November 2024 House Oversight UAP Hearing
| November 2024 House Oversight UAP Hearing | |
| Date | November 13, 2024 |
|---|---|
| Body | Subcommittees of the House Oversight Committee |
| Led by | Rep. Nancy Mace |
| Witnesses | Tim Gallaudet, Luis Elizondo, Michael Gold, Michael Shellenberger |
| Notable | 12-page Immaculate Constellation report entered into the record |
| Outcome | No findings on the claims; no official confirmation |
| Status | Official proceeding |
On November 13, 2024, subcommittees of the U.S. House Oversight Committee held a joint hearing titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,” led by Rep. Nancy Mace [1]. Four witnesses testified: retired Navy Rear Adm. Tim Gallaudet, former Defense Department official Luis Elizondo, former NASA official Michael Gold, and journalist Michael Shellenberger [1].
The hearing is notable on this wiki mainly because Shellenberger gave Congress a 12-page document describing an alleged secret Pentagon program, Immaculate Constellation, which was entered into the record [3]. The claims were not verified at the hearing, and no official response confirming them has been reported [1][2].
Background
The hearing followed the July 2023 House hearing in which David Grusch alleged a decades-long crash-retrieval program, and AARO’s March 2024 Historical Record Report, which found no evidence of extraterrestrial technology; Mace criticized that report at the hearing [2]. The Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office had been created in July 2022 and accepts reports only from current or former government personnel and contractors with direct knowledge, NPR noted [1].
Testimony
Tim Gallaudet
Gallaudet described the January 2015 Navy encounter associated with the “Go Fast” video and said an email containing the video disappeared from recipients’ accounts the next day [1]. He told the panel he had concluded UAP information was likely held in a compartmented special access program, and that an earlier 2024 meeting with AARO was an “influence operation” in which officials tried to discredit whistleblowers [2].
Luis Elizondo
Elizondo testified that UAP are real and that the U.S. possesses UAP technology; he said a signed agreement limited what he could discuss and, asked who builds the technology, said it “may be both” private companies and nonhuman intelligence [1]. Asked by Rep. Tim Burchett whether UAP programs operate without congressional oversight, he answered “100 percent,” and said the Defense Department has a long history of providing misleading information, some of it coordinated with former AARO leadership [2].
Michael Gold
Gold urged an end to the stigma around UAP research and called for funding for better instruments. He said most sightings are likely drones, experimental aircraft or weather, but not all [1].
Michael Shellenberger
Shellenberger submitted about 214 pages of testimony, including a timeline of UAP reports from 1947 to 2023, and called for transparency legislation and for cutting funding to undisclosed UAP programs [1]. In his opening statement he described the Immaculate Constellation report, saying it identified an active, highly secret Pentagon program that consolidates UAP observations; he cited alleged incidents involving an F-22, an aircraft carrier flight deck and a video of a white orb, and referred to FOIA researcher John Greenewald Jr. on restrictions on UAP information since 2017 [3].
The Immaculate Constellation document
Mace said Shellenberger had delivered an original 12-page Pentagon document that day, describing in one section an unacknowledged special access program and in the other U.S. government imagery intelligence. It was entered into the record without objection [3]. NPR reported that Public described the program as an “Unacknowledged Special Access Program” and that the F-22 incident involved roughly three to six UAP at an unnamed place and date; NPR did not independently verify the claims [1]. A Defense Department spokesperson had earlier said the department has no record of any such program [4]. Entering a document into the record does not authenticate it [5].
Aftermath
No agency confirmation of the Immaculate Constellation claims has been reported in the sources reviewed for this page. In 2025 Matthew Brown identified himself as the report’s author [6], and in December 2024 The Black Vault filed a FOIA request with the NSA that drew a Glomar response [5]. See the September 2025 House Oversight UAP hearing for the next major session.
Assessment
Documented: the hearing took place, the witnesses testified as described, and the 12-page report was entered into the record [1][3]. Claimed but unverified: that UAP programs are held outside congressional oversight, that the U.S. possesses UAP technology, and that Immaculate Constellation exists. Testimony under these conditions is evidence of what witnesses said, not proof of the underlying claims.
See also
- Immaculate Constellation
- Michael Shellenberger
- Matthew Brown
- Nancy Mace
- Tim Gallaudet
- Luis Elizondo
- Tim Burchett
- 2023 Congressional UAP Hearing
- September 2025 House Oversight UAP Hearing
- House Oversight Committee
References
- ^ NPR, “Experts testify before lawmakers that the U.S. is running secret UAP programs,” November 13, 2024. npr.org
- ^ Micah Hanks, “Former Officials Warn Lawmakers of Alleged Secret UAP Programs Operating Beyond Congressional Oversight,” The Debrief, November 13, 2024. thedebrief.org
- ^ “House Hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Transcript,” Rev.com. rev.com
- ^ Straight Arrow News, “Secret Pentagon UFO program allegedly operating without Congress’ knowledge,” October 9, 2024. san.com
- ^ John Greenewald Jr., “Pentagon Says It Has No Record of ‘Immaculate Constellation’ — NSA Denies Appeal and Won’t Say Whether It Does,” The Black Vault, September 17, 2026. theblackvault.com
- ^ “Brown, Matthew – alleged Immaculate Constellation whistle blower,” Anomaly Archives. anomalyarchives.org