“The Subcommittee on unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, will come to order.”
House Oversight UAP Hearing - July 26, 2023
- Date
- 26 Jul 2023
- Venue
- House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs
- Language
- en
- Status
- Extracted
514
statements
21
speakers
15
entities mentioned
Speakers
21 speakers, A to ZAlexandria Ocasio-CortezVice Ranking Member8 statementsAndy BiggsRepresentative5 statementsAnna Paulina LunaU.S. Representative23 statementsCommander David FravorNavy Commander26 statementsCommander FravorNavy Commander20 statementsDavid FravorNavy Commander3 statementsDavid GruschFormer U.S. Space Force Officer104 statementsEric BurlisonU.S. Congressman12 statementsGarciaRepresentative40 statementsGlenn GrothmanU.S. Congressman17 statementsJamie RaskinRepresentative22 statementsJared MoskowitzRepresentative29 statementsMatt GaetzRepresentative16 statementsMr. GarciaRepresentative14 statementsMr. GravesFormer Navy Pilot3 statementsMr. GrothmanU.S. Congressman12 statementsMr. GruschFormer U.S. Space Force Officer8 statementsNancy Mace9 statementsRyan GravesFormer Navy Pilot88 statementsTim BurchettRepresentative53 statementsVirginia FoxxRepresentative2 statements
Transcript
514 statements, in transcript orderEach entry is one claim, quoted word for word. These are extracted statements, not the full record: the original document has everything.
- 001
- 002
“I would like to thank the brave military panelists and personnel, such as the witnesses on the panel today, for sharing their stories on how they have engaged UAPs, which has brought attention to this matter.”
- 003
“when I was younger in school I read a book—a 1966 book called ''Flying Saucers Serious Business'' and for a while when I was a little bit younger, I thought it was the most important issue out there.”
- 004
“The lack of transparency regarding UAPs has fueled wild speculation and debate for decades, eroding public trust in the very institutions that are meant to serve and protect them”
- 005
“in 1966, President Gerald Ford claimed to have seen a UFO, and in 1969 in Georgia, Jimmy Carter claimed to have seen a UFO”
- 006
“The National Defense Authorization Act of 2022 established the all-domain anomaly resolution officer—AARO—to conduct or to coordinate efforts across the Department of Defense and other Federal agents to detect, identify, and investigate UAPs.”
- 007
“AARO's budget remains classified, prohibiting meaningful oversight from Congress.”
- 008
“NASA is leading an independent study on UAPs to identify how UAP data is gathered from both civilian and government entities that can be analyzed to shed light on the topic.”
- 009
“The Biden Administration's handling of the Chinese spy balloon that violated U.S. air space is one example how the government is not prepared for these.”
- 010
“Between the Chinese balloon being shot down and two UAPs subsequently shot down following the event earlier this year the U.S. Government spent $1.5 million in taxpayer dollars on missiles.”
- 011
“Yet, we have seen little clarity from the Biden Administration.”
- 012
“We must demand transparency from the Department of Defense, our intelligence community, and our defense industry on the UAP work.”
- 013
“Congress recognizes the subject of UAPs is multifaceted and requires a careful data-driven approach.”
- 014
“Today, we are not just debating the existence of UAPs. We are deliberating on the principles that define our republic, which is a commitment to transparency and accountability.”
- 015
“I want to remind everybody this is a nonpartisan issue. This has nothing to do with party politics. I think the cover up goes a lot deeper than that.”
- 016
“if it had not been for Matt Gaetz, myself, him, and Luna would still be down at Eglin Air Force Base trying to get some answers.”
- 017You followed a link to this statement
“I also would like to enter in—I understand now that this is unclassified, and it is public record but as we all know that is sometimes difficult for the public to get a hold of—a report, defense intelligence reference documents, ''Advanced Space Propulsion Based on Vacuum (spacetime metric) Engineering,''”
- Claim type
- Factual Assertion
- Certainty
- Certain
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- Specificity
- 0.85
- 018
“Mr. Knapp wrote since 1969, the position of our military has been that UFOs posed no threat to national security and are not worthy of further study.”
- 019
“I would say that is the biggest understatement of the decade.”
- 020
“He also goes on to talk about the dismissive attitude is at odds with what was revealed in documents, reports, and internal memos.”
- 021
“Mr. Corbell says as he writes these words, the UFO is emerging as a major topic of global importance.”
- 022
“I can state that as a fact out there. I met a fellow who came in here all the way from Denmark to be here for this meeting. So, this is huge. This is worldwide.”
- 023
“I think we suspect what is going on.”
- 024
“Some have even confided in me that they have had UFO sightings of their own. Those Members, of course, some of them wish to remain anonymous and I will keep it that way.”
- 025
“I would like to thank these three brave witnesses here. They took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and daggum it they are doing it and we owe them a debt of gratitude.”
- 026
“These folks, they have got nothing to gain from this and I think you are going to find out that they have endured quite a few slings and arrows.”
- 027
“They have done interviews and appeared in documentaries like ''Accidental Truth'' to get their stories out there and now they are all here to testify under oath for Congress. It has been so difficult to get here today.”
- 028
“I have said, you know, in the Baptist Church we would say that the devil is in our way and the devil has been in our way through this thing. We have run into roadblocks from Members, from the intelligence community, the Pentagon.”
- 029
“I proposed legislation to go in the FAA reauthorization that just said if an airline pilot has a sighting that when he makes that report to the FAA that it would come to Congress. But I was told that the intelligence community did not like that, and the bill was—the amendment was not even heard in committee.”
- 030
“I think it is time for this country to take back our country. We need to tell the folks at the Pentagon they work for us, daggum it. We do not work for them and that is exactly the point. This is an issue of government transparency.”
- 031
“We cannot trust a government that does not trust its people.”
- 032
“We are not bringing little green men or flying saucers into the hearing. Sorry to disappoint about half of you all. We are just going to get to the facts. We are going to uncover the cover up and I hope this is just the beginning of many more hearings and more people coming forward about this.”
- 033
“The circumstances surrounding UAPs has captivated the attention of the American people for decades, ingrained in even the minds of our Nation's leaders from Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump, Marco Rubio to Chuck Schumer, John Ratcliffe to National Security Council officials.”
- 034
“Yet, from Roswell, New Mexico to the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, the sightings of UAPs have rarely been explained by the people who have firsthand accounts of these situations.”
- 035
“This is largely due to the lack of transparency by our own government and the failure of our elected leaders to make good on their promises to release explanations and footage and mountains of over-classified documents that continue to be hidden from the American people.”
- 036
“This is not just how I feel. In fact, the American people largely believe that the government has actively covered up the truth about UAPs.”
- 037
“One poll, in particular, found that 68 percent of Americans believe that the government is hiding information about UAPs and not being honest about what we know about them and from my personal experience I believe the same thing.”
- 038
“Another poll found that nearly half of Americans believe that the Federal Government is doing a very bad or somewhat bad job of dealing with reports of UFO sightings.”
- 039
“Considering the thousands of testimoneys and videos taken on people's phones and eyewitnesses' accounts made by credible witnesses such as doctors, pilots, scientists, and active-duty service members, it is unacceptable to continue to gaslight Americans into thinking that this is not happening or that the potential of intelligent life forms exist other than humans.”
- 040
“Even more alarming is the fact that these eyewitnesses are, many times, service members and have no assurance that their lives will not be negatively impacted or even harmed by their experiences.”
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