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Crashed UFOs.

David Grusch said that

they were in possession

of an intact extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Recovered alien entities.

Jesse Marcel knew not only that there was

a crashed craft but also bodies.

Secret programs to study otherworldly technology.

Bob Lazar said not only are we reverse engineering UFOs,

but that he worked on one.

For more than six decades,

incredible claims have been made

about an extraterrestrial presence on Earth,

and the government has gone to great lengths

to discredit them.

Are we nearing the day when whistleblowers

will finally be taken seriously

and their accounts proven true?

There's absolutely fear of being treated like you're crazy,

but we have evidence this is not crazy.

It's not made up. It's-it's real.

There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

The subcommittee hearing

on unidentified anomalous phenomena,

or UAPs, will come to order.

On Capitol Hill, the House Oversight Committee

assembles for a landmark congressional hearing

to record firsthand accounts of UAP activity.

As we convene here, UAP are in our airspace,

but they are grossly underreported.

These sightings are not rare or isolated, they are routine.

During the proceedings, lawmakers listen to testimony

from three notable whistleblowers:

Retired Navy pilots Ryan Graves

and David Fravor,

and former Air Force intelligence officer

David Grusch,

who also served on the UAP Task Force.

The military veterans have come forward

to testify under oath about UAPs that they claim

the government has been covering up.

Parts of our government are aware

of more about UAP than they let on,

but excessive classification practices

keep crucial information hidden.

Millions of people are watching it,

and they're hearing this beyond dramatic testimony

that, for the first time, we're told

what everybody knows to be true.

The U.S. government has been hiding secrets

about UFOs for over 70 years.

Whistleblower David Grusch even suggests that the government

may be in possession of alien technology.

I was informed in the course of my official duties

of a multi-decade, UAP crash retrieval

and reverse engineering program.

For UFO researchers and lawmakers alike,

the hearing marks a watershed moment,

as many believe the Pentagon

has been overly secretive about unidentified aerial phenomena.

To have a UAP hearing on the House Oversight Committee

was a first for the history books.

There was a lot of information

that was shared and alleged in that hearing,

which made it one of the most, I think,

important hearings in the Oversight Committee's history.

The hearing's explosive testimony

made headlines across the world.

And like many government whistleblowers,

the individuals who sat before the committee

came forward at great personal risk.

From a layperson's perspective of what a whistleblower is,

it is a person who has got inside information

about wrongdoing who comes forward

and at their own peril

reveals this to investigative reporters

or to government officials.

I had asked about 12 people to testify,

and we got down to those three because the others had...

I think they'd been threatened or warned not to come on.

And some of them told us that, in effect.

If you're gonna be a whistleblower,

you got to know that whatever deep dark secret

exists in your life, it's gonna come out.

These guys know that, when they come forward

with something as sensitive as this,

they're gonna pay a price.

Is the government

actively discouraging people from speaking out about UFOs?

According to military insiders,

the answer is a resounding yes.

But the willingness of whistleblowers to come forward,

despite the risk,

has led to more open discussion

about the UFO phenomenon than ever before.

And the man who is most credited with sparking interest

among lawmakers on Capitol Hill is whistleblower Luis Elizondo.

Luis Elizondo, was a full-time,

military, career guy, United States Army,

and a very high-ranking counterintelligence officer.

He was retained in 2007

to a top-secret program,

which is the advanced weapons special access program,

to investigate the UFO phenomenon.

He became involved in setting up

some other special, kind of less formal program

inside the Pentagon that was called

the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

For almost a decade,

Elizondo studied UFOs

and interviewed eyewitnesses for the Army.

But according to Elizondo, the more he uncovered,

the more his investigation was suppressed.

They were making some progress

in the military, in the Pentagon,

but he's trying to get the attention of his higher-ups.

"Hey, look, these cases are really important.

"These encounters are dramatic and unexplained.

We need to put some resources into studying this."

And he got nowhere. He kept getting blocked.

So, he took a-a pretty courageous stance and resigned.

