After a top-secret briefing on UFOs in Congress, lawmakers say they are one step closer to finding out the truth about humanity's place in the universe today.
America's top spy watchdog met with members of the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill today – a meeting announced by an anonymous intelligence insider told .
The purpose of the meeting was to get to the bottom of last year's explosives allegations alleging the existence of an illegal UFO crash recovery program.
These allegations by former senior U.S. intelligence official David Grusch accused the U.S. military and its private contractors of covering up recovered UFOs and extraterrestrial “beings” and retaliating to protect their secrets.
“We have now, I would say, made progress on some of the allegations that Mr. Grusch made in his complaint,” Florida Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz told reporters.
“Based on what we have heard,” said Rep. Moskowitz, “many of Grusch’s claims have merit!”
America's top spy watchdog met with members of the House Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill today (above). The purpose of the meeting was to get to the bottom of last year's explosives allegations alleging the existence of an illegal UFO crash recovery program
Grusch's allegations were first laid out in detail in this secret formal complaint, a “Disclosure of Urgent Concerns.” “Retaliation Complaint” filed in May 2022 with the Office of the Inspector General of the US Intelligence Community (IC IG).
“I think this [today’s briefing] “Will lead to a lot of things,” Rep. Moskowitz said. “There are lots of new questions and lots of new areas to ask and explore.”
“I think everyone who left there thought and knew that Grush was real,” said Tim Burchett, Republican congressman from Tennessee and Rep. Moskowitz's colleague on the House Oversight Committee, who led today's secret UFO conclave.
Burchett added: “If they hadn’t thought of that before.”
The Tennessee lawmaker, who has become a strong voice calling for transparency about what officials now call “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP, maintained some of his criticisms, telling reporters: “This issue is very compartmentalized in nature .”
“We have now, I would say, made progress on some of the allegations that Mr. Grusch made in his complaint,” Florida Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz told reporters. “Based on what we have heard,” said Rep. Moskowitz, “many of Grusch’s claims have merit!”
“This is not about little green men in flying saucers,” Burchett said, just steps from a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) where the secret meeting took place.
“There are tens of millions of dollars at stake,” he stressed, “on an issue that we have been told has not existed since 1947.”
Rep. Moskowitz, who has joined Rep. Burchett and other members of the House UAP Caucus in what has become a bipartisan effort to uncover the truth about these airborne mysteries, also acknowledged that shortages remain due to overclassification.
“Of course you see, the process is extremely frustrating,” Rep. Moskowitz told reporters gathered outside the SCIF.
“But actually this is the first real briefing we've had,” the congressman said, “the first time we've had a decision on what the IG thinks about this.” [Grusch’s] Expectations.'
“I think everyone who stayed there thought and knew that Grush was real,” said Republican Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee (left), Rep. Moskowitz's colleague on the House Oversight Committee, which hosted today's secret UFO conclave led
“It's not about little green men in flying saucers,” Burchett said, just steps from a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF (above), where the secret meeting took place
Arizona Republican Representative Andy Biggs (above) arrives to attend today's closed-door intelligence briefing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP).
“So this meeting is different than the one we’ve had before.” [with the Department of Defense’s office of the Inspector General]This one actually “hit the nail on the head”.
Despite these promising statements about forward momentum, it is unclear whether House members were actually allowed to review Grusch's officially secret IC-IG complaint or what hard facts they learned behind closed doors.
Last week, a source with direct knowledge of standard operating procedures at the U.S. Secret Service's Office of Inspector General (IC IG) told that a review of the complaint was unlikely.
“I don’t expect that to happen,” the source told .
According to well-informed US intelligence source , IC IG would likely strive to please lawmakers but tell them as little as possible.
“When the IG briefs regulators, his job, between you and me, will be to make them feel like they are getting information,” this source said, “and basically tell them nothing.”
This source believes Attorney Thomas Monheim, the intelligence community's inspector general, and his staff would be forced to juggle the expectations of multiple competing congressional committees.
“He is responsible for what he will say to them,” the source told .
“I would be very shocked if they heard the same things as the Intel committees,” the source explained, “not because he doesn't want to tell them – because they are Congress.”
“But because of HPSCI [the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence] and SSCI [the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence] I probably said to him, “Hey! “We are your jurisdictional committees, not oversight,” said this source.
Nonetheless, Rep. Moskowitz offered carefully worded commentary on the committee's progress and the roadmap it faces in finding answers to the administration's closely guarded, long-rumored UFO portfolio.
“Let me just hypothesize, because I’m not going to divulge anything from a classified briefing,” the Florida congressman began.
“If someone makes ten claims and then someone says, 'Well, we didn't look at all ten because they weren't all in the report.' But hey, we found these six very credible,” Rep. Moskowitz said, “well, then you’d like to attack these six.”
This is a developing story and will be updated throughout the day.