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On Capitol Hill today, a bipartisan call
for more government transparency on

UFOs, or as the military calls them,
unidentified aerial phenomena, UAPs.

The objects have been detected
essentially where all operations, Navy

are being conducted across the world.
The technology that we faced was far

superior than anything that we have
currently or that we're going to have in

next 10 to 20 years.

Unidentified aerial phenomena are a
potential national security threat.

and they need to be treated that way.

The United States government has
gathered a great deal of information

over many decades, but has refused to
share it with the American people. That

wrong, and additionally, it breeds
mistrust.

I spent 11 years in the U .S. Navy as a
fighter pilot. For 18 years, I flew

fighters for the United States Navy.

I spent 20 years working in the U .S.
intelligence community.

I served as the fourth director of
national intelligence. I spent 25 years

senior official with the CIA.

I retired from the Navy as a one -star
admiral after 32 years of service. I

worked on highly classified UAP programs
for the government as a senior

scientist. I've spent 32 years in and
out of government in national security.

I've worked 28 years as an
astrophysicist on highly classified UAP

the United States government and for the
defense industry.

I'm a professor in the Department of
Pathology at Stanford University School

Medicine. And for the last 10 years or
so, I've been working with the

of Defense and people in the CIA on the
UAP topic.

I've come to the conclusion that we are
not only not alone in the universe.

But we have been discovered by an
intelligence from some other part of the

universe. There's evidence we are not
alone.

Humanity is not the only intelligent
species in the universe. We're not alone

the universe. It wouldn't be so arrogant
to suggest there are no other forms of

life out there.

Humanity is not the only intelligence in
the universe.

UAPs are real, they're here, and they're
not human. There are other

intelligences that have highly advanced
exotic craft interacting.

with the human population.

They are here.

This is real. It's happening.

It's happening now.

Non -human intelligence exists. It's
been interacting with humanity and it's

been doing so on this planet for a long
time. We are not the only intelligent

life form in the universe. There's
something here on the planet with us

intelligent and more intelligent than
us. This is the biggest discovery in

history.

My name is Lou Elizondo.

In 2009, my life changed forever.

That's when I was recruited into a
highly sensitive government program that

investigated unidentified aerial
phenomenon, UAP, also commonly known as

My work for the U .S. government goes
back almost 30 years to when I joined

U .S. Army.

From there, I had the good fortune of
being recruited into various programs

within military intelligence.

During my career, I served my country
around the world managing and directing

missions, including counter -narcotics,
counter -espionage, counter -terrorism,

and counter -insurgency.

And it was later in my career that I
actually began running special access

programs for the U .S. government, and
in some cases reported directly to the

White House and the National Security
Council.

My name is Jay Stratton, and for over 16
years, on behalf of the U .S.

government, I worked as a senior
intelligence official on the

aerial phenomenon topic.

I joined the Army at the age of 17 and
left for a career in military

intelligence with eight combat
deployments, including Iraq and

After the Army, I joined Naval
Intelligence, and then I transitioned to

Defense Intelligence Agency, where I was
the Chief of Air and Space Warfare

inside of the Defense Warning Office.

It was at the DIA that my colleagues and
I started getting reports of what are

now called UAP. We went all over the
government, the Pentagon, every

intelligence agency, anywhere we could
think to try to find the UAP program,

assuming there was one. As far as we
could tell, no one in the United States

government had a UAP program. So my
colleagues and I began a new program,

ultimately became AATIP, the Advanced
Aerospace Threat Identification Program,

AATIP.

The funding for this effort was
sponsored by then Senate Majority

Senator Harry Reid.

And together, myself, Jay Stratton, and
our team, for nearly a decade,

investigated UAP incidents around the
world.

Based on hard evidence and data, we
learned that UAPs present serious

security concerns and a potential
existential threat.

Simply put, transmedium crafts.

Vehicles that have the capability to
operate in space, air, and

water, and seemingly defy all that
humanity knows about physics, have been

operating with complete impunity around
the world since at least the 1940s.

At AATIP, we had access to some of the
most sensitive videos in the Department

of Defense inventory. If you could be in
my shoes...

and see what I've seen in folks like Jay
Stratton, there would be zero shadow of

a doubt that these things are real and
they are not made by humans. The things

that I've seen, the clearest videos, the
best evidence that we have that these

are non -human intelligence remain
classified.

The classified data that we had access
to when we joined the program was

indisputable. There's 80 years of this
data that the public isn't even aware

I have seen with my own eyes non -human
craft and non -human beings.

For 23 years and 10 months, I was in the
United States Air Force as an A -10

pilot. And while I was at NORAD, I
witnessed an event that I will remember

forever.

There was an unknown object we were
tracking on radars and the commander.

says, I want that target. That means
intercept it. Fighters all the way down

eastern seaboard were scrambled.

And none of the fighters were successful
in intercepting or running it down. We

were unable to maintain air sovereignty
over North America.

On November 14, 2004...

We were on board the USS Nimitz, which
is a nuclear aircraft carrier.

I was the most senior person in the
squadron flying.

I had launched off Nimitz to do an air
defense exercise off the coast of San

Diego, California.

And I ended up chasing a UAP known as
the Tic Tac UAP.

It was about 40 feet long, and just
sitting there in space, you can kind of

it start to accelerate, and as it gets
in front of us, it's gone.

This thing was doing 32 ,000 miles an
hour. So obviously that technology is

the United States.

As we were watching this Tic Tac object
maneuver in this bizarre way,

it was obvious that it wasn't
conventional. This was defying those

physics, laws of gravity that as pilots
we live and die by. We literally had

these things docking Navy vessels on
deployment.

The frequency in which UAP were being
reported to us was increasing.

They were ubiquitous. We were seeing
them nearly daily out there.

And then we actually almost had a midair
with one of these objects.

This now became a safety issue.

Two aircraft from my squadron were
flying out in close proximity to each

in section formation, so about 150 feet
apart or so. One of these objects went

right in between those two aircraft.

right past the lead aircraft, and the
lead aircraft was able to visually see

object, and he simply described it as a
dark gray or a black cube inside of a

clear sphere.

To be clear, non -human intelligence has
been actively conducting ISR,

intelligence surveillance and
reconnaissance, of some of our most

.S. military facilities and nuclear
sites.

They have both deactivated and activated
nuclear weapons with both the United

States and Russia. The nuclear weapons
that were activated in Russia were

pointed at us. And from that
perspective, the stakes really could not

higher.

This is an emerging and disruptive
threat for the United States and truly a

national security concern.

And by the way, this isn't just
happening here in the United States.

happening all over the world and it's
occurring with greater frequency.

When I met Lou Elizondo in the Pentagon,
he made me aware not only that this

phenomenon was real, but it was an
ongoing, persistent phenomenon.

The Secretary of Defense didn't know,
the Congress didn't know, senior

policymakers didn't know, and nobody was
doing anything about it other than Lou

and a handful of colleagues.

I was shocked and I was stunned, and
immediately...

was concerned about intelligence
failures that have occurred in the past

disasters that have ensued and
determined immediately to do whatever I

help get Lou to the Secretary of Defense
to move that information forward.

Each time Jay and I and others tried to
raise the alarm bells and bring this

issue up to the appropriate level, we
were met with fierce resistance.

The stigma alone and the taboo of the
topic, the historical association of

was something that for most people in
leadership positions was too big of a

to swallow. In fact, the stigma was so
strong that people either believed, A,

the topic wasn't real, or B, the stigma
was going to somehow taint or

tarnish their career so they didn't want
to touch it. We couldn't get the

leadership in the Pentagon to look at
the actual scientific data that showed

that there is a strong national security
threat.

They were more worried about the impact
on their reputation than they were about

the safety of the nation.

On top of that, we were shocked to find
we were getting pushback from people in

the Pentagon based on their religious
beliefs.

There really were religious
fundamentalist extremists within the

had a severe adversity to this topic.
These are national security experts,

senior members of the national
intelligence community who are putting

religion above national security.

A senior DOD official actually stopped
me in the hallway in the Pentagon and

told me that we were doing the devil's
work. I had to deal with people who were

senior to me who were telling me... In
their world, these are demons, and we

poking demons and messing in Satan's
world and all these other things that,

me, I was like, I can't believe this is
coming out of your mouth. I'm briefing

about an advanced aerospace vehicle that
has been detected on multiple sensors

that's absolutely there, and you're
telling me that you think these are

and that we shouldn't even look at them
and study them. My mind was blown.

While we were trying to overcome all of
these hurdles, we discovered another

deeply hidden and much larger UAP
program.

This program was so sensitive that it
was withheld from the

Secretary of Defense, Congress, and even
the President of the United States.

This program is referred to as the
Legacy Program.

This program had been capturing,
retrieving, and reverse engineering UAPs

at least 1947.

On numerous occasions, these retrievals
included the bodies of non -humans,

some sort of intelligence, intelligent
being that is not human.

When Jay and I began knocking on doors
and trying to get access into the Legacy

program, there was this almost like an
immune response.

by the Legacy Program, and antibodies
came out of everywhere to try to shut us

down. We began communicating with
scientists involved in the Legacy

their leaders, when they learned of
this, shut it down aggressively.

