CHICAGO (NewsNation) — Three whistleblowers will testify before Congress next week on their experience with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), hoping to destigmatize the topic and educate lawmakers on the dangers of unidentified flying objects.
Among the three whistleblowers is former U.S. Navy fighter pilot Lt. Ryan Graves, who has been speaking out about UPAs since 2017 when he saw a New York Times article reporting on a video of a UAP near miss he was involved in.
Graves said the article made him realize that UAPs were a problem that was still a safety hazard for the pilots who are flying out there and that there was no mechanism for it to get resolved within the Department of Defense.
“That really led me into communicating and educating Congress and others about the severity of this issue, and also the national security implications of having unknown objects in our airspace, in our training ranges,” Graves said.
Graves had reported multiple UAP targets and warned the Pentagon these encounters are putting us at risk.
And the threat to national security has prompted members of Congress to pursue an investigation into UAPs, seeking to declassify important data on the topic and demanding that the information become public knowledge.
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