Congressional UAP Hearings

The Long Road to the Hearing Room

These hearings did not emerge from nothing. People fought for decades to get this subject taken seriously by governments, and most of those people never lived to see a congressional witness sworn in.

In 1958, Dr George King and members of the Aetherius Society marched from Speakers' Corner to Trafalgar Square demanding the British government stop suppressing information about flying saucers. Special Branch monitored the demonstration. In the 1960s, retired Marine Major Donald Keyhoe and NICAP spent years lobbying Congress until the first congressional hearing on UFOs was held in 1966. In 1978, J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee addressed the United Nations, urging member states to take the phenomenon seriously. Both efforts were ignored or quietly buried.

Tom DeLonge and the To The Stars Academy pushed the subject back into public view in 2017 by facilitating the release of the FLIR, GIMBAL, and GOFAST videos through the New York Times, connecting Pentagon insiders like Luis Elizondo to journalists willing to run the story. That reporting cracked open the door that had been sealed since the closure of Project Blue Book in 1969.

The 2022 Bray/Moultrie hearing, the first open congressional session on the subject in over fifty years, was cautious and heavily managed by the Pentagon. The three hearings that followed, listed above, were not. Witnesses testified under oath. They named programmes. They described retaliation. The congressional record now contains testimony that would have been unthinkable a decade ago.