Not only were we met with fierce
resistance and stonewalling, we actually

people angry at us that were even asking
the question itself, as in, you know,

what right do we have to inquire about
the Legacy Program, despite the fact

we were running AATIP? Put yourself in
my shoes.

I'm conducting investigations of ongoing
UAP activity, and there's this legacy

program that has at least 80 years of
information that could help us better

understand this problem and protect
national security, and they refuse to

it to us.

When it became clear that we couldn't
work through the system, I knew from

experience having worked with the Senate
Armed Services Committee what it takes

to move this oil tanker. Think about
this.

immense, immense ship that has massive
inertia.

And you're trying to get it to change
course. When it comes to the Department

Defense, only Congress has the
wherewithal to do that.

And the way to get Congress's attention
is first and foremost through the press.

I knew we had to get the press engaged,
to help get the Hill engaged, to then

get back.

to changing the Defense Department to
study this problem to figure out, is

a threat? Where are these things coming
from and how do they work?

As government employees, we're not
allowed to talk to the media.

So Lou and I strategize on how to
overcome this hurdle.

There were really only two choices.

The first choice was make peace with
silence and sit on what is humanity's

greatest secret, all the while keeping
Americans in the dark.

Or two.

I could resign my position in protest
and fulfill my obligations to the

people by telling the truth about what I
know about UAP.

There was this difficult moment where
Lou had to decide, do I throw in

the towel?

Do we give up on this? Do we ignore
this?

Or does he fall on his sword?

I couldn't nor would I ever reveal
classified information, but I knew that

could say just enough at the
unclassified level to make the media

government officials aware of the
reality of the UAP topic, then Jay

would be able to use that momentum to go
ahead and achieve the goals that we set

out to achieve inside the government.

And we had a number of difficult
conversations because Lou was giving up

very... promising career he loved what
he was doing he was very good at what he

was doing it's such a profound life
decision for lou to make

for himself and his family during one of
my routine hellish commutes back home

as i was stuck in traffic looking in
front of me and behind me and seeing

thousands of cars i had this profound
sense of isolation a feeling i had never

felt before in my life a feeling that
that i was completely alone i might as

well been living on the dark side of the
moon none of these people around me in

fact no one anywhere had any idea of
what was actually going on around them

not a clue i thought to myself these
individuals

deserve to know the truth, the mere fact
that we're not alone in the universe.

How can any one organization,
institution, religion, or government

or censor that or gatekeep that?

No one has the right to keep fundamental
truths away from the American people

and humanity.

CNN has learned the Pentagon had a
secretive program to research UFOs. The

existence of a secret government program
to investigate UFO sightings. A recent

report by the New York Times unveiled
the existence of a real -life X -Files

department. Their secret government
program to investigate mysterious flying

objects. This seems potentially like one
of the biggest stories of my lifetime.

These aircraft, we'll call them
aircraft, are displaying

that are not currently within the U .S.
inventory nor in any foreign inventory.

This is a very serious national security
issue. Something is in our skies. It

has been there for quite some time.

If you have objects that are doing
things, maneuvering in ways without any

obvious sign of propulsion, my
submission is that what we are looking

truly... By definition, exotic
technologies beyond next generation

And the bureaucracy in the Department of
Defense really limited our ability to

keep leadership informed of what we were
seeing.

As soon as the media started paying
attention, Congress started paying

attention. I started getting calls from
the Hill for briefings. Senators

received a classified briefing about
UFOs at the Pentagon.

Senator Mark Warner, who is the vice
chair of the Intelligence Committee,

look, I think it's important that the
military is taking this more seriously

than they did in the past.

Senator Rubio and Senator Warner, to
their great credit, put national

above their own personal political
careers and took the risk of engaging

publicly on this issue.

When they began to engage, the Defense
Department had to admit to the world

this was real and it was happening. And
that immediately took the entire

credibility of the issue up a huge
notch.

The U .S. Navy has finally acknowledged
that videos appearing to show UFOs

flying through the air are real.

Commander David Fravor describing it
like a 40 -foot long tic -tac. The

to hover over the water and then start a
vertical climb from basically zero up

towards about 12 ,000 feet.

and then accelerate in less than two
seconds and disappear is something I had

never seen in my life.

We've had repeated instances of
something operating in the airspace over

restricted nuclear facilities, and it's
not ours, and we don't know whose it is.

That alone, just that statement alone,
deserves inquiry, deserves attention.

deserves focus.

If you have objects in the sky that you
cannot identify, that's a problem

because it could be China, it could be
Russia, it could be any adversary.

Well, any explained phenomenon could
pose a natural threat.

That's the way you have to treat those
things. There's something violating our

airspace. There's something fouling our
ranges that even the people we've tasked

in the executive branch to understand
this cannot...

provide an explanation.

So I would say, in addition to the
national security implications, this has

implications for basic trust and
confidence in the American government.

We just simply don't know the origin of
the phenomena.

And we're going to try to get to the
bottom of it because for national

purposes, some of these have been in
areas that we train.

These have been in areas where we've got
some of our best equipment, and yet our

best equipment has not been able to tag
these things. We've not been able to go

in and catch them. No matter what they
are, they're invading our airspace, and

we don't...

know exactly why they're doing it, what
their intent is, and what their

capabilities are.

In addition to the national security
concerns, this violation of all -nation

sovereign airspace presents a safety of
flight concern for all military and

civilian aviation.

And the even scarier thing is that the
Federal Aviation Administration stopped

using radar to track our air travel.
They only track aircraft.

predominantly commercial and civilian,
that are squawking. So they're actually

putting a signal into the system saying,
here's where I am.

The only way they know the UAP are there
is if the pilot sees something and says

something.

The fact that the FAA is not tracking
UAP is putting American lives at risk

every day.

I'm Brett Fetterson. I served as the
Director of Aviation Security in the

National Security Council.

and as the acting director for the
Federal Aviation Administration's

Security Programs Office, I can say
through my experience that we are

not alone in this universe.

The biggest thing that concerns me with
UAPs is the national security concern.

It's the unknown. It's the fact that
this technology does stuff that we can't

do. And if we can't figure out what it
is or what it wants or what it's being

used for, it keeps me up at night in the
idea that we're behind the power curve.

We want to be able to maintain the
cutting -edge technology and the

here in the United States so that we can
sleep comfortably at night and feel the

safety of what the American government
has provided. There's sort of, I think,

four hypotheses out there, one of which
is that this is foreign adversary

technology that we simply don't
understand or weren't aware of, and that

amount to probably the biggest
intelligence failure in modern American

The second of which is that this is a
robust counterintelligence program to

cover up for a U .S. government effort
that has fallen kind of away from

congressional oversight.

A third hypothesis is obviously that
this is interdimensional or

extraterrestrial. And then fourth could
be a combination of the previous three.

Some of the biggest strategic blunders
in human history. The foundation of

blunders were a lack of imagination. The
belief that an adversary or whoever

could not do something because it had
never been done before. The U .S.

it was safe for those ships in Pearl
Harbor because we didn't think that the

Japanese could get there, much less have
torpedoes that could navigate such a

narrow strait and hit these ships until
they did.

We never thought in our wildest dreams.

that terrorists would strike us in the
homeland by training for a year to

pilots and then hijacking commercial
aircraft and crashing them into

And they did.

So the thing that always keeps me up at
night, something in the human psyche

that says, I don't have time or energy
to sort of prepare for the unforeseen or

what I've never seen done before.

And, you know, that leads to strategic
surprise and sometimes strategic

surprises that change the course of
human history.

There was one classified briefing that I
gave to members of the House and Senate

where I took military pilots to tell
them the story of their encounters with

UAP. Those stories left them so rattled
that they had trouble sleeping that

night.

The United States' most trusted military
servicemen and women and irrefutable

data from our intelligence collection
systems have been observing UAP for

decades.

Everything observed can be categorized
by five distinct performance

characteristics. At AATIP, we call these
the observables.

The first observable is hypersonic
velocity.

Our current fastest aircraft can go
roughly 4 ,600 miles per hour. However,

the UAP we are observing are traveling
at 40 ,000 miles per hour and sometimes

faster.

The next observable is instantaneous
acceleration, the sudden change in

velocity. At full speed, the SR -71,
known as the Blackbird, requires roughly

half the state of Ohio to complete its
turn.

What we are seeing with UAP are vehicles
that can make immediate right -angle

turns, instantaneously accelerating and
stopping on a dime.

at speeds up to 10 times faster than the
SR -71.

If you're in a sustained fight, you can
get up to 7 .5 Gs. It gets physically

painful over time to be under that
amount of gravity. And that's just going

0 to 200 miles an hour in about 2 .5
seconds.

Now think of going 0 to thousands of
miles an hour in less than a second,

the force would be on your body. The
human body can only take so much before

internal organs start to separate
themselves from everything they're

which is usually bad.

Even if it was a drone, it would rip the
drone, the unmanned vehicle, apart.

The next observable is low
observability. All modern technology

signature.

For example, most aircraft leave visible
contrails as they fly.

We usually hear a sonic boom associated
with the sound barrier being broken.

UAP, however, leave almost no observable
signatures.

Our airplanes actually throw out exhaust
behind it and thrust behind it to push

it forward.

