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Famous Roswell UFO incident celebrates 75th anniversary

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On July 8, 1947, an unusual front-page headline captured the attention of residents throughout southeastern New Mexico.

"RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region" read the story that appeared in the Roswell Daily Record that morning. Though offering few specifics about the purported craft, the article went into detail how the 509th Bombardment group at Roswell Army Air Field had retrieved the "instrument" which was thereafter flown to "higher headquarters."

Just one day later, the Record would publish a follow-up to the alarming story, which now stated that an army investigation, under the direction of Gen. Roger M. Ramey, commander of the Eighth Air Forces, had solved the mystery. The object, the Record stated, "was a harmless high-altitude weather balloon — not a grounded flying disc."

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UFOs are the story of the century — wake up, America!

Tim Gallaudet
Last week, I had a front-row seat at the hearing of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee's Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), also known as UFOs. The three witnesses provided extraordinary testimony on their observations of aerial craft with performance characteristics far beyond those of modern aircraft, as well as knowledge of a hidden U.S. government crash retrieval program of such vehicles and their nonhuman operators.

The witnesses were former officers in the U.S. military with stellar service records. Their message to Congress was that we are not alone, we possess technology unlike anything available in the public or private sectors, and the U.S. government has covered up this earth-shattering information for decades.

So how has our society responded? To quote an assessment in Forbes, "the internet shrugged." After some brief reporting by the major news networks, they returned their attention to nearly full-time coverage of the dismal legal landscapes surrounding Hunter Biden and Donald Trump.

Perhaps the era of fake news has desensitized the public to remarkable revelations like these, so I feel compelled to share my perspective to shed light on their validity and implications.

As a retired U.S. Navy flag officer, I can attest to the integrity and authenticity of the two pilots who testified: retired Commander David Fravor and Ryan Graves. I have served on three aircraft carriers and count many Naval aviators as close friends. These two witnesses are the real deal.

So is David Grusch. As a Navy information warfare officer, I worked closely with the intelligence community and Grusch's former command, the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. I too have been read into special access programs, and I understand how Department of Defense classification systems and authorities work. His testimony is 100 percent credible.

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Pressure mounts on House Intelligence Chairman following dismissive and baffling approach to 'credible and urgent' UFO whistleblower allegations

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© Rod Lamkey / Pool via Getty Images fileFILE: Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, speaks during a House Armed Services Committee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 29. House Intel chair warns of 'serious national security threat' ahead of planned White House briefingThe administration will brief House leaders on Thursday. Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said there's no reason for Americans to panic.
Tonight, Representative Mike Turner, the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, finds himself under mounting pressure to account for his dismissive and baffling approach to serious allegations made by multiple highly-cleared whistleblowers regarding rogue U.S. government programs relating to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).

Commenting to Liberation Times, UAP whistleblower and former senior intelligence officer, David Grusch, who last week testified under oath at a Congressional Hearing, said:
"I personally briefed the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's staff director at the time, its General Counsels, and Congressman Turner's personal staffer.

"Congressman Turner has not followed up with me, and based on his public statements, it appears he has not asked for a briefing on my testimony or has failed to ask the Intelligence Community's Inspector General for more information."
The absence of any meaningful follow-up by Representative Turner, particularly considering the gravity of Grusch's allegations involving covert programs with non-human materials with zero Congressional oversight, raises considerable concerns about the Representative's approach to this crucial matter.

Grey Alien

Rep. Luna vows to get to bottom of UFO mystery, threatens to defund Pentagon bosses' salaries unless they reveal intel on secret alien ship crash program

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Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna first got interested in UFOs when serving in the Air Force. She is pictured with husband Andrew Gamberzky, an Air Force combat controller
A group of lawmakers is planning to put the search for the truth about UFOs front and center by demanding a special committee with the power to prize information from government that could prove whistleblowers' claims of a secret program hiding 'non-human' crashed craft.

Four members wrote to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Friday requesting a Select Committee on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena to ramp up their probe.

One of the signers, Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, told DailyMail.com she and her colleagues would not stop until they got to the bottom of the UFO mystery, and threatened to defund Pentagon bosses' salaries if they didn't cough up their alleged secrets.

The news comes after an historic congressional hearing last Wednesday where 14-year intelligence veteran David Grusch testified under oath that he had evidence of a secret alien ship crash retrieval program - including photographs and interviews with insiders.

