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On September 9, 2025, the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets convened a hearing titled “Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection” to address ongoing concerns about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), government secrecy, and protections for whistleblowers. The session featured testimonies from military veterans, an active-duty Navy officer, a journalist, and an oversight expert, who shared personal accounts of UAP encounters and highlighted discrepancies between public government statements and internal records.
Key witnesses included U.S. Air Force veteran Jeffrey Nuccetelli, who described multiple UAP incursions near Vandenberg Space Force Base between 2003 and 2005, involving massive, pulsating objects that outperformed known aircraft and were reported up the chain without follow-up guidance. Another Air Force veteran, Dylan Borland, gave his first public testimony about a 2012 UAP sighting at Langley Air Force Base, alleging over a decade of retaliation, including career obstruction and harassment, after uncovering information on legacy UAP programs. U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Alexandro Wiggins recounted a 2023 incident aboard the USS Jackson, where a self-luminous Tic Tac-shaped object emerged from the ocean, linked with three others, and accelerated away without sonic booms or visible propulsion, as detected by multiple sensors. Journalist George Knapp testified on historical government dismissals of UAPs as non-threatening, contrasting them with FOIA-obtained documents acknowledging their advanced capabilities, and suggested tracking funds shifted to private contractors to evade oversight. Joe Spielberger from the Project on Government Oversight emphasized the need for stronger whistleblower safeguards to encourage reporting.
A major highlight was the public debut of video footage presented by Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), showing a U.S. MQ-9 drone firing a Hellfire missile at a high-speed orb-shaped UAP off the coast of Yemen in October 2024. The missile appeared to strike the object but “bounced right off,” with the UAP continuing undamaged and taking debris with it, prompting witnesses like Nuccetelli and Wiggins to confirm that no known U.S. technology could withstand such a hit or exhibit that behavior. Knapp noted that Congress has been denied access to a larger collection of similar videos, underscoring broader secrecy issues.
Committee members, including Reps. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), Scott Perry (R-Pa.), and chair Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), pressed witnesses on improving reporting protocols, protecting whistleblowers from reprisals, and investigating potential government involvement in UAP cover-ups or conspiracies. The hearing emphasized aviation safety risks from UAP encounters, the need for standardized sensor data collection and training, and ending over-classification to foster public trust and potential technological breakthroughs. Lawmakers called for legislative action, including enhanced protections for UAP whistleblowers and greater disclosure from agencies like the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), amid bipartisan support for continued oversight.
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