Michael Shellenberger — House Oversight UAP hearing testimony (Nov 13, 2024)
- Speaker: Michael Shellenberger, opening statement, House Oversight Committee UAP hearing, Nov 13, 2024 (clip).
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/1XYrYZ4ETLQ
- Captured: 2026-05-29 via yt-dlp audio download → Whisper (speech_to_text_remote.py).
- Primary for shellenberger-immaculate-constellation-journalist. His own framing of the Immaculate Constellation reporting: carefully ATTRIBUTED to “the whistleblower’s report”/“the source told me,” with a transparency-advocacy posture. See also the document itself: immaculate-constellation-mace-document-2024-11-13.
- NOTE: Whisper auto-transcript; “Arrow”/“AERO”/“UATP”=AARO; “John Greenwald”=John Greenewald (The Black Vault). Verify quotes against audio before load-bearing citation.
However, we now have existing and former U.S. government officials who have told Congress that Arrow and the Pentagon have broken the law by not revealing a significant body of information about UAPs, including military intelligence databases that have evidence of their existence as physical craft. One of those individuals is a current or former U.S. government official acting as a UAP whistleblower. This person has written a report, this is the report, that says the executive branch has been managing UAP NHI issues without congressional knowledge, oversight, or authorization for some time, quite possibly decades. Furthermore, these individuals have revealed the name of an active and highly secretive DOD unacknowledged special access program, or USAP. The source of that document told public, me, that the USAP is a strategic intelligence program that is part of the U.S. military family of longstanding, highly sensitive programs dealing with various aspects of the UAP problem. The new UAP whistleblower claims that the U.S. military and IC database includes videos and images taken using infrared, forward-looking infrared, full motion video, and still photography. The report that was just shared with Congress says Immaculate Constellation serves as a central or parent USAP that consolidates observations of UAPs by both tasked and untasked collection platforms. Immaculate Constellation includes high-quality imagery intelligence and measurement and signature intelligence of UAPs, the whistleblower’s report adds. The sources of this intelligence are a blend of directed and incidental collection capacities, capabilities, position in low Earth orbit, the upper atmosphere, as well as military and civilian aviation altitudes and marine time environments. The report to Congress details in detail various UAPs, including spheres, orbs, disks, saucers, ovals, triangles, boomerang, arrowhead, and irregular organic. The report describes various incidents found in the human intelligence databases. One involved orbs surrounding and forcing an F-22 out of its patrol area. In another incident, the crew of a Navy aircraft carrier watched a small orange-red sphere rapidly descend from a high altitude of 100 to 200 yards directly above the flight deck of the CVN, or aircraft carrier. And since my reporting on this Immaculate Constellation last month, another source came forward who told me that they saw a roughly 13-minute long, high-definition, full-color video of a white orb UAP coming out of the ocean approximately 20 miles off the coast of Kuwait. It was filmed from a helicopter. Then halfway through the video, the person said the orb is joined by another orb that briefly comes into the frame from the left before rapidly moving again out of the frame. The person discovered the video on SIPR, the Secure Internet Protocol Router Network, which the DOD uses to transmit classified information. A leading UAP researcher who utilizes the Freedom of Information Act to find out what the government knows, John Greenwald, told me last year that the U.S. government had been increasingly denying his request for UAP information. He has been doing FOIA requests for 27 years and has an archive of 3 million pages. The government has for decades denied any interest in UFOs, he told me, but the documents that he has assembled show that behind the scenes, it was a completely different story. Contrary to the hopes of many advocates of transparency, the government has been restricting more information since the leak of three UAP videos in 2017. The DOD organization AERO has been labeling many documents with a B7 exemption, which Greenwald says does not make any sense. They’re stating that anything AERO does is involved in law enforcement investigation, which allows AERO to not release it. Greenwald says the DOD has denied the existence of a UAP and AATIP-related records on multiple occasions only to acknowledge them after an appeal was filed. He added that the Naval Air Systems Command in March 2022 stated they found no additional UAP videos. It seemed strange that they had three and only those three, but other requests had been filed by the Black Vault, that’s John Greenwald’s group, to seek out more places UAPs might be hiding. Then, in September 2022, the Navy admitted that the UAP-related videos and photographs existed but denied the request in full for their release, saying that the requested videos contain sensitive information that are classified and exempt from disclosure. The DOD will deny things on a Monday and then admit to it on a Friday, said Greenwald. He said the government can and does release videos that protect secret methods of capturing it. They fall back on the sensitive platform excuse a lot, he said. However, the on-screen information can be blurred and scrubbed. The metadata can be removed. I’ll show you this example here. This is a presentation from the UATP task force. This is completely absurd. It’s nuts, this level of censorship, of redaction on a document. It shows the redaction of how many reports they’ve collected, for how many years. Two of the three potential explanations are blacked out. The Pentagon, the intelligence community, is treating us like children. It’s time for us to know the truth about this. I think that we can handle it. Thank you very much.