On September 9, 2025, the House Oversight Committee Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets held a public hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena, with the same witness list announced earlier that week and a focus on whistleblower protection, AARO credibility, and information release norms.12
Origin
The hearing was announced on September 3 by Task Force Chairwoman Anna Paulina Luna, with a stated goal of improving federal transparency on UAP-related sightings, examinations, and whistleblower reporting standards. The notice identified four principal witnesses and located the hearing at HVC-210 in Washington, D.C.2
Congress published the hearing as a House committee event in its September 9 calendar set, linking witness material and the complete hearing text to a public congressional record stream.34
Who
The primary witnesses were Jeffrey Nuccetelli, Alexandro Wiggins, George Knapp, and Dylan Borland, with Joe Spielberger appearing as minority witness counsel. Their written statements were filed publicly for the record before testimony and are preserved on oversight and committee resources.156789
Jeffrey Nuccetelli reported 2003 incursions by a luminous red square over Vandenberg launch pads.5 Alexandro Wiggins, testifying in his personal capacity, asserted that a 2023 Tic Tac-shaped object emerged from the ocean and was observed on multiple USS Jackson sensors; this account is a personal witness assertion, not an official Navy finding.6 Dylan Borland documented retaliatory clearance downgrades after reporting a silent triangular craft over Langley Air Force Base.8 George Knapp asserted, based on his reporting and interviews, that archival material indicated crash-retrieval programs and contractor-held artifacts; this is a personal witness assertion about his source material, not an independently authenticated finding.7
The hearing was chaired by Congresswomen Anna Paulina Luna and other committee members, with witness questioning covering reporting failures, sensor evidence, retaliation risk, and mechanisms for protected disclosures.23
How evolved
The hearing record moved from scheduling and testimony to formal proceedings with opening remarks, sworn testimony, and member Q&A in the House transcript. That evolution shows the event shifted from a planned agenda into a complete evidentiary session tied to UAP oversight and declassification friction points across DoD, the intelligence community, and AARO workflows.3410
During the session, Representative Eric Burlison presented an unverified congressional exhibit: footage he said showed an MQ-9 drone tracking an orb off the coast of Yemen on October 30, 2024, while another MQ-9 launched a Hellfire missile. George Knapp offered a personal witness assertion that the displayed sequence showed the missile striking the object while it continued traveling. The footage remains an unverified congressional exhibit unless officially authenticated; the transcript establishes only that it was shown and described, not that its provenance, object identity, or interpretation has been verified.4
Committee materials then framed the hearing’s outcome as incomplete and called for stronger processes around reporting, investigation access, and whistleblower safety, continuing the policy arc from initial launch to accountability hearings in the 119th Congress UAP docket.10