Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) and members of the House Oversight Committee speak with reporters about an upcoming hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).
https://www.c-span.org/video/?529468-1/ ... earing-uapEverybody ready. We're good. Need a white balance, everybody good. We don't do that anymore. All right, it's this thing on, right on. Thank you. I want to thank you all for being here today. Um I'm Tim Burchard from Tennessee's second congressional district and we're gonna have some uh the rest of the Congress folks are gonna fill in here in a second. Um Next Wednesday, July 26th at 10 a.m. The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on, on unidentified anomalous phenomena. UAP si prefer to call them UFO S. It will be held by the Oversight Committee on National Security, the border and Foreign affairs. The witnesses will be as follows. Followed David Rush. He's a decorated former combat officer who served in Afghanistan. And he recently told the world news about his experiences serving on a UAP task force led by the US Navy from 2019 to 2022. Commander David Ver, he's a former navy commander who shot the famous tic tac video that you've seen. It's on youtube. It's 60 minutes did a special on it. He did that in 2004 during a routine training flight over the Pacific Ocean Ryan Graves. He's a former navy pilot report. He reported multiple UAP encounters during training flights. And the interesting thing about, about Ryan was that he warned the Pentagon that these encounters are putting our pilots at risk. He attended the hearing held by the House Intelligence Committee last year but was not allowed to speak. If you all remember, he wasn't even allowed to admittance. He had to have someone gave him press credentials to get in which I thought really stunk. Um Last year, the House Intelligence Committee held a hearing on UAPS. They brought in some Pentagon bureaucrats who only had two answers to the questions they were asked. I don't know or that's classified. This hearing is going to be different. We're going to have witnesses who can speak frankly to the public about their experiences. We've had a heck of a lot of pushback about this hearing. We've had members of Congress who fought us. We've had members of the intelligence community and also the Pentagon even NASA backed out on us. There are a lot of people who don't want this to come to light. I've even tried to introduce an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill and all that would do would require the Federal Aviation Administration to report UAP sightings by commercial pilots to Congress. The Intelligence, I was told the a uh the intelligence community shut it down. This is ridiculous, folks, they either they do exist or they don't exist. They keep telling us they don't exist but they block every opportunity for us to get a hold of the information to prove that they do exist. And we're gonna get to the bottom of it. Dad gum, whatever the truth may be, we're done with the cover up. I want to introduce my friend Jared Moskovitz. He's a legal, he has a legal and an incredible analytical mind and he's a friend of mine, Jared. Thanks Tim. Good morning. And I want to thank my colleagues uh behind me that we're all leading this effort on a, on a bipartisan, a bipartisan basis. And, and ultimately, you know, it really is about getting to just go greater government transparency as Tim said that, you know, when we ask these questions, if the answers are, there are no unidentified aerial phenomenon, then say that, but that's not what the answers are, the answers are. We can't tell you. And so that leads to speculation. And so this, this is something that has undoubtedly captured the public's attention in multiple administrations. And it's just finally time the US government answer questions about what they know. And when did they know it, taxpayers are paying for programs that are keeping this information secret. They have a right to know where their dollars are going and, and with claims coming forward as technology is getting better, people are capturing things on their phones now, right? We we need to know whether these things are uh are they domestic uh are they foreign or are they, are they something else or do they not exist? And the government needs to have straight answers. And so the American people deserve to know the truth on this unnecessarily censoring things or overclassification is what leads to all of these theories that have been out there. So again, I want to thank my colleagues behind me for their leadership and we look forward to having a productive hearing on topic on a bipartisan basis. Thank you very much. Our next speaker will be represented Luna. She's from Florida. She is a military veteran, her husband's combat wounded veteran and I'm proud to have her on our team represent Luna. Thank you. Good morning, everyone for decades. She's with child. Thank you for decades. Countless of Americans have questioned our government's lack of transparency regarding U A in our nation's airspace. These same questions have been echoed by many leaders on a bipartisan basis. From Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama from Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump, from Marco Rubio to Chuck Schumer from the former Director of National Intelligence, John Radcliffe to current officials at the National Security Council. They have all called for disclosure of UAs. If this was a court case, the court would be compelled to take up the thousands of testimonies, images, videos and eyewitness accounts from doctors, pilots, scientists and active duty, service members, the status quo on the part of the US government has been to leave the American people in the dark regarding information of UAP. They refused to answer questions posed by whistleblowers, avoiding the concerns of Americans. And acknowledging that the possible threat of U A poses to our national security as well as public safety. It is extremely unnecessary and an overclassification if the last few months have taught me anything, especially in investigating this. It is that this issue is in the hands of the American people and they deserve answers. I just want to be fully transparent here myself. Representative Burch and Representative Gates had attended an air Force base and we are blocked not only by the Pentagon but by the Department of the Air Force from seeing information, talking to witnesses and after much arm twisting, we got some of the information. But the fact is is that they answer to Congress and that the American people and any government entity that attempts to stonewall us is doing nothing in the vested interest of the American people. When I take a face value, the numerous road blocks that we've been presented with it leads me to believe that they are indeed hiding information. I look forward to bringing this topic to light and finding out the truth of what is really out there. Next speaker, we represent Belson, he and I traveled to our southern border. Um a few months back and we became really good friends he has a really love for this country and he liked the rest of us who liked the truth and when he agrees with us that we need a lot of transparency represent Belson.