ACROSS AMERICA — Americans have long been fascinated by the prospect of extraterrestrial life, but World UFO Day on Sunday has added intrigue this year after a whistleblower from the Pentagon task force studying unexplained anomalous phenomena, or UAP, said the government is hiding information on a covert program to retrieve crashed alien spacecraft and reverse-engineer the technology.
The powerful House Oversight Committee plans to convene hearings on the report from whistleblower David Grusch, a career Air Force intelligence officer. His story to Debrief, an outlet that reports on science, technology and defense news, was confirmed by Jonathan Grey, a U.S. intelligence official with the National Air and Space Intelligence Center, who said, “We are not alone.”
In a statement to ABC News earlier this month, Oversight Committee spokesman Austin Hacker said the panel plans to look at the whistleblower’s claim, but also reports of other UAP that have recently surfaced. Right now, the new All-Domain Anomaly Office is tracking around 650 UAP reports.
After decades of denying their existence, the Pentagon has acknowledged UFOs are real. And although a task force reviewed hundreds of new reports of UFOs in 2022, there’s no evidence of alien life, officials said in a required report to Congress earlier this year.
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