Initial Reactions to UAP Hearing - 9/9/25
A demonstration of courage, progress, and greater transparency
On September 9, 2025, the Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets held an almost three-hour hearing on “Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection.” Five new witnesses, including whistleblowers with firsthand knowledge or experience with UAPs took their oath, provided their testimony, and answered questions from Task Force members.
Was it the bombshell that will break the wall of secrecy and lies to allow total disclosure to pour forth? No, nor should we hold such expectations. Was it progress? Yes.
What I saw was a rising tide of courage to speak out about what is being hidden from the public and manipulated for narrative control, despite ongoing reprisals, retribution, and intimidation.
I saw a chipping away at institutional blockades, including directly naming gatekeepers, and the gradual assembly of missing pieces into a more cohesive picture of what is really happening.
I rejoiced at witness Borland’s exposure of the core manipulation that says there is “no scientific evidence” for UAP activity or extraterrestrial presence and the plausible deniability it allows. To hold a standard of scientific proof that would require us to travel to other planets, or wherever these objects originate from, and compare alien technology or bodies to our own is to engineer permanent denial. It ignores the mountains of evidence, extending over decades, that suggest we are not alone.
As was pointed out, when you consider the totality of the evidence, it is not a valid conclusion that 100% of videos, eyewitness accounts, and other documented events are fake or misidentified. Even if one instance is true, that is enough to call our reality into question.
Witness Knapp also made the powerful point that there is a long papertrail of internal government documents that simply wouldn’t exist if the phenomenon wasn’t real.
Similarly, the fact that a hearing was needed to better protect people who come forward highlights a larger problem that it is time we all recognize—the government and its contractors actively and deliberately lie to the public, withhold and weaponize truth, and punish those who dare to speak up.
Such a government cannot be trusted…potentially on anything. Certainly not to act in service of our greatest good when that conflicts with power, money, and control.
But on the lighter side, a couple of witnesses offered what we hear so many people say—their encounter with the phenomenon changed their lives, reoriented their worldview, and encouraged them to ask, “what else is possible?”
Despite all the frustration and subterfuge, this is the hope and promise of disclosure and contact—new possibilities for humanity and our evolution.
New Evidence
One of the first questions people ask is whether there was new information or evidence presented to the public. Personally, I heard new details or new accounts of notable UAP events and saw video footage that was new to me, including video taken by a drone following an “orb” off the coast of Yemen. It shows a UAP apparently being struck by a hellfire missile (starts 1:44:17). The missile appears to bounce off or through the object, producing some debris that then resumes traveling behind the main object.
Whatever that object was, it easily shook off one of our most powerful missiles.
Other accounts include military police officer Jeffrey Nuccetelli describing an incident at the Vandenberg Air Force Base, where he saw a glowing red square larger than a football field hovering over sensitive missile defence installations. Chief Alexandro Wiggins talked about his sighting and equipment monitoring of four tic-tac objects with silent, near instantaneous acceleration off the southern California coast. He also provided video.
The highlight for me was the testimony of former Air Force specialist Dylan Borland. As a geospatial intelligence specialist, his expertise is analyzing video and radar. He gave this personal account:
At Langley Air Force Base in 2012, Borland saw a white light pop up and hover about 100 ft above him. He walked toward the light, at which point the object started flying toward him. A triangle then manifests around the light. His phone got totally hot and froze. The triangle was black metallic in color and 1-2 stories thick with 90 degree edges with no sound. It had three corner lights and a larger light in the center. There was a fluid, plasma aura like “gold lava” all around the craft. When it shot off into space, he experienced static electricity and the smell of a spring thunder and lightning storm.
He faced reprisals for over a decade, including being blacklisted in his field. The way he and his information was dismissed and silenced by the very government bodies that supposedly exist to help whistleblowers, like AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) and the Inspector General, is further proof that the government does not want this information getting out.
Borland felt like AARO was largely designed to be a phishing expedition to find out who knows what, not to actually investigate or disclose. His information, like all info related to UAP, was immediately classified. Despite his incredible encounter, there was no after-action report or follow-up investigation. That defies logic and other explanation. Representative Luna seems to see it. She called former AARO lead, Sean Kirkpatrick, a “documented liar.”
When asked for names of who is acting as the gatekeepers to keep all of this information hidden and suppressed, George Knapp screwed his courage to the sticking-place (to quote Shakespeare) and dropped a name: Glenn Gaffney, former Director of Science and Technology at the CIA. He also called out James Ryder at Lockheed Martin.
That is the kind of bravery disclosure requires.
As Borland said, “the time to act is now.”
A number of documents have been posted and more will likely be forthcoming. There was talk of another classified meeting, where more can be shared with task force members. Stay tuned…
Carolyn Brouillard is a passionate explorer of possibility devoted to expanding consciousness, exposing limiting paradigms, and dismantling systems of control. Like what you read and want to show support? You can buy me a coffee here.
Beautiful synopsis.