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'Not alone in the cosmos' - Fmr. Pentagon UFO hunter says US government hides evidence
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Former Pentagon UFO hunter and author Luis Elizondo and journalist  Michael Shellenberger deliver opening remarke at a US congressional hearing called  "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth" on Nov. 13, 2024. 

From: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcBUa-zNDu0&t=108s

Transcript:

now recognize Mr alzando for his opening
statement greetings chairwoman mace
chairman gothman ranking members
Connelly and garciaa and members of the
committee it is my honor and privilege
to testify before you on the issue of
unidentified anomalous phenomenon
formerly known as UFOs on behalf of our
brave men and women in uniform and
across the intelligence Community as
well as my fellow Americans who have
awaited this day thank you for your
leadership on this important matter let
me be clear UAP or
Advanced Technologies not made by our
government or any other government are
monitoring sensitive military
installations around the globe
furthermore the US is in possession of
UAP Technologies as are some of our
adversaries I believe 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 for
many years I was entrusted with
protecting some of our nation's most
sensitive programs in my last position I
man AG a special Access program on
behalf of the White House and the
National Security Council as such I
appreciate the need to protect certain
sensitive intelligence and Military
information I consider my oath to
protect Secrets as sacred and I will
always put the safety of the American
people first with that said I also
understand the consequences of excessive
secrecy and stovepiping nowhere was this
more apparent than in the aftermath of
9/11 which many of us remember all too
well I believe that America's greatness
depends on three
elements a a watchful Congress B A
responsive executive branch and see an
informed public over the last decade and
a half I learned that certain UAP
programs were and are operating without
any of these elements although much of
my government work on the UAP subject
Still Remains classified 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 A small Cadre within our own
government involved in the UAP topic has
created a culture of suppression and
intimidation that I've personally been
victim to along with many of my former
colleagues this includes unwarranted
criminal investigations harassment and
efforts to destroy one's credibility
most Americans would be shocked to learn
that the pentagon's very own public
affairs office openly implo employs a
professional psychological operations
officer as the singular point of contact
for any UAP related inquiries from
citizens and the media this is
unacceptable many of my former
colleagues and I have provided
classified testimony to both the
Department of Defense and the
intelligence Community Inspector General
and many of us have subsequently been
targeted by this cabal with threats to
our careers our security clearances and
even our lives this is not hyperbole but
a genuine fact and this is wrong to fix
these problems I proposed three
principal actions first Congress and the
President should create a single point
of contact responsible for a whole of
government approach to the UAP issue
currently the White House CIA NASA the
Pentagon Department of energy and others
play a role but no one seems to be in
charge leading to unchecked power and
Corruption second we need a national UAP
strategy that will promote transparency
and help restore the American public's
trust at a time when the Public's trust
is at an all-time low this strategy
should include a whole of government
approach including the academic and
scientific communities the private
sector and our International partners
and allies third Congress should create
a protected environment so
whistleblowers desperate to do the right
thing can come forward without fear as
it currently stands these whistleblowers
suffer because of stigma a Code of
Silence and concerns about retaliation
these whistleblowers should be
encouraged to come forward in ways that
protect them against any forms of
retaliation policies and procedures
should ensure that protection and for
those who refuse to cooperate is up to
the members of this committee and other
lawmakers to wield their subpoena power
against hostile Witnesses and prevent
additional Government funding to those
UAP efforts that remain hidden from
congressional oversight in closing We As
Americans have never been afraid of a
challenge in fact we thrive on them
whether it's eradicating polio or going
to the Moon we don't run from a
challenge we take it headon to the
incoming Administration and Congress I
say to you we need immediate public
transparency and this hearing is an
important step on that Journey if we
approach the UAP Topic in the same way
as we of Amica As Americans have met
other challenges we can restore our
faith in our government institutions
together we can usher in a new era of
accountable government and scientific
discovery I believe that we as Americans
can handle the truth and I also believe
the world deserves the truth thank you
esteemed members of Congress for your
time today it is profoundly appreciated
I would now like to recognize Mr
shellenberger for his introductory
remarks chairwoman mace chairman grathan
ranking member Connelly ranking member
Garcia members of the subcommittees
thank you for inviting my testimony one
of congress's most important
responsibilities is oversight of the
executive branch in general and the
military and intelligence community in
particular unfortunately there is a
growing body of evidence that the US
government is not being transparent
about what it knows about unidentified
anomalous phenomena and that elements
within the military and the IC are in
violation of their constitutional dut
