House holds hearing on UFO transparency and whistleblower protection | full video

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Christopher Mellon called AARO's historical-record report the 'most error-ridden and unsatisfactory government report' he could recall, submitted without DNI sign-off and omitting agencies with known relevant investigations.

the most error-ridden and unsatisfactory government report I can recall reading during after decades of government service

Department of Defense special-access-program rules restrict viewing of UAP videos and files to members of the House Armed Services Committee and the Defense Subcommittee on House Appropriations (HAC-D); other members need approval from both committees' chair and ranking member.

only members of the House Armed Service Committee as well as the Defense Subcommittee on House Appropriations, also known as HACD, were allowed to be read in onto such programs

34 senior military, government and intelligence officials, including now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Sen. Gillibrand, Sen. Rounds, and former DNI Gen. James Clapper, have broken their silence to support the credibility of UAP whistleblowers.

In fact, 34 senior military, government and intelligent officials have broken their silence.

NASA has not found any evidence that any UAP have an extraterrestrial origin.

Currently, NASA has not found any evidence that any UAPs have an extraterrestrial origin.

Five separate UAP incidents occurred at Vandenberg AFB missile-defense sites between October 2003 and 2005, each witnessed by multiple personnel, documented, investigated and reported up the chain of command.

Between 2003 and 2005, five UAP incidents occurred at Vandenberg Air Force Base, home to the National Missile Defense Project.

On the night of the Vandenberg Red Square event, security guards separately reported a massive triangular craft larger than a football field hovering silently for about 45 seconds over an entry-control point before departing at extreme speed.

five shaken witnesses who described a massive triangular craft larger than a football field that hovered silently for about 45 seconds

In 2005, Nuccetelli personally observed a 30-foot-diameter sphere of light maneuver, vanish and reappear, eventually hovering roughly 200 feet above his house before accelerating away.

It was a 30-foot diameter sphere of light... it gently accelerated and traveled up and disappeared into the stars.

On February 15, 2023, aboard USS Jackson off Southern California, a self-luminous tic-tac-shaped object emerged from the ocean, linked up with three similar objects, and all four then departed with high, synchronized, near-instantaneous acceleration, with no sonic boom, exhaust plume or control-surface articulation observed on the Sapphire EO/IR system; radar tracks dropped shortly after.

The four then disappeared simultaneously with a high, synchronized, near-instantaneous acceleration.

In early-1990s Russia, USSR/Russian defense officials described the objects studied under their program as real, able to fly in formation, evasive, and outperforming any aircraft known to exist, including the Soviets' own.

These things are real. They're not fictitious. They can fly in formation. They're evasive and they outperform any aircraft known to exist, including ours.

The Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP), initiated by DIA scientist Dr. James Lacatski, is the largest acknowledged UFO program ever funded by the US government, and the DIA has still not released roughly 95% of what the program produced.

the largest acknowledged UFO program ever funded by the US government... the DIA still hasn't released 95% of what was prepared by that program

Robert Bigelow, through his company BAASS and a colleague from AAWSAP, negotiated with senior Lockheed Martin executives and reached a deal to receive a quantity of unusual material that had been stored in secret at a California facility.

I have confirmed on the record that Robert Bigelow and a trusted colleague from AAWSAP met with and negotiated with senior executives at Lockheed Martin.

The USSR ran what is likely the largest UFO investigation program in the world, ordering every military unit to collect evidence and testimony on sightings; the collection effort fed a KGB-routed analysis program called Thread 3, aimed at reverse-engineering superior technology.

the USSR launched what is almost certainly the largest UFO/UAP investigation in the world... Thread 3 was an analysis program.

In summer 2012 at Langley AFB, Borland observed an approximately 100-foot equilateral-triangle craft, one to two stories thick, with four lights and a dark, metallic-flake, plasma-like surface; it interfered with his phone, produced no sound, and ascended to commercial-jet altitude within seconds with no visible kinetic disturbance; the whole event lasted about 15 minutes.

The craft itself was this black metallic flake paint, but on top of the craft was this gold lava, plasma, some type of fluid going over and around the craft.

Sometime after the 2012 sighting, Borland was exposed to classified information about the UAP legacy crash-retrieval program while holding a sensitive special-access-program position, and intelligence officers approached him with concerns about misconduct within those programs.

I was further exposed to classified information from the UAP legacy crash retrieval program through a sensitive position I held within a special access program.

