Three veteran military personnel testified on Wednesday (27) at a hearing in the House about unidentified flying objects – commonly known as UAPs – warning that their discovery is a matter of national security and that the government has kept everything secret.
A House oversight subcommittee convened the hearing on UAPs because some lawmakers are pushing for the government to be more transparent about found UAPs.
“If they are foreign drones, that is an urgent national security issue. If it is something else, it is a matter for science. In both cases, unidentified objects are a concern for safety,” said Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot who now leads Americans for Safe Aerospace, a group he founded to encourage pilots to report incidents involving UAPs.
The government characterizes unexplained objects as “UAPs” (unidentified aerial phenomena) and has released reports on cases in recent years. Some of them remain unexplained, while others have been attributed to “balloons or balloon-like objects,” as well as drones, birds, weather events, or airborne debris, such as plastic bags.
David Grusch, a former Air Force intelligence officer, alleged that the government covered up its research on sightings of unidentified phenomena and said he reported to the inspector general of the intelligence community about what he saw.
He further alleged that the U.S. government not only possesses UAPs but also the remains of the supposedly “non-human” pilots of the found aircraft. However, when pressed, he made it clear that this was what others had told him and that he had no firsthand information. “That is something I did not witness myself,” he said.
Lawmakers pressed the Department of Defense about the sightings, describing them as possible threats to national security.
“UAPs, whatever they may be, could pose a serious threat to our military and civilian aircraft, and that must be understood,” said Democratic Representative Robert Garcia from California. “We should encourage more reporting, not less, on UAPs. The more we understand, the safer we will be.”
Source: CNN