duty to notify Congress of their
operations president-elect Donald Trump
and former president Barack Obama have
both said that the government has
information about uaps that it has not
released current um there are other
explanations for uaps than that that
they represent a new form of life or
non-human life current dominant
alternative theories including those put
forward by Arrow are that uaps are some
kind of natural phenomena we don't yet
understand like ball like lightning or
plasma they could also be part of some
new us or foreign government weapons
program such as drones aircraft balloons
CGI hoaxes or Birds whatever uaps Are
Congress must be informed as as must the
people of the United States we have a
right to know what uaps are no matter
what they
are however we now have existing and
former US government officials who have
told Congress that arrow and the
Pentagon have broken the law by not
revealing a significant body of
information about uaps including
Military Intelligence databases that
have evidence of their existence as
physical craft one of those individuals
is a current or former US government
official acting as a UAP whistleblower
this person has written a report this is
the report that says the executive
branch has been managing UAP nhi issues
without Congressional knowledge
oversight or authorization for some time
quite possibly decades furthermore these
individuals have revealed the name of an
active and highly secretive DOD
unacknowledged special Access program or
usap the source of that document told
public me that the usap is a strategic
intelligence program that is part of the
US military family of long-standing
highly sensitive programs dealing with
various aspects of the UAP problem the
new UAP whistleblower claims that the US
Military and IC database includes videos
and images taken using infrared forward
looking infrared full motion video and
still photography the report that was
just shared with Congress says
Immaculate constellation serves as a
central or parent usap that consolidates
observations of uaps by both tasked and
unasked collection
platforms Immaculate constellation
includes highquality imagery
intelligence and measurement and
signature intelligence of uaps the
Whistle blowers report ads the sources
of this intelligence are a blend of
directed and incidental collection
capacities capabilities positioned in
low earth orbit the upper atmosphere as
well as military and civilian Aviation
altitudes and Marine time environments
the report to Congress details in detail
various uaps including spheres orbs
discs saucers ovals triangles Boomerang
Arrowhead and IR regular organic report
describes various incidents found in the
human intelligence databases one
involved orbs surrounding and enforcing
an F-22 out of its Patrol area in
another incident the crew of a Navy
aircraft carrier watched a small orange
red sphere rapidly descend from a high
altitude of 100 to 200 yards directly
above the flight deck of a of the CVN or
aircraft carrier and since my reporting
on this Immaculate constellation last
month another source came forward who
told me that they saw a roughly
13-minute long highdef fullcolor video
of a white orb UAP coming out of the
ocean approximately 20 mi off the coast
of Kuwait it was filmed from a
helicopter then halfway through the
video the person said the orb is joined
by another orb that briefly comes into
the frame from the left before rapidly
moving again out of the frame the person
discovered the video on sipper the
secure Internet Protocol router Network
which the dod uses to trans transmit
classified
information a leading UAP researcher who
utilizes the Freedom of Information Act
to find out what the government knows
John Greenwald told me last year that
the US government had been increasingly
denying his resp his request for UAP
information he has been doing Foy
request for 27 years and has an archive
of 3 million Pages the government has
for decades denied any interest in UFOs
he told me but the documents that he has
assembled show that behind the scenes it
was a completely different story
contrary to the hopes of many Advocates
of transparency the government has been
restricting more information since the
leak of three UAP videos in 2017 the dod
organization Arrow has been labeling
many documents with a B7 exemption which
Greenwald says does not make any sense
they're stating that anything Arrow does
is involved in law enforcement
investigation which allows Arrow to not
release it Greenwell says that the dod
has denied the existence of a UAP and a
tip related records on multiple
occasions only to acknowledge them after
an appeal was filed he added that the
Naval Air systems command in March 2022
stated they found no additional UAP
videos it seemed strange that they had
three and only those three but other
requests had been filed by The Black
Vault that's John greenwalt's group to
seek out more places uaps might be
hiding then in September 2022 the Navy
admitted that the UAP related videos and
photographs existed but denied the
request in full for their release saying
that the requested videos contain
sensitive information that are
classified exempt from disclosure the
dod will deny things on a Monday and
then admit to it on a Friday said
Greenwald he said the government can and
does release videos that protect secret
methods of capturing it they fall back
on the sensitive platform excuse a lot
he said however the onscreen information
can be blurred and scrubbed the metadata
can be removed I'll show you this
example here this is a presentation from
the uatp task force this is completely
absurd it's nuts this level of of
censorship of redaction on a document it
shows the redaction of how many reports
they've collected for how many years two
of the three potential explanations are
blacked out the
Pentagon the intelligence Community is
treating us like children it's time for
us to know the truth about this I think
that we can handle it thank you very
much