House lawmakers on Wednesday heard from witnesses who claim the United States government is sitting on a trove of information on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) stretching back decades.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), in his opening remarks, called on President-elect Trump to throw off the veil of secrecy on UAPs.
He said the push for transparency has been “bipartisan, bicameral, and as we get into a new administration, the president-elect has talked about opportunities to declassify information on UAPs, and I hope he lives up to that promise.”
Speaking during a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing, one previous Pentagon official claimed such a reveal would show a “multidecade, secretive arms race.”
“Let me be clear: UAP are real,” Luis Elizondo said in his opening testimony during the hearing. “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.”
Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon’s now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program charged with investigating UAPs, spoke alongside three other witnesses in a more than two-hour hearing that called into question the U.S. government’s classification process and entered several bombshell claims into the public sphere.
“I believe we are in the midst of a multidecade, secretive arms race, one funded by misallocated taxpayer dollars and hidden from our elected representatives and oversight bodies,” Elizondo said.
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