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Age of Disclosure, The (2025)

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On Capitol Hill today,

a bipartisan call for more

government transparency on UFOs,

or as the military calls them,

Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, UAPs.

The objects have been detected

essentially where all operations,

Navy operations are being

conducted across the world.

The technology

that we faced was far superior

than anything we have currently

or we're gonna have in the next 20 years.

Unidentified aerial phenomena

are a potential national security threat

and they need to be treated that way.

United States government

has gathered a great deal of information

about UAPs over many decades,

but has refused to share it

with the American people.

That is wrong, and additionally,

it breeds mistrust.

I spent 11 years in the US Navy

as a fighter pilot.

For 18 years,

I flew fighters for the US Navy.

I spent 20 years working

in the US intelligence community.

I served as the fourth

Director of National Intelligence.

I spent 25 years

as a senior official with the CIA.

I retired from the Navy as a one-star

admiral after 32 years of service.

I worked on highly classified UAP programs

for the government as a senior scientist.

I spent 32 years in and out

of government in national security.

I've worked 28 years as an astrophysicist

on highly classified UAP programs

for the United States government

and for the defense industry.

I'm a professor

in the department of pathology

at Stanford University School of Medicine.

And for the last ten years or so,

I've been working

with the Department of Defense

and people in the CIA on the UAP topic.

I've come to the conclusion that

we are not only not alone in the universe,

but we have been discovered

by an intelligence

from some other part of the universe.

There's evidence we are not alone.

Humanity is not the only

intelligent species in the universe.

We're not alone in the universe.

I wouldn't be so arrogant to suggest

there are no other

forms of life out there.

Humanity is not the only intelligence

in the universe.

UAPs are real.

They're here and they're not human.

There are other intelligences

that have highly advanced exotic craft

interacting with the human population.

They are here. This is real.

It's happening. It's happening now.

Non-human intelligence exists.

It's been interacting with humanity

and it's been doing so

on this planet for a long time.

We are not the only intelligent

life form in the universe.

There's something here on the planet

with us that is intelligent

and more intelligent than us.

This is the biggest discovery

in human history.

My name is Lue Elizondo.

In 2009, my life changed forever.

That's when I was recruited into

a highly sensitive government program

that investigated

Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, UAP,

also commonly known as UFOs.

My work for the US government goes back

almost 30 years

to when I joined the US Army.

From there, I had the good fortune

of being recruited into various programs

within military intelligence.

During my career, I served my country

around the world,

managing and directing missions,

including counter-narcotics,

counter-espionage,

counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency.

And it was later in my career

that I actually began running

special access programs

for the US government,

and in some cases reported

directly to the White House

and the National Security Council.

My name is Jay Stratton,

and for over 16 years

on behalf of the US government,

I worked as a senior intelligence official

on the UAP topic.

I joined the Army at the age of 17

and left for a career

in military intelligence

with eight combat deployments,

including Iraq and Afghanistan.

After the Army,

I joined Naval Intelligence,

and then I transitioned

to the Defense Intelligence Agency,

where I was the chief

of air and space warfare

inside of the Defense Warning office.

It was at the DIA that my colleagues

and I started getting reports

of what are now called UAP.

We went all over the government,

pentagon, every intelligence agency,

anywhere we could think to try to find

the UAP program, assuming there was one.

As far as we could tell,

no one in the United States government

had a UAP program,

so my colleagues and I

began a new program,

which ultimately became AATIP.

The Advanced Aerospace

Threat Identification Program, AATIP.

The funding

for this effort was sponsored by

then Senate majority leader

Senator Harry Reid.

And together myself,

Jay Stratton and our team

for nearly a decade investigated

UAP incidents around the world.

Based on hard evidence and data,

we learned that UAPs

present serious national security concerns

and a potential existential threat.

Simply put, transmedium crafts,

vehicles that have the capability

to operate in space, air,

and water, and seemingly defy

all that humanity knows about physics

have been operating with complete impunity

around the world since at least the 1940s.

At AATIP, we had access

to some of the most sensitive videos

in the Department of Defense inventory.

If you could be in my shoes and see what

I've seen, and folks like Jay Stratton,

there would be zero shadow of a doubt

that these things are real

and they are not made by humans.

The things that I've seen,

the clearest videos,

the best evidence that we have

that these are non-human intelligence

remain classified.

The classified data that we had access to

when we joined the program

was indisputable.

There's 80 years of this data

that the public isn't even aware of.

I have seen with my own eyes

non-human craft and non-human beings.

For 23 years and ten months,

I was in the United States Air Force

as an A-10 pilot.

And while I was at NORAD,

I witnessed an event

that I will remember forever.

There was a unknown object

we were tracking on radars.

And the commander says,

"I want that target."

That means intercept it.

Fighters all the way down

the eastern seaboard were scrambled,

and none of the fighters were successful

in intercepting or running it down.

We were unable to maintain

air sovereignty over North America.

On November 14th, 2004,

we were onboard the USS Nimitz,

which is a nuclear aircraft carrier.

I was the most senior person

in the squadron flying.

I had launched off Nimitz to do

an air defense exercise

off the coast of San Diego, California.

And I ended up chasing a UAP

known as the Tic Tac UAP.

It was about 40 feet long

and just sitting there in space.

You can see it start to accelerate.

And as it gets in front of us, it's gone.

This thing was doing 32,000 miles an hour,

so obviously that technology

is not the United States.

As we were

watching this Tic Tac object

maneuver in this bizarre way,

it was obvious

that it wasn't conventional.

This was defying those laws of physics,

laws of gravity

that as pilots we live and die by.

We literally had these things

stalking Navy vessels on deployment.

The frequency in which UAP were

being reported to us was increasing.

They were ubiquitous.

We were seeing them nearly daily.

My gosh, there's a whole

fleet of 'em. Look on the SA!

And then we actually almost

had a midair with one of these objects.

This now became a safety issue.

Two aircraft from my squadron were

flying in close proximity to each other

in section formation,

so about 150 feet apart or so.

One of these objects went right

in between those two aircraft,

right past the lead aircraft.

The lead aircraft

was visually able to see the object,

and he simply described it as a dark gray

or a black cube inside of a clear sphere.

To be clear,

non-human intelligence

has been actively conducting

ISR, Intelligence,

Surveillance and Reconnaissance

of some of our most sensitive

US military facilities and nuclear sites.

They have both deactivated

and activated nuclear weapons

with both the United States and Russia.

The nuclear weapons that were

activated in Russia were pointed at us,

and from that perspective,

the stakes really could not be any higher.

This is an emerging

and disruptive threat for the US

and truly a national security concern.

By the way, this isn't just

happening here in the US.

It's happening all over the world

and occurring with greater frequency.

When I met Lue Elizondo in the Pentagon,

he made me aware not only

that this phenomenon was real,

but it was an ongoing

persistent phenomenon.

The Secretary of Defense didn't know,

the Congress didn't know,

senior policymakers didn't know,

and nobody was doing anything

about it other than Lue

and a handful of colleagues.

I was shocked and I was stunned,

and immediately was concerned about

intelligence failures

that have occurred in the past

and the disasters that have ensued,

and determined immediately

to do whatever I could to help get Lue

to the Secretary of Defense

to move that information forward.

Each time Jay and I and others tried

to raise the alarm bells

and bring this issue

up to the appropriate level,

we were met with fierce resistance.

The stigma alone

and the taboo of the topic,

the historical association of "UFOs"

was something that

for most people in leadership positions

was too big of a pill to swallow.

In fact, the stigma was so strong

that people either believed, A,

the topic wasn't real, or B,

the stigma was going to somehow

taint or tarnish their career,

so they didn't want to touch it.

We couldn't get the leadership

in the Pentagon

to look at the actual scientific data

that showed that there is

a strong national security threat.

They were more worried about

the impact on their reputation

than they were about

the safety of the nation.

On top of that,

we were shocked to find we were getting

pushback from people in the Pentagon

based on their religious beliefs.

There really were religious fundamentalist

extremists with in the Pentagon

that had a severe adversity to this topic.

These are national security experts,

senior members of the national

intelligence community

who are putting their religion

above national security.

A senior DOD official actually stopped me

in the hallways in the Pentagon

and told me

that we were doing the devil's work.

I had to deal with people who were

senior to me who were telling me

in their world that these are demons,

and we are poking demons

and messing in Satan's world

and all these other things.

I was like, "I can't believe

this is coming out of your mouth."

I'm briefing about an advanced

aerospace vehicle that has been detected

on multiple sensors

that's absolutely there,

and you're telling me

that you think these are demons

and we shouldn't

look at them and study them.

My mind was blown.

While we were trying

to overcome all of these hurdles,

we discovered another deeply hidden

and much larger UAP program.

This program was so sensitive

that it was withheld from

the Secretary of Defense, Congress,

and even

the President of the United States.

This program is referred to as

"The Legacy Program."

This program had been capturing,

retrieving and reverse engineering UAPs

since at least 1947.

On numerous occasions,

these retrievals included

the bodies of non-humans,

some sort of intelligence,

intelligent being that is not human.

When Jay and I began knocking on doors

and trying to get access

into the Legacy Program,

there was this almost

like an immune response

by the Legacy Program,

and antibodies came out of everywhere

to try to shut us down.

We began communicating with scientists

involved in the Legacy Program,

but their leaders when they learned

of this, shut it down aggressively.

Not only were we met with

fierce resistance and stonewalling,

we actually had people angry at us that

we're even asking the question itself,

as in, you know, what right do we have

to inquire about the Legacy Program,

despite the fact we were running AATIP.

