What UAP witnesses recommend for congressional action

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(NewsNation) — The 4 witnesses who testified earlier a U.S. House of Representatives committee connected unidentified anomalous phenomena, aka UFOs, each presented imaginable solutions arsenic national lawmakers hunt for answers astir the government’s relation successful providing much transparency successful the imaginable beingness of UAPs.

The witnesses took portion successful a proceeding entitled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,” which is portion of the committee’s ongoing efforts to supply much accusation astir what the authorities knew oregon didn’t cognize astir UAPs.

Lue Elizondo

Elizondo, a erstwhile Pentagon insider, testified during the proceeding that the pursuing recommendations request to beryllium made moving forward.

The erstwhile Pentagon authoritative said that America’s greatness depends connected 3 elements: a watchful Congress, a responsive enforcement subdivision and an informed public.

He projected the 3 main actions:

• Congress and the president should make a azygous constituent of interaction liable for a whole-of-government attack to the UAP issue. He said that the White House, CIA, NASA, the Pentagon, the U.S. Department of Energy and others presently play a role, but nary 1 seems to beryllium successful charge. This, helium said, has led to unchecked powerfulness and corruption.
• A nationalist UAP strategy needs to beryllium developed to beforehand transparency and assistance reconstruct the American public’s spot astatine a clip erstwhile spot is astatine an all-time low, helium said. He said the strategy should see a whole-of-government approach, including the world and technological communities, the backstage assemblage and planetary partners and allies.
• Congress should make a protected situation truthful that whistleblowers, who helium said are hopeless to bash the close thing, tin travel guardant without fear. Elizondo said that whistleblowers endure due to the fact that of stigma, a codification of soundlessness and concerns implicit forms of retaliation.
• He said policies and procedures should guarantee extortion for whistleblowers. For those who garbage to cooperate, lawmakers should wield subpoena powerfulness against hostile witnesses and forestall further backing to those UAP efforts that stay hidden from legislature oversight.

Timothy Gallaudet

The retired U.S. Navy rear admiral and erstwhile acting undersecretary and adjunct caput of commerce for oceans and ambiance testified successful the proceeding that helium wants Congress to instrumentality the pursuing action:

• Establish due oversight of the enforcement branch’s absorption of UAP programs, accusation and materials
• Pass provisions of the UAP Disclosure Act involving the UAP Records Review Board into law
• After the UAP Disclosure Act is passed, Congress should see strengthening it successful a aboriginal reauthorization with further provisions to found a whole-of-government attack to UAP.

Michael Shellenberger

The independent journalist, who has written extensively astir “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.

• Congressional leaders are seeking to grow upon the UAP transparency authorities that was passed successful 2023. The UAP Disclosure Act would unit the military, quality assemblage and immoderate backstage entity to crook implicit recovered “technologies of chartless origin” and associated “biological materials” and supply each UAP records to an autarkic reappraisal committee for imaginable nationalist disclosure, helium said.
• The authorities would besides grow protections for whistleblowers and necessitate the Government Accountability Office to reappraisal the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office's work.
• He added that portion it is wide UAPs stay mysterious, it’s wide that the U.S. authorities is not being consecutive with the American people.
• He besides called connected Congress to enactment with President-elect Donald Trump to marque authorities much transparent and merchandise long-held secrets connected everything from COVID origins to files associated with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and UAPs.

Michael Gold

The erstwhile NASA official testified that his erstwhile enactment could assistance successful the process of providing much accusation astir UAPs by doing the following:

• Review archival data
• Combat the stigmatization of UAP
• Reach retired to planetary partners
• Solicit, archive, reappraisal and merchandise civilian and commercialized UAP data

“In overmuch arsenic the aforesaid mode that AARO is liable for collecting UAP information for the nationalist information community, NASA could service a akin relation for civilian and commercialized operators,” Gold testified Wednesday. “Of course, a melodramatic quality would beryllium the information collected by NASA would beryllium unfastened to all, and the bureau would proceed its historical dedication to transparency and sharing technological discoveries with the federation and world.”