A bipartisan group of lawmakers sent a letter to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Friday requesting a committee to investigate government programs involving unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, following a whistleblower’s testimony Wednesday at a House Oversight Committee hearing.
Reps. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., and Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who spearheaded the whistleblower hearing, along with Reps. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., and Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., sent the letter following testimony by David Grusch, a former intelligence officer who worked on the National Reconnaissance Office’s UAP Task Force.
The trio requested a select committee “with subpoena authority” to investigate further claims made by Grusch and others. The goal of the committee would be “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,” the trio wrote in the letter.
“This issue is much bigger than the news cycle: it represents a confluence of concerning governmental actions that indicates a lack of forthrightness on the part of the Pentagon and the intelligence community. No governmental program, no matter how sensitive, can be outside the view of Congress,” the group continued.
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