In October 2017,

Lue Elizondo resigned from AATIP

after Pentagon officials refused to present

his findings to Defense Secretary James Mattis.

I-I've seen too much.

I've talked to too many people.

I have too many reports.

I-I know it's real.

I-I can't in good conscience

just keep my head buried in the sand.

I had to leave the very job that I love

to get my point across.

He gets frustrated,

and he decides to do something about it.

He becomes a whistleblower,

not just a whistleblower,

but perhaps the whistleblower of all time.

Just days after resigning,

Elizondo shared his story with reporters

from The New York Times.

And on December 16, the paper published

a front-page article that revealed

the classified UFO program.

In many ways, that New York Times story

really changed ufology

around the world,

because when The New York Times got on board

and is saying, "Yeah, there are UFOs out there,"

that opened a lot of people's eyes.

Along with the article, The New York Times released

three UFO videos taken by Navy pilots,

including the now famous Tic Tac encounter.

These videos captured the world's attention.

And suddenly, it's like we're in a new world.

We have these incredible videos shot by Navy pilots

giving irrefutable evidence that there is a technology

out there that is beyond anything our near peers have.

Look at it fly!

Lue Elizondo was the core.

I mean, without him as the whistleblower,

as the main impetus for it, that story would never have happened.

The videos, though, is what galvanized public attention.

Almost immediately after Elizondo went public,

elements within the government

actively sought to discredit him.

Lue Elizondo went through a tremendous amount

of harassment from senior Pentagon officials,

former supervisors of his and the like.

Um, you had a-a statement

in 2019 that came from the Pentagon spokesperson,

who stated that Luis Elizondo

had no official office with this office at AATIP,

in the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

Lue Elizondo knew he'd pay a price,

but it was almost immediate.

The Pentagon undercut his credibility.

But he's a courageous individual,

and he stuck to his guns, and he changed the world.

From Lue Elizondo's 2017 AATIP revelations

to the 2023 Congressional UAP hearing,

whistleblowers today are making their voices heard

like never before.

But they are just the latest in a long line of whistleblowers

who've been coming forward to tell their stories for decades.

And the most controversial of their claims...

that the U.S. military is in possession of alien technology...

can be traced all the way back to 1947

and an Army Air Force Major

who was at the heart of the Roswell incident.

Roswell, New Mexico.

July 1947.

An unidentified object is witnessed streaking

across the night sky,

then crashes in the desert north of town

near the Roswell Army Air Field.

Rancher Mac Brazel hears the impact

and investigates the next morning.

Mac Brazel is the first to find the debris field,

and it's an impressive debris field.

Pieces, objects and things everywhere.

And Brazel reports it to the local Roswell sheriff,

a man named George Wilcox.

And Wilcox, sends some deputies out there,

and, the case just gets crazier from there.

Roswell Army Air Field sends people out to investigate it.

The next thing you know, the press release goes out.

"Army captures flying disc."

Shortly after the U.S. Air Force said,

"We've recovered a flying disc," they reversed their position

and said it was just a weather balloon.

The Roswell incident has become

the most notorious alleged cover-up

of a UFO crash and retrieval in U.S. history.

And at the center of it all...

is whistleblower Jesse Marcel.

My grandfather, Major Jesse Marcel,

back in July of 1947,

was the head of intelligence for the 509th bombing group.

That was heavily involved in our atomic program

to end the second World War

and pretty well versed

in the latest technologies, aircraft,

what have you at the time.

Major Jesse Marcel was really the lead investigator

into what has become known as the "Roswell incident."

On July 7, Major Marcel was dispatched

from Roswell Army Air Field to examine the mysterious debris.

According to his grandson,

Marcel was so astounded by what he saw

that he took the debris home with him.

He...

went and woke up his son, my father,

who was about 12 years old at the time,

and his wife Viaud, and said,

"You guys got to come take a look at this."

He couldn't make heads or tails or any sense

out of what he was looking at.

Even stranger,

while examining the wreckage,

Marcel's family discovered several mysterious markings.