Whatever these things are, they're not
doing that. There is no exhaust, no

particles coming off of them that we can
see.

The next observable is transmedium
travel.

UAP have been observed operating in
space, in air, and underwater.

And they are moving seamlessly through
each of these environments without any

normal signature and without
compromising performance.

We've observed a transmedium capability
of these phenomena to move from space to

the atmosphere to the ocean.

In the Aguadilla, Puerto Rico case, a
DHS helicopter caught the spherical

flying.

It entered the water and exited the
water, so transmedium, without losing

velocity. It goes into the ocean and
makes no splash or wake at 74 miles per

hour. I calculated how much force you
would require just to propel a

under the water at 74 miles per hour,
and you would need a Bezos 7 rocket

or two Learjet engines. That would churn
the water up like crazy. So this is a

technology that's frictionless.

The next observable is anti -gravity.
UAP seemed to be defying the natural

effects of Earth's gravity without any
obvious means of doing so. No signs of

propulsion or lift, meaning no wings. No
control surfaces or ability to

maneuver. In 2014 to 2015, we were
operating off the coast of Virginia

off the eastern seaboard.

It was during this time that we upgraded
our radar from the APG -73 to the APG

-79 radar.

And this allowed us to essentially see
more objects we weren't expecting to

And there's a particular case of one of
these objects maintaining a complete

stationary position inside of 120 -knot
winds, essentially inside of a

hurricane. We're all going against the
wind. The wind's 120 miles to the west.

Look at this thing.

It's rotating.

It just seems like they're not affected
by the environment the way we are. They

were tracking them from above 80 ,000
feet.

So for those that don't know, above 80
,000, that's where you start getting

space. So these things were coming down.
They would sit for like three hours,

and they would go back up, which to my
knowledge, we don't have anything that

has the capabilities as far as the
energy required to come down, hang out

three hours, and go up. The observed UAP
capability exceeds that.

of even the most advanced human
technologies that are developed in

black programs.

From our exposure, I mean, there's
nothing we have that comes close.

There's actually a sixth observable,
which is not a flight characteristic.

That is biological effects.

I got started working on this actually
in this office.

There was a knock at the door, and two
individuals who represented themselves

being with the CIA in an aerospace
company came to me and asked for my

They had data of military personnel,
intelligence officials, and others

associated with the Department of
Defense who had direct interactions with

and because of that direct interaction,
suffered some kind of medical harm.

They wanted my help to look at the so
-called inflammatory secondary events

might be measured in the blood.

Anything from the...

horrific burns that i've seen on some of
the individuals that leads to secondary

problems with autoimmune diseases and
sclerosis etc and then the internal

scarring that i've seen on some
individuals these people had scarring

their bodies and inside of their brains
and if you think about it you know if

you get too close to the back end of a
jet engine or for instance if you get

close to the transformer system that is
powering your neighborhood

There's energy coming out of those
things. I mean, those are just human

technologies. Now imagine you've got
something which is a more advanced

technology, which is generating some
kind of field that allows these objects

move. You can imagine if you get too
close to it, you're going to get harmed.

I spent 10 years as an intelligence
officer for the Navy, and before that,

years as Air Force intelligence.

And I spent time on the UAP task force.

I'm one of the intelligence officials
that has experienced biological effects

encountering UAP.

Since my first encounter, I've observed
other craft

or we'll call it exotic energy fields.

Unfortunately, those of us who have
investigated it... We become part of the

investigation or investigated by our
colleagues. The population had about a

mortality rate within seven years of
having an interaction.

Probably important that the public
understands that this is more than just

aerial phenomena.

When you have an anecdote that is
accompanied by medical data, that's

that I can hand to another scientist,
another doctor, and say, here it is, you

explain it. We can argue about what the
conclusion is, but we can't argue that

the data is real.

The Deputy Director of Naval
Intelligence, who understood the

concerns of UAP, directed me to start
quietly building out a whole government

interagency effort that ultimately
became the UAP Task Force.

This new program was much bigger than
AATIP ever was. Our mission was to

analyze, and catalog UAPs that posed a
threat to U .S. national security.

I had hand -picked members from all 16
agencies of the intelligence community.

The Secretary of Defense formally
announced the UAP Task Force in August

2020, naming me the first director.

Everyone in authority was paying
attention to this topic.

One very distinctive moment for me was
briefing then Secretary of Treasury

Mnuchin. I got through my briefing, and
at the end of the brief, he sat back in

his chair, and he said, you know, Jay,
you may wonder why I asked for this

briefing. And he said, What are the
economic impacts of the president going

the microphone and telling the world
we're not alone?

I have to think about those kinds of
impacts in order to prepare if the

president were to make that move.

Meanwhile, Chris Mellon and I were
working with the Senate behind the

craft UAP legislation that was then.

taken by Marco Rubio and pushed into the
coronavirus relief bill.

When President Trump signed this
legislation into law, it then forced the

Pentagon and the UAP task force to
provide written reports to Congress,

classified and unclassified.

The long -awaited Pentagon report on
UFOs has finally been released.

The director of national intelligence
just a few days ago released a new

on 144 sightings. When we talk about
sightings, we're talking about objects

have been seen by Navy or Air Force
pilots or have been picked up by

imagery. Frankly, there are a lot more
sightings than have been made public.

report clarifies that most incidents
over the past two decades are not from

U .S. military or other advanced U .S.
government technology.

So the issue now is, why are they here,
where are they coming from, and what is

the technology behind these devices that
we're observing?

As noisy as that first unclassified
report was, it barely scratched the

The few elected officials that actually
got to read the classified version of

the report, it really opened their eyes
to the national security concerns

surrounding this topic. There's enough
obvious evidence here that we need to

take this seriously, not downplay it. I
don't believe they're coming from

foreign adversaries.

If they were, why, that would suggest
that they have a technology which is in

whole different sphere than anything we
understand.

And frankly, China and Russia just
aren't there.

And neither are we, by the way. They say
trillions of gas. galaxies out there,

so who knows what might have developed
somewhere else. Does the United States

believe that there may be life outside
of Earth?

What we believe is that there are
unexplained aerial phenomena that have

cited and reported by pilots, Navy and
Air Force, that these phenomena have,

in some cases, had an impact on our
training ranges, on our pilots' ability

fly, train, operate.

You can stay ready.

That alone makes it a national security
issue worth looking at.

We don't know.

We don't have the answers about what
these phenomena are.

As we continue to make progress, a very
powerful disinformation campaign

began.

This effort was to destroy my reputation
and credibility.

Full stop.

When the government started running this
despicable disinformation campaign

against Lou, I actually received an
email one day from the Pentagon Public

Affairs Office with this narrative that
they were providing back to the media

that was completely false.

And I replied also to that email and
said, this is wrong. And they ran with

anyway.

They actually told the American people
that Lou Elizondo did not work there,

that was an outright lie.

My family and I suffered greatly for it.

All you have in your life is really your
credibility and your work.

It's heartbreaking.

They don't want anybody that's based on
facts being involved in this. So what do

they do?

They go online and try to belittle.

Elizondo and me and anybody else that's
trying to do it a scientific way.

As hard as it was, I was still being
privately encouraged by former members

AATIP to continue the fight. And so that
gave me the motivation to continue to

press forward. And the fire that we
started continued to spread. After

of public denial, the Pentagon now
admits there's something out there.

And the U .S. Senate wants to know what
it is.

UFOs, unidentified flying objects, are
real. The government has already stated

for the record that they're real. I'm
not telling you that. The United States

government is telling you that. There's
footage and records of objects in the

skies that we don't know exactly what
they are. What's your viewpoint on what

these objects that seem to defy all laws
of physics are?

Well, first of all, that's a legitimate
question now. There are lots of

mysteries out there. It should keep us
humble.

There's a lot of stuff we don't know.

There have been sightings all over the
world. And when we talk about sightings,

the other thing I will tell you is it's
not just a pilot or just a satellite or

some intelligence collection.

Usually we have multiple sensors that
are picking up these things. There's

always the question of...

Is there something else that we simply
do not understand that might come

extraterrestrially? I think it's a bit
presumptuous and not arrogant for us to

believe that there's no other form of
life anywhere in the entire universe.

I've seen some of those videos from Navy
pilots, and I must tell you that they

are quite eyebrow -raising and might in
fact be some type of phenomenon that

is the result of something that we don't
yet understand.

And that could involve some type of
activity that some might say constitutes

different form of life.

We don't know if the non -human
intelligence that is already here is

extraterrestrial or perhaps some sort of
crypto -terrestrial. Some people who

are into...

The physics of time travel thinks, well,
maybe they're time travelers. Even some

sort of proto -human that somehow
branched off from the human family tree

ago and is as natural to this planet as
we are. Some ancient civilization that's

sequestered away somewhere on the Earth
or on the seabed.

We've heard testimonials from pilots as
well as civilians from different

countries having seen things come from
the ocean.

Unexplained things. And these aren't
missiles. They aren't rockets. They

aircraft or submarines.

These are otherworldly things that are
performing maneuvers that haven't been

seen. In fact, we have tracked UAP
underwater going at speeds in excess of

several hundred miles an hour, but
without the associated signatures.

