If you’ve been here awhile, you know I’m committed to figuring out what’s flying around in our airspace—and, more importantly, why the U.S. government is hell-bent on keeping it under wraps.

The good news? We’re getting somewhere. The bad news? The process moves slower than that of a spaceship stuck on land.

I don’t care if you call them UFOs or UAPs; something’s out there—and I’ve heard enough to know the American people deserve to see whatever it is in plain sight.

With this goal in mind, the House Oversight Committee held another hearing on the topic this week. For those who have been following along, it was really a sequel to the bombshell revelations we uncovered last year.

If you didn’t have time to tune in on Wednesday, here’s the scoop:

Oceanographer Timothy Gallaudet talked about an email he got while serving in the Navy that warned of "multiple near-midair collisions" and even included a video captured by a Navy plane. The next day, the email vanished from his inbox.
Luis Elizondo, a former military intelligence guy who resigned after a decade of running a Pentagon program to investigate UFO sightings, put intelligence officials on blast for decades of lock-and-key secrets around UAP reports.
Journalist Michael Shellenberger claimed sources have told him that intelligence communities "are sitting on a huge amount of visual and other information" about UAPs.

I’m grateful for these brave folks who are willing to speak up and share what they know; it’s the only way we’re going to peel back the layers of this onion and get to the truth.

But now it’s our job to protect these people. Our government is spending tens of millions of dollars looking into UAPs, yet if someone wants to bring something forward, government bureaucrats shut them up—and I’ve had enough.

People who bring the truth to light should be protected, so I just introduced the UAP Whistleblower Protection Act, a bill that would provide protections for whistleblowers who bring attention to federal funding being used to study UAPs.

As I've been saying for years, what we really need here is just some good old transparency. Stop the cash flow and the research projects until we get some dadgum honest answers. It’s the least these high-and-mighty DOD officials can do.

If UFOs don’t exist, why are they working so hard to keep their “research” in the dark? I don’t know the answer to that quite yet, but I won’t stop until we find out.