One thing they noticed was

it almost had no weight to it.

And my father picked up what was a beam

about 11, 12 inches long.

And all of a sudden, these symbols appeared.

And he really came to the idea

that, whatever this was, it was not made by human hands.

The next morning, Major Marcel was summoned

to the Fort Worth Army Air Field in Texas.

There, he was given strict orders

not to reveal the truth about the Roswell crash,

and for three decades, he didn't.

But in February of 1978,

Marcel finally broke his silence.

My Grandfather was a ham radio operator,

loved to talk.

He was talking on ham radio,

and somebody recognized his name as being part of the air base.

And he talked a little bit about Roswell.

And soon enough,

a gentleman by the name of Stanton Friedman heard of it,

and interviewed my grandfather about it.

And that was really when it broke out.

Stanton Friedman was

an American-Canadian nuclear physicist

who began scientifically investigating UFOs

in the 1960s, due to his curiosity

about what happened at Roswell.

When he learned that Jesse Marcel was ready

to reveal the truth, he went to visit him

at his home in Southern Louisiana.

Major Marcel told me... I was the first to talk to him...

that what they were trying

to keep under wraps was actual wreckage

of a flying saucer.

General Roger Ramey, head of the Eighth Air Force,

covered it up very straightforwardly.

Roger Ramey came to Roswell and said,

"Bring all the UFO material to Fort Worth,

Eighth Air Force headquarters, and we'll disclose the truth."

But Major Jesse Marcel goes to Fort Worth,

and they bring out a weather balloon.

And they make Jesse Marcel,

a radar-trained intelligence officer,

stand in front of a weather balloon

and admit that he was confused.

Everybody was familiar with weather balloons.

The notion that Jesse Marcel,

the intelligence officer for the 509th,

couldn't recognize a weather balloon is ridiculous.

According to Friedman,

in order to ensure that the truth

about Roswell remained hidden from the public,

the military not only had

to stage the famous weather balloon photo,

but also make sure that Marcel and others

who knew the real story toed the line.

You agree that you will not reveal anything

you've learned that was classified

to anybody without a need-to-know

and an appropriate security clearance.

There are darn few people who,

after the war, incidentally, broke their security oaths.

My Grandfather broke his bond of secrecy.

I think that, in some small part,

he was looking for a little bit of, you know, like,

"Hey, you guys, you know, there is something to this."

Despite his excitement

over what he had found in the debris field,

Marcel maintained his silence

until he was 70 years old.

People who are involved in keeping secrets,

it poisons you, and you feel this great release

when you finally get it out

and say, "Yeah, you know, it's all true."

I've spoken to military witnesses

who sat on stories for 50 years

out of loyalty, out of a belief that...

that the law constrained them.

But Marcel, 30 years on, he was like,

"Okay, that's enough of the cover story.

Here's what really happened."

After Marcel broke his silence in 1978,

it caused a sensation,

and Friedman began referring to the Roswell coverup

as a "cosmic Watergate."

Before 1978, the Roswell crash

was pretty much unheard of.

Only in the hardcore groups

of UFO people would you know about Roswell.

Jesse Marcel blew open the door

to the most famous UFO crash story

that you can think of today.

Could it be that Jesse Marcel is just one

of dozens, or perhaps even hundreds

of military personnel who have witnessed unexplainable events

that they are forbidden to reveal?

UFO researchers suggest

the Roswell incident was the beginning

of a decades-long government coverup.

One that involved an elaborate disinformation campaign

disguised as an official UFO investigation

called "Project Blue Book."

The famous Roswell incident

was just one of many high-profile encounters

with unidentified flying objects

that occurred during the late 1940s.

In June 1947,

pilot Kenneth Arnold

reported seeing nine silver disc-shaped objects

flying near Mount Rainier.

Less than one month later,

sailor Harold Dahl reported

that a flying disc dropped molten slag

onto his boat near Maury Island, Washington.

And in January 1948,

Army Captain Thomas Mantell tragically died in a plane crash

while chasing a UFO over Western Ohio.

