On June 9, 2026, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers, former intelligence officer and whistleblower David Grusch, and disclosure advocates held a press conference on the steps of the U.S. Capitol at 1:00 p.m. ET to press the federal government for further UAP disclosure. The event was an advocacy and press event, not a congressional hearing — there was no committee, no sworn testimony, and no hearing record.123
This page documents a public call to action rather than a new evidentiary release. It should be read alongside the PURSUE Release 01, Release 02, and Release 03 document tranches, which form the live disclosure backdrop the participants were responding to, and the 2025 Restoring Public Trust hearing, the formal oversight proceeding it echoes.
Participants
The gathering was hosted by investigative journalist Leslie Kean and documentary filmmaker James Fox. Speakers included David Grusch, the former Air Force and Pentagon intelligence officer who testified before Congress in 2023, alongside Representatives Eric Burlison of Missouri, Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, and Tim Burchett of Tennessee, all Republicans, and Representative Jared Moskowitz of Florida, a Democrat.12
Demands
The participants framed the event as a push to move "from testimony to action." Their stated goals were the declassification of UAP-related records, stronger whistleblower protections including immunity and the waiver of non-disclosure agreements, greater congressional oversight, and passage of the UAP