Whistleblowers are set to tell Congress tomorrow that unidentified flying objects are seen so frequently they are an “open secret” among U.S. fighter pilots.
Three high-ranking intelligence and Air Force veterans will testify, under oath, about their first-hand knowledge of UFOs in a first-of-its-kind hearing in Washington, D.C.
Lieutenant Ryan Graves, a former F-18 pilot with over a decade of service in the U.S. Navy, will testify that his squadron regularly detected unidentified flying craft while they were stationed off the coast of Virginia in 2014.
In his opening remarks, Graves is expected to say that while most of the craft was detected on radar, they also were witnessed by pilots “occasionally up close” with their own eyes. Lieutenant Graves will say these have become so common that “over time, UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) sightings became an open secret among our aircrew.”
According to Graves, in one close-call encounter, two jects were forced to swerve out of the way to avoid running into an object that looked like a “dark gray cube inside of a clear sphere,” which stood “motionless against the wind.”
Along with the testimony of Graves, Congress will hear other first-hand accounts from U.S. Navy veteran fighter pilot Commander David Fravor, who witnessed the 2004 Nimitz “Tic Tac” UFO. Intelligence agency and Air Force veteran David Grusch is also expected to testify to his jaw-dropping claims of an illegal UFO crash retrieval program operating in the classified world that was made public this June.
The House Oversight Committee is set to begin at 10 a.m. ET.
GOP Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee, a committee member, said, “The Pentagon and Washington bureaucrats have kept this information hidden for decades, and we’re finally going to shed some light on it. We’re bringing in credible witnesses who can provide public testimony because the American people deserve the truth. We’re done with the cover-ups.”
Burchett told the Even Horizon podcast this month, “We’ve been dealing [with government cover-ups] since 1947, probably since about 1897 in what was the Aurora Texas UFO crash.”
“They [extraterrestrial craft] can travel light years or at the speeds that we’ve seen defy physics as we know it. They can fly underwater and don’t show a heat trail,” said Burchett during the podcast.
Rep. Burchett continues to explain if these beings from other worlds have technology unlike anything we have on Earth, then “they” could “turn us into a charcoal briquette.”
“We are out of our league,” said the congressman. “We couldn’t fight them off if we wanted to. That’s why I don’t think they’re a threat to us, or they would already have been.”
Burchett’s statements echo others that the U.S. has had a top-secret UFO retrieval program for years
Congressman Burchett’s statements echo those made by Grusch’s claims that the U.S. had run a top-secret program for UFO retrieval for decades — and some of the “non-human intelligence” discovered are malevolent and have possibly even killed humans.
Grusch served for 14 years in the Air Force, where he said he learned about the program from others involved. He is a decorated Afghanistan combat officer who went on to work for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
In classified briefings and interviews on Capitol Hill, Grusch has said that the U.S. and other nations are additionally engaged in a top-secret “80-year arms race” to weaponize the UFOs that have crashed.
“The existence of complex historical programs involving the coordinated retrieval and study of exotic materials, dating back to the early 20th century, should no longer remain a secret,” according to Grusch.
Fravor kept silent for over a decade and is set to discuss the Tic Tac-shaped object in the sky of California on November 10, 2004.
“This is not like we saw it and it was gone, or I saw lights in the sky, and it’s gone — we watched this thing on a crystal clear day with four trained observers,” said Fravor. Video of what the Navy could trace of the object was leaked in 2017, and the case was declassified by the Pentagon in 2020.
Rep. Burchett will lead the open UFO hearing, which he said has been actively undermined by the U.S. Intelligence Community and Pentagon efforts to “continuously block things.”
“It’s gonna be the biggest show in town, though,” said Burchett.
Republican Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, also on the Oversight Committee, said: “The status quo on the part of the U.S. government has been to leave the American public in the dark regarding information about UAPs, refuse to answer questions posed by whistleblowers, avoid the concerns Americans have about the possible threats UAPs pose to our national security and public safety, and default to extreme and unnecessary over-classification.”
“If the last few months have taught me anything, it is that this is an issue that matters to Americans,” continued Luna. It also impacts the transparency and accountability our government is supposed to grant to the people who it serves. I look forward to bringing this topic to light.”
