Packed UFO hearings take place in Congress as new footage emerges of ‘massive’ craft near US nuclear base

A new round of public UFO hearings in Congress is scheduled for within weeks, according to a senior member of the Senate Defense Committee.

The new Senate hearing, which could take place as early as September, follows another bizarre summer of US military whistleblower claims about these baffling aerial mysteries, including revelations by former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo that he personally touched an “alien” implant removed from a veteran service member.

Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic senator from New York, confirmed the hearing, saying, “It’s a priority for me because I think it’s very important that we continue to make things public.”

The Capitol Hill investigation also comes at a time when many American citizens have reported their own UFO sightings, which Senator Gillibrand said she hopes will soon be added to the purview of the Pentagon’s year-old UFO-hunting office.

Just a few days ago, witnesses filmed what they described as a “huge” UFO with “lots of flashing and spinning lights” 60 miles from a U.S. Air Force nuclear base.

That sighting, filmed from Choteau Montana, an hour’s drive northwest of the legendary UFO hotspot Malmstrom Air Force Base, left one witness “shaking and crying from the experience,” according to her husband, who posted the encounter on Reddit.

“The pictures aren’t scary,” says the anonymous poster noticed“But when you actually see something that you think is a huge object in the silent night sky, flying over YOUR head and house, it has a much greater emotional charge.”

The UFO, which can be seen primarily by “a rotating orange/red light at the bottom” after it no longer looked like a long, shiny white streak, was not one of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite trains that are often mistaken for alien spacecraft, the witness said.

“I’m familiar with Starlink videos,” he pointed out. “When we looked at the object, it was very clear that the lights were around the silhouette of a large craft.”

“You couldn’t see ‘between the lights,'” he explained the encounter to the r/UFOs subreddit. “It was pitch black behind them. We think we saw a disk shape from the side.”

Senator Gillibrand on Monday expressed her hope that the upcoming Senate UFO hearing will restore public confidence in the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) and encourage the public to report their own sightings to AARO’s UFO hunters.

“We also want to try to build the credibility of this office (AARO) so that more people can report sightings and have a place and platform where they can ask information and ask questions,” she said, “because that’s ultimately what this office is for.”

After a troubled first year, during which AARO’s first director, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, publicly feuded with former UFO whistleblower David Grusch and others over an alleged UFO cover-up, the office was largely led by interim acting leaders by 2024.

That changed in late August of last year when the Pentagon announced that the new leader of AARO would be an expert in quantum optics and cryptomathematics from the National Security Agency (NSA): Dr. Jon T. Kosloski.

Then-Senate Defense Committee Chair Kirsten Gillibrand held a hearing (pictured above) in April 2023 in which the previous director of the Pentagon’s UFO-hunting All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, spoke before the Senate for the last time.

Then AARO chief Dr. Kirkpatrick spoke about the challenges of prioritizing and identifying UFOs

“I hope the new leader is the one who will testify,” Sen. Gillibrand told Capitol Hill reporter Matt Laslo, who runs the newsletter Ask a Pol.

Gillibrand, whose fellow New York lawmaker, Sen. Chuck Schumer, has sponsored a detailed amendment to declassify UFO files, previewed the hearing.

She said the Armed Forces Commission would produce a “progress report on how many unidentified aerial phenomena we have assessed and analysed, and provide examples of what we have identified and examples of what we have not identified.”

This kind of public disclosure was an important goal, according to Senator Gillibrand, “so that the community can stay informed about what we are actually doing and what this office (i.e. AARO) is doing.”