May 17, 2022 • House Intelligence — Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation • The first public UAP hearing in over 50 years
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray testified in open session — the first time Congress had held a public hearing on the subject since the 1960s. Bray showed Navy videos, including night-vision footage of triangular lights recorded from a ship, and described the reporting pattern: Navy pilots encountering objects in training ranges, and a reporting system that had only recently begun to capture them.
The hearing also put the new machinery on the record: Congress had rewritten the charter of the Pentagon’s UAP office the previous December, renaming it the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) — the third version of the task force, after the UAP Task Force. A closed, classified session followed the open one.
Official record: Transcript (PDF) — congress.gov
April 19, 2023 • Senate Armed Services — Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities • AARO’s director, on the record
Mission, activities, oversight, and budget of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office
Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of AARO, testified before the subcommittee chaired by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Most of the session was held in closed session; the open portion was brief. Kirkpatrick described an office of more than three dozen experts, organized around operations, scientific research, integrated analysis, and scientific communications, and reported the caseload: about 650 cases as of that week, up from about 366 in January.
“I should also state clearly for the record that in our research AARO has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics.” — Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, April 19, 2023
Kirkpatrick’s statement also noted that only a very small percentage of reports display signatures that could reasonably be described as “anomalous” — the majority demonstrate mundane characteristics: balloons, unmanned aerial systems, clutter, natural phenomena, or other readily explainable sources.
Official record: Kirkpatrick’s statement for the record (PDF) — Senate Armed Services • Hearing transcript — Senate Armed Services
July 26, 2023 • House Oversight — Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs • Serial No. 118–53
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency
Three witnesses, under oath. Former intelligence officer David Grusch testified that, in the course of his official duties, he had been told of a multi-decade program to recover and reverse-engineer crashed craft — one he had been denied access to — and that information had been improperly withheld from Congress. Asked whether the United States possesses such craft, he answered “Absolutely, based on interviewing over forty witnesses.” He named no programs and no individuals in open session, said the specifics were classified, and offered repeatedly to provide them in a classified setting. He had not seen the craft himself, and no evidence was shown in public.
Retired Navy Commander David Fravor gave a first-hand account of the 2004 Tic Tac encounter off the USS Nimitz, calling the object “far superior to anything that we had.” Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves described routine encounters by his squadron off Virginia Beach in 2014–2015, including an object that looked like “a dark gray or a black cube inside of a clear sphere.”
What the hearing did not produce: proof. The Pentagon denied Grusch’s claims, and in March 2024 AARO’s Historical Record Report found no evidence of a crash-retrieval or reverse-engineering program. In January 2024, committee members received a closed briefing from the intelligence community’s inspector general and came out divided. Grusch’s underlying classified material has not been publicly disclosed.
Official record: Hearing page & video — House Oversight • Transcript (PDF) — congress.gov • Printed hearing record — govinfo.gov
November 13, 2024 • House Oversight — Joint hearing, two subcommittees • Serial No. 118–135
Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth
Four witnesses, under oath, before the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation and the Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs, chaired by Representatives Nancy Mace and Glenn Grothman.
- Luis Elizondo, former Pentagon official and author, testified that “advanced technologies not made by our government or any other government are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe,” and that “the U.S. is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries.” Asked by Chairwoman Mace whether the government had conducted secret UAP crash-retrieval programs, he answered “Yes.” Asked whether he had been read into a program called Immaculate Constellation, he said he would not be authorized to confirm or deny it.
- Michael Shellenberger, journalist, submitted a twelve-page whistleblower report describing Immaculate Constellation as an unacknowledged special access program that gathers the military’s best UAP imagery and keeps it from Congress. The chair entered it into the Congressional Record. The Department of Defense states it holds no record, present or historical, of any such program.
- Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet (ret.), former Oceanographer of the Navy, described an email carrying the GoFast video that was later wiped, and testified about UAP encounters at sea.
- Michael Gold, member of NASA’s UAP independent study team, testified on the need for better data and for stigma-free reporting.
No new classified evidence entered the public record at this hearing. Six days later, on November 19, 2024, new AARO director Jon Kosloski testified in the Senate, and AARO’s annual report — released that week — said it had found no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology.
Official record: Hearing page & video — House Oversight • Transcript (PDF) — congress.gov
September 9, 2025 • House Oversight — Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets • Serial No. 119–44
Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection
The Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, chaired by Representative Anna Paulina Luna, heard five witnesses: Air Force veteran Jeffrey Nuccetelli, Navy Senior Chief Alexandro Wiggins, journalist George Knapp, Air Force veteran Dylan Borland, and Joe Spielberger of the Project on Government Oversight.
- Nuccetelli described five UAP incidents at Vandenberg Air Force Base between 2003 and 2005, including the luminous red square of October 14, 2003 — told in full on the famous cases page.
- Wiggins described a glowing object rising from the ocean near the USS Jackson in 2023.
- Borland said his career was obstructed after he reported a sighting.
- Knapp testified on the history of government secrecy around the subject.
The moment most replayed came from Representative Eric Burlison, who played a short infrared clip he said an MQ-9 drone recorded off the coast of Yemen on October 30, 2024, showing a Hellfire missile striking a glowing orb that kept moving. Burlison did not say how he obtained the clip and would not speculate about what it was. The Pentagon has not authenticated the video, and no official assessment of it has been published.
Official record: Transcript (PDF) — congress.gov