The explosive hearing held by the House of Representatives with David Grusch and Ryan Graves is already generating political fallout. The retired major and the pilot raised alarms about the U.S. government’s knowledge of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) or unidentified flying objects (UFOs). The impact of the hearing was such that a bipartisan group of legislators has now asked Kevin McCarthy to create a new investigative committee.
“I was informed in the course of my official duties of a decades-old UAP reverse engineering and failure recovery program to which I was denied access,” Grusch revealed at the hearing.
In addition, he commented that he spoke with officials who had direct knowledge of aircraft whose origins were not human and that some “biological” beings have even been recovered.
🚨 @RepTimBurchett, @RepLuna, @RepMoskowitz, and I have sent a letter to @SpeakerMcCarthy demanding he immediately establish a Select Committee to Investigate UAPs 🛸#UAPTwitter #UFOTwitter #UAPX pic.twitter.com/C55EjyUTaY
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) July 28, 2023
“Lack of candor on the part of the Pentagon and the intelligence community”
The situation prompted a bipartisan group of legislators to come together and demand that the Speaker of the House take the issue more seriously. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Tim Burchett (R-TN) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) are the legislators that form the bipartisan group.
In the one-page brief, the group wrote that the issue “represents a confluence of concerning governmental actions that indicates a lack of forthrightness on the part of the Pentagon and intelligence community. No governmental program, no matter how sensitive, can be outside the view of Congress. And yet, the Executive Branch routinely redacts and entirely withholds information in other domains that we are entitled to, and is doing so here.”
The request is clear: creating a Committee that acts outside the jurisdiction of any other body and has the authority to investigate the Pentagon. “Mr. Speaker, we ask that you immediately establish a Select Committee, outside the jurisdiction of any standing committee, and with subpoena authority, to go about the task of collecting information from the Pentagon and elsewhere for the benefit of the public and to discharge our constitutional, legislative and oversight roles,” they added.
“By establishing a Select Committee to investigate the United States government’s response to UAPs, the 118th Congress will have an opportunity to work through more significant issues of government oversight (including lack of budget transparency, overclassification, and unwillingness to respond to Congressional oversight), on a discrete issue that is readily understandable by the public, and which is of grave concern to our nation,” the lawmakers concluded.