I retired as the oceanographer of the
Navy, being the senior advisor for the

chief of naval operations in the
Pentagon.

Our knowledge of the ocean is rather
limited. We haven't even explored 80 %

the ocean volume.

We have mapped the surface of Mars and
the moon to a higher resolution than the

Earth's seafloor. Is it possible that
whatever we're seeing isn't from out

there? It's from down there.

Are we looking at an entire world?

underneath the water. I think it's very
safe to say that with so much of the

ocean volume unexplored and the sea
floor unmapped, that if any intelligence

were to arrive here and not want to be
detected, it would stay in the ocean.

All these possibilities could come with
different intentions and motivations.

Whoever it is, they're here.

And they're operating here.

And they have been operating here for a
long time.

In 2022, we started pushing Congress
hard to hold public UAP hearings. And

that's when disclosure started to get to
the next level.

A House panel is holding a public
hearing.

on mysterious flying objects.

The chairman of the House Intelligence
Committee describes this as one of the

great mysteries of our time. And it's a
big day for all of these people who have

spent so many years pushing for more
transparency into this topic. Out of

everything in Congress and everything
happening currently in our country and

world right now, the UAP topic has been
one of the only topics that's received

this level of bipartisan support.

It's just not an issue, at least as of
yet, in this country that lends itself

some sort of partisan or ideological
divide.

Democrats and Republicans just want to
understand what's going on.

This hearing and oversight work has a
simple idea at its core.

Unidentified aerial phenomena are a
potential national security threat, and

need to be treated that way.

UAPs are unexplained. It's true.

But they are real.

They need to be investigated.

and many threats they pose need to be
mitigated. There is something there

measurable by multiple instruments, and
yet it seems to move in directions that

are inconsistent with what we know of
physics or science more broadly.

There are a number of events in which we
do not have an explanation, in which

there are flight characteristics or
signature management that we can't

We know there are service members...

have encountered unidentified aerial
phenomena.

And because UAPs pose potential flight
safety and general security risks, we

committed to a focused effort to
determine their origins. The

systems, processes, and sources we use
to observe, record, study, or analyze

these phenomena need to be classified at
appropriate levels.

We do not want, we do not want potential
adversaries to know exactly what we're

able to see or understand or how we come
to the conclusions we make.

Therefore, public disclosures must be
carefully considered on a case -by -case

basis. The hearing was a historic
bipartisan effort towards transparency,

left both the American public and
Congress with more questions than

While I was making progress, I learned
that the legacy program was quietly

behind the scenes pushing back, and they
were creating bureaucratic hurdles.

They were somehow able to block the
funding that was approved for the UAP

force. I can't describe it any other way
than I was just angry. There's this

hidden hand that is blocking all of
these actions and things that I'm doing.

A subversive government overriding the
real government. It's so bad that we

really aren't going to make progress
until someone shines the light on them.

And then the staff and the members start
to dig in more.

They begin to understand the landscape.

They begin to understand how much
secrecy there is, how much resistance

to coming clean on this.

As Congress began hearing from
whistleblowers in classified settings,

to the realization of the existence of
the legacy program.

The main players in the legacy program
have long been the Central Intelligence

Agency, the United States Air Force, the
Department of Energy, and major defense

contractors. The Central Intelligence
Agency is responsible for the oversight

the overall effort.

You might think of them as a little bit
of a headquarters element.

The Deputy Director of Science and
Technology at the CIA controls the UAP

retrieval portfolio.

The United States Air Force is
responsible for field operations.

These are the folks that are responsible
for deploying within moment's notice

anywhere in the world to go secure and
retrieve crashed UAP.

We have intelligence teams quickly
notified if there's some UAP event that

involve a crash vehicle or pieces from a
crash vehicle.

The United States Air Force uses their
own special forces, but they also

coordinate with other special forces in
the other branches of the U .S.

military.

They're so well organized that they
basically can get to a site, gather

material, whatever it is, and once it's
in their possession...

They have the authority to classify it
and therefore make any information about

it unavailable to the public, even
admission that it exists unavailable to

public. The defense contractors, they're
responsible for the exploitation and

the reverse engineering and analysis of
the materials. They provide technical

and advisory services that the
government doesn't have.

And last but not least is the Department
of Energy.

They are the world's experts in anything
that is related to either atomic or

nuclear technology or anything that
gives off radiation.

But there's another advantage because
the Department of Energy has its own

security classification system well
outside the overview and oversight, if

will, of traditional classification
systems like the Department of Defense

the intelligence community.

They've used the security and
classification.

in the Atomic Energy Act to hide the
legacy crash retrieval program.

The intelligence officials that have
briefed on these crash retrievals have

talked about a number of different
species having been observed to be

with the crash.

The bodies recovered are not all the
same type.

I'm aware of at least two advanced non
-human species.

one of which made contact with the
Legacy Crash Retrieval Program, the

which the bodies were recovered by the
Crash Retrieval Program in various

crashes. One of the questions that's
often raised, if they're so advanced,

are there crashes?

But of course, I mean, you know, cars
are well made and people drive them

carefully, but there are crashes. It can
happen.

Another option that's being considered
is that maybe some of these were not,

quote, really crashes but that they were
left here for us to examine in

order to advance our technology forward
at a faster pace so in that sense they

can be seen as gifts from more
intelligent species one of the questions

would then be raised would be well are
gifts distributed differently among

different nations or more or less
homogeneously to see who

survives and makes progress to pass
this.

It could be a giant IQ test, you might
say.

As we brought whistleblowers to
Congress, we learned that the legacy

involved in a long -running secret war
with other nations to collect and

engineer vehicles not made by humans.

In this secret theater of war, the U .S.
has both allies and adversaries in a

winner takes all scenario.

This is a very complicated geopolitical
landscape where alliances and

allegiances shift like sand in the
desert.

We would certainly prefer a situation
where the retrieval is either

in international waters or some other
uncontested location, or maybe in an

allied country, but every country in the
world would do everything in their

power to try to retrieve an exquisite
piece of technology.

The first country that cracks the code
on this technology will be the leader

years to come. This is similar to the
Manhattan Project. We developed the

weapon, we won the war, and it made us a
superpower for almost a century now.

This is the atomic weapon on steroids.

Some of the craft could be the result
of, say, our legacy program.

Or, on the other hand, it might be the
result of advancements made by potential

adversaries. We have seen...

Highly credible U .S. government
intelligence on the Soviet recovery of a

crashed UAP in 1989. They recovered a
tic -tac -shaped UAP that was twice as

as the tic -tac that was encountered by
the USS Nimitz carrier strike group, and

they did recover four bodies of humanoid
aliens.

The Soviet scientists took apart the
recovered craft and discovered...

a very advanced directed energy weapon.

China is at the top of everybody's list
of concern right now in the Defense

Department. Some of this UAP activity we
are seeing here in the United States

may actually be a result of a Chinese
UAP reverse engineering program.

If Xi Jinping had access to this, if
Putin had access to this, and they

that we did not have access to similar
capabilities than what they did,

Do you think for a second that they
wouldn't consider using it to achieve

ends of domination?

And if their approach to it is driven by
science and a desire to match what they

think is ours, we'll wake up one day and
realize, I don't know how they got

there, but they got there ahead of us
and now we're screwed.

This technology can absolutely either
revolutionize the way we do things or

completely destroy everything that we
know.

It often reminds me.

of the famous speech by President John
F. Kennedy when we were right at the

threshold of entering into a new era of
discovery in space.

There is new knowledge to be gained and
new rights to be won.

And they must be won and used for the
progress of all people.

For space science, like nuclear science
and all technology, has no conscience of

its own.

Whether it will become a force for good
or ill depends on man.

And only if the United States occupies a
position of preeminence

can we help decide whether this new
ocean will be a sea of

peace or a new terrifying theater of
war.

So secret, there have been very, very
few people in our entire government that

have been allowed or provided access to
it.

Some presidents have been briefed on the
basic facts about the situation, but

they are not provided with all the
details.

I think there's this assumption that
presidents can walk in the Oval Office

day one and say, all right, take me to
Roswell, show me the alien bodies. I

to see the video of the autopsy. I want
to see the whole thing, open it up. I

think that really is a naive.

understanding of how our government
works.

Even presidents have often been
operating on a need -to -know basis.

That's certainly true from a historic
standpoint.

The rationale, the justification was the
president shouldn't know about these

things because that way the president
always has deniability.

All they need is a nod in this direction
or in that direction. But that begins

to ramp out of control. Frankly, I don't
even know if the president would know

who to ask.

You could go to the director of the CIA,
nowadays the director of national

intelligence, and ask them. And even
that person may not know because those

people rotate.

But the people, three layers underneath
them that are there for 30 years, to

them, it's like I've seen these people
come and go. I have no obligation to

them it exists.

It just never percolates out. A lot of
people have this assumption that the

director of CIA is right on to
everything and knows everything. The

CIA is a political appointee.

Quite frankly, they're temporary help.
Whereas the director of science and

technology at CIA, this is a career
intelligence professional.

That's where you're going to put the
program.

