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# Whistleblower Tells Congress U.S. Is Concealing Program That Captures UFOs

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_Published 2023-07-26. A former intelligence official testified at a U.S. House subcommittee hearing, and claimed that the government has been covering up a longstanding defense program that collects and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and has found "nonhuman biologics" at alleged UFO crash sites._


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## Transcript

Hope you got. Let the record show that all. Democrats and Republicans in Congress can come together in a bipartisan way to cut them. I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade, UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program To which I was denied access to those additional read ons when I requested it. I made the decision based on the data. I collected to report this information to my Superior superiors and multiple Inspector General and in effect becoming a whistleblower as you know, I've suffered retaliation for my decision but I am hopeful that my actions will ultimately lead to positive outcome of increased transparency.

Have you faced any retaliation or apply for any of your testimony or anything on these lines? Have to be careful what I say in detail because there is an open, a whistleblower reprisal investigation on my behalf and I don't want to compromise that investigation by providing anything that may help provide somebody information, but it was very brutal and very unfortunate. Some of the tactics. They used to hurt me, both professionally. And personally, to be quite Frank, I take it, that you're arguing, what we need is real transparency in reporting system, so we can get Clarity on what's going on out there because there are many pilots in your situation but we should have a way of developing a system.

Systemic inventory of all of such encounters is that right? Yes. And I think we need both transparency. And the reporting we have the reporting, but we need to make sure that information could be promulgated to commercial, Aviation as well as the rest of populist. Well, it's only been about two months or so. So I guess my experience has been overwhelming support from former colleagues of mine that have been privately messaged me and and I do appreciate that, but I do have knowledge of Active plan, the reprisal, activity against myself and other colleagues. And it's very upsetting to me coming from where Certain senior leadership at previous agencies associated with.

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