CONGRESSIONAL UAP HEARINGS

2022 — THE FIRST PUBLIC HEARING IN 50 YEARS

In May 2022, a House Intelligence subcommittee held the first open congressional hearing on UAP since the close of the Air Force's Project Blue Book era. Defense officials acknowledged a growing backlog of military reports, showed examples of Navy sensor footage, and conceded that many cases remained unidentified. The hearing established the pattern the later sessions followed: sworn testimony, declassified clips, and a public admission that the government did not have explanations for much of what its own sensors had recorded.

2023 — THE WHISTLEBLOWER HEARING

On July 26, 2023, a House Oversight subcommittee heard three witnesses under oath. David Grusch, a former intelligence officer who had served on the UAP Task Force, testified that the United States operates a UAP crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering effort — claims he said he was relaying from others and that the Department of Defense has publicly disputed. Ryan Graves and David Fravor, both former Navy fighter pilots, described firsthand encounters: Graves with near-daily contacts off the U.S. East Coast, Fravor with the 2004 "Tic Tac" off the USS Nimitz. The session put military aviators and an intelligence whistleblower on the same record, in public, for the first time.

WHAT THE TESTIMONY POINTS TO

The hearings keep returning to the same source material: military sensor footage, mission reports, and the case files agencies have quietly held for decades — exactly the kinds of records now surfacing in the PURSUE public release. Umbra indexes that record and renders it natively, so you can read the documents the witnesses describe rather than the headlines about them.