These and other similar events prompted the government

to launch Project Blue Book in 1952.

Project Blue Book was

the U.S. Air Force

research and investigation program into UFOs.

This was a project that took some years,

but by the mid-60s, there's 20,000 cases there.

So, this was one of the most significant investigations

of UFOs of its time.

Project Blue Book would last 18 years,

and involve dozens of investigators.

Chief among them were Air Force Captain Edward J. Ruppelt,

astronomer Jacques Vallée,

and Project Blue Book's scientific advisor,

Dr. J. Allen Hynek.

According to Dr. Hynek's son Paul,

the Air Force made its agenda clear right from the start.

The Air Force came calling to my father

in the late '40s, asking him

to tamp down reports

of flying saucers.

My father was very useful to Project Blue Book

because he had the academic credibility

to get people to believe what he's saying.

J. Allen Hynek was an astronomy professor,

brought on by the U.S. Air Force.

And to start off with,

he-he absolutely took the party line.

But while the purpose of Project Blue Book

was to discredit UFOs,

over the course of his tenure,

Hynek grew to question the project's mission.

My father was muzzled by the Air Force

in terms of what they would investigate,

how serious they would investigate it,

and what he was allowed to disclose.

He had a front row center seat

to the most confidential aspects

of the early days of the UFO phenomena.

And my father went from a diehard skeptic

to an acceptor

of the accumulated weight of the data.

Hynek's findings were dismissed by his superiors,

who demanded that he continue to debunk UFO reports.

And when Project Blue Book ended in 1969,

Hynek went public.

He was really the main person

to draw attention to the fact

that Project Blue Book was not set out to find the truth

but to control the narrative.

J. Allen Hynek was one of the most outspoken voices

about the government efforts to suppress evidence of UFOs.

And some researchers believe he would have spoken out sooner,

if it wasn't for a tragic event

that happened to one of his colleagues...

Air Force Captain Edward Ruppelt.

Edward Ruppelt was the first director of Project Blue Book.

During his tenure,

which lasted close to two years,

Ruppelt was in charge of all of the best information

that the United States Air Force was acquiring

at that time about... as he began calling them... UFOs.

And Ruppelt actually gave us that term,

"unidentified flying object."

Project Blue Book was ostensibly a military project

to debunk UFOs,

but Ruppelt wasn't going along with that.

Ruppelt was saying, "no, there's something going on here.

We need to look at this."

Captain Ruppelt frequently found himself at odds

with his superiors.

Like when he tried to investigate a major UFO incident

that occurred right over the nation's capital.

On Saturday, July 19, 1952,

at 11:40 p.m.,

air traffic controllers at Washington National Airport

and Andrews Air Force Base

detected seven unidentified flying objects

on their radar screens.

The UFO sightings caused a sensation,

and, incredibly,

more unidentified objects were detected again

the following weekend.

For two weeks, Washington, D.C.,

is buzzed by a fleet of seven UFOs.

They literally fly over the White House,

over the Capitol, Washington National Airport.

Ruppelt was in Washington while this is happening,

and he wanted to investigate.

And his frustration begins,

because he's told he can't have a staff car

because he's not a general.

If he wants to investigate it,

go get himself a taxi.

Frustrated by what he saw

as a government effort to debunk all UFOs,

in 1953, Ruppelt resigned from Project Blue Book.

And a few years later, he made his findings public.

In 1956, Ruppelt publishes a book

about his experience as the director of Project Blue Book,

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects.

This book is incredibly important,

because this is the first time that the public gets a glimpse

of the inner workings of the government's investigations

into UFOs from an insider.

One of the things

Ruppelt pointed out in his book that was really interesting

and important was to show that, within the military,

particularly the Air Force,

many of them took UFOs quite seriously and believed

that this was interplanetary.

That was the word they were using back then.

Ruppelt's book captivated readers across the country.

Its popularity led to an updated version being published

four years later.

