The U.S. “is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries,” he said during a recent Congressional hearing.
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Over the last two years, Congressional hearings on UFOs have introduced new terms to the popular vernacular. From hearings on Navy pilots who spotted a “Tic-Tac” UFO in 2004, we got the term “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP). Then reports of strange objects hovering above the ocean gave us “Unidentified Submerged Objects” (USOs).
Now, believers and skeptics alike can add another new bit of vocabulary to the debate around these bizarre happenings, which may tie them all together: “Immaculate Constellation.”
During last week’s UAP hearings on Capitol Hill, multiple witnesses described the elaborately named program as an alleged information-gathering and evidence-retrieval program conducted by the Pentagon without Congressional oversight. The Immaculate Constellation program, they say, has been withholding a treasure trove of high-resolution images and other data about UAP sightings from the public for decades.
The November 13 hearings followed up on the June 2023 Congressional event in which retired Navy Comm. David Fravor and fellow pilot Lt. Comm. Alex Dietrich described how their F/A-18 Hornets spotted and chased a white “Tic-Tac”-shaped UAP for several minutes. According to analysis of radar tracks and grainy infrared video shot by the F/A-18s, the object displayed speeds of more than 45,000 miles per hour and pulled more than 2,000 Gs.
Jump ahead to 2024, and a new crop of believers have come forward about the function of Immaculate Constellation—gathering reports of major UAP sightings and possible encounters; investigating possible crash or landing sites; and gathering physical UAP evidence, biological material, or technology.
“The U.S. military and intelligence community are sitting on a huge amount of visual and other information—still photos, video photos, other sensor information—and they have for a very long time,” said journalist Michael Shellenberger, one of the witnesses at the November 13 hearing. Meanwhile, the public has only ever seen fuzzy photos of some of those incidents.
Shellenberger delivered an 11-page report to Congress during the hearing, detailing claims about Immaculate Constellation; he says a current or former official and UAP whistleblower authored the report.
The November testimony line-up also included one-time Air Force Intelligence officer David Grusch—who claimed during a prior hearing last summer that crashed UAPs had not only been recovered and studied for reverse-engineering, but that “non-human biologics” had also been discovered inside—and Lue Elizondo, who formerly headed the Pentagon’s secretive UFO unit.
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