United States Congress

“Every year, Congress authorizes the US defense budget in what is called the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).”

“As a result, Congressional committees included language about their UAP concerns in the FYs 2019 through 2023 NDAAs and a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on the FY 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act.”

“Congress created the All-domain Resolution Office in the NDAA of 2022.”

“In July 2022, AARO—the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office—was announced. This new permanent UAP office had to report to Congress.”

“Consistent with congressional direction, AARO provides quarterly reports, semiannual briefings, and an annual report to Congress in coordination with the ODNI.”

“on January 12, 2023, the ODNI submitted the 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena to Congress.”

“When Hoagland and Erol Torun began making inroads in the United States Congress to make Cydonia an imaging priority for the upcoming Mars Observer program, the response began to get harried.”

“Hoagland and the other researchers then began to lobby NASA and Congress to target the formations, only to make an extremely unpleasant discovery. Neither NASA nor Congress had anything to say about where Michael Malin had pointed his Mars Orbiter camera.”

“Only minutes before his public statement, Klineberg had informed Hoagland and several other attendees in a private meeting in the Director's office that NASA was "under intense scrutiny from Congress, because of SEI."”

“a former member of the Congress’ Gang of Eight SAP oversight group”

“Reid claims that this one incident prompted him to seek Congressional funding for a study.”

“While Senator Harry Reid's AAWSAP funding from Congress ran out in 2012”

“Neither Congress nor the public has ever seen the Tic Tac report or any of the other 100-plus research papers.”

“Mr. Reid, who retired from Congress this year, said he was proud of the program.”

“Wargaming it with Jay and Chris Mellon, we realized that the only way to change the way the Pentagon was handling this was to get Congress to make them change.”

“Chris Mellon and I had begun to engage people on Capitol Hill in an effort to make change in Congress.”

“Before we headed to DC on this first trip, he coached me on the ground rules. We were not *lobbyists*. That word meant one who cultivated political relationships with the expectation of results favorable to one’s industry. In contrast, we would not ask for anything.”

“The first step of the strategy would be to engage key professional staff on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) and the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) as well as members of Congress.”

“Unfortunately, few in Congress had any real previous understanding of the UAP issue and generally saw it as an odd “nonissue” for kooks and as politically risky.”

“In July 2022, Congress unanimously voted for inclusion of the most historic UAP legislation written at that point in the National Defense Authorization Act for the fiscal year 2023.”

“It requires that Congress must be notified within 72 hours after evidence has emerged of a UAP program that, '… has not been explicitly and clearly reported to the congressional defense committees or the congressional intelligence committees.'”

“if those administering this program, '… conclude that the preponderance of information available regarding the disclosure indicates that the observed object and associated events and activities likely relate to a special access program or compartmented access program that, as of the date of the disclosure, has been explicitly and clearly reported …' to the relevant committee, then it does not have to be disclosed.”

“It also provided protection from reprisals for those who came forward with their stories. This meant that anyone—civilian or military—who ever signed an NDA relating to UAP would be free to speak to Congress in a classified setting.”

“This official government UAP report had proven so important, and of such great public interest, that Congress then required it on an annual basis.”

“the powers that be, took their pushback to the next level and somehow managed to block the funding that had been appropriated to the UAP Task Force by Congress”

“A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin.”

“An unclassified version of the complaint provided to us states that Grusch has direct knowledge that UAP-related classified information has been withheld and/or concealed from Congress by “elements” of the intelligence community “to purposely and intentionally thwart legitimate Congressional oversight of the UAP Program.””

“The information, he says, has been illegally withheld from Congress”

“Now, with two public hearings and many classified briefings under its belt, Congress is pressing for answers.”

“the powerful internal investigative body that oversees the nation's intelligence agencies found a whistleblower's assertion that UFO-related information was inappropriately concealed from Congress “urgent and credible.””

“alleging that elements of the U.S. government had thwarted Congressional oversight, withheld information from proper Executive Branch officials and illegally concealed programs tied to the recovery and reverse engineering of craft of unknown, non-human origin”

“None of the programs mentioned by interviewees are UAP reverse-engineering programs, and all the authentic programs have been properly notified and reported to Congress through the congressional defense and/or intelligence committees.”

“what they provided to Congress was a watered-down version of recent incidents, beginning with the 2004 Nimitz case”

“The Roosevelt’s Lieutenant Ryan Graves and other pilots were eventually summonsed to give confidential briefings to members of Congress.”

“seeing what Congress was not being told and not having appropriate insight akin to the Church Committee committees of the 1970s and not having insight on the CIA, NSA, and FBI's activities. I just thought it was wrong that this was allowed to go unchecked for so many years.”

“They have written a report and provided it to members of Congress.”

“a lot of the 46 or so videos that were allegedly provided or brought to the attention of the Congress were originally alerted to the knowledge of the Congress UAP caucus, I'm told, as a result of great work done by Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp.”

“the folks in Congress apparently received the Immaculate Constellation docs. minutes before the hearing, so they did not have time to review it.”

“This historic legislation proves that Congress is aware of the Legacy Program's possession of nonhuman bodies and advanced technology not made here on earth and not made by human beings”