But, curiously, in the new printing,

Ruppelt completely reversed his position on the UFO phenomenon.

In 1960,

Ruppelt had a second edition of his book,

and he said that UFOs were a hoax,

that they did not exist.

The strange thing is, is that he dies

within months of the release of the book.

He's a 37-year-old man who dies of a heart attack.

And now, on top of this,

the UFO community is wondering what happened to him.

Is there a conspiracy here?

It is still one of the most enduring mysteries

of when a UFO investigator essentially left us

before their time.

Is it possible that Captain Edward Ruppelt

paid the ultimate price for exposing a government cover-up

regarding UFOs?

Perhaps further clues can be found

in the statements of another whistleblower

who claimed to have reverse engineered

an alien spacecraft.

Throughout the 1950s, '60s and '70s,

dozens of whistleblowers came forward with incredible claims

about the government's knowledge of extraterrestrial visitation.

But for many UFO researchers,

the most important revelations of all

came in the late 1980s,

from a physicist named Bob Lazar.

The first person Lazar told his story to was his close friend,

retired CIA pilot John Lear.

Bob Lazar used to work at Los Alamos.

Had the highest clearance that you can get there.

And he worked for

three or four months up there at Area 51.

While working at the top-secret Air Force facility

known as Area 51,

Lazar revealed to his friend

that a remarkable object was hidden deep

within the secret military compound.

Was December 6 of '88.

He comes in, he sits down there at, my desk

and he said, "I saw a disc today."

And I said, "What?"

He said, "I saw a disc."

And I said, "You saw a flying saucer?"

He said, "Yeah. Sure did.

"I saw 'em. I touched 'em.

They are real."

And I said, "Well, there's no reason

"you should be here right now,

"because they're going to have followed you.

They know exactly what you're doing."

Four months later,

Lear learned that his concerns about Lazar

being watched by the military were well-founded.

Lazar revealed that Air Force officers

at Area 51 had approached him

to let him know that they had been keeping track

of not only him but also his wife.

They had some private information

that his wife was having an affair.

Said, "We can't have anybody working with us

"who has, family problems like that.

"So we need to suspend your work up there

until, you get things sorted out."

And that was April 7 of '89.

And, that's when he decided to go public.

With Bob's permission,

Lear shared his story with a reporter he knew

at the local KLAS-TV station,

George Knapp.

On May 15, Knapp sat down with Lazar

for a live interview.

We had a five-minute live interview segment every night.

And I don't remember who it was that day,

but they canceled late in the day.

And I didn't know what we were gonna do.

And I thought, "I wonder if Lear's UFO buddy

might be available."

I had no idea who Bob Lazar was.

And so we sent a live unit up to Lear's home.

This skinny, bespectacled guy comes out.

We had to hide his identity. Silhouette.

We used a pseudonym and we started interviewing

and out spills this story

of a secret facility built up in the Area 51 complex.

Exactly what's going on up there?

Well, there's several...

actually, nine, flying saucers, flying discs,

that are out there of extraterrestrial origin.

And they're being test-flown

and, basically just analyzed.

It is the highest-rated locally produced series

ever airing in Las Vegas.

And it changed the course of my life.

After Lazar's sensational claim,

Area 51 became the center of public interest.

And UFO enthusiasts

began to comb the Nevada desert

in search of the secret military installation.

Bob Lazar ultimately revealed his identity.

And once he did, his life would never be the same.

Bob Lazar,

he was ripped apart for this information.

In fact, it got so bad

where his house was broken in,

he was harassed,

his family was threatened.

Lazar thought he was gonna be killed.

We were being followed.

We were being tracked.

Our phones were tapped.

We were being watched.

I mean, I made an open appeal to our audience.

I said, "Look, I know there are people

"who are watching this program now

"who know about the reverse engineering.

And I want you to reach out to me."

And six times in a row,

people who contacted me,

offered to meet with me and go on camera,

were visited the very next day

by people purporting to be government agents

who told them to shut the hell up or else.

And in a couple of those cases, they were threatened with death.