Comment: The chair of the hearing, Rep. Grothman, spoke to media:
Appearing Friday on Wisconsin Public Radio's "Central Time," Grothman acknowledged that the hearing had by far the most public interest of any he's seen recently. And he said there is a legitimate public interest in understanding what the government knows about UAPs that have been spotted.

"Is it something that other nations have developed that we are nowhere near developing? We ought to know that," Grothman said. "And if it is something from outer space, and there are other people monitoring us, well, we ought to know that."

Grothman said he wants to see "a little more transparency from the military" on the matter.
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Grothman said he will receive a briefing on classified information in coming months and plans to meet with Grusch "and see what more he has to say." But overall, he used the hearing to push for greater transparency from the military on its observations.
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"We went through a period in the late 1960s, the early '70s in which there were a lot of rumors that these things were out there," Grothman said. "As far as I know, to this day the files are not released on what pilots saw in the '60s and '70s."
Matt Walsh's take is great:




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Best of the Web: Russian UFO engagements, secret 'Tic Tac' report and 3 key figures who slipped under the radar at Congressional hearing

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© House subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign AffairsUFO whistleblowers at the July 26, 2023, House subcommittee hearing

Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, ex-Navy commander David Fravor and former U.S. intelligence officer David Grusch testify before the House of Representatives subcommittee focused on UFOs while (left to right) George Knapp (red tie left of Grusch), Charles McCullough (light blue tie) and Jeremy Corbell sit behind them
Investigative journalists Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp provided Congress with sworn testimonies, which were obtained by Fox News Digital, and flanked former Intelligence Community Inspector General at Wednesday's UFO hearing

Russian warplanes engaged UFOs, "chased them and even shot at them" at least 45 times by 1993, according to classified Russian documents that investigative reporter George Knapp obtained and smuggled out of the country. That's just one snippet of information revealed in letters written by Knapp and investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell to the House's Oversight Committee before Wednesday's UFO hearing.

Both letters, which were first obtained by Fox News Digital and published in their entirety below, were entered into the Congressional record.

"Since 1969, the position of our military has been that UFOs pose no threat to national security and are not worthy of further study," Knapp wrote in his letter. "This dismissive attitude is directly at odds with what was revealed in documents, reports and internal memos."

Comment: Sometimes UFO crashes are subtle affairs.June 28, 2023: Microscopic remnants of what could be an extraterrestrial object that crashed into the Pacific Ocean nearly a decade ago were recovered by a team of scientists.




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Crashed UFOs? Non-human 'biologics'? Professor asks: Where's the evidence?

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© AP Photo/Nathan HowardRyan Graves, Americans for Safe Aerospace Executive Director, from left, U.S. Air Force (Ret.) Maj. David Grusch, and U.S. Navy (Ret.) Cmdr. David Fravor, testify before a House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing on UFOs, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Congressional testimony this week about reverse engineering from crashed UFOs and the recovery of non-human "biologics" sounds like science fiction.

And that's the realm in which it will remain unless scientific and other hard evidence enters the picture, says Northeastern University assistant physics professor Jonathan Blazek.

He says he finds it "very frustrating" that former intelligence officer David Grusch "back(ed) away from specifics" in his July 26 testimony before a House Oversight subcommittee on national security.

"I think what I find most surprising is that lawmakers seem to be taking him so seriously at this point. I'm sure they know things that I don't," Blazek says.

Grusch, a U.S. Air Force veteran who previously worked at the National Reconnaissance Office, told members of Congress that the U.S. is operating a secret crash retrieval and reverse engineering program and that he "knows the exact location" of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) in the government's possession.

He also said that remains of non-humans had been recovered and that he knew of people who have been harmed or injured in connection with the phenomena.

As startling as his testimony was, Grusch did not offer firsthand accounts or corroborating evidence of his claims, saying repeatedly that "I can't discuss that publicly."

Top Secret

UFO-curious lawmakers brace for a fight over government secrets

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© AP Photo/Nathan HowardAn audience member wears a UFO pin during a House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing on UFOs, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee says a high-profile hearing on UFOs is just the start of their push for answers.

And they are threatening to use heavier-handed tactics if the Pentagon and intelligence agencies stand in their way.

Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) and Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) want more information on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) — commonly referred to as UFOs — beginning with new laws, a classified hearing and the possible creation of a select committee.

The lawmakers said they are willing to use subpoena power if needed to get the answers they're seeking from the federal government.

"If there's not a cover-up, the government and the Pentagon are sure spending a lot of resources to stop us from studying it," Burchett told The Hill.

Comment: Matt Laslo of Ask a Pol has published some relevant questions and answers with lawmakers. First, here's what Marco Rubio had to say a month ago about Grusch:
Matt Laslo: "Do you have any questions lingering for the whistleblower?"

Marco Rubio: "Um, do I have any questions?"

ML: "Do you think he classifies as a whistleblower?"

MR: "Well, the inspector general has deemed it an urgent and credible threat to the...so that's how it's been referred to us, so I have no reason..."

ML: "Yeah? So you're taking it credibly? Do you want to hear from him and others — behind closed doors? In the open?"

MR: "Well, we've begun that process. Obviously, it's up to the chairman [Mark Warner] to decide what direction to go, but I know we've already begun that process. I think, he's interviewed with staff already, so."

ML: "What do you think of the notion that there are SAPs hidden from Congress?"

MR: "Those claims have been made for years, and that's certainly something we'd be very disturbed by — and that's what the gist of the whistleblower's claim is, that there are programs that should have been notified to Congress that were not. So we're gonna be interested in that no matter what the topic is."

ML: "And that's kinda new compared to others in the past?"

MR: "Well, we've heard those claims in the past. This is the first one that's gone through this process."

ML: "Interesting."
And Senator Gillibrand from last week:
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) exclusively tells Ask a Pol that she's requested a private meeting with Grusch, the former US intelligence official who testified before the US House Oversight Committee last week. And she wants Grusch to sit down with All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) Director Sean Kirkpatrick.

As chair of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats & Capabilities, Gillibrand is leading the Senate investigation into UAPs (or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, according to NASA).

Gillibrand tells Ask a Pol's Matt Laslo, she recently met with [AARO director] Kirkpatrick, and now she wants him to sit down with Grusch.

"I've asked for a meeting, and I've asked for Dr. Kirkpatrick to meet with him too," Gillibrand says.

Besides the private meetings, Gillibrand says she still wants to hear from Grusch in a public hearing. The senator, who also serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee, also says to expect another public UAP report from AARO by January or so.
Gillibrand had this to say about the hearing:
"They're very serious allegations that we have to get to the bottom of," Gillibrand said Friday.

Gillibrand spearheaded the formation of an office, called the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office or AARO. The office is charged with investigating over 600 UAP reports, including some of those mentioned by the whistleblowers last week. Some of these investigations, Gillibrand said, resulted in non-extraterrestrial explanations like weather balloons and spy drones. But those still raise significant concerns.

Gillibrand said the Defense Department hasn't responded to her requests for more information and she doesn't know why.

"I don't know,' Gillibrand said. "I don't know why. I don't know if it doesn't exist. I don't know if we're not asking the right questions. I don't know. I just know I have no, I have nothing to confirm those allegations."

Gillibrand said one of her foremost concerns over UAPs is the safety of pilots and other service members.

Rep. Nancy Mace, who asked questions at the hearing (including the one that received an affirmative on the topic of non-human bodies recovered), told Breitbart:
"It's sort of jaw-dropping, and how do you come back from that?" Mace asked, noting that Grusch is a retired military officer who has "very legitimate credentials coming to Congress before us and making these claims."

Mace said Grusch agreed to follow up with her after the hearing to provide a list of future witnesses, "both friendly and hostile, that could corroborate the information that he was bringing forward," she said, noting that much of what he was talking about was classified.

"But at the end of the day, I don't think this is really about little green men. This is about government transparency versus government secrecy," she said, emphasizing it is about the misappropriation of funds, which leads to many other questions.

"How much money is being spent? What's it being spent on? And are our government agencies hiding anything from Congress and therefore hiding it from the American people?" she asked. "The American people deserve the right to know; it's about national security. It's about technology. Is this AI-driven? Have we, as a government, developed our AI to...such an advanced level?"

"I think it's about energy. If you can defy the law, if the laws of physics and gravity are being defined in the way that these pilots have told us as being defied, then who has the power to create that kind of energy? Do we have that technology, or is it our adversaries?" she asked, emphasizing that there are so many "burning questions" following that testimony.

