Congressional UAP Hearings — Whistleblower Testimony 2023

On July 26, 2023, the US House Oversight Committee held an open hearing titled 'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency.' Three witnesses testified under oath: David Grusch, a former USAF intelligence officer and National Reconnaissance Office representative, testified that the US government had a multi-decade secret program to retrieve craft of non-human intelligence, that he had interviewed witnesses with direct knowledge of these programs, and that he had been illegally denied access to UAP programs he was tasked to investigate. Ryan Graves, a former Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot, testified that UAP encounters were routine among fleet pilots and that the culture of ridicule surrounding reports was suppressing critical safety data. Retired Commander David Fravor testified in detail about the November 2004 Nimitz Tic-Tac encounter. Grusch had previously filed a formal protected whistleblower disclosure with the Intelligence Community Inspector General and the DoD Inspector General. The Intelligence Community IG found Grusch's complaint 'credible and urgent.' The hearing was attended by 450+ people in the hearing room and streamed by millions. Subsequent classified briefings for members of Congress followed. The hearing directly advanced the UAP Disclosure Act language in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act.