UFO congressional hearing live: Top scientists and Pentagon insiders break silence on state secrets
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Pentagon whistleblower says 'We are not alone in the cosmos'
Months before Thursday's briefing, Luis Elizondo, a former military intelligence official turned UFO whistleblower told Congress that there was proof of alien life being kept from the public.
During his testimony back on November 14, 2024, he blasted the US intelligence community for 'excessive secrecy' of UAP reports that had lasted decades, adding that it was 'all to hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos.'
Elizondo resigned from his position, running the Pentagon's program to investigate UFO sightings to 10 years, and went public with what he knew in October 2017.
On Thursday, Elizondo is serving as the moderator for this new hearing on UFOs.
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