Put yourself in my shoes.

I'm conducting investigations

of ongoing UAP activity

and there's this Legacy Program

that has at least 80 years of information

that could help us

better understand this problem

and protect national security,

and they refuse to give it to us.

When it became clear that

we couldn't work through the system,

I knew from experience having worked

with the Senate Armed Services Committee,

what it takes to move this oil tanker.

Think about this immense,

immense ship that has massive inertia,

and you're trying

to get it to change course.

When it comes

to the Department of Defense,

only Congress

has the wherewithal to do that.

And the way to get Congress's attention

is first and foremost through the press.

I knew we had to get the press engaged

to help get the Hill engaged,

to then get back to changing

the Defense Department

to study this problem

to figure out is there a threat?

Where are these things coming from

and how do they work?

As government employees,

we're not allowed to talk to the media,

so Lue and I strategized

on how to overcome this hurdle.

There were really only two choices.

The first choice was

make peace with silence

and sit on

what is humanity's greatest secret,

all the while keeping

Americans in the dark.

Or two, I could resign

my position in protest

and fulfill my obligations

to the American people

by telling the truth

about what I know about UAP.

There was this difficult moment

where Lue had to decide,

"Do I throw in the towel?

Do we give up on this?"

"Do we ignore this?"

Or does he fall on his sword?

I couldn't, nor would I ever

reveal classified information,

but I knew that if I could say

just enough at the unclassified level

to make the media aware

and our government officials aware

of the reality of the UAP topic,

then Jay hopefully would be able to use

that momentum to go ahead and achieve

the goals that we set out

to achieve inside the government.

And we had

a number of difficult conversations

because Lue is giving up

a very promising career.

He loved what he was doing.

He was very good at what he was doing.

It's such a profound life decision for Lue

to make for himself and his family.

During one of my routine

hellish commutes back home,

as I was stuck in traffic,

looking in front of me and behind me

and seeing thousands of cars,

I had this profound sense of isolation,

a feeling I had

never felt before in my life,

a feeling that I was completely alone.

I might as well have been living

on the dark side of the moon.

None of these people around me,

in fact, no one anywhere had any idea

of what was actually

going on around them.

Not a clue.

I thought to myself, these individuals

deserve to know the truth,

the mere fact that we're

not alone in the universe.

How can any one organization,

institution, religion, or government

control that

or censor that or gatekeep that?

No one has the right

to keep fundamental truths

away from the American people

and humanity.

CNN has learned the Pentagon

had a secretive program to research UFOs.

The existence of a secret government

program to investigate UFO sightings.

A recent report by the New York Times

unveiled the existence of a real life

X-Files department,

their secret government program

to investigate mysterious flying objects.

This seems potentially like

one of the biggest stories of my lifetime.

These aircraft, we'll call 'em aircraft,

are displaying characteristics

that are not currently

within the US inventory

nor in any foreign inventory.

Look at that thing, dude. My gosh.

This is a very serious

national security issue.

Something is in our skies.

It has been there for quite some time.

There's a whole fleet of 'em.

You have objects that are doing things,

maneuvering in ways

without any obvious sign of propulsion.

My submission is that

what we are looking at is truly,

by definition, exotic technologies,

beyond next generation technologies.

And the bureaucracy and the Department

of Defense really limited our ability

to keep leadership informed

of what we were seeing.

As soon as the media

started paying attention,

Congress started paying attention,

and I started getting calls

from the Hill for briefings.

Senators received a classified briefing

about UFOs at the Pentagon.

Senator Mark Warner,

the vice chair

of the Intelligence Committee said,

"Look, I think it's important that the

military is taking this more seriously now

than they did in the past."

Senator Rubio and Warner,

to their great credit,

put national security above

their own personal political careers

and took the risk of engaging

publicly on this issue.

When they began to engage,

the Defense Department had to admit

to the world that this was real

and it was happening,

and that immediately took the entire

credibility of the issue up a huge notch.

The US Navy has finally acknowledged

that videos appearing to show UFOs flying

through the air are real.

Commander David Fravor

describing it like a 40 foot long Tic Tac.

The ability to hover over the water

and then start a vertical climb

from basically zero

up towards about 12,000 feet

and then accelerate

in less than two seconds

and disappear is something

I had never seen in my life.

We've had repeated instances of something

operating in the airspace

over restricted nuclear facilities,

and it's not ours

and we don't know whose it is.

That alone, just that statement alone,

deserves inquiry,

deserves attention, deserves focus.

If you have objects

in the sky that you cannot identify,

that's a problem because

it could be China, it could be Russia,

it could be any adversary.

Well, any unexplained phenomenon

could pose a national security threat.

That's the way

you have to treat those things.

There's something violating our airspace.

There's something fouling arranges

that even the people we've tasked in

the executive branch to understand this

cannot provide an explanation,

so I would say in addition

to the national security implications,

this has implications for basic trust

and confidence in the American government.

We don't know

the origin of the phenomenon,

and we're gonna try

to get to the bottom of it

because for national defense purposes,

some of these have been

in areas that we train.

These have been in areas where

we've got some of our best equipment,

and yet our best equipment

has not been able to tag these things.

We've not been able

to go in and catch them.

No matter what they are,

they're invading our airspace

and we don't know exactly

why they're doing it,

what their intent is

and what their capabilities are.

In addition

to the national security concerns,

this violation

of all nations' sovereign airspace

presents a safety of flight concern

for all military and civilian aviation.

And the even scarier thing is that

the Federal Aviation Administration

stopped using radar

to track our air travel.

They only track aircraft,

predominantly commercial and civilian,

that are squawking,

so they're actually putting

a signal into the system saying,

"Here's where I am."

The only way they know the UAP are there

is if the pilot sees something

and says something.

The fact that the FAA is not tracking UAP

is putting American lives

at risk every day.

I'm Brett Feddersen.

I served as the director of aviation

security on the National Security Council

and as the acting director for the

Federal Aviation Administration's

National Security Programs Office.

I can say through my experience

that we are absolutely

not alone in this universe.

The biggest thing that concerns me with

UAPs is the national security concern.

It's the unknown.

It's the fact that this technology

does stuff that we can't do.

And if we can't figure out

what it is or what it wants,

uh, or what it's being used for,

that keeps me up at night and the idea

that we're behind the power curve.

We want to be able to maintain the

cutting edge technology and the advantage

here in the United States

so that we can sleep comfortably at night

and feel the safety of what

the American government has provided.

There's sort of, I think,

four hypotheses out there,

one of which is that this is

foreign adversary technology

that we simply don't understand

or weren't aware of,

and that would amount to probably

the biggest intelligence failure

in modern American history.

The second of which is that this is

a robust counter-intelligence program

to cover up for a US

government effort that has fallen,

kind of, away

from congressional oversight.

A third hypothesis is obviously

that this is, uh, interdimensional

or extra-terrestrial.

The fourth could be

a combination of the previous three.

Some of the biggest strategic

blunders in human history,

the foundation of those blunders

were a lack of imagination.

The belief that an adversary

or whoever could not do something

because it had never been done before.

The US thought it was safe

for those ships in Pearl Harbor

because we didn't think

the Japanese could get there,

much less have torpedoes

that could navigate such a narrow straight

and hit these ships until they did.

We never thought in our wildest dreams

that t*rrorists would strike us

in the homeland by training

for a year to become pilots

and then hijacking commercial aircraft

and crashing them into buildings,

and they did.

The thing that keeps me up at night,

something in the human psyche that says,

I don't have time or energy

to sort of prepare for the unforeseen

or what I've never seen done before,

and, um, you know,

that leads to strategic surprise

and sometimes strategic surprises

change the course of human history.

There was

one classified briefing

that I gave to members

of the House and Senate,

where I took military pilots to tell them

the story of their encounters with UAP.

Those stories left them so rattled

that they had trouble sleeping that night.

The United States' most

trusted military servicemen and women

and irrefutable data from our

intelligence collection systems

have been observing UAP for decades.

Everything observed can be categorized

by five distinct

performance characteristics.

At AATIP, we call these The Observables.

The first observable

is hypersonic velocity.

Our current fastest aircraft

can go roughly 4,600 miles per hour.

However, the UAP we are observing

are traveling at 40,000 miles per hour

and sometimes faster.

The next observable is

instantaneous acceleration,

the sudden change in velocity.

At full speed,

the SR-71, known as a Blackbird,

requires roughly half the state of Ohio

to complete its turn.

What we are seeing with UAP are vehicles

that can make immediate right-angle turns,

instantaneously accelerating

and stopping on a dime

at speeds up to ten times faster

than the SR-71.

If you're in a sustained flight,

you can get up to seven-and-a-half Gs.

It gets physically painful over time

to be under that amount of gravity.

And that's just going

from zero to 200 miles an hour

in about two-and-a-half seconds.

Now, think of going zero

to thousands of miles an hour

in less than a second,

what the force would be on your body.

The human body can only take so much

before the internal organs start

to separate themselves from everything

they're hooked to, which is usually bad.

Even if it was a drone, it would rip

the drone, the unmanned vehicle apart.

The next observable

is low observability.

All modern technology have a signature.

For example, most aircraft leave

visible contrails as they fly.

We usually hear a sonic boom associated

with the sound barrier being broken.

UAP, however, leave almost

no observable signatures.

Our airplanes actually throw out

exhaust behind it and thrust behind it

to push it forward.

Whatever these things are,

they're not doing that.

There is no exhaust, no particles

coming off of 'em that we can see.

The next observable

is transmedium travel.