Since becoming a whistleblower in March 2023, Borland has faced clearance manipulation, blacklisting from intelligence-community employment, forged or removed employment records, workplace harassment, and a CI polygraph 'fishing' attempt about his ICIG complaint as recently as November 2024.

Manipulation of my security clearance by certain agencies blocking, delaying, and ultimately removing my ability to be employed within the IC.

David Grusch's private medical information was leaked in an attempt to discredit him.

You know they did that to Mr. Grush? I am aware, yes ma'am... they leaked his medical private medical information.

The 9/11 Commission found that overclassification was a key factor in the government's failure to adequately prevent the September 11 attacks.

One of the most infamous examples of that is the 9/11 Commission that found that overclassification was a key factor in the failure to adequately prevent the attacks of that day.

In October 1982 at a Soviet ICBM base, UFOs performed maneuvers (splitting apart and re-fusing) over a four-hour period, and near the end of the incident the missile launch-control codes activated on their own, arming the missiles, which officers could not shut down until the UFOs departed.

the launch control codes for the ICBMs lit up. Something entered the correct codes. The missiles were fired up and ready to launch and they could not shut it down.

No government agency has debriefed Wiggins or his shipmates about the USS Jackson encounter since it occurred, and no formal after-action report was produced up the chain of command that he is aware of.

No one has, no ma'am... it didn't go further than just the watch standers that stood watch on the bridge.

AARO informed Nuccetelli it could not locate Air Force police records of the Red Square incident because the Air Force destroys police records on a three-year schedule, per a FOIA response Nuccetelli holds.

I have a Freedom of Information Act from the Air Force that states clearly that they destroy all police records on a three-year schedule.

Borland's Inspector General complaint was determined 'credible, not urgent,' according to his attorney's understanding, and he does not know whether the complaint is still active.

The best of my understanding, I was determined credible not urgent.

Across the two prior UAP hearings held by Congress, witnesses included Ryan Graves, David Grusch and David Fravor (first hearing) and Adm. Tim Gallaudet ('Galidet' in transcript), Luis Elizondo ('Lou Alzando') and Michael Gold ('Mr. Gold') (second hearing).

I want to thank the people that came in our first hearing, Ryan Graves, David Grush, David Fraver, and in our second hearing, Admiral Galidet, Lou Alzando, and Mr. Gold.

A video dated October 30, 2024 shows an MQ-9 drone tracking an orb-like object off the coast of Yemen; a second MQ-9 fires a Hellfire missile at the object, which appears to be struck but continues moving with debris.

This video is of an MQ9 drone tracking an orb or this object off the coast of Yemen. You'll see that another MQ9 launched a Hellfire missile.

Knapp smuggled classified Russian Thread 3 documents out of the USSR by removing the classification-stamped top pages and carrying them on his person and in a suitcase, using tins of caviar as a distraction.

I took the top pages off that were stamped with a security signature and I carried them out on my person... threw some caviar in there as a distraction.

Dr. James Lacatski told Knapp and a co-author that the US government has recovered at least one non-human craft with no wings, rotor, tail, or fuel tanks, whose flight mechanism was not understood by those who examined it, and it took 14 months to get authorization for Lacatski to release even two sentences about it.

This craft we had managed to get inside of it. It had no wings, no rotor, no tail. It had no fuel, no fuel tanks. They didn't know how it flew or how it was operated.

A study found that whistleblowers expose fraud at more than twice the rate of third-party auditors.

One study found that whistleblowers expose fraud at more than twice the rate of third-party auditors.

POGO received whistleblower tips and disclosures from over 800 individuals during the 2014 VA wait-time scandal, coordinating with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, helping expose systemic delays that contributed to prolonged illness and hastened deaths.

We received tips and whistleblower disclosures from over 800 different individuals talking about the VA subjecting veterans to extensive wait times.

President Trump has fired or demoted more than 20 inspectors general.

President Trump has fired or demoted over 20 inspectors general.

A whistleblower revealed that DOGE bypassed data safeguards and copied all Americans' Social Security personal data to an unsecured server, per a New York Times article entered into the hearing record.

It was thanks to a whistleblower that we learned that Doge allegedly put every single American's personal security information at risk by bypassing safeguards and copying all this data to an unsecure server.

AARO's public statement that there is 'no scientific evidence of extraterrestrials' is technically true by AARO's own narrow definition of scientific proof (requiring travel to another planet to compare technology), but is a deliberate misrepresentation of the fuller truth, because 'we do have things.'

By that statement, AARO found no scientific evidence of extraterrestrials is basically... a misrepresentation of the full truth, because we do have things.

