The House Oversight Committee will hold hearings next week on UFOs, officially called unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), Tennessee Republican Rep. Tim Burchett tweeted Monday.

“The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on the UAP.” [Unidentified Aerial Phenomena] 7/26 Wednesday. The cover-up is over.” I have written Burchett. Burchett has been a vocal advocate of government surveillance of UFOs. saying “We’ve been covering this up since the ’40s,” he said after the announcement. report In January, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced the phenomenon.(Related article: ‘Many of them are terrified’: Marco Rubio says multiple UFO whistleblowers have come forward)

The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on the UAP on Wednesday, July 26.

The cover-up is over.

— Rep. Tim Burchett (@RepTimBurchett) July 17, 2023

In its report, ODNI did not reach a conclusion as to the cause of the phenomenon, but said it would investigate “the possible involvement of foreign governments.” The report makes no mention of the popular speculation that UFOs are extraterrestrial and related to extraterrestrial life.

In June, former intelligence officer David Grusch reportedly told the commission that the government had recovered an aircraft of “non-human” origin. according to to debrief. Grusch joins other anonymous government whistleblowers who have approached Congress, according to Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, many of whom are He added that he had highly classified information.

“We are trying to gather as much information as we can … Some of these people still work in the government, but frankly many of them do their job very very well. We are afraid … we are afraid that we will be harmed,” Rubio said. .

Burchett and the House Oversight Committee did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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