I had a few private conversations with
former President George Herbert Walker

Bush in 2003, in which he told me that
when he became the CIA director in the

Ford administration, he was not briefed.

on the legacy UAP crash retrieval
program, but he later found out about

he informed me that there were a number
of crash retrievals that had taken place

since the mid -1940s. And he also
informed me of a UAP event that took

Holloman Air Force Base in 1964, where
three UAPs approached the Air Force

One of them landed on the tarmac, and a
non -human entity

de -boarded the craft that landed and
interacted with uniformed Air Force and

civilian CIA personnel.

And when he asked for more details, he
was told that he did not have a need to

know.

I served over 30 years as an Army Green
Beret in the United States Army. I ended

my career as Secretary of Defense.

official decided i the acting secretary
of defense did not have a need to know

about the uap topic several of my
colleagues participated in a panel

by the george bush administration when
the administration contemplated going

public with disclosure what it was a
group of 10 or 12 people from

agencies from the military some business
people and they said here's what's

going on the americans The Russians and
the Chinese all have crash -retrieved

craft from some other civilization. And
there's some belief at this point that

maybe this should be revealed to the
public. And we want to know, well, what

would the consequences be?

This is a topic that has the potential
to create serious ontological shock to

society. It's not just national
security.

It's psychological.

It's sociological.

It's... theological, and it's
philosophical.

It's undermining, in many ways, it's
troubling to a lot of people to say that

there's something else out there. Is it
either otherworldly, interdimensional? I

think, unfortunately, it goes against
our traditions, our cultural traditions,

our religious traditions, and it
challenges the beliefs of a lot of

The Vatican has irrefutable evidence
that non -human intelligence exists,

although publicly they don't want to
acknowledge it.

Privately, they are very well aware of
this.

What happens when society realizes
everything it's been taught about the

history of our species has been wrong,
and everybody learns all at once that

we're not the top of the food chain,
we're not the alpha predators?

It would be a shake -up for
institutions,

it'd be a shake -up for norms, it'd be a
shake -up in society.

One has to be careful and one has to
remember that it's conceivable that

something that's so disturbing or
disruptive or negative that there is a

rationale for not immediately disclosing
all of that information.

We actually came up with a list of 64
areas that really would be impacted to

some significant degree by such a
disclosure.

When we add up all the numbers, it looks
like this would be kind of a bad idea.

Did you go through the secret files, the
UFO document? Now that you're out of

office, you can do anything you want,
right? True, yeah.

But I'm not telling you.

Without a doubt, there's hardly been any
program that has been so successfully

kept out of the public eye as anything
like crash retrievals of unknown craft.

This line...

of strong control started, at least in
the Truman administration, with the

Roswell crash.

In AATIP, we learned that the UAP event
at the U .S. Army airfield in Roswell in

1947 did actually occur.

It was described to be a boot -heel
-shaped UAP that broke into two pieces

impact.

And observers saw what looked like
hieroglyphics or some type of writing on

You might describe them as runes or
glyphs, hieroglyphs, that were actually

the craft itself.

And within that crash, non -human bodies
were recovered.

Four non -human bodies were recovered
from the UAP crash at Roswell.

The recovered material from the crash,
including the bodies, were all sent up

Wright Field, which is now called Wright
-Patterson Air Force Base.

That's where the U .S. had their best
reverse engineers.

Think about the context for everything
in 1947.

The U .S. had just won World War II and
was entering into a Cold War with the

USSR.

These UAP presented a technology of
unfathomable power.

It was imperative that the U .S. be able
to reverse engineer this new technology

before anybody else or before anybody
else even knew about it.

You can't tell your friends without
telling your enemies.

That's a key component to every decision
as to what we do or do not release.

Back in 1947, when they looked at this
and they realized it was real and they

realized they had no idea what it was,
this was something you couldn't just

about because...

The role of the President of the United
States and the role of the military is

to defend the United States and to
protect its citizens.

If this is something that they can't
protect against, well, they're not going

come out and say it. They're not going
to scare anybody.

They don't want to tell the American
public about the threat because there's

nothing they can do about it.

It was only a couple months after
Roswell that President Truman signed the

National Security Act of 1947, which
established both the Air Force...

and the Central Intelligence Agency.

That was the start point in which both
the CIA and the Air Force began to take

operational control of the UAP topic.
But it wasn't until a couple years later

when Truman signed the Central
Intelligence Agency Act that really

endorsed the CIA to be able to run
secret intelligence operations outside

normal routine oversight channels.
Basically, be able to run operations

anybody knowing.

From Roswell on, the strategy for
dealing with the public and ensuring U

secrecy is maintained was to basically
adopt the strategy of deny everything,

admit nothing, make counter accusations,
put out false narratives, intimidate

and discredit witnesses. In essence,
deny, deny, deny, establish stigma

surrounding this topic in order to
prevent any type of disclosure.

Executive Order 12333 bans covert action
to influence the public and the media,

but the Legacy Crash Retrieval Program
has been ignoring that. In fact, they

aggressively influencing public opinion
by using an active disinformation

campaign. To create the tradition of
disbelief, where you basically start

early, that, nah, nah, everybody who
sees UFOs are crackpots.

And then that gets built in, you know,
to the media enterprise. It gets built

into Hollywood. It gets built into the
public. CIA funded Hollywood movies in

order to create that ridicule factor
that they still use to this day.

Do you believe that the recent spike in
UFO encounters... I get the UFO

question? Come on, man.

I'm not...

I'm just, you know, I loved E .T., the
movie, but I'm just going to leave it

there. Up until very recently, there was
zero incentive for a naval aviator to

come forward and say, this is what I
saw. And honestly, up until very

there was zero incentive for a U .S.
senator to talk about it because people

would think, what's wrong? This guy's a
weirdo. Over the years, military service

members, intelligence officials, and
even private citizens have been

and made to look crazy.

to the point where people have lost
their jobs, they've lost their ability

provide for their families, they've lost
their security clearances.

These people had their lives ruined
simply because they spoke the truth

what they learned or what they saw.

People that come forward with this, I
feel like they've taken their life in

their own hands.

People say, well, government can't keep
a secret. Well, there are a number of

programs I've been involved in that have
never.

gotten revealed. The truth of the matter
is people and programs can be kept

secret. Usually it's just out of
personal wanting to protect oneself.

This is the most successful
disinformation campaign in the history

government. The irony in this is that
the deception campaign to create stigma

was so successful, it actually
inadvertently created a new unforeseen

Stigma has been a tremendous problem
that is actually a national security

to the United States. Other countries
are not suffering from the stigma that

are. So we are already, as Americans, at
a disadvantage.

How can we expect to maintain a
strategic advantage when 99 .999 % of

scientists here in this country don't
even think it's real. Science moves

forward on the basis of exchanging
information, and when it's all tied up

held down, you just can't make progress.

You had information being locked away
that, frankly, could improve the lives

every human being on this planet and
change the trajectory for species.

This information was and is still being
locked down by the Legacy Crash

Retrieval Program.

Too much information resides in
different stovepipes.

It's controlled by different baronies
and different fiefdoms spread throughout

the national security kingdom.

They each view information as power.

They're each reluctant to share
information. They hoard it. They like to

it like a currency.

All of these things conspire to prevent
us from getting the big picture and

bringing the information together.

any or maybe just a tiny number of uh
reports of uap notwithstanding

the fact that the air force controls the
north american aerospace defense

command they're responsible for space
surveillance they have aircraft with

superior radar systems operating in the
same training ranges where the navy is

seeing and reporting these aircraft and
yet They claim they don't have evidence

of this.

Imagine we had a situation where we're
saying there are unidentified submarines

off the coast of the United States, and
the only reports we got were from the

Air Force, and the Navy had nothing to
say about it.

During the George W. Bush
administration, the president routinely

his ranch in Stevensville, Texas, and I
see reporting of UAP activity over the

ranch.

F -16s from a nearby Air Force base were
alerted to intercept this object.

People on the ground thought.

So I go down and I start asking
questions. Hey, what did you chase? I'm

on behalf of the U .S. government and
we're trying to understand what you saw.

And they looked me in the eyes and said,
Jay, we cannot tell you what we saw

because the OSI, Air Force Office of
Special Investigations, came in here,

us sign nondisclosure agreements.

We did see something. We did scramble on
something, but we can't talk to you

about it.

Historically, every time a military
member had a UAP encounter, it was very

quickly swept under the rug and they
were discouraged from talking about it.

They put a form down. It was a
nondisclosure form.

He came storming across to me and said,
don't you ever say that again. You're

never going to speak of this. And I made
it very clear that it's something we

shouldn't be talking about and just keep
our mouth shut. There was a culture of

silence. I didn't talk to anybody about
it, not my wife, not my colleagues, not

people I knew. I just shut up. There's
ramifications if you were to divulge any

of this information to anyone.

We received an alarm at our closest
missile site.

There was an object directly above that
ICBM nuclear missile, right on top of

the blast door.

No noise, no sound whatsoever, and it
looked like a mini sun sitting in the

It was the size of a super Walmart
building.

Not just a Walmart, I mean a super
Walmart. This thing was gargantuan. And

it could suspend itself was just
completely unnatural to what we know of

anything that can fly or hover.

The captain was looking, just looking up
with his mouth open, and I look up and

I see this object right over the missile
launch tube.

Multifaceted, matte black finish, an
oddly shaped diamond.

