During a congressional hearing on Wednesday, a team of experts testified before lawmakers and alleged that the US is running secret Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) programs. The hearing, titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,” featured testimony from four experts, including Tim Gallaudet, a retired rear admiral, and Luis Elizondo, a former Defense Department official. NPR.

Mr. Elizondo alleged that the U.S. government conducted secret UAP research and recovered materials from non-human craft. “Advanced technologies not created by our government – ​​or any other government – ​​monitor sensitive military installations around the world. In addition, the US has UAP technologies, as do some of our adversaries,” he said.

He also alleged that individuals who gave secret testimony to government officials faced career threats. Mr. Elizondo noted that excessive secrecy has led to “serious outrages” against loyal officials, military personnel and the public, all to hide the fact that “we are not alone in the cosmos.”

We are “in the midst of a decades-long, secret arms race – one that is funded by misallocated taxpayer dollars and hidden from our elected representatives and oversight bodies,” Mr. Elizondo stated during his testimony.

Other experts, including Tim Gallaudet and Michael Shellenberger, journalist and founder of the news site Public, also shared their insights during the hearing. Mr. Gallaudet said he first encountered UAPs during his career as a Navy meteorologist and has since advocated for transparency and opposed the secrecy surrounding these incidents. He also expressed a moral obligation to support whistleblowers who have shared their UAP experiences, often facing ridicule and skepticism.

“Unelected officials in the U.S. government have no exclusive right to this knowledge about the nature of reality. The American people have a right to that knowledge,” Gallaudet said.

Meanwhile, Mr. Shellenberger shared his findings on the alleged secret government program “Immaculate Constellation,” claiming it was a Pentagon-led initiative to collect and quarantine information on UFO sightings. According to Mr. Shellenberger, a whistleblower revealed the existence of the program, which was denied by Defense Department spokesperson Sue Gough. He further emphasized the need for Congress and the White House to address UFOs, Space.com reported.

“What the American people need to know is that the U.S. military and intelligence community are sitting on a tremendous amount of visual and other information: photographs, video, photographs and other sensor information, and they have been doing so for a long time. it’s not those blurry photos and videos we got. There are very clear (files) in high resolution,” Mr. Shellenberger said.

IMMACULATE CONSTELLATION – Report on the U.S. Government’s Secret UAP (UFO) Program

From a whistleblower and released today by @NancyMace and discussed at today’s Congressional hearing

FULL REPORT pic.twitter.com/FKCywpnhsU

— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) November 13, 2024

Former NASA employee Michael Gold also emphasized the importance of overcoming the stigma surrounding UAP discussions to enable open and scientific dialogue.

Notably, the hearing comes more than a year after whistleblower David Grusch accused the Pentagon of running a secret UFO retrieval program. However, no concrete physical evidence has ever emerged to support these claims.

A statement from a Pentagon spokesman said the department “has not found any verifiable evidence that any UAP sightings represent extraterrestrial activity, nor has the department discovered any verifiable information to support claims that there are programs related to the possession or the reverse engineering of alien materials have existed in the past or currently exist.”