BY KYLE LOVERN
Whether you are a skeptic or believer, this past Wednesday morning (July 28) was a historical time for the United States. For those of us who believe there is something to all of the UFO (unidentified flying objects) sightings and stories over the last 75 years, it was an important and powerful event.
I’ve been interested in the subject since I was young. I’ve had a least three sightings of something I could not identify. The last was about 11 years ago when hundreds of others saw a daytime UFO from the Pikeville, Kentucky, area to the Williamson, West Virginia, area. This case received national attention and lots of news coverage.
I was fortunate enough to have published a couple of books on the subject and have appeared on several radio talk shows and podcasts talking about the subject, including one of the most popular shows – “Coast to Coast.” I’ve talked to many people who have seen something. Most don’t want to go on record because of the way the subject has been treated. But those skeptics and negative attitudes seem to be changing.
A former Pentagon intelligence official testified that he was “absolutely” certain the government had possession of “non-human craft.”
David Grusch was an Air Force officer and one of the main witnesses in the non-partisan House Oversight Committee hearing on UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). UAP is the new term the Pentagon came up with to replace UFO – probably because of the stigma that has persisted for many years.
Grusch said he conducted interviews with 40 witnesses over a four-year period while serving as an intelligence employee for the government.
Grusch added that non-human “biologics” were recovered along with the craft. That means something or someone was piloting those crafts or UAPS.
Grusch initially made the claims last month in a News Nation interview.
He said he became a whistleblower in May 2022 after he received a number of concerning reports that the government was acting with secrecy and without congressional oversight with regard to UAP.
The hearing was a public congressional panel this year on UAP pushed by Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn. He was a major proponent of the hearing and said that other members of Congress had told him privately about their own UFO experiences.
The other two credible witnesses at the hearing were Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot who said he encountered numerous unexplained flying objects while flying near Virginia Beach and David Fravor, another retired Navy pilot who says he encountered UAP near the coast of San Diego.
Graves indicated UAP sightings were more frequent than publicly acknowledged, noting that discussions on them had become a nearly-routine part of briefings for military pilots. Still, he said many military and civilian pilots feared coming forward with their experiences due to fears of career reprisal.
“If everyone could see the sensory and video data I witnessed,” Graves added, “our national conversation would change.
“We’re saying that there’s something our pilots are seeing,” he added.
Last week at a White House briefing, John Kirby, a retired Navy admiral and the current Pentagon spokesperson, said that UAPs “have already had an impact on our training ranges.”
All three witnesses agreed that the incidents they were aware of included objects that could maneuver in a way current technology could not achieve.
They also agreed that UAPs could potentially pose a significant national security threat.
Grusch and others indicated he may have been threatened or “harmed” and could be in danger for coming forward when questioned by the congressional committee.
A small group of Republicans says the Pentagon and Air Force recently blocked lawmakers from seeing images and information about UFOs as well as from reading testimony about seeing possible alien aircraft from witnesses, two of whom spoke with NewsNation directly.
The Congressional oversight group included Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R. Florida. Grusch indicated that the non-human crafts were held at secret government or Air Force facilities. But he could not reveal the locations in a public forum but would tell congressional leaders in a secure “skiff” meeting.
“How dare the Pentagon and our own military tell members of Oversight that we have no classification to look into these reports,” Luna said.
Most agree that working to create more ways for service members and civilians to report suspicious sightings should be available.
The public hearing aired in its entirety on News Nation and was covered by many news agencies like The Associated Press, Fox News and others. This was one of the most important hearings in history, revealing many secrets and discoveries that have remained unknown. Unfortunately, many may not have paid much attention to it.
Ultimately, lawmakers pledged to continue efforts to investigate allegations the U.S. government was concealing evidence of non-human craft and information about UAPs or UFOs.
Hopefully more hearings will take place and some of the evidence will be released to the American people and the world. We need transparency in government. The truth is out there.
(Kyle Lovern is a longtime journalist in the Tug Valley. He is now a retired freelance writer and columnist for the Mountain Citizen.)