Absolutely silent, made no noise. There
was no means of propulsion.

Fifty feet up in the air, sitting
absolutely still.

And it was amazing.

We kind of looked at one another and
we're just human beings witnessing

something extraordinary. And while we're
watching this thing, it went from dead

still and it shot off toward the horizon
and was gone.

Absolutely instant acceleration.

We had 60 cameras so that the engineers
at Boeing and Douglas could see every

millisecond of the ignition.

The missile in question that we
photographed was an Atlas D carrying, as

an experiment, a dummy nuclear warhead.

As it was flying along, the warhead, the
shaft, something else entered the

frame. It sent a beam of light and hit
the warhead, flew up like this.

Shot another beam of light down at the
warhead. Went like this, shot another

beam of light at the warhead.

Went under here, shot a beam of light at
the warhead, and then flew out the way

to come in.

All the while, everything in our frame
was moving along at 8 ,000 to 9 ,000

miles an hour.

There's nothing in there for us that
could have done that.

Could have done that.

There was this red -orange light
hovering above the front gate.

It was about 40 feet in diameter, sort
of oval shape.

And each missile was announcing guidance
and control system failure. Our

missiles were starting to go down, so we
had all 10 of them go down.

Within the span of eight days, we lost
20 nuclear missiles to UFOs.

Vandenberg is home to...

the infrastructure that supports our
national missile defense project, the

system that defends our country from
incoming ballistic missiles and nuclear

weapons. So it's one of the most
important bases we have.

On October 14, 2003, I showed up to work
at Vandenberg Air Force Base, and

immediately everybody just started to
tell me about this UFO incident that had

happened earlier that morning. I
reported for work at Vandenberg Air

We were given a briefing earlier in the
day, some Boeing contractors.

had witnessed a UAP incursion. Three
Boeing contractors had called in and

reported that a gigantic red square
object was floating over the launch pad

low altitude. It was making no noise.

It had no obvious signs of propulsion,
and it was just hovering silently.

It was a very serious security breach of
the area.

And we were told just to be vigilant
when we were out on our shift that

And I spent most of the day driving
around the base looking for these

Later that night, myself and five
security forces members, we observed a

light approaching the base. As it got
closer, the light was no longer visible,

and it was massive, the size of a
football field, almost rectangular in

It was just floating there, no
propulsion system, no windows.

It was matte black.

We observed it for another 45 seconds,
and then it shot off.

thousands of miles an hour up the coast.

I talked to all the direct witnesses,
over a dozen people, and even from their

different vantage points, they all told
the same story. They all saw the same

thing. The UAP activity surrounding
nuclear weapons is not a historic issue.

It's an ongoing issue.

Despite the long -standing denial by the
United States Air Force, we now have...

Both former and current very senior Air
Force officials stating for the record

that in fact the Air Force has had a
long -standing involvement in UAP.

I served in the Air Force for about 32
years.

And my last job in the Air Force was
Chief of Air Force Intelligence prior to

becoming Director of the Defense
Intelligence Agency.

When I served in the Air Force, there
was an active program to track.

anomalous activities that we couldn't
otherwise explain. Many of them

with ranges out west, notably Area 51.

As Congress learned more about the
legacy program, they realized how

and influential the defense contractors
have become.

As we look at the actual structure,

of the interaction between the
government and private industry in this

Over the years, it has morphed,
transitioned into it being largely in

of the contractors.

If you do something within the
government, eventually it can be

Freedom of Information Act. But if you
do something through contractors,

not. available through Freedom of
Information Act. I had been involved

projects where we made sure that the
material was under contractor labels so

that it couldn't be accessed easily by
the public.

But what happens with government, you
need continuity. People move, people

people retire.

And so what winds up happening is you
have these legacy efforts going on in

government contractor side involving
UAP. And then I, the government official

charge of this program, leave.

and someone else takes my place and that
person might have a little bit of

awareness that this project existed but
then they're replaced by a third person

who has no idea the project existed but
the corporate entity that received this

technology is still trying to develop it
and so they begin to commercialize that

some of the stuff begins to seep out and
these great innovations that some

companies coming up with and making
money on and they claim it belongs to

and it's proprietary and the people in
government who know where it came from

originally

They're long gone, and their successors
have no idea that it was there at all.

And so you can start to foresee where
you create in corporate hands an

extraordinary amount of power. The real
risk that in transferring technology

that is not useful to us today to a
corporate entity, over decades that

corporate entity comes to basically
possess and control access to it for

own purposes, not for the purposes of
national security.

In the councils of government, we must
guard against.

the acquisition of unwarranted
influence, whether sought or unsought,

military -industrial complex.

The potential for the disastrous rise of
misplaced power exists and will

persist.

We must never let the weight of this
combination endanger our liberties or

democratic processes.

The reason why our democracy is so
strong, because it's of the people and

people and for the people. It's not
acceptable to have secret parts of

government that no one ever sees. It
would be unconscionable. It's against

Constitution, and it's wrong.

Non -human intelligence is not
government information, and the

not be keeping that knowledge from the
people.

Before he passed away, I had the
privilege of seeing Senator Harry Reid

few times in his private residence.

He explained to me that he was once
provided information on the legacy

but denied access. He was incensed by
that. And when the opportunity came to

sponsor AATIP, he jumped at the
opportunity in order to ensure that

the government had visibility into this
topic.

And frankly, we wouldn't be where we are
today if it wasn't for the courage of

Senator Harry Reid. Why the federal
government all these years has covered

put brake pads on everything, stopped
it.

I think it's very, very bad for our
country. Shouldn't we study this stuff?

The answer is yes.

And that's all this was about.

For decades, our government assumed
there must be different exotic

responsible for each of the observables.

But our scientists realized one
breakthrough technology could actually

responsible for everything.

With enough energy, you could create a
bubble, a warp bubble, around a

spacecraft that would have a different
property of space -time inside the

than on the outside of the bubble.

This energy field would completely
isolate the craft from the environment.

So you might ask then, how does the
craft actually move forward within its

bubble? The craft inside the bubble has
a way of altering the bubble's

properties in order to change its
direction of motion.

Such that you have a downward press in
front and an upward press behind.

So it'd be like riding space -time in
the same way that a surfer would ride a

wave in the ocean.

And we observe hypersonic velocity and
instantaneous acceleration.

And the reason is that time is moving
differently for people inside the bubble

versus people outside the bubble.
Whoever's inside the craft would feel

they're just cruising along. They
wouldn't be feeling the effects of what

like speeds and accelerations that would
turn a human being into pudding.

This one breakthrough can be the key to
interstellar travel, where you want to

travel long distances without taking
enormous amounts of subjective time.

We'd also have low observability because
the bubble acts as a barrier between

two space -time environments.

This would eliminate or conceal most of
the known signatures of conventional

technology. This is why radar would have
difficulty tracking a craft, because

the signal from the radar would be
distorted by the energy field around the

craft. The radar signatures literally
just move around the bubble and doesn't

reflect back to the radar emitter. So
it's not surprising when someone takes a

photo of a UAP, they finally get a...
fuzzy and distorted picture because

they're actually taking a photo through
a space -time barrier.

What's been happening recently is that
we have upgraded our sensor systems on

our fighter aircraft.

And these images that are now picked up
with our advanced sensor systems, we can

begin to see the actual structure of the
energy field around the craft, which in

the past they would not have been able
to do.

We also observe transmedium travel
because the craft is moving within its

space -time and the outside environment
through which it's moving is

inconsequential. This would allow a
craft to go seamlessly from space

the atmosphere and into the water.

And they could do so because the warp
bubble that surrounds them shunts air

molecules or ocean water molecules
around the craft so that it could move

effortlessly through any medium.

We also observe anti -gravity because
the Earth's gravitational field is no

longer having any effect on the craft
inside its space -time bubble.

This is why a craft does not need, say,
engines or wings or...

other aspects that we would associate it
with a craft that needs to fly in the

atmosphere. It's really disconnected
from the atmosphere.

And the energy field associated with
these craft causes a highly energetic

of radiation, which is why people
getting too close to UAP can experience

biological effects that are harmful to
humans.

Now that we understand that these craft
exist in...

a space -time environment that's
different from the exterior space -time

environment. This can begin to explain
claimed observations by, say, military

people who have approached and gotten
into a craft and find that time is

at a different rate inside the craft
than time running outside the craft.

They think they're only there for a few
minutes, and they come outside the

craft. Some hours have gone by, so they
feel like they've got missing time.

Or similarly, with respect to the size
of the craft, if someone is outside the

craft and looks like a small craft, and
they go inside, it's the size of a

football stadium. Once you've realized
that space and time are being engineered

to be different, inside the craft than
they are outside the craft, then these

anomalies that people report that sound
completely absurd can actually make

sense.

The top issue is what is their energy
supply?

because the evidence for how much energy
they're using per unit time so exceeds

any kind of power levels that we can
generate.

UAPs have exhibited propulsive
performance characteristics that imply

generation of 1 ,100 billion watts of
power. This is more than 100 times the

daily electrical utility power generated
in the U .S. Let that sink in.

100 times.

the daily power generation of the entire
nation.

