House Oversight Briefing on UAP Highlights Transparency Tensions, Grusch Allegations, and a New FAA-to-DoD Reporting Bill

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Lawmakers from the House Oversight Committee, including Raja Krishnamoorthi, Tim Burchett, Andy Ogles, Anna Paulina Luna, Robert Garcia, and Glenn Grothman, pressed intelligence inspector general Thomas A. Monheim for more transparency on unidentified aerial phenomena, weighed David Grusch’s allegations about non‑human spacecraft and a secret crash‑retrieval program (with Luna saying she finds Grusch credible and hoping to bring him back), and backed a bipartisan bill to require the FAA to relay civilian UAP sightings to the Defense Department’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, highlighting a tension between calls for openness and concerns about ongoing secrecy.