UAP have been observed operating

in space, in air and underwater,

and they're moving seamlessly

through each of these environments

without any normal signature

and without compromising performance.

We've observed a transmedium capability

of these phenomenon

to move from space

to the atmosphere to the ocean.

In the Aguadilla, Puerto Rico case,

a DHS helicopter caught

the spherical object flying.

It entered the water and exited the water,

so transmedium

without losing any velocity.

It goes into the ocean and makes

no splash or wake at 74 miles per hour.

I calculated how much force you would

require just to propel a basketball

under the water at 74 miles per hour,

and you'd need

a BE-7 rocket motor,

or two Learjet engines

that would churn the water up like crazy.

So this is a technology

that's frictionless.

The next

observable is anti-gravity.

UAP seemed to be defying

the natural effects of earth's gravity

without any obvious means of doing so.

No signs of propulsion or lift,

meaning no wings,

no control surfaces

or ability to maneuver.

In 2014 to 2015,

we were operating off the coast of

Virginia Beach, off the eastern seaboard.

It was during this time that we upgraded

our radar from the APG-73

to the APG-79 radar,

and this allowed us to essentially see

more objects we weren't expecting to see.

And there's a particular case

of one of these objects

maintaining a complete stationary position

inside of 120 knot winds,

essentially inside of a hurricane.

They're all

going against the wind.

The wind's 120 knots from the west.

Look at that thing! It's rotating.

It just seems like they're not affected

by the environment the way we are.

They were tracking 'em

from above 80,000 feet.

So for those that don't know,

above 80,000,

that's where you start getting into space.

So these things were coming down.

They would sit for three hours

and they'd go back up,

which to my knowledge,

we don't have anything

that has the capabilities

as far as the energy required

to come down,

hangout for three hours and go up.

The observed UAP capability exceeds that

of even the most advanced,

uh, human technologies

that are developed

in classified black programs.

From our exposure, I mean,

there's nothing we have that comes close.

There's actually a six observable,

which is not a flight characteristic,

that is biological effects.

I got started

working on this actually in this office.

There was a knock at the door,

and two individuals

who represented themselves

as being with the CIA and an aerospace

company came to me and asked for my help.

They had, uh, data of military personnel,

intelligence officials

and others associated

with the Department of Defense

who had direct interactions with UAP.

And because of that direct interaction

suffered some kind of medical harm.

They wanted my help to look

at the so-called inflammatory

secondary events

that might be measured in the blood,

anything from the horrific burns that

I've seen on some of the individuals

that leads to secondary problems

with autoimmune diseases

and sclerosis, et cetera,

and then the internal scarring

that I've seen on some individuals.

These people had scarring inside of

their bodies and inside of their brains.

And you have to think about it.

You know, if you get too close

to the back end of a jet engine,

or for instance, if you get too close

to the transformer system

that's just powering your neighborhood,

there's energy coming out of those things.

I mean, those are just human technologies.

Now imagine you've got something

which is a more advanced technology,

which is generating some kind of field

that allows these objects to move,

if you get too close to it,

you are gonna get harmed.

I spent ten years as an intelligence

officer for the Navy.

And before that,

six years as Air Force intelligence.

And I spent time on the UAP task force.

I'm one of the intelligence officials

that has experienced biological effects

of encountering UAP.

Since my first encounter,

I've observed other craft, orbs,

we'll call it exotic energy fields.

Unfortunately, um,

those of us who have investigated it,

we become part of the investigation

or investigated by our colleagues.

The population had

about a 25% mortality rate

within seven years

of having an interaction.

Probably important

that the public understands

that this is more than

just an aerial phenomenon.

When you have an anecdote

that is accompanied by medical data,

that's something that I can hand to

another scientist, another doctor and say,

"Here it is. You explain it."

We can argue about what the conclusion is,

but we can't argue that the data is real.

The deputy director

of Naval Intelligence,

who understood

the national security concerns of UAP,

directed me to start quietly building out

a whole government interagency effort

that ultimately became the UAP task force.

This new program

was much bigger than AATIP ever was.

Our mission was to detect,

analyze and catalog UAPs

that pose a threat

to US national security.

I had handpicked members from all 16

agencies of the intelligence community.

The Secretary of Defense formally

announced the UAP task force

in August 2020,

naming me the first director.

Everyone in authority was

paying attention to this topic.

One distinctive moment for me was briefing

then Secretary of Treasury, Steve Mnuchin.

I got through my briefing.

And at the end of the brief,

he sat back in his chair

and he said, "You know, Jay,

you may wonder

why I asked for this briefing."

He said, "What are the economic impacts

of the president going to the microphone

and telling the world we're not alone?"

I have to think about those kinds

of impacts in order to prepare

if the president were to make that move.

Meanwhile, Chris Mellon and I

were working with the Senate

behind the scenes

to craft UAP legislation

that was then taken by Marco Rubio

and pushed

into the coronavirus relief bill.

When President Trump signed

this legislation into law,

it then forced the Pentagon

and the UAP task force to provide

written reports to Congress,

both classified and unclassified.

The long-awaited Pentagon report

on UFOs has finally been released.

The Director of National Intelligence

just a few days ago

released a new report on 144 sightings.

When we talk about sightings,

we're talking about objects

that have been seen

by Navy or Air Force pilots

or have been picked up

by satellite imagery.

Frankly, there are a lot more sightings

than have been made public.

The report

clarifies that most incidents

over the past two decades

are not from the US military or other

advanced US government technology.

So the issue now is why are they here,

where are they coming from

and what is the technology

behind these devices that we're observing?

As noisy as that

first unclassified report was,

it barely scratched the surface.

The few elected officials that got to read

the classified version of the report,

it opened their eyes to the national

security concerns surrounding this topic.

There's enough obvious evidence here

that we need to take this seriously,

not downplay it.

I don't believe they're coming

from foreign adversaries.

Uh, if they were, that would suggest

that they have a technology

which is in a whole different sphere

than anything we understand.

Uh, frankly, China and Russia aren't there

and neither are we by the way.

Trillions of galaxies out there,

so who knows what might've

developed somewhere else?

What we believe is that

there are unexplained aerial phenomena

that have been cited

and reported by pilots,

Navy and Air Force,

that these phenomena have in some cases

had an impact on our training ranges,

on our pilot's ability to fly,

train, operate and stay ready.

Um, that alone makes it a national

security issue worth looking at.

We don't know.

We don't have the answers

about what these phenomena are.

As we continued

to make progress,

a very powerful

disinformation campaign began.

This effort was to destroy

my reputation and credibility, full stop.

When the government started running

this despicable disinformation campaign

against Lue,

I actually received an email one day

from the Pentagon Public Affairs office

with this narrative

that they were providing back to the media

that was completely false.

I replied all to that email and said,

"This is wrong,"

and they ran with it anyway.

They actually told the American people

that Lue Elizondo did not work there,

and that was an outright lie.

My family and I

suffered greatly for it.

All you have in your life

is really your credibility and your word.

It's heartbreaking.

They don't want anybody that's

based on facts being involved in this,

so what do they do?

They go online and try to belittle

Elizondo and me and anybody else

that's trying to do it

in a scientific way.

As hard as it was,

I was still being privately encouraged

by former members of AATIP

to continue the fight,

and so that gave me the motivation

to continue to press forward,

and the fire that we started

continued to spread.

After decades of public denial,

the Pentagon now admits

there's something out there,

and the US Senate

wants to know what it is.

UFOs, Unidentified Flying Objects,

are real?

The government has already stated

for the record that they're real.

I'm not telling you that,

the US government is telling you that.

There's footage and records

of objects in the skies

that we don't know exactly what they are.

What's your viewpoint

on what these objects,

uh, that seem to defy

all laws of physics are?

Well, first of all,

that's a legitimate question now.

There are lots of mysteries out there.

It should keep us humble.

There's a lot of stuff we don't know.

There've been sightings

all over the world.

And when we talk about sightings,

the other thing I will tell you is

it's not just a pilot or just a satellite

or some, um, intelligence collection.

Usually we have multiple sensors

that are picking up these things.

There's always the question of

is there something else

that we simply do not understand

that might come extra-terrestrially?

I think it's a bit presumptuous,

if not arrogant for us to believe that

there's no other form of life anywhere

in the entire universe.

I've seen some of those videos

from Navy pilots,

and I must tell you

that they are quite eyebrow-raising,

and, um, might in fact be

some type of phenomenon

that is the result of something

that, um, we don't yet understand,

and that could involve

some type of activity

that some might say

constitutes a different form of life.

We don't know if the non-human

intelligence that is already here

is exclusively extraterrestrial

or perhaps

some sort of cryptoterrestrial.

Some people who are into

the physics of time travel think

well, maybe they're time travelers.

Even some sort of proto-human

that somehow branched off

from the human family tree long ago

and is as natural

to this planet as we are.

Some ancient civilization

that's sequestered away

somewhere on the Earth

or on the seabed.

We've heard testimonials

from pilots as well as civilians

from different countries having

seen things come from the ocean,

unexplained things, and these aren't

missiles, they aren't rockets,

they aren't aircraft or submarines.

These are other-worldly things

that are performing maneuvers

that haven't been seen.

In fact, we have tracked UAP

underwater going at speeds

in excess

of several hundred miles an hour,

but without the associated signatures.

I retired

as the oceanographer of the Navy,

being the senior advisor for the Chief

of Naval Operations in the Pentagon.

But our knowledge

of the ocean's rather limited.

We haven't even explored

80% of the ocean volume.

We have mapped the surface of Mars

and the moon to a higher resolution

than the Earth's sea floor.

