Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“Mr. Grusch, you sat on the unidentified anomalous phenomenon task force created in the 2020 NDAA, correct?”

“Mr. Graves, you mentioned specifically during the answer to one of your questions, you named Boeing contractors being engaged in an incident regarding this red cube about a football field wide.”

“Are there—what methods of notification did you observe? Like, when they say they notified Congress, how did they do that? Do you have insight into that?”

“Are they required to issue any disclosure regarding UAP sightings or do they engage in any reporting around this?”

“I was wondering if you could speak a little bit about the interaction—or Mr. Grusch, either of you—the interactions between defense contractor companies and any UAP-related programs or activities.”

“I am wondering, one of the loopholes that we see in the law is that there is—at least from my vantage point, is that depending on what we are seeing is that there are no actual definitions or requirements for notification.”

“They do not. OK. Now, when it comes to notification that you had mentioned about IR&D programs, we have seen defense contractors abuse their contracts before through this Committee. I have seen it personally, and I have also seen the notification requirements to Congress abused.”

“Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to our witnesses for coming here today. I do concur with the Ranking Member as well as several other Members here on this Committee that this is a committee for whistleblowers and for the protection of whistleblowers as well. So, we understand what you are putting on the table here and what you are putting on the line here. We thank you for that.”