo, a former Pentagon official who investigated UAPs before becoming a UFO whistleblower, and Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, are the main speakers.
They’re pushing for the government to release more UAP data and for the development of better ways of detecting these unidentified objects.
The hearing is being led by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, the Republican congresswoman from Florida charged by President Trump with overseeing the disclosure of several classified events, including UFO sightings.
Astrophysicist says ‘there are objects in the sky’ we can’t explain
Avi Loeb told Thursday’s congressional hearing that ‘there are objects in the sky that we don’t understand’ while explaining the need for increased funding for UFO detection.
Loeb said that at least one billion dollars needs to be committed to improving America’s efforts to track and monitor the movements of UFOs and UAPs.
The Harvard astrophysicist added that he was upset with the lack of data available currently in terms of tracking objects flying over our skies.
Loeb went to discuss the possibility of alien civilizations that could have developed long before humans developed into a modern society.
Days before Thursday’ hearing, the whistleblower behind a stunning report submitted to Congress – exposing what he claims is a secret Pentagon program tracking unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) – revealed his identity and says he fears for his future after speaking out.
Matthew Brown, a former US national security official, publicly identified himself as the whistleblower on an episode of WEAPONIZED – a podcast released Tuesday that is hosted by investigative journalists and UFO experts Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp.
Brown is the author of the Immaculate Constellation Field Report, a document entered into the Congressional Record earlier this year that alleges the Executive Branch has been secretly managing UAP programs for decades – without congressional oversight.
One of today’s main speakers is Avi Loeb, an Israeli-American astrophysicist at Harvard University.
For years, Loeb has been a prominent advocate for more scientific investigation UAP sightings, hypothesizing that extraterrestrials have already visited Earth, and that we may have recovered physical evidence of their technologies.
During the hearing, he plans to give a presentation advocating for more funding for UAP research and urging the US government to share ‘any data or materials concerning what lies outside the solar system.’
Pentagon whistleblower says ‘We are not alone in the cosmos’
Months before Thursday’s briefing, Luis Elizondo, a former military intelligence official turned UFO whistleblower told Congress that there was proof of alien life being kept from the public.
During his testimony back on November 14, 2024, he blasted the US intelligence community for ‘excessive secrecy’ of UAP reports that had lasted decades, adding that it was ‘all to hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos.’
Elizondo resigned from his position, running the Pentagon’s program to investigate UFO sightings to 10 years, and went public with what he knew in October 2017.
On Thursday, Elizondo is serving as the moderator for this new hearing on UFOs.
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UFO congressional hearing live: Top scientists and Pentagon insiders break silence on state secrets
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