Faced with constant harassment,

Lazar retreated from public view.

Then, in 2013,

24 years after Bob Lazar's explosive interview,

a Freedom of Information Act request

forced the government to finally reveal the existence of Area 51.

While Air Force officials still denied

that the facility had anything to do

with extraterrestrial craft or beings,

Lazar felt a sense of vindication.

In 2018, he decided

to share his story in filmmaker Jeremy Corbell's documentary

Area 51 & Flying Saucers.

In the late 1980s,

the U.S. government had recovered alien spacecraft,

several of them,

and the technology in the Nevada desert

that they were keeping quiet and analyzing.

That's a fact.

I think after he saw some time passing

and saw how people were saying things that he never said,

it just finally got to him.

And he's a fighter. So I think he just got

to a point where he was saying, "Okay, enough is enough.

Here we go. What do you want to know?"

I don't like being in the public eye.

I don't have money for doing this.

And, quite frankly, I could make up a better lie.

And, quite frankly, I could make up a better lie.

But I have no motivation to lie.

Jeremy's film was an atomic bomb all over again.

A whole new generation of people got to learn about Bob Lazar.

And I think it inspired some of the people

who are now coming forward as-as whistleblowers

to go ahead and have the courage to speak up.

Could it be that Bob Lazar

was targeted by a campaign to suppress the truth

about alien technology at Area 51?

Many believe Lazar's willingness to come forward

opened the door for another whistleblower,

one who exposed a conspiracy so vast it would take him

into the halls of the United States Congress.

The Debrief, a science news website,

publishes a sensational interview

with military intelligence officer David Grusch.

David Grusch,

he's a former intelligence community officer,

he served on the UAP Task Force

under the directorship of Jay Stratton,

and he was a representative

of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

While I was on the UAP Task Force,

Dave Grusch was given the job

to go and start interviewing people

who worked on a previous UFO program,

see what they were willing to tell us.

And he found a lot of things.

In the Debrief article, Grusch revealed

that as part of his official duties at the Pentagon,

he was informed of a decades-long,

top secret military program to recover and reverse engineer

crashed craft of nonhuman origin.

It was his job to go and interview

some of the people in the system

who are actively responsible for keeping it secret.

And he says it's all real.

Everything you've heard, everything you've been told,

all the rumors about crashed UFOs,

dead bodies, it's all true.

Grusch interviewed, he said,

about 40 witnesses

within the national security establishment.

He stated that there are

multiple alien craft,

that the United States government

or its licensed private contractors have possession of.

And he stated that there were what he called "biologics"

that were recovered.

That's his word for alien bodies.

I've been in a secure environment with Dave

and have had been briefed on everything that he's uncovered,

and, everything that he's saying in public

has been approved by, the-the Defense Department

and, also, by the Inspector General.

There's a-a "there" there, as-as the saying goes,

and, we would all be wise to listen to the stories.

Astonished by the scope of the project,

Grusch came forward as a whistleblower.

He decided that the Pentagon was withholding critical information

on this subject from Congress, which he argued was illegal.

And he, ended up issuing a complaint about this

to the Inspector General's office

of the intelligence community.

On July 26, 2023,

just seven weeks after going public,

David Grusch and two other whistleblowers

testified before a Congressional hearing.

I have taken every step I can to corroborate this evidence

over a period of four years

while I was with the UAP Task Force,

and do my due diligence on the individuals sharing it.

This is... Because of these steps,

I believe strongly, in the importance

of bringing this information before you.

During his testimony,

Grusch revealed specific details of military UAP encounters.

He also stated that despite having nothing to gain

by disclosing this information,

his testimony made him a target for significant repercussions.

Mr. Grusch,

have you faced any retaliation or reprisals

for any of your testimony or anything?

Yeah, I have to be careful what I say in detail

because there is an open,

whistleblower reprisal investigation on my behalf,

and I don't want to compromise that investigation.

But it was very brutal and, very unfortunate,

some of the tactics they used to,

um, hurt me both professionally

and-and personally, to be quite frank.

