Supporters of UFO disclosure say the movement has reached a tipping point.
With President Donald Trump ordering the declassification of UAP-related materials and public interest surging worldwide, a coalition of lawmakers, whistleblowers and researchers is preparing what they describe as a historic push for transparency.
On June 9, David Grusch and several members of Congress will gather at the US Capitol to call for the public release of UFO-related evidence he says remains hidden in classified government channels.
Grusch previously testified under oath before Congress in 2023, claiming he had firsthand knowledge of secret government programs involving technology of non-human origin.
The former intelligence officer is expected to outline why he believes those materials should now be reviewed and released to the public.
‘President Trump now has an historic opportunity; this press conference is about moving from testimony to action,’ Grusch said. ‘Let the American people judge the facts for themselves.’
Investigative filmmaker and moderator of the meeting, James Fox, said: ‘The public deserves real answers, Congress deserves access, and reality should not be classified. If our requests are fulfilled, this could change the course of history.’
The second batch of UFO files released by the Pentagon included a video of a mysterious object in the sky
The event, set for 1pm ET, will feature remarks from Representatives Eric Burlison, Jared Moskowitz, Anna Paulina Luna and Tim Burchett, with additional participants to be announced.
Burlison said in a press release: ‘President Trump is the first president to take concrete steps towards transparency on UAP.
‘The recent releases are an important start, so now it’s the obligation of Congress to make sure career intelligence officials don’t obstruct his directive, in order to prevent selective disclosure or another dead end.’
Officials said additional releases from agencies, including the CIA, are expected in the coming weeks as pressure grows for greater transparency surrounding UFO investigations.
For decades, many UFO-related records remained locked away due to Cold War secrecy, national security concerns and fears about exposing sensitive military technology detected by radar and surveillance systems.
Critics have long argued that successive administrations avoided publicly acknowledging unexplained cases out of concern over public backlash, institutional embarrassment and growing conspiracy theories surrounding UFO investigations.
On Wednesday, President Trump held a Cabinet meeting where he said: ‘We’re releasing a lot of information having to do with extraterrestrial… things and people are totally fascinated by it.
‘It’s literally trending number one, can you believe it?’
David Grusch (center) previously testified under oath before Congress in 2023, claiming he had firsthand knowledge of secret government programs involving technology of non-human origin
Grusch testified alongside two other military whistleblowers, Ryan Graves, an esteemed former pilot, and Navy veteran fighter pilot Commander David Fravor, who witnessed the 2004 ‘Tic Tac’ UFO.
House lawmakers held the hearing to pressure the executive branch to release more information about unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) or UFOs.
This significant event was the first time these three men, or any individual, had sworn under oath about UFO encounters.
Graves, a former F-18 pilot with over a decade of service in the US Navy, was the first to give opening statements.
‘My testimony is based on information I’ve been given by individuals with a long-standing track record of legitimacy and service to this country, many of whom have shared compelling evidence in the form of photography, official documentation and classified oral testimony to myself and many various colleagues,’ he told lawmakers, stating he was driven to share it by a ‘commitment to truth and transparency.’
He told the committee that he and more than 30 aircrew members and veterans have experienced UAPs, unidentified aerial phenomena, along with members of Congress who have confided in him.
Graves said, as an F-18 pilot in the Red Rippers, their squadron was ‘split by UAP’ during a training mission near Virginia Beach in 2014.
He described the object as ‘dark gray or black inside a transparent sphere.’ It was about 15 feet in diameter and came within 50 feet of the lead aircraft.
Ryan Graves, a former pilot, Air Force and intelligence agency veteran David Grusch and Navy veteran fighter pilot Commander David Fravor have been sworn in and are ready to share their experiences
The mission commander ended the flight, and the squadron submitted a safety report. Graves continued to explain.
‘This story is more common than we expect,’ Graves said, ‘more than 30 witnesses had told his group about similar sightings.’
‘Often, they are veterans with decades of flying experience,’ he added.
Graves also said: ‘UAPs are in our airspace but are grossly underreported.’
Grusch spoke next, providing details about how the US government has ‘intact and partially intact’ extraterrestrial vehicles.
He has previously said the US has run a top-secret UFO retrieval program for decades and claimed the ‘Vatican was involved’ in the first-ever UFO crash.
Grusch said last month that the first recovery of a UFO was in Magenta, Italy, in 1933, and Mussolini’s Italian government held it until 1944 through 1945, when Pope Pius XII tipped America off about it.
David Fravor discussed the Tic Tac-shaped object seen in the sky over California on November 10, 2004 Video of what the Navy could trace of the object was leaked in 2017, and the Pentagon declassified the case in 2020
‘Due to my extensive executive-level intelligence support duties, I was cleared to literally all relevant compartments and in a position of extreme trust in both my military and civilian capacities,’ Grusch said during Wednesday’s hearing.
‘I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to which I was denied access to that additional read-on when I requested it.’
Grusch also said he had faced brutal retaliation after coming forward about his firsthand accounts of UFOs.
‘I do have knowledge of active planned reprisal activity against myself and other colleagues.
‘There were certain colleagues of mine who were brutally administratively attacked. It makes me very upset as a leader to see that happen to other co-workers and superiors of mine in the last three years,’ Grusch added.
Fravor reminded the world about his infamous 2004 encounter with the ‘Tic Tac’ UFO.
‘I’d like to say that the tic tac object we engaged in 2004 was far superior to anything that we had at the time, have today or looking to develop in the next 10 years, he said.
‘If we, in fact, have programs that possess this technology, it needs to have oversight from those people that the citizens of this country elected in office to represent what is best for the United States and best for the citizens.’
Fravor described the Tic Tac object as being ‘perfectly white, smooth and had no windows,’ with ‘two little objects that came out of the bottom.’