Is it possible that whatever

we're seeing isn't from out there,

it's from down there?

Are we looking at an entire

world underneath the water?

I think it's very safe to say that with

so much of the ocean volume unexplored

and the sea floor unmapped that

if any intelligence were to arrive here

and not want to be detected,

it would stay in the ocean.

All these possibilities could come

with different intentions and motivations.

Whoever it is, they're here

and they're operating here,

and they have been operating here

for a long time.

In 2022, we started pushing Congress hard

to hold public UAP hearings,

and that's when disclosures

started to get to the next level.

House panel is holding a public hearing

on mysterious flying objects.

The chairman of the House

Intelligence Committee describes this

as one of the great mysteries of our time,

and it's a big day for all of these people

who have spent so many years

pushing for more transparency

into this topic.

Out of everything in Congress

and everything happening

currently in our country

and world right now,

the UAP topic has been

one of the only topics

that's received

this level of bipartisan support.

It's just not an issue,

at least as of yet, in this country

that lends itself to some sort of

partisan or ideological divide.

Democrats and Republicans

just want to understand what's going on.

This hearing and oversight work

has a simple idea at its core.

Unidentified aerial phenomena

are a potential national security threat,

and they need to be treated that way.

UAPs are unexplained.

It's true, but they are real.

They need to be investigated,

and many threats

they pose need to be mitigated.

There is something there

measurable by multiple instruments,

and yet it seems to move

in directions that are inconsistent

with what we know of physics

or science, more broadly.

There are a number of events

in which we do not have an explanation,

in which there are flight characteristics

or signature management,

um, that we can't explain.

We know that our service members

have encountered

unidentified aerial phenomenon.

And because UAPs pose potential

flight safety and general security risk,

we are committed to a focused effort

to determine their origins.

The capabilities, systems,

processes and sources we use to observe,

record, study or analyze these phenomena

need to be classified

at appropriate levels.

We do not want, we do not want

potential adversaries to know

exactly what we're able

to see or understand

or how we come

to the conclusions we make.

Therefore, public disclosures

must be carefully considered

on a case-by-case basis.

The hearing was a historic

bipartisan effort towards transparency,

but it left both the American public

and Congress

with more questions than answers.

While I was making progress,

I learned that the Legacy Program was

quietly behind the scenes pushing back,

and they were creating

bureaucratic hurdles.

They were somehow

able to block the funding

that was approved for the UAP task force.

I can't describe it any other way

than I was just angry.

There's this hidden hand that is blocking

all of these actions and things I'm doing.

A subversive government

overriding the real government.

It's so bad that we really

aren't going to make progress

until someone shines the light on them.

Then the staff

and the members start to dig in more.

They begin to understand the landscape.

They begin to understand

how much secrecy there is,

how much resistance there is

to coming clean on this.

As Congress began hearing from

whistleblowers in classified settings,

they came to the realization

of the existence of the Legacy Program.

The main players in the Legacy Program

have long been

the Central Intelligence Agency,

the United States Air Force,

the Department of Energy,

and major defense contractors.

The Central Intelligence Agency

is responsible for the oversight

of the overall effort.

You might think of them as a little bit

as a headquarters element.

The Deputy Director of Science

and Technology at the CIA

controls the UAP

crash retrieval portfolio.

The United States Air Force

is responsible for field operations.

These are the folks that are responsible

for deploying within moment's notice

anywhere in the world to go

secure and retrieve crashed UAP.

We have intelligence teams

quickly notified if there's some UAP event

that might involve a crashed vehicle

or pieces from a crashed vehicle.

The United States Air Force

uses their own special forces,

but they also coordinate

with other special forces

in other branches of US military.

They're so well organized

that they basically can get to a site,

gather material, whatever it is,

and once it's in their possession,

they have the authority to classify it,

and therefore make any information

about it unavailable to the public,

even admission that it exists

unavailable to the public.

The defense contractors,

they're responsible for the exploitation

and the reverse engineering

and analysis of the materials.

They provide technical

and advisory services

that the government doesn't have.

And last but not least

is the Department of Energy.

They are the world's experts in anything

that is related to either atomic

or nuclear technology

or anything that gives off radiation.

But there's another advantage

because the Department of Energy

has its own security

classification system

well outside the overview

and oversight, if you will,

of traditional classification systems

like the Department of Defense

or the intelligence community.

They've used the security

and classification language

in the Atomic Energy Act to hide

the Legacy crash retrieval program.

The intelligence officials

that have briefed on these

crash retrievals have talked

about a number of different species

having been observed

to be associated with the crash.

Bodies recovered

are not all of the same type.

I'm aware of at least

two advanced non-human species,

one of which made contact

with the Legacy crash retrieval program.

The other of which, the bodies were

recovered by the crash retrieval program

in various crashes.

One of the questions is often raised,

if they're so advanced,

why are there crashes?

But of course, I mean, you know,

cars are well made

and people drive them carefully,

but there are crashes. It can happen.

Another option that's being considered

is that maybe some of these

were not "really crashes,"

but that they were left here

for us to examine

in order to advance

our technology forward at a faster pace.

So in that sense, they can be seen

as gifts from a more intelligent species.

One of the questions that would

then be raised would be, well,

are gifts distributed differently

among different nations

or more or less h*m*

to see who survives

and makes progress the fastest?

It could be a giant IQ test,

you might say.

As we brought

whistleblowers to Congress,

we learned that the Legacy Program

was involved in a long running secret w*r

with other nations

to collect and reverse engineer

vehicles not made by humans.

In this secret theater of w*r,

the US has both allies and adversaries

in a winner takes all scenario.

This is a very complicated

geopolitical landscape,

where alliances and allegiances

shift like sand in the desert.

We would certainly prefer

a situation where the retrieval

is either in international waters

or some other uncontested location

or maybe in an allied country,

but every country in the world

would do everything in their power

to try to retrieve

an exquisite piece of technology.

The first country that cracks

the code on this technology

will be the leader for years to come.

This is similar to the Manhattan Project.

We developed the atomic weapon.

We won the w*r, and it made us

a superpower for almost a century now.

This is the atomic weapon on steroids.

Some of the craft observed could be

the result of say our Legacy Program,

or on the other hand,

it might be the result of advancements

made by potential adversaries.

We have seen highly credible

US government intelligence

on the Soviet recovery

of a crashed UAP in 1989.

They recovered a Tic-Tac shaped UAP

that was twice as big as the Tic Tac

that was encountered

by the USS Nimitz carrier strike group,

and they did recover

four bodies of humanoid aliens.

The Soviet scientists

took apart the recovered craft

and discovered a very advanced

directed energy weapon.

China is at the top of everybody's list

of concern right now

in the Defense Department.

Some of this UAP activity

we are seeing here in the United States

may actually be a result

of a Chinese UAP

reverse engineering program.

If Xi Jinping had access to this,

if Putin had access to this,

and they thought

that we did not have access

to similar capabilities

than what they did,

do you think for a second

that they wouldn't consider

using it to achieve

their ends of domination?

And if their

approach to it is driven by science

and a desire to match

what they think is ours,

we'll wake up one day and realize,

I don't know how they got there,

but they got there ahead of us,

and now we're screwed.

This technology can absolutely either

revolutionize the way we do things

or completely destroy

everything that we know.

It often reminds me of the famous speech

by President John F. Kennedy

when we were

right at the threshold of entering

into a new era of discovery in space.

There is new knowledge to be gained

and new rights to be won,

and they must be won

and used for the progress of all people,

for space science

like nuclear science and all technology

has no conscience of its own.

Whether it will become a force

for good or ill depends on man.

And only if the United States

occupies a position of preeminence

can we help decide whether this

new ocean will be a sea of peace

or a new terrifying theater of w*r.

Some of this is so secret,

there have been very, very few people

in our entire government that have

been allowed or provided access to it.

Some presidents have been briefed

on the basic facts about the situation,

but they are not provided

with all the details.

I think there's

this assumption that presidents

can walk in the Oval Office

on day one and say,

"All right, take me to Roswell.

Show me the alien bodies."

"I want to see the video, the autopsy.

I want to see the whole thing."

"Open it up."

I think that really is a, um--

A naive understanding

of how our government works.

Even presidents have often been

operating on a need-to-know basis.

That's certainly true

from historic standpoint.

The rationale, the justification was,

the president shouldn't know

about these things because that way

the president always has deniability.

All they need is a nod

in this direction or in that direction,

but that begins

to ramp out of control.

Frankly, I don't even know

if president would know who to ask.

You could go to the director of the CIA,

nowadays, the director

of National Intelligence, and ask them,

and even that person may not know

because those people rotate,

but people three layers underneath them

that are there for 30 years,

to them, it's like, "I've seen

these people come and go."

"I have no obligation

to tell them it exists."

It just never percolates up.

A lot of people have this assumption

that the director of CIA's

right onto everything

and knows everything.

The director of CIA

is a political appointee.

Quite frankly,

they're temporary help,

whereas the Director

of Science Technology at CIA,

this is a career

intelligence professional,

that's where you're gonna put the program.

I had a few private conversations

with former president

George Herbert Walker Bush in 2003

in which he told me that

when he became the CIA director

in the Ford administration,

he was not briefed on the

Legacy UAP crash retrieval program.

But he later found out about it,

and he informed me

that there were a number

of crash retrievals that had taken place

since the mid-1940s.

And he also informed me

of a UAP event that took place

at Holloman Air Force Base in 1964,

where three UAPs approached

the Air Force Base.

One of them landed on the tarmac.