We were told that individuals had been killed

protecting this information.

He's in fear of his life as well as the, safety of his wife.

There is something more nefarious at play here.

Almost immediately following his dramatic testimony,

articles in the press attempted to discredit Grusch,

making a string of accusations aimed at questioning

his mental state.

They tried to say that because he had deployed

and some of his friends have died,

he might have PTSD.

They tried to discredit him, which is just

the most egregious smear that they could ever run

on a military service member.

The article sensationalized his mental difficulties.

And it turns out that,

the author of it actually acknowledged,

publicly, that he had been contacted by, sources

inside the Defense Department and directed to do this.

We have a generations-long history

of the federal government trying to discredit witnesses,

and I believe we saw that with David Grusch.

The U.S. military denies

David Grusch's sensational allegations.

But if what he says isn't true,

then why did members of the Defense Department

actively try to discredit his testimony?

The claims made by David Grusch,

and other whistleblowers like him,

have brought more attention to the UFO phenomenon

than ever before.

And ancient astronaut theorists believe that the truth

about an extraterrestrial presence on Earth

may finally be revealed.

After more than 70 years

of whistleblower testimony

claiming that the U.S. government

is covering up the truth about UFOs,

members of Congress finally decide to take action.

I'm pleased the NDAA will include my amendment

on increasing transparency on UAPs,

or unidentified anomalous phenomena.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer sponsors

the Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act.

The bill would require the release

of all government knowledge of UAPs.

But UFO researchers are left frustrated

when it is finally signed into law five months later.

Some really robust and new whistleblower provisions

were drafted,

but not a lot of that

actually made it into the final bill.

In fact, a lot of the really interesting

UAP-related provisions were negotiated out.

No independent review board, no eminent domain provision.

No extra whistleblower protections.

Were these changes to the legislation

simply part of a routine political process?

Or might it be the latest attempt by the government

to suppress information about UFOs?

Either way, many UFO researchers remain optimistic

that we have entered an age in which more whistleblowers

will come forward than ever before.

The fact that Congress gutted this legislation,

a lot of people in UFO world see that as the end.

It's just the beginning.

And I think that what's gonna happen

over the next months and years

is that additional whistleblowers

are gonna go public,

and they're gonna release documents

and they're gonna release videos

that are gonna be very compelling.

Much of the information that we've gotten about UFOs

has been from whistleblowers.

People who, are insiders,

they're in the military,

and they think that people should know these things.

And so, they risk themselves

by becoming whistleblowers.

For the past eight decades,

the heroes of this movement have always been the whistleblowers,

the insiders who decide that the powers that be

can't withhold this information from the American people...

and, indeed, the human race... any longer.

They're dedicated, ultimately,

to what all of us are seeking: the truth.

It is the whistleblowers

who will move us one step closer

to answering the extraterrestrial question.

It's about time that we're being told the truth

because we can handle the truth.

We're told we can't, but we can.

And so, I think we now live

in one of the most exciting times

in the entire history of our planet.

In the wake of the whistleblower hearing before Congress,

could even more incredible secrets soon be revealed?

Secrets involving knowledge of a real

extraterrestrial presence on Earth?

For now, the fact that UFOs

are being discussed in the mainstream press,

and Congress, represents monumental progress.

If we ever learn the full truth about UFOs,

whistleblowers will undoubtedly have played

a key role in getting that truth out.

We'll look back at the history of some of these people,

and we'll name the names and say,

"These are the people who enabled this to be done."

I see it as the Mount Rushmore of ufology,

that one day, we'll have those faces

carved in stone somewhere.

Hynek, Ruppelt,

Elizondo, Grusch and many others.

They're all heroes.

What if the incredible claims of UFO whistleblowers

are all true?

Could it be that first contact with extraterrestrials

does not lie in the near future but has already happened?

Perhaps, as more whistleblowers continue to come forward, ,

the full truth will finally be revealed...

and we will discover that we are not alone,

even on our own planet.

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