Whatever Borland saw at Langley AFB in 2012 involves the US government; this is his opinion both then and now.

Whatever you saw involves the US government. That is 100% my opinion then and now.

Bob Jacobs, a lieutenant attached to Vandenberg AFB in 1964, recorded a UFO firing a laser-like beam at and disabling a nuclear dummy warhead during a missile test; his film was confiscated the same day, and when Jacobs later reported this to AARO, AARO falsely claimed to have located the original footage and found nothing anomalous in it.

They made up a story that they had tracked down the original footage and there was nothing like that in it. Well, there was no original footage.

Bob Salis, who worked at a nuclear ICBM base, reported seeing UFOs flying over missile silos that were subsequently taken offline; AARO 'completely disregarded' his account when he came forward.

People like Bob Salis who had worked at a nuclear ICBM base who saw UFOs flying over the base and these missile silos were taken down. He went to AARO too and was completely disregarded.

The full-resolution, unedited footage of the USS Jackson encounter has already been provided to Congress.

Mr. Wiggins, has the full resolution unedited footage of your incident been provided to Congress? Yes.

'Dr. James Ryder' at Lockheed Martin and CIA officer 'Glenn Gaffney' are named as specific individuals/gatekeepers connected to keeping UAP-related material secret.

Well, one of them was named Dr. James Ryder at Lockheed... Glenn Gaffney, CIA.

Of the Russian crash-retrieval-related documents Knapp submitted to Congress, only about 1% was already public; the rest is new.

So the rest of it should be predominantly new information... maybe 1%.

None of the three military witnesses (Nuccetelli, Wiggins, Borland) is aware of any US or foreign technology capable of doing what the object in the Yemen drone video did (surviving a Hellfire strike and continuing to move).

Are you aware of anything in the government United States government arsenal that can split a Hellfire missile like this? No.

The USS Jackson encounter lasted roughly 5 to 7 minutes from radar detection to the end of the recorded video; the object was first visually observed at roughly 7 to 8 nautical miles; it rose slowly from the horizon to about 3,000-4,000 feet before accelerating to roughly Mach 1-2 to rejoin the other objects.

probably about 5 to 7 minutes... I would say about seven nautical miles, seven to eight nautical miles.

During the Cold War, the US and USSR/Russia reached an informal or documented understanding to report sightings of unidentified objects near sensitive nuclear sites to each other, to reduce the risk of a UAP being mistaken for an incoming missile; Reagan and Gorbachev are described as having exchanged public remarks about cooperating if threatened 'from outside.'

We did reach an agreement to try to lessen the possibility that us detecting a UFO or group of UFOs would not be mistaken for a bunch of Russian missiles.

A 1947 memo by General Nathan Twining, written after the country was overflown by dozens to hundreds of UFOs, stated the objects were 'not visionary or fictitious,' were real craft, 'not ours,' and 'outperform anything we've got.'

Look, this is not visionary or fictitious. It's real. These things are craft. They're not ours. They outperform anything we've got.

Our check Partly right, partly a well-known misquote. The real September 23, 1947 Twining memo ('AMC Opinion Concerning Flying Discs,' reproduced in the Condon Report Appendix R) does say the phenomenon 'is something real and not visionary or fictitious' -- that phrase is verbatim. But the memo does NOT say 'not ours' or that the objects 'outperform anything we've got.' It explicitly lists domestic US origin as one of three live possibilities ('the product of some high security project not known to AC/AS-2 or this Command'), alongside unproven and foreign-nuclear-propulsion possibilities, and states the US could build a similar craft 'within present U.S. knowledge... provided extensive detailed development is undertaken.' The 'not ours / outperform' framing is a popular paraphrase repeated by many UFO researchers (including, apparently, Knapp here) that is not supported by the primary text.

Sources files.ncas.org, skepticalinquirer.org

Colonel Boris Sokolov's Soviet program recorded about 40 incidents in which Russian warplanes were ordered to intercept and, in some cases, fire on UFOs; three pilots fired, their planes stalled and crashed, two pilots died, after which Russia changed its standing order to leave the objects alone.

There are 40 incidents where Russian warplanes were sent to intercept UFOs and they were ordered to fire on them... Two of those pilots died and after that the Russians changed the standing order.

During the critical 2003-2005 Vandenberg missile-defense launches, up to 500 Air Force police officers guarded a single launch, and UAP incursions were witnessed by 40 to 100 personnel on duty at the same time during at least some encounters.

We had 500 Air Force police officers guarding the launch. 500 people. It was that critical.