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The U.S. House Oversight Committee held another hearing on reports of “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP, or UFOs) on Wednesday. Multiple former government officials and whistleblowers spoke and their testimonies, if true, were truly eye-opening.
Among the witnesses who spoke to Congress about UFOs were Dr. Tim Gallaudet, a retired Rear Admiral of the U.S. Navy; Luis Elizondo, a former high-ranking UFO investigator who claims to have once been the director of a covert Pentagon UFO investigative program; Michael Gold, former NASA Associate Administrator of Space Policy and Partnerships and member of NASA’s group of 16 experts tasked with learning more about UFOs; and Michael Shellenberger, founder of the website Public.
Below are some of the most interesting quotes from the over two-hour hearing on UFOs.
• “This hearing is intended to help Congress and the American people to learn the extent of the programs and activities our government has engaged in with respect to UAPs — and what knowledge it has yielded. That includes, of course, any knowledge of extraterrestrial life or technology of non-human origin,” Subcommittee Chairwoman Congresswoman Nancy Mace said.
• “If government-funded research on UAPs has NOT yielded any useful knowledge, we need to know that, too. Taxpayers deserve to know how much has been invested. They shouldn’t be kept in the dark to spare the Pentagon embarrassment,” Mace continued.
• “Last year’s UAP hearing before this oversight committee confirmed that UAP-related information is being withheld from senior officials and members of Congress,” said Gallaudet, adding, “Equally concerning, last year’s UAP hearing also revealed that elements of the government are engaged in a disinformation campaign to include personal attacks designed to discredit UAP whistleblowers.”
• “Let me be clear,” Elizondo said. “UAP are real. Advanced technologies not made by our Government – or any other government – are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe. Furthermore, the U.S. is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries. I believe we are in the midst of a multi-decade, secretive arms race — one funded by mis-allocated taxpayer dollars and hidden from our elected representatives and oversight bodies.”
• Elizondo went on to say, “Many of my former colleagues and I have provided classified testimony to both the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community Inspector General. Many of us have subsequently been targeted by this cabal with threats to our careers, our security clearances, and even our lives. This is not hyperbole, but a genuine fact.”
• “Our best tool for unlocking the mystery of UAP is science, but we cannot conduct a proper inquiry if the stigma is so overwhelming that just daring to be part of a NASA research team elicits such a vitriolic response,” said Gold. “Therefore, one of the most important actions that can be taken relative to exposing the truth of UAP is to combat the stigma, and this is where I think NASA can be imminently helpful.”
• “What the American people need to know is that the U.S., 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,” Shellenberger said. “And it’s not those fuzzy photos and videos that we’ve been given. There’s very clear, high resolution [files].”
• “The vehicles we’re talking about… are performing in excess of 1,000, 2,000, 3,000Gs,” said Elizondo. “We are talking about technologies that outperform anything in our [military] inventory.”
• “Earlier this year, I met with the DoD’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, and what I thought would be a 90-minute meeting just to meet with leadership turned out to be an hours-long influence operation on me,” said Gallaudet.
• “I don’t think it’s a stretch when you look at the diversity of life on this planet and the size of this universe to think that there’d be more diverse, higher order non-human intelligences throughout the universe, and that’s probably what’s visiting us,” Gallaudet later said.
• “Artificial intelligence. ML. Machines. We assume that all intelligence would be like us,” Gold said. “And every time we look out into the universe, we are humbled relative to what we don’t know, in terms of the forms of intelligence; of what it may take.”