"The American people deserve the right to know" where their money is being invested, Mace said, explaining that she gets extremely frustrated on these issues and has trouble with some government witnesses.

"I sat in the chair as the subcommittee chairman of the Cybersecurity Committee on Oversight on Wednesday, and I literally cursed out my government witness because the guy that I asked to show up refused to show up. He sent one of his underlings, who refused to answer our questions and then laughed at us. Because these guys, these bureaucrats, they never get fired. They never lose their jobs. No one ever goes to jail. They're never held accountable, and they're mocking our institutions," she explained.

"They make a mockery out of your representatives...by just obfuscating and hiding, and they know they can get away with it. Nobody is ever held accountable...It's extraordinarily frustrating. I just call it like I see it. I walk in. I ask questions. I ask tough questions. I just want the truth that even if our government has made mistakes, or messed up, or wasted billions of dollars, we just want to know, and we want to improve the system and be completely transparent and accountable to the American people, but nobody seems to want to do that," Mace added, noting she has spoken to pilots over the years who have seen unexplained things as well.

"If this is really going on, it'll be the biggest story in history, not just U.S. history, but world history," she said, inquiring if these programs exist.

"Why can't Congress be informed about what's really going on in this country?" she asked, adding that it is "deeply frustrating because of all the cover-ups that we see, the corruption, [and] the amount of money that's wasted."
Finally, former U.S. intel chief John Ratcliffe had this to say on Fox News:
"The government has more information than it's sharing," Ratcliffe told anchor Maria Bartiromo. "Unfortunately, the Biden administration made the decision to really not reveal much, and now you have these House Republicans having to have these public hearings to talk about more of this information.

"I will say this, I believe there should be more transparency on this issue — but not full transparency," he added, noting the government's national security duties.

Questioned on whether the federal government was aware of the origins of supposed UAP sightings, he said: "There's a lot of things that are unexplained[...]I've gone to the edge of talking about information that's classified; I can't go over that line."



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Russian UFO engagements, secret 'Tic Tac' report and 3 key figures slip under radar at Congressional hearing

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UFO whistleblowers at the July 26, 2023, House subcommittee hearing
Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves, ex-Navy commander David Fravor and former U.S. intelligence officer David Grusch testify before the House of Representatives subcommittee focused on UFOs while (left to right) George Knapp (red tie left of Grusch), Charles McCullough (light blue tie) and Jeremy Corbell sit behind them
Russian warplanes engaged UFOs, "chased them and even shot at them" at least 45 times by 1993, according to classified Russian documents that investigative reporter George Knapp obtained and smuggled out of the country.

That's just one snippet of information revealed in letters written by Knapp and investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell to the House's Oversight Committee before Wednesday's UFO hearing.

Both letters, which were first obtained by Fox News Digital and published in their entirety below, were entered into the Congressional record.

"Since 1969, the position of our military has been that UFOs pose no threat to national security and are not worthy of further study," Knapp wrote in his letter. "This dismissive attitude is directly at odds with what was revealed in documents, reports and internal memos."

As the country's eyes and ears were glued to three explosive testimonies, Corbell whispered something to Charles McCullough as George Knapp listened in with a smirk.

McCullough, who was President Barack Obama's former Intelligence Community Inspector General, represented Grusch in his Intelligence Community Inspector General complaint, purposefully seated behind him.


Comment: McCullough was also something of a whistleblower himself. In an interview with Fox News in 2017, he claimed that he had warned that Hillary Clinton's emails (stored on her private server) posed a potential national security threat. He was told to ignore it and threatened with reprisals for making an issue out of it.


These three men sat directly behind David Grusch, who was flanked by Navy pilots Ryan Graves and David Fravor during Wednesday's Congressional hearing about UFOs.


Comment: Two more interesting men were seated behind the witnesses: Ed Stanton (the bald man who somewhat resembles James Clapper) helped create the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics UAP program, and retired Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, the former acting administrator of the NOAA.


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The indefensible status quo: How defense contractors are hiding reverse-engineering programs, and fleecing the public

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As most of my readers likely know by now, there was a historic UFO hearing that took place in the House of Representatives on July 26th, 2023. Former Navy pilots Ryan Graves and Dave Fravor, along with former NRO and NGA official David Grusch, spoke before the House Oversight Committee on their experiences with UFOs during their time inside the US government.

