This week, many have been closely anticipating a hearing on Capitol Hill about Unexplained Aerial Phenomena – or UAPs.
On Wednesday, former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch testified that the Pentagon not only knows more than it’s telling people about, but that there is a secret program to gather and hide what’s been characterized as “non-human” biological matter. Grusch said that the program has been around for decades, and has been attempting to reverse-engineer UAP technology.
Nomaan Merchant reported on the hearing for the Associated Press, where he covers national security. He spoke with the Standard about the biggest takeaways from the House Oversight subcommittee meeting.
This transcript has been edited lightly for clarity:
Texas Standard: What were some of the big takeaways from the hearing?
Nomaan Merchant: What I took away from the hearing was the relatively sober tone that was used to describe something that, as you said, is maybe out of this world. You had both Republican and Democratic congressmen asking David Grusch and other witnesses about not just what they had reported and seen within the intelligence community and the military establishment, but some of the concerns that have been longstanding, about things like pilots reporting sightings of aircraft or devices flying at strange speeds or trajectories.
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