UFO House hearing witness: Pentagon 'clearly covering something up'

(NewsNation) — Independent writer Michael Shellenberger testified Wednesday astatine a House of Representatives committee proceeding connected unidentified anomalous phenomena, oregon UAP. 

“The Pentagon is intelligibly covering thing up,” Shellenberger said Wednesday connected “Vargas Reports.” “The Pentagon is treating america similar children. It's a precise paternalistic attitude. They conscionable request to merchandise the information, evidently marque definite that thing gets retired to our enemies. But we're agelong overdue for this benignant of disclosure and transparency.” 

Shellenberger, who has written extensively astir a programme called “Immaculate Constellation,” testified during Wednesday’s proceeding that members of Congress person expressed increasing vexation since 2021 implicit the subject and quality community’s refusal to uncover “concrete” information.

What is Immaculate Constellation?

Shellenberger elaborate his reporting connected the alleged "Immaculate Constellation" concealed authorities program. A whistleblower revealed the alleged UFO program, successful which the Pentagon collects and quarantines accusation connected UFO sightings, Shellenberger says.

Department of Defense spokesperson Sue Gough has antecedently denied the beingness of records regarding the program.

Shellenberger highlighted the request for Congress and the White House to code UFOs.

Michael Gold, a erstwhile NASA administrator, outlined caller ways for the abstraction bureau to beryllium adjuvant connected the UAP issue. Currently main maturation serviceman astatine Redwire Space, Gold stressed successful his grounds that helium is speaking connected his ain behalf and not for immoderate different organization.

"Agencies specified arsenic NASA person overmuch to connection erstwhile it comes to knowing UAP," Gold's prepared grounds read.

NewsNation’s Andy Gipson and Rich Johnson contributed to this report.