And a non-human entity

deboarded the craft that landed

and interacted with uniformed Air Force

and civilian CIA personnel.

And when he asked for more details,

he was told that

he did not have a need to know.

I served over 30 years

as a Army Green Beret

in the United States Army.

I ended my career as Secretary of Defense.

Some intelligence official decided,

I, the acting Secretary of Defense,

did not have a need to know

about the UAP topic.

Several of

my colleagues participated

in a panel organized

by the George Bush administration

when the administration contemplated

going public with disclosure.

What it was a group of ten or 12 people

from intelligence agencies,

from the military, some business people,

and they said, "Here's what's going on."

"The Americans, the Russians,

and Chinese all have crash retrieved craft

from some other civilization,

and there's some belief at this point

that maybe

this should be revealed to the public,

and we want to know

what would the consequences be?"

This is a topic

that has a potential to create

serious ontological shock to society.

It's not just national security.

It's psychological, it's sociological,

it's theological and it's philosophical.

It's undermining in many ways,

it's troubling to a lot of people to say

that there's something else out there

either otherworldly, interdimensional.

I think unfortunately

it goes against our traditions,

our cultural traditions,

our religious traditions,

and it challenges

the beliefs of a lot of people.

The Vatican has irrefutable evidence

that non-human intelligence exists.

Although publicly

they don't want to acknowledge it,

privately,

they are very well aware of this.

What happens when society realizes

everything it's been taught

about the entire history of our species

has been wrong

and everybody learns all at once

that we're not the top of the food chain?

We're not the alpha predators.

It would be a shakeup for institutions,

it'd be a shakeup for norms,

it'd be a shakeup in society.

One has to be careful

and one has to remember

that it's conceivable

that there's something

that's so disturbing or disruptive

or negative that there is a rationale

for not immediately disclosing

all of that information.

We actually came up

with a list of 64 areas

that really would be impacted to some

significant degree by such a disclosure.

We add up all the numbers, it looks

like this would be kind of a bad idea.

Did you go through the secret files,

the UFO documents?

Now that you're out of office,

you can do anything you want, right?

That's true. Yeah.

Uh, but I'm not telling you.

Without a doubt,

there's hardly been any program

that has been so successfully

kept out of the public eye

as anything like crash retrievals

of unknown craft.

This line of strong control started

at least in the Truman administration

with the Roswell crash.

In AATIP, we learned that the UAP event

at the US Army airfield

in Roswell in 1947 did actually occur.

It was described to be

a boot-heel shaped UAP

that broke into two pieces on impact.

And observers saw

what looked like hieroglyphics

or some type of writing on it.

You might describe 'em

as runes or glyphs, hieroglyphs,

that were actually on the craft itself.

And within that crash,

non-human bodies were recovered.

Four non-human bodies were recovered

from the UAP crash at Roswell.

The recovered material

rom the crash, including the bodies,

were all sent up to Wright Field,

which is now called

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

That's where the US had

their best reverse engineers.

Think about the context

for everything in 1947.

The US had just won World w*r II

and was entering into

a Cold w*r with the USSR.

These UAP presented a technology

of unfathomable power.

It was imperative that the US be able

to reverse engineer this new technology

before anybody else or before

anybody else even knew about it.

You can't tell your friends

without telling your enemies.

That's a key component to every decision

as to what we do or do not release.

Back in 1947,

when they looked at this and they realized

it was real and they realized

they had no idea what it was.

This was something you couldn't

just talk about because the role

of the President of the United States

and the role of the military

is to defend the United States

and to protect its citizens.

If this is something

that they can't protect against,

they're not gonna come out and say it.

They're not gonna scare anybody.

They don't want to tell

the American public about the threat

because there's nothing

they can do about it.

It was only a couple months after

Roswell that President Truman signed

the National Security Act of 1947,

which established both the Air Force

and the Central Intelligence Agency.

That was the start point in which

both the CIA and the Air Force

began to take

operational control of the UAP topic.

But it wasn't until

a couple of years later

when Truman signed

the Central Intelligence Agency Act

that really allowed, endorsed the CIA

to be able to run

secret intelligence operations

outside the normal

routine oversight channels.

Basically be able to run operations

without anybody knowing.

From Roswell on,

the strategy for dealing with the public

and ensuring US secrecy is maintained

was to basically adopt the strategy

of deny everything, admit nothing,

make counter accusations,

put out false narratives,

intimidate and discredit witnesses.

In essence, deny, deny, deny.

Establish stigma surrounding this topic

in order to prevent

any type of disclosure.

Executive Order 12333 bans covert action

to influence the public and the media,

but the Legacy crash retrieval program

has been ignoring that.

In fact, they are aggressively

influencing public opinion

by using an active

disinformation campaign.

To create a tradition of disbelief,

where you basically start very early,

"Nah, nah, everybody

who sees UFOs are crackpots,"

and then that gets built in,

you know, to the media enterprise,

it gets built into Hollywood,

it gets built into the public.

CIA funded Hollywood movies

in order to create that ridicule factor

that they still use to this day.

Do you believe that the recent spike

in UFO encounters--

I get the UFO question?

- Yeah, you do!

- Come on, man!

I'm not--

- Would you tell us?

- I'm just--

You know, I loved E.T. the movie,

but I'm just gonna leave it there.

Up until very recently, there was

zero incentive for a naval aviator

to come forward and say,

"This is what I saw."

And honestly, up until very recently,

there was zero incentive for a US Senator

to talk about it

because people would think,

"What's wrong? This guy's a weirdo."

Over the years, military service members,

intelligence officials and even

private citizens have been ridiculed

and made to look crazy to the point

where people have lost their jobs,

they've lost their ability

to provide for their families,

they lost their security clearances.

These people had their lives ruined

simply because they spoke the truth

about what they learned or what they saw.

People that come forward with this,

um, I feel like they've taken

their life in their own hands.

People say, well, government

can't keep a secret.

Well, there are a number of

programs I've been involved in

that have never gotten revealed.

The truth of the matter is

people and programs can be kept secret.

Usually it's just out of personal,

wanting to protect oneself.

This is the most successful

disinformation campaign

in the history of the US government.

The irony in this is that

the deception campaign

to create stigma was so successful

it actually inadvertently

created a new unforeseen problem.

Stigma has been a tremendous problem

that it's actually a national

security threat to the United States.

Other countries are not suffering

from the stigma that we are,

so we are already, as Americans,

at a disadvantage.

How can we expect

to maintain a strategic advantage

when 99.999% of all scientists here

in this country

don't even think it's real?

Science moves forward on the basis

of exchanging information,

and when it's all tied up and held down,

you just can't make progress.

You had information being locked away

that frankly could improve the lives

of every human being on this planet

and change the trajectory for our species.

This information was

and is still being locked down

by the Legacy crash retrieval program.

Too much information resides

in different stove pipes.

It's controlled by different baronies

and different fiefdoms spread throughout

the National Security kingdom.

They each view information as power.

They're each reluctant

to share information.

They hoard it.

They like to trade it like a currency.

All of these things conspire to prevent us

from getting the big picture

and bringing the information together.

It's worth noting

that the Air Force didn't contribute,

uh, any or maybe just

a tiny number of, uh, reports of UAPs.

Notwithstanding the fact

that the Air Force controls

the North American

Aerospace Defense Command,

they're responsible

for space surveillance.

They have aircraft

with superior radar systems

operating in the same training ranges

where the Navy is seeing

and reporting these aircraft,

and yet they claim

they don't have evidence of this.

Imagine we had a situation

where we're saying there are

unidentified submarines

off the coast of the United States,

and the only reports we got

were from the Air Force

and the Navy had nothing to say about it.

During the George

W. Bush administration,

the president routinely went down

to his ranch in Stephenville, Texas,

and I see reporting of UAP activity

over the ranch.

F-16s from a nearby Air Force base

were alerted to intercept this object.

People on the ground saw it.

So I go down and I start asking

questions, "Hey, what did you chase?"

"I'm acting on behalf

of the US government,

and we're trying

to understand what you saw."

And they look me in the eyes and said,

"Jay, we cannot tell you what we saw

because the OSI, Air Force

Office of Special Investigations,

came in here, had us sign

non-disclosure agreements."

"We did see something,

we did scramble on something,

but we can't talk to you about it."

Historically, every time

a military member had a UAP encounter,

it was very quickly swept under the rug,

and they were discouraged

from talking about it.

They put a form down

as a non-disclosure form.

He came storming across to me.

He said, "Don't you ever say that again."

"You don't ever speak of this."

And it made it very clear

that it's something

we shouldn't be talking about

and just keep our mouth shut.

There was a culture of silence.

I didn't talk to anybody about it,

not my wife, not my colleagues,

not people I knew. They just shut up.

There's ramifications

if you were to divulge

any of this information to anyone.

We received an alarm

at our closest m*ssile site.

There was an object directly above

that ICBM nuclear m*ssile,

right on top of the blast door.

No noise, no sound whatsoever.

And it looked like

a mini sun sitting in the air.

It was the size

of a Super Walmart building.

Not just a Walmart,

I mean a Super Walmart.

This thing was gargantuan.

And how it could suspend itself was just

completely unnatural to what we know of

as anything that can fly or hover.

The captain was looking,

just looking up with his mouth open.

And I look up and I see

this object right over

the m*ssile launch tube.

Multifaceted, matte black finish,

an oddly shaped diamond.

Absolutely silent, made no noise.

There was no means of propulsion.

Fifty feet up in the air,

sitting absolutely still.

And it was amazing,

and we kind of looked at one another.

And we were just human beings

witnessing something extraordinary.

And while we're watching this thing,

it went from dead still,

and it shot off toward the horizon

and was gone.

Absolutely instant acceleration.

We had 60 cameras so that

the engineers at Boeing and Douglas

could see every millisecond

of the ignition.

The m*ssile in question

that we photographed was an Atlas D

carrying, as part of an experiment,

a dummy nuclear warhead.

As it was flying along,

the warhead, the chaff,

something else entered the frame.

It shot a beam of light,

and it hit the warhead,

flew up like this,

shot another beam of light down

at the warhead, went like this,

shot under the beam of light

at the warhead, went under here,

shot a beam of light at the warhead,

and then flew out the way it had come in.

All the while, everything in our frame

was moving along

at 8,000 to 9,000 miles an hour.

There's nothing of ours

that could've done that.

What could have done that?

There was this red orange light

hovering above the front gate.

It was about 40 feet in diameter,

sort of oval shape.

And each m*ssile was announcing

a guidance and control system failure.

Our missiles were starting to go down,

so we had all ten of 'em go down.

Within the span of eight days,

we lost 20 nuclear missiles to UFOs.

Vandenberg is home to the infrastructure

that supports

our National m*ssile Defense project,

the system that defends our country

from incoming ballistic missiles

and nuclear weapons.

So it's one of the most

important bases we have.

On October 14th, 2003,

I showed up to work

at Vandenberg Air Force Base

and immediately everybody just

started to tell me about this UFO incident

that had happened earlier that morning.

I reported for work, um,

at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

We were given a briefing

earlier in the day.

Some Boeing contractors

had witnessed a UAP incursion.

Three Boeing contractors

had called in and reported

that a gigantic red square object

was floating over the launchpad

at low altitude.

It was making no noise,

it had no obvious signs of propulsion,

and it was just hovering silently.

It was a very serious

security breach of the area.

And we were told just to be vigilant

when we were out on our shift that night.

And I spent the most of the day driving

around the base looking for these objects.

Later that night,

myself and five security forces members,

we observed a bright light

approaching the base.

As it got closer,

the light was no longer visible,

and it was massive,

the size of a football field,

almost rectangular in shape.

It was just floating there.

No propulsion system, no windows.

It was matte black.

We observed it for another 45 seconds.

And then it shot off thousands

of miles an hour up the coast.

I talked to all the direct witnesses,

over a dozen people,

and even from

their different vantage points,

they all told the same story.

They all saw the same thing.

The UAP activity surrounding

nuclear weapons is not a historic issue.

It's an ongoing issue.

Despite the longstanding denial

by the United States Air Force,

we now have both former and current

very senior Air Force officials

stating for the record

that in fact the Air Force has had

a longstanding involvement in UAP.

I served in the Air Force

for about 32 years,

and my last job in the Air Force

was chief of Air Force Intelligence,

prior to becoming director of

the Defense Intelligence Agency.

When I served in the Air Force,

uh, there was an active program

to track anomalous activities

that, uh, you know,

we couldn't otherwise explain.

Many of them connected with ranges

out west, notably, um, Area 51.

As Congress learned more

about the Legacy Program,

they realized how powerful and influential

the defense contractors have become.

As we look at the actual structure

of the interaction between the government

and private industry in this UAP area,

over the years, it has morphed,

transitioned into it being largely

in the aegis of the contractors.

If you do something within the government,

eventually it can be accessed

by Freedom of Information Act.

But if you do something

through contractors,

they're not available through

Freedom of Information Act.

I had been involved myself in projects

where we made sure that the material

was under contractor labels

so they couldn't be

accessed easily by the public.

But what happens with government,

you need continuity.

People move, people die, people retire.

So what winds up happening is

you have these Legacy efforts going on

in the government contractor side

involving UAP.

And then I, the government official

in charge of this program, leave

and someone else takes my place,

and that person might have

a little bit of awareness

that this project existed.

But then they're replaced

by a third person

who has no idea that the project existed.

But the corporate entity that received

this technology

is still trying to develop it,

and so they begin to commercialize that.

Some of the stuff begins to seep out

in these great innovations

that some company's coming up with

and making money on,

and they claim it belongs to them

and it's proprietary.

Um, and the people in government

who know where it came from originally,

they're long gone and their successors

have no idea that it was there at all.

And so you can start to foresee

where you create in corporate hands

an extraordinary amount of power.

The real risk in transferring technology

that is not useful to us today

to a corporate entity.

Over decades, that corporate entity

comes to basically possess

and control access to it

for their own purposes,

not for the purposes of national security.

In the councils of government,

we must guard against

the acquisition of unwarranted influence,

whether sought or unsought

by the military industrial complex.

The potential for the disastrous rise

of misplaced power exists

and will persist.

We must never let

the weight of this combination

endanger our liberties

or democratic processes.

The reason why our democracy is so strong

because it's of the people

and by the people and for the people.

It's not acceptable to have secret parts

of government that no one ever sees.

It would be unconscionable.

It's against our constitution

and it's wrong.

Non-human intelligence

is not government information,

and the government should not be keeping

that knowledge from the people.

Before he passed away,

I had the privilege

of seeing Senator Harry Reid

quite a few times

in his private residence.

He explained to me that he was

once provided information

on the Legacy Program but denied access.

He was incensed by that.

And when the opportunity

came to sponsor AATIP,

he jumped at the opportunity

in order to ensure

that Congress and the government

had visibility into this topic.

And frankly, we wouldn't be

where we are today

if it wasn't for the courage

of Senator Harry Reid.

Why the federal government

all these years has covered up,

put brake pads on everything, stopped it?

I think it's very, very bad

for our country.

Should we study this stuff?

The answer is yes.

And that's all this was about.

For decades, our government assumed

there must be different

exotic technologies responsible

for each of the observables,

but our scientists realized

one breakthrough technology

could actually be responsible

for everything.

With enough energy,

you could create a bubble,

a warp bubble around a spacecraft

that would have a different property

of space-time

inside the bubble

than on the outside of the bubble.

This energy field

would completely isolate

the craft from the environment.

So you might ask then,

how does the craft actually move forward

within its bubble?

The craft inside the bubble has a way

of altering the bubble's properties

in order to change

its direction of motion.

Such that you have

a downward press in front

and an upward press behind.

So it'd be like riding

space-time in the same way

that a surfer would ride

a wave in the ocean.

And we observe hypersonic velocity

and instantaneous acceleration,

and the reason is that time is moving

differently for people inside the bubble

versus people outside the bubble.

Whoever's inside the craft would

feel like they're just cruising along.

They wouldn't be feeling the effects of

what looks like speeds and accelerations

that would turn

a human being into pudding.

This one breakthrough

can be the key to interstellar travel,

where you want to travel long distances

without taking enormous amounts

of subjective time.

We'd also have low observability

because the bubble acts as a barrier

between two space-time environments.

This would eliminate or conceal

most of the known signatures

of conventional technologies.

This is why radar would have difficulty

tracking a craft because the signal

from the radar would be distorted

by the energy field around the craft.

The radar signatures literally

just moved around the bubble

and doesn't reflect back

to the radar emitter.

So it's not surprising

when someone takes a photo of a UAP,

they find they get

a fuzzy and distorted picture

because they're actually taking

a photo through a space-time barrier.

What's been happening recently

is that we have upgraded our

sensor systems on our fighter aircraft.

And these images that are now picked up

with our advanced sensor systems,

we can begin to see the actual structure

of the energy field around the craft,

which in the past

they would not have been able to do.

We also observed transmedium travel

because the craft is moving

within its own space-time,

and the outside environment through

which it's moving is inconsequential.

This would allow a craft

to go seamlessly from space

through the atmosphere into the water.

And they could do so because

the warp bubble that surrounds them

shunts air molecules

or ocean water molecules

around the craft so that it could

move effortlessly through any medium.

We also observe anti-gravity

because the Earth's gravitational field

is no longer having any effect

on the craft inside its space-time bubble.

This is why a craft does not need say,

engines or wings or other aspects

that we would associate with a craft

that needs to fly in the atmosphere.

It's really disconnected

from the atmosphere.

And the energy field

associated with these craft

causes a highly energetic

wave of radiation,

which is why people getting too close

to a UAP can experience biological effects

that are harmful to humans.

Now that we understand that these craft

exist in a space-time environment

that's different from the exterior

space-time environment,

this can begin to explain

claimed observations by say

military people who have approached

and gotten into a craft

and find that time is running

at a different rate inside the craft

than time running outside the craft.

They think they're only there

for a few minutes,

when they come outside the craft,

some hours have gone by,

so they feel like

they've got missing time.

Or similarly, with respect

to the size of the craft,

if someone is outside the craft

and it looks like

a small craft and they go inside,

it's the size of a football stadium.

Once you've realized

that space and time

are being engineered to be different

inside the craft

than they are outside the craft,

then these anomalies that people

report that sound completely absurd

can actually make sense.

The top issue is

what is their energy supply?

Because the evidence for how much

energy they're using per unit time

so exceeds any kind of power levels

that we can generate.

UAPs have exhibited propulsive

performance characteristics

that imply the generation

of 1,100 billion watts of power.

This is more than 100 times

the daily electrical utility power

generated in the US.

Let that sink in.

One hundred times the daily

power generation of the entire nation.

There are two prevailing hypotheses

for how UAPs create the energy

that warps space-time around them,

and one is that the spacecraft

can produce, uh, its own bubble

of vacuum energy around the craft,

which is also known as zero-point energy.

And the other one is that the craft

could be using quantum entanglement

to draw on a remote

distant source of energy.

If we can understand

the technology that we're observing,

it has so many

potentially beneficial impacts,

including clean energy.

We're seeing these craft

doing unbelievable things,

and it's not combustion engineering.

This is technology that

could replace oil, gas and coal

and protect our planet

for future generations.

How can we use these technologies

and all the capabilities

that come from it,

not to fight a w*r,

but to increase our standard of living,

you know, to increase our ability

to get from place to place.

We can talk more about teleportation,

we could talk more about,

uh, hypersonic travel.

Being able to take human beings

to the next evolutionary step,

which is the stars,

being able to explore

new star systems and planets.

On the other hand,

you'd have to weigh the consequences

of sharing, uh, with the world,

knowing that there are

bad actors out there.

If our adversaries would have

access to that same technologies,

they could flip that into some very,

very powerful weapons of mass destruction.

You could put a nuclear b*mb

inside one of these things and let it fly

right through a building,

through concrete, through steel,

wherever you want it,

anywhere in the world.

We want to talk about it publicly

and encourage folks to talk about it,

but while we're talking about it publicly,

our adversaries are paying attention to

context clues to piece things together

about possible technologies

that we may have

that they don't have access to.

So it's a fine line.

I would opt for making

any new energy source

a humanitarian, uh, issue.

That it should be open.

And we know how to do that.

We've done that with nuclear power.

If the capabilities

that exist come to the forefront

and they become known to the world,

it might very well be that

it is to the benefit of mankind.

While Congress had learned

a great deal about the Legacy Program,

whistleblowers were still afraid

to reveal the most secretive details

about the UAP technology

and non-human bodies

in the program's possession.

We'd been interviewing folks

that would have had evidence of

or first-hand direct contact

with either materials

or a program itself.

They have worked on craft

of out of this world origin, but until...

they leak a video before they commit

suicide by sh**ting themselves

in the back of the head four times,

um, I just don't know

that that's going to get out.

Those people whose job it is

to make sure information doesn't get out

will use whatever tool they can find

to try to convince people

they shouldn't come forward.

We have people that have very high

clearances both today and in the past,

who did really important work

for our government

or continue to do

important work for the government,

who have come forward with some claims

about the US having in the past

recovered exotic materials,

and then we reverse

engineered those materials

to make advances in our own

defenses and technologies.

And that they signed agreements

that they would face jail time

or in some cases some people claim

it would cost them their lives

if they spoke out about these things.

When I have

a whistleblower coming forward,

telling me

that they're in fear of their life

and that people have been hurt

protecting and hiding this information,

that gives me reason for concern.

Determined to get to the truth,

it was Chris Mellon who led the charge

to help Congress draft unprecedented

UAP whistleblower protections.

And in December of 2022,

President Biden signed

the legislation into law.

So even for those who signed NDAs,

they still have a right and an opportunity

to talk about this

in a very healthy and productive way

that informs the American public.

Bombshell claims

from a military whistleblower,

UFO wreckage recovered

by the US kept classified

by a secret

government program for decades.

The UAP task force was refused access

to, um, a broad crash retrieval program,

retrieving non-human

origin technical vehicles,

call it spacecraft if you will.

Non-human exotic origin vehicles

that have either landed or crashed.

I handpicked Dave Grusch

to be part of my UAP task force.

Everything that Dave uncovered is true,

but it barely scratches the surface.

There's a sophisticated disinformation

campaign targeting the US populace,

which is extremely unethical and immoral.

Have people been k*lled

to protect the secret?

That was an ongoing concern.

Dave has been working

tirelessly behind the scenes

with Congress as well,

and we were really poking the bear.

We were making a lot of progress.

We were getting

a lot of information to Congress,

um, and it wasn't necessarily symbiotic

with the Legacy Program in their desires.

I remember one evening, uh, I was

sitting with my wife on the front porch,

and I received a call.

I recognized the voice

of one of a friend of mine,

and he happened to be

one of staffers on the Hill,

and he was very shooken up and said,

"Listen, we had

a very interesting meeting on the Hill."

And an extremely, extremely

senior person in the US government

in the intelligence community

told Congress, for the record,

that there was a committee

of 27 individuals,

and I'm not going to go

into code names here,

that were mulling over the idea

of using extreme measures

to silence David and myself.

k*ll us.

Now, people say,

"Oh, come on, that's conspiracy."

No, it's not.

We have done it before.

Under certain circumstances, we have

k*lled Americans without due process.

If they are a clear and present

national security threat,

we can k*ll Americans.

Now, it's not done very often, but we can.

Without a fair trial,

they just poof, disappear, right?

So here I am.

If I wind up in a month from now

floating in the Potomac somewhere,

you know what happened.

You know what happened. This is the truth.

What else you want to know?

Last year, 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.

This time, we had credible witnesses

testifying before Congress

and American people under oath.

This was a tremendously proud moment

for my colleagues and myself

to watch the fire that we started

continue to grow.

The subcommittee hearing

on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena,

or UAPs, will come to order.

The reality is the American public

deserves to know.

And you better be careful

about a government

that doesn't trust its people

because there's no telling

what they'll pull on you.

It's really important

that we're here in a bipartisan way

to have this conversation,

which is about national security.

The American public has a right to learn

about technologies of unknown origins,

non-human intelligence

and unexplainable phenomenon.

You solemnly swear or affirm that

the testimony you're about to give

is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing

but the truth, so help you God?

- Yes.

- Yep.

I was informed in the course

of my official duties

of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval

and reverse engineering program.

I am hopeful that my actions will

ultimately lead to a positive outcome

of increased transparency.

We were primarily seeing dark gray

or black cubes inside of a clear sphere,

where the apex or tips of the cube

were touching the inside of that sphere.

Since the events initially occurred,

I've learned the objects

have been detected

essentially where all operations,

Navy operations are being

conducted across the world.

These objects have been observed

for over two weeks coming down

from over 80,000 feet,

rapidly descending to 20,000 feet,

hanging out for hours

and then going straight back up.

It wasn't until 2009, until Jay Stratton

had contacted me to investigate.

Unbeknownst to all, he was part

of the AATIP program in the Pentagon.

Are you aware of any individuals

that are participating

in reverse engineering programs

for non-terrestrial craft?

Personally, yes. Mm-hm.

Do you believe that our government

is in possession of UAPs?

I know the exact locations.

I actually had the people

with the first-hand knowledge,

um, provide a protected disclosure

to the inspector general.

Do we have the bodies

of the pilots who piloted this craft?

Biologics came with some

of these recoveries. Yeah.

- Non-human biologics?

- Non-human.

I was wondering if you could speak

a little bit about the interaction

between defense contractor companies

and any UAP-related

programs or activities.

The contractors,

"the metal benders," so to speak,

they're the ones actually doing specific

performance on government contracts.

How does a program like that get funded?

Misappropriation of funds.

Does that mean that there is money

in the budget

that is set to go to a program

but it doesn't,

and it goes to something else?

Yes, I have specific knowledge of that.

Mr. Graves and Fravor,

in the event that your encounters

had become hostile,

would you have had

the capability to defend yourself?

- Absolutely not, sir.

- No.

What we experienced was well beyond

the material science and the capabilities

that we had at the time,

that we have currently

or we're going to have

in the next 20 years.

We have nothing that can stop in midair

and go the other direction,

nor do we have anything that can,

like in our situation,

come down from space,

hangout for three hours and go back up.

Is it possible that these UAPs would be

probing our capabilities, yes or no?

- Mr. Graves?

- Yes.

- Grusch?

- Yes, definitely.

Do you have any personal knowledge of

people who have been harmed or injured

in efforts to cover up or conceal

these extraterrestrial technology?

Yes.

Personally.

Anyone been m*rder*d that you know of?

I have to be careful.

I directed people with that knowledge

to the appropriate authorities.

There clearly is a threat

to the national security

of the United States of America.

Brave witnesses here.

They took an oath to uphold

the constitution of the United States

and dadgummit, they're doing it,

and we owe them a debt of gratitude.

On Capitol Hill today, a bipartisan call

for more government transparency on UFOs.

One was asked about alien bodies,

two others talked about seeing UAPs.

The US government operates

a UFO crash retrieval program

and has a UFO and the remains

of "a non-human or non-human pilots

in its possession."

And when Dave Grusch

said the words non-human biologics,

there was an audible gasp.

I worked with David Grusch when we

both contributed to the UAP task force,

and everything he said under oath

to the Congress and what he put down

in his whistleblower complaint

is 100% true.

A Pentagon report is detailing

a dramatic increase in UFO sightings.

The Pentagon released its report

on UFO sightings today,

saying an additional 366 sightings

have been investigated since 2021.

Now the Defense Department is admitting

not just a couple of incidents,

hundreds of incidents,

scores of incidents

with multiple sensor systems,

multiple witnesses.

A NASA task force is holding

its first meeting on UFOs.

NASA commissioned an independent

study team to examine

unidentified anomalous phenomena,

and this is the first time

that NASA has taken concrete action

to seriously look into UAP.

Are we alone?

Personally, I don't think we are.

I wasn't prepared for the number

of incursions that I see.

This merging capability

outstrips the operational framework

that we have to address it.

Since mankind first started

developing atomic energy,

there has been consistent UAP activity

at sites involved with

the atomic and nuclear process.

We have evolved more technically

in the last 80 years

than we have

in the previous 200,000 years.

And the uptick in UAP activity

has increased in line

with our advancement

of harnessing energy.

We realized we are on the path

to exploiting the energy levels needed

to warp space-time,

and UAP have been observing

and clearly been interested

in our rapid progress.

Despite developing

massively new technologies,

we don't see

an equivalent moral increase

in how we deal with each other.

We are still invading

sovereign nations.

We're still threatening nuclear w*r

eighty years after dropping atomic bombs

that vaporized hundreds

of thousands of human beings.

Let's face it, we are a violent species.

So if I were a species

from somewhere else,

even if I were

a hidden species on the planet

who saw how we were coming up this curve

of, you know,

atomic energy and nuclear energy,

and then beginning to realize

what it takes to do

their kind of technologies

with warping time

and warping space and so on,

I can imagine that could be seen

as a threat to another species

because they would recognize

that once it's only a matter of time

and they're going to be doing

what we're doing

and then we're gonna have

to deal with them.

So it doesn't surprise me

that their highest priority would be

to identify what threats they might face

to learn everything about them.

This pattern of activity

seems to me utterly logical.

It seems to me to be

an extension of the evolutionary process

that governs life

writ large as we know it,

which is self-preservation is number one.

When I hear stories of either

nuclear weapons sites being shut down

or turned on, what that tells me

is something quite interesting.

First off is that something

has a technology capable of reaching

into our nuclear weapons systems

at a distance in ways

that we don't understand.

Okay, that's just capability.

But you ask the question about intent,

at the very least, what it tells me

is that they're showing us

what they can do to us at will

or with us or they can stop us.

Now, they didn't stop us from

blowing something up in Japan.

They didn't stop the first of the bombs.

At some level, they're willing to let us

see the consequences of our actions.

But at another level,

they're willing to also show us that

"You might think that you could

hurt us one day, but you can't."

"We really can just reach in and stop you

or cause you to blow each other up."

"Because at the end of the day,

you're getting in our way,

and you're really starting to annoy us."

So even though it has been reported

that some of our fighter pilots

have chased these objects

and even fired missiles at them,

there has not been

some kind of strong negative retaliation.

So it'd be pretty easy to come

to the conclusion they're friendly,

and that's fine,

and there's no real threat there.

But the truth of the matter is, uh,

you have to take into account, well,

under what condition,

you know, that might change.

For example, if you have ants

at the back of your yard,

uh, they're not a threat to you,

so that's fine,

but if they come and invade your house,

suddenly they're a threat.

And so it could be

the same in this situation.

So at least within the defense

and intelligence industry,

we automatically assume the worst

because we want to be prepared

against the worst if it should happen.

There's a concern within the defense

and intelligence communities

that UAPs have been undertaking

long-term surveillance

of human technological advancement

for the possibility that they may need

to intervene to prevent

a conflict between us and them.

One of the reasons that I am

so ardent about this issue is

because I think it has the potential

to change the perspective

and the outlook of world leaders

and the populations of those countries

to see more of what we have in common

and the challenges that we face together.

If we're gonna survive as a species,

we need unprecedented levels

of international collaboration.

I occasionally think how quickly

our differences worldwide

would vanish if we were facing

an alien threat from outside this world.

Thomas Jefferson once said,

"I'm not an advocate for frequent

changes in laws and constitutions."

"But laws and institutions

must go hand in hand

with the progress of the human mind."

"As that becomes more developed,

more enlightened,

as new discoveries are made,

new truths discovered and manners

and opinions change."

"With the change of circumstances,

institutions must advance

also to keep pace with the times."

Our current Senate leadership feels

the same as our founding fathers.

And throughout the fall of 2023,

my colleagues and I

met with Senate leadership

to help give them clarity on the facts

as they fought for the most historic

UAP legislation we've ever had.

Never in the history of our nation

have we ever seen any type

of legislation regarding UAP

that is as detailed and specific

and as directive as this one.

United States government has gathered

a great deal of information about UAPs

over many decades, but has refused

to share it with the American people.

That is wrong, and additionally

it breeds mistrust.

There is, we believe, information

and data that has been collected

by more than just

the Department of Defense,

but by other agencies of the

federal government as well.

Information on UAPs has also

been withheld from Congress,

which was a violation

of the laws requiring

full notification

to the legislative branch.

The bill I worked on with Senator Rounds

offered a common sense solution,

the Unidentified Anomalous

Phenomena Disclosure Act.

This would be the most aggressive

measure that we've frankly ever seen

in history when it comes to disclosure

about what the government knows

and has, as it relates to UAPs.

The measure would also give

the federal government control

over all recovered technologies

of unknown origin

and biological evidence

of non-human intelligence.

Eminent domain allows the US government

to take control of anything

for national security reasons

or for the betterment

of the American people.

A requirement as a transparency measure

for the government to obtain

any recovered UAP material

or biological remains

that may have been provided

to private entities in the past

and thereby hidden from Congress

and the American people.

The eminent domain section

was not crafted accidentally.

It was designed to be put in there

clearly to lay out our expectations.

Contractors may have information

that they have held,

or materials that they have held

over an extended period of time,

and this is our way of addressing it

and making it clear

that it should be delivered

in an appropriate fashion,

and that they need

to be negotiating with us now.

Their bipartisan plan

for more transparency

is getting some major pushback though.

The, um, defense contractors

give money legally

to a lot of my colleagues that provide

a great deal of the pushback on this.

There's a lot of money coming from

the defense industry to support

elected officials with their campaigns.

And then when the time comes for these

elected officials to try to get

to the bottom of things,

they're compromised.

Something with the capabilities

of traveling light years,

not showing a heat signature

and the energy capabilities of that,

that would put the Pentagon

out of business.

We wouldn't be fighting these

worthless wars overseas over oil

and American boys and girls

wouldn't be dying.

It would put w*r pigs out of business.

Unfortunately,

there was too much resistance

and the most historic elements of the

proposed legislation did not become law.

We've got a big mess on our hands.

We've got 80 years of lies and deception

that quite frankly ruined

a lot of people's lives,

and nobody wants

to take responsibility for that.

This is not an endeavor here

to go out and punish anyone.

But nonetheless, we would need to know

what they learnt, taxpayers paid for this.

And I think offering amnesty

is extremely important.

Let the past stay in the past,

then collectively move forward.

It's essential we keep

working on our proposal.

I'd like to just acknowledge

my dear friend, the late Harry Reid,

a mentor who cared

about this issue a great deal.

So he's looking down and smiling on us,

but he's also importuning us

to get the rest of this done,

which we will do everything

we can to make happen.

But where there was smoke, there was

a fire, and Congress is now aware of it.

And so what that allows us to do

is circle the wagons and try again.

Welcome to today's historic hearing.

There are certain individuals

who didn't want this hearing to happen

because they feared

what might be disclosed.

Do you solemnly swear to affirm that

the testimony that you are about to give

is the truth, the whole truth,

and nothing but the truth,

so help you God?

I do.

Has the government conducted secret

UAP crash retrieval programs? Yes or no?

Yes.

Were they designed to identify and

reverse engineer alien craft, yes or no?

Yes.

Excessive secrecy

has led to grave misdeeds

against loyal civil servants,

military personnel, and the public

all to hide the fact

that we are not alone in the cosmos.

The US is in possession

of UAP technologies,

as are some of our adversaries.

We are in the midst

of a multi-decade secretive arms race.

One funded

by misallocated taxpayer dollars

and hidden from our elected

representatives and oversight bodies.

Now that we know UAP

are interacting with humanity,

we should not turn a blind eye,

but instead boldly face

this new reality and learn from it.

One of the most important actions

that can be taken relative to exposing

the truth of UAP is to combat the stigma.

NASA personnel stepping forward

and participating in such discussions

would make a powerful statement

to the scientific community

that UAP should be taken seriously

and researched accordingly.

To the incoming administration

and Congress,

I say to you, we need

immediate public transparency,

and this hearing

is an important step on that journey.

The truth is out there.

We just need to be bold enough

and brave enough to face it.

America wants their pizzas

in 30 minutes or less,

and that's about our attention span.

And I think the Legacy Program is, um--

They think that America

will draw its attention somewhere else,

and I just don't think that's the case.

I think we've let the fuse.

I think the American people

are ready to receive the truth.

Sitting here

in a Senate building

recognizing what change

has been occurring,

I never thought I'd see

this day come frankly.

And now that I see it here,

I am unbelievably hopeful

that it's going to filter down

into our society

to where everyone realizes

that the human species

is actually in a melting pot

of many species throughout the galaxy.

What I expect to come out of that is,

first of all, a greater appreciation

of what it means to be a human.

And to me, that kind of change

on the human character

is probably more significant

than what we can learn about

atoms and molecules

and propulsion systems.

My grandchildren are going to grow up

taking into account

and thinking about the fact

that the universe,

uh, is full of life.

We're on the threshold

of an entirely different understanding

of the universe

and our place within it

and technological opportunities

and possibilities

that were the stuff of science fiction

just a few years ago.

The people behind the Legacy Program

truly believe

that the secret is so intense

that they can't share it

with the American people.

There may be aspects of this

that are so intense they can't share it.

However, I think the basic fact

that we are not alone in the universe,

we can share that

with the American people.

We can handle it at this point.

Hopefully one day, the American people

will learn the bigger story

and how it impacts us all.

I want to tell the American people

what I know,

but I can't because a vast majority

of it remains highly classified.

I feel tremendous pressure

to share what I can

because I know there will come a time

where we all wish

we had done things differently.

That moment is imminent,

and when that moment comes,

I know people will say, "I wish

somebody would've told me sooner."

Remember, as far as we've come,

we are still only just beginning

the greatest paradigm shift

in human history,

the age of disclosure.