At this point, the hearing has been covered by journalists and other analysts in detail that would be redundant to rehash again here, so my intention in this article is to provide context on a specific point that I personally find significant — and may have implications beyond what may appear at the surface level.

Grusch revealed that there has been significant wrongdoing by certain defense contractors in the name of UFO secrecy. In his interview with Australian journalist Ross Coulthart, he mentioned that he was aware of white-collar crime that had been committed to cover up the reality of UAP, and there were a few clues he left during his testimony that might give us some insight into what he was referring to.

A line of questioning by Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz may have been one of the most important of the day.

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David Grusch's whistleblower UFO testimony is slammed by head of Pentagon office as 'insulting' for accusing government of cover-up

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Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon's newly formed All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), issued a statement challenging whistleblowers' bombshell testimony on Wednesday
Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon's newly formed All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), issued a statement challenging whistleblowers' bombshell testimony on Wednesday

The head of the Pentagon's UFO office has slammed Wednesday's shocking congressional hearing in which three whistleblowers claimed they had firsthand encounters or knowledge about secret government programs involving technology that is 'non-human.'

Sean Kirkpatrick issued a statement Friday denying some of the witnesses' claims - drawing a fiery rebuke from lawmakers.

David Grusch, a former top intelligence official, on Wednesday testified that in his role liaising with Kirkpatrick's office on UFOs he discovered the government was keeping crashed non-human spacecraft secret from the public and, illegally, from Congress.

But in his statement Kirkpatrick called the testimony 'insulting' and claims Grusch was 'never a representative' to his unit, officially called the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).


Comment: Kirkpatrick is clearly revealing himself to be a bought-and-paid-for shill for the Pentagon and their aim to maintain secrecy around this topic of topics.


Comment: Kirkpatrick, and by extension the Pentagon itself, are being caught out in their lies for all the world to see:


UPDATE: Pentagon spokeswoman Susan Gough has been running damage control on Kirkpatrick's unprofessional outburst. She told The Debrief:
"The Department is aware of Dr. Kirkpatrick's post, which are his personal opinions expressed in his capacity as a private citizen and we won't comment directly on the contents of the post," Gough told The Debrief in an email.

"We do want to reinforce the Department's unwavering commitment to openness and accountability to the American people and Congress. The dedicated military service members, civilian personnel, and federal contractors who support AARO's efforts are deserving of the full confidence of our lawmakers and the American public."

"While much remains to be done to fulfill AARO's mandate, AARO's committed team has made great progress since its establishment only a year ago," Gough said.
Gough herself is as shady as they come:


She wrote an unclassified paper essentially saying that military public relations is inseparable from psychological operations. Reminder that it is technically illegal for the military to run psyops on the American public, but that won't stop people like Gough (and perhaps Kirkpatrick).

Rep. Luna, who co-headed the hearing last week, responded to Kirkpatrick's screed:
"It would be interesting to have him [Dr Sean Kirkpatrick] sit down in a skiff [i.e. SCIF] with Grusch.

"I want to remind people that I actually asked Grusch about Kirkpatrick during the testimony because Grusch said that he brought concerns to Kirkpatrick and that he didn't follow up on them or investigate."
Luna also told the Liberation Times:
"I think the stake of our Constitutional Republic is on the line here.

"A lot of people say, 'well, how is this pertinent to what's happening right now with the economy and the government? When you have a government that's hiding information from its citizens, you no longer have a representative government.

"So this is absolutely about accountability and transparency."

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Representative Luna told Liberation Times that she expects a response from Speaker McCarthy [on the creation of a special committee on UAPs] following the August recess.

Further actions are also planned - with Representative Luna confirming more hearings are on the way, stating, "we're going to do some field hearings."

That could mean Congressional public hearings held outside of United States Air Force facilities, such as Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, where Representatives Luna, Burchett, and Gaetz recently confronted officials regarding a UAP incident.

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Representative Luna also confirmed to Liberation Times that she would support invoking the Holman Rule, commenting:

"I fully support it if we're continuing to be stonewalled. And I think that my other colleagues will also agree...if there are going to be people that are preventing this information from coming out, they need to be held accountable."