There are two prevailing hypotheses for
how UAPs create the energy that warps

space -time around them. And one is that
the spacecraft can produce its own

bubble of vacuum energy around the
craft, which is also known as zero

energy. And the other one is that The
craft could be using quantum

to draw on a remote distance source of
energy.

If we can understand the technology that
we're observing, it has so many

potentially beneficial impacts,
including clean energy.

We're seeing these craft doing
unbelievable things, and it's not

engineering.

This is technology that could replace
oil, gas, and coal, and protect our

planet for future generations.

How can we use these technologies and
all the capabilities that might come

it, not to fight a war, but to increase
our standard of living, to increase our

ability to get from place to place? We
can talk more about teleportation. We

could talk more about hypersonic travel.
Being able to take human beings to the

next evolutionary step, which is the
stars. Being able to explore new star

systems and planets.

On the other hand, you'd have to weigh
the consequences of sharing with the

world, knowing that there are bad actors
out there. If our adversaries would

have access to that same technology,
they could flip that into some very,

powerful weapons of mass destruction.

You could put a nuclear bomb inside one
of these things and let it fly, ride it

through a building, through concrete,
through steel, wherever you want it,

anywhere in the world. We want to talk
about it publicly and encourage folks to

talk about it.

While we're talking about it publicly,
our adversaries are paying attention to

context clues, to piece things together
about possible technologies that we may

have that they don't have access to. So
it's a fine line.

I would opt for making any new energy
source a humanitarian

issue, that it should be open.

And we know how to do that. We've done
that with nuclear power. If the

capabilities that exist...

come to the forefront and they become
known to the world, it might very well

that it is to the benefit of mankind.

While Congress had learned a great deal
about the legacy program, whistleblowers

were still afraid to reveal the most
secretive details about the UAP

and non -human bodies in the program's
possession.

We've been interviewing folks that would
have had evidence of or first -hand

direct contact with either materials or
a program itself.

They have worked on craft, out -of -this
-world origin.

But until they leak a video before they
commit suicide

by shooting themselves in the back of
the head four times, I just don't know

that that's going to get out.

Those people whose job it is to make
sure information doesn't get out will

whatever tool they can find to try to
convince people they shouldn't come

forward. We have people that have very
high clearances, both today and in the

past, who did really important work for
our government or continue to do

important work for the government, who
have come forward with some claims about

the U .S. having in the past recovered
exotic materials and then reverse

engineered those materials to make
advances in our own defenses and

And that they signed agreements that...

They would face jail time or, in some
cases, some people claim it would cost

them their lives if they spoke out about
these things. When I have a

whistleblower coming forward telling me
that they are in fear of their life and

that people have been hurt protecting
and hiding this information, that gives

reason for concern.

Determined to get to the truth, it was
Chris Mellon who led the charge to help

Congress draft unprecedented UAP
whistleblower protections.

And in December of 2022, President Biden
signed the legislation into law.

So even for those who signed NDAs, they
still have a right and an opportunity to

talk about this in a very healthy and
productive way that informs the American

public.

Bombshell claims from a military
whistleblower. UFO wreckage recovered by

.S. kept classified by a secret
government program for decades.

The UAP task force has refused access to
a broad crash retrieval program.

Retrieving non -human origin technical
vehicles, you know, call it spacecraft

you will, non -human, exotic origin
vehicles that have either landed or

I handpicked Dave Rush to be part of my
UAP task force.

Everything that Dave uncovered is true,
but it barely scratches the surface.

There's a sophisticated disinformation
campaign targeting the U .S. populace,

which is extremely unethical and
immoral. Have people been killed to

secret? That was an ongoing concern.

Dave has been working tirelessly behind
the scenes with Congress as well. And

we were really poking the bear. We were
making a lot of progress. We were

getting a lot of information to
Congress.

And it wasn't necessarily symbiotic with
the legacy program and their desires.

I remember one evening I was sitting
with my wife on the front porch,

and I received a call.

I recognized the voice of a friend of
mine, and he happened to be one of the

staffers on the Hill.

And he was very shooken up and said,
listen, we had a very interesting

on the Hill.

extremely senior person in the U .S.
government, in the intelligence

told Congress, for the record, that
there was a committee of 27 individuals,

I'm not going to go into code names
here, that were mulling over the idea of

using extreme measures to silence David
and myself.

Kill us.

Now, people say, oh, come on, that's a
conspiracy.

No, it's not.

We have done it before.

Under certain circumstances, we have
killed Americans without due process.

If they are a clear and present national
security threat, we can kill Americans.

Now, it's not done very often, but we
can.

Without a fair trial, they just
disappear, right?

So here I am.

If I wind up in a month from now
floating in the Potomac somewhere, you

what happened.

You know what happened. This is the
truth.

What else you want to know?

Last year, the House Intelligence
Committee held a hearing on UAPs. They

in some Pentagon bureaucrats who only
had two answers to the questions they

asked. I don't know, or that's
classified.

This hearing is going to be different.
This time, we had credible witnesses

testifying before Congress and American
people under oath.

This was a tremendously proud moment for
my colleagues and myself to watch the

fire that we started continue to grow.
The subcommittee hearing on unidentified

anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, will come
to order.

The reality is the American public
deserves to know.

And you better be careful about a
government that doesn't trust its

because there's no telling what they'll
pull on you. It's really important that

we're hearing it in a bipartisan way.

to have this conversation, which really,
to the heart of it, is about national

security. The American public has a
right to learn about technologies of

origin, non -human intelligence, and
unexplainable phenomena.

You solemnly swear or affirm that the
testimony you are about to give is the

truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth. So help you God.

Yes, sir.

I was informed in the course of my
official duties.

of a multi -decade UAP crash retrieval
and reverse engineering program.

I am hopeful that my actions will
ultimately lead to a positive outcome of

increased transparency.

We were primarily seeing dark gray or
black cubes inside of a clear sphere

the apex or tips of the cube were
touching the inside of that sphere.

Since the events initially occurred,
I've learned that the objects have been

detected essentially where all
operations, Navy operations are being

across the world.

These objects had been observed for over
two weeks, coming down from over 80

,000 feet, rapidly descending to 20 ,000
feet, hanging out for hours, and then

going straight back up. It wasn't until
2009 until Jay Stratton had contacted me

to investigate.

Unbeknownst to all, he was part of the
ATIC program and the Pentagon.

Are you aware of any individuals that
are participating in reverse engineering

programs for non -terrestrial craft?

Personally, yes.

Do you believe that our government is in
possession of UAPs? I know the exact

locations. I actually had the people
with the firsthand knowledge.

provide a protected disclosure to the
inspector general. Do we have the bodies

of the pilots who piloted this craft?

Biologics came with some of these
recoveries, yeah. Non -human biologics.

Non -human. I was wondering if you could
speak a little bit about the

interaction between defense contractor
companies and any UAP -related programs

or activities.

The contractors, you know, are the metal
benders, so to speak. They're the ones

actually... doing specific performance
on government contracts.

How does a program like that get funded?

Misappropriation of funds.

Does that mean that there is money in
the budget that is said to go to a

program, but it doesn't, and it goes to
something else? Yes, I have specific

knowledge of that. Mr.

Graves and Fravor, in the event that
your encounters have become hostile,

you have had the capability to defend
yourself?

Absolutely not, sir.

No.

What we experienced was well beyond the
material science and the capabilities

that we had at the time that we have
currently or that we're going to have in

the next 10 to 20 years. We have nothing
that can stop in midair and go the

other direction, nor do we have anything
that can, like in our situation, come

down from space, hang out for three
hours, and go back up. Is it possible

these UAPs would be probing our
capabilities? Yes.

Yes, definitely.

Do you have any personal knowledge of
people who have been harmed or injured?

In efforts to cover up or conceal these
extraterrestrial technology?

Yes.

Personally.

Anyone been murdered that you know of? I
have to be careful. I directed people

with that knowledge to the appropriate
authorities.

There clearly is a threat to the
national security of the United States

America. Brave witnesses here. They took
an oath to uphold the Constitution of

the United States, and they're doing it.

And we owe them a debt of gratitude.

On Capitol Hill today, a bipartisan call
for more government transparency on

UFOs.

One was asked about alien bodies. Two
others talked about seeing UAPs.

The U .S. government operates a UFO
crash retrieval program and has a UFO

the remains of, quote, a non -human or
non -human pilot in it.

And when Dave Grush said the word non
-human biologics, there was an audible

gasp. I worked with David Grush when we
both contributed to the UAP task force.

And everything he said under oath to the
Congress and what he put down in his

whistleblower complaint is 100 percent
true.

A Pentagon report is detailing a
dramatic increase in UFO sightings. The

Pentagon released its report on UFO
sightings today, saying an additional

sightings have been investigated since
2021.

Now the Defense Department is admitting
not just a couple of incidents, hundreds

of incidents, scores of incidents with
multiple sensor systems, multiple

witnesses. A NASA task force is holding
its first meeting on UFOs. NASA

commissioned an independent study team
to examine unidentified anomalous

phenomena. And this is the first time
that NASA has taken concrete action to

seriously look into UAPD. Are we alone?

Personally, I don't think we are. I
wasn't prepared for the number of

that I see. This emerging capability
outstrips the operational framework that

have to address it.

Since mankind first started developing
atomic energy, there has been consistent

UAP activity at sites involved with the
atomic and nuclear process.

We have evolved more technically in the
last 80 years than we have in the

previous 200 ,000 years.

And the uptick in UAP activity has
increased in line with our advancement

harnessing energy.

We realize we are on the path to
exploiting the energy levels needed to

space -time, and UAP have been observing
and clearly been interested in our

rapid progress.

Despite developing massively new
technologies, we don't see an equivalent

moral increase in how we deal with each
other.

We are still invading sovereign nations.

We're still threatening nuclear war 80
years after dropping atomic bombs that

vaporized hundreds of thousands of human
beings.

Let's face it, we are a violent species.

So if I were a species from somewhere
else...

even if I were a hidden species on the
planet, who saw how we were coming up

this curve of atomic energy and nuclear
energy and then began to realize

what it takes to do their kind of
technologies with warping time and

space and so on.

I can imagine that could be seen as a
threat to another species because they

would recognize that, well, it's only a
matter of time and they're going to be

doing what we're doing and then we're
going to have to deal with them. So it

doesn't surprise me that their highest
priority would be to identify what

threats they might face and learn
everything about them. This pattern of

activity seems to me utterly logical.

It seems to me to be the extension of
the evolutionary process that governs

life. writ large as we know it which is
self -preservation is number one when i

hear stories of either nuclear weapon
sites being shut down or turned on what

that tells me is something quite
interesting first off is that something

technology capable of reaching into our
nuclear weapons systems at a distance in

ways that we don't understand okay
that's just

But if you ask the question about
intent, at the very least what it tells

that they're showing us what they can do
to us at will or with us or they can

stop us. Now, they didn't stop us from
blowing something up in Japan.

They didn't stop the first of the bombs.

So at some level, they're willing to let
us see the consequences of our actions.

But at another level, they're willing to
also show us that.

You might think that you could hurt us
one day, but you can't. We really can

just reach in and stop you or cause you
to blow each other up because at the end

of the day you're getting in our way and
you're really starting to annoy us.

So even though it has been reported that
some of our fighter pilots have chased

these objects and even fired missiles at
them.

there has not been some kind of strong
negative retaliation. So it would be

pretty easy to come to the conclusion
they're friendly and that's fine and

there's no real threat there.

But the truth of the matter is you have
to take into account, well, under what

condition that might change.

For example, if you have ants at the
back of your yard, they're not a threat

you, so that's fine. But if they come
and invade your house, suddenly they're

threat.

It could be the same in this situation.
So at least within the defense and

intelligence industry, we automatically
assume the worst because we want to be

prepared against the worst if it should
happen. There's a concern within the

defense and intelligence communities
that UAPs have been undertaking long

surveillance of human technological
advancement for the possibility that

may need to intervene.

to prevent a conflict between us and
them. One of the reasons that I am so

ardent about this issue is because I
think it has the potential to change the

perspective and the outlook of world
leaders and the populations of those

countries to see more of what we have in
common and the challenges that we face

together. If we're going to survive as a
species,

We need unprecedented levels of
international collaboration.

I occasionally think how quickly our
differences worldwide would vanish

if we were facing an alien threat from
outside this world.

Thomas Jefferson once said, I'm not an
advocate for frequent changes in laws

constitutions, but laws and institutions
must go hand in hand with the progress

of the human mind. As that becomes more
developed, more enlightened, as new

discoveries are made, new truths
discovered and manners and opinions

With the change of circumstances,
institutions must advance also to keep

with the times.

Our current Senate leadership feels the
same as our founding fathers.

And throughout the fall of 2023, my
colleagues and I met with Senate

to help give them clarity on the facts
as they fought for the most historic UAP

legislation we've ever had.

Never in the history of our nation have
we ever seen any type of legislation

regarding UAP that is as detailed and
specific and as directive as this one.

The United States government has
gathered a great deal of information

over many decades but has refused to
share it with the American people. That

wrong, and additionally, it breeds
mistrust.

There is, we believe, information and
data that has been collected by more

just... the Department of Defense, but
by other agencies of the federal

government as well. Information on UAP
has also been withheld from Congress,

which was a violation of the laws
requiring full notification to the

branch. The bill I worked on with
Senator Rounds offered a common -sense

solution.

The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
Disclosure Act. This would be the most

aggressive measure that we've frankly
ever seen in history when it comes to

disclosure about what the government
knows and has as it relates to UAP. The

measure would also give the federal
government control over all recovered

technologies of unknown origin and
biological evidence of non -human

intelligence eminent domain.

allows the U .S. government to take
control of anything for national

reasons or for the betterment of the
American people. A requirement as a

transparency measure for the government
to obtain any recovered UAP material or

biological remains that may have been
provided to private entities in the past

and thereby hidden from Congress and the
American people. The eminent domain

section was not crafted.

It was designed to be put in there
clearly to lay out our expectations.

Contractors may have information that
they have held or materials that they

held over an extended period of time.

And this is our way of addressing it and
making it clear that it should be

delivered in an appropriate fashion and
that they need to be negotiating with us

now. Their bipartisan plan for more
transparency is getting some major

though.

Defense contractors give money legally
to a lot of my colleagues that provide

a great deal of the pushback on this.
There's a lot of money coming from the

defense industry to support elected
officials with their campaigns. And then

when the time comes for these elected
officials to try to get to the bottom of

things, they're compromised.

Something with the capabilities of
traveling light years, not showing.

A heat signature and the energy
capabilities of that, that would put the

Pentagon out of business. We wouldn't be
fighting these worthless wars overseas

over oil, and American boys and girls
wouldn't be dying. It would put the war

pigs out of business.

Unfortunately, there was too much
resistance, and the most historic

the proposed legislation did not become
law.

We've got a big mess on our hands. We've
got 80 years of lies and deception

that, quite frankly, ruined a lot of
people's lives. And nobody wants to take

responsibility for that. This is not an
endeavor here to go out and punish

anyone. But nonetheless, we would need
to know what they've learned.

Taxpayers paid for this. And I think
offering amnesty is extremely important.

Let the past stay the past, then
collectively move forward. It's

keep working on our proposal.

I'd like to just acknowledge my dear
friend.

the late Harry Reid, a mentor who cared
about this issue a great deal. So he's

looking down and smiling on us, but he's
also importuning us to get the rest of

this done, which we will do everything
we can to make happen. But where there

was smoke, there was a fire. And
Congress is now aware of it. And so what

allows us to do is circle the wagons and
try again.

Welcome to today's historic hearing.

There are certain individuals who didn't
want this hearing to happen because

they feared what might be disclosed.

I

do.

Yes.

Yes.

Excessive secrecy has led to grave
misdeeds against loyal civil servants,

military personnel, and the public, all
to hide the fact that we are not alone

in the cosmos.

The U .S. is in possession of UAP
technologies, as are some of our

We are in the midst of a multi -decade
secretive arms race, one funded by

misallocated taxpayer dollars and hidden
from our elected representatives and

oversight bodies.

Now that we know UAP are interacting
with humanity, we should not turn a

eye, but instead boldly face this new
reality and learn from it. One of the

important actions that can be taken
relative to exposing the truth of UAP is

combat the stigma.

NASA personnel stepping forward and
participating in such discussions would

a powerful statement to the scientific
community that UAP should be taken

seriously and researched accordingly.

To the incoming administration and
Congress, I say to you, we need

public transparency.

And this hearing is an important step on
that journey. The truth is out there.

We just need to be bold enough.

and brave enough to face it.

America wants their pizzas in 30 minutes
or less, and that's about our attention

span. I think the legacy program is that
they think that America will

draw its attention somewhere else, and I
just don't think that's the case. I

think we've lit the fuse.

I think the American people are ready.

to receive the truth.

Sitting here in a Senate building,
recognizing what change has

been occurring, I never thought I'd see
this day come, frankly.

And now that I see it here, I am
unbelievably hopeful that it's

going to filter down into our society.

to where everyone realizes that the
human species is actually in a melting

of many species throughout the galaxy.
What I expect to come out of that is,

first of all, a greater appreciation of
what it means to be a human.

And to me, that kind of change on the
human character is probably more

significant than what we can learn
about.

atoms and molecules and propulsion
systems, my grandchildren are going to

up taking into account and thinking
about the fact that the universe is full

life. We're on the threshold of an
entirely different understanding of the

universe and our place within it and
technological opportunities and

possibilities that were the stuff of
science fiction just a few years ago.

The people behind the Legacy program
truly believe that the secret is so

that they can't share it with the
American people.

There may be aspects of this that are so
intense they can't share it. However, I

think the basic fact that we are not
alone in the universe, we can share that

with the American people. We can handle
it at this point.

Hopefully, one day, the American people
will learn the bigger story and how it

impacts us all.

I want to tell the American people what
I know.

But I can't because a vast majority of
it remains highly classified. I feel

tremendous pressure to share what I can
because I know there will come a time

where we all wish we had done things
differently.

That moment is imminent.

And when that moment comes, I know
people will say, I wish somebody would

told me sooner.

Remember, as far as we've come, We are
still only just beginning the greatest

paradigm shift in human history, the age
of disclosure.