UFOs: Here’s what the US government might not be telling us
On 13 November 2024, four witnesses appeared before the Joint Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability of the US Congress for a session of testimony about so-called ‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs)’. This is the necessary rebrand of the term ‘UFO’ – people spouting those three letters in the past were hardly seen as credible, or worthy of testifying in front of the US government.
The four witnesses were the former commander of the US Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Rear-Admiral Dr Tim Gallaudet; retired director of the Pentagon’s former Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, Luis Elizondo; investigative journalist Michael Shellenberger; and former NASA associate administrator Michael Gold.
The four submitted written testimony ahead of the hearing. Shellenberger also filed an allegedly original document from an unnamed whistleblower about a programme called “Immaculate Constellation”, an “unacknowledged special access program” for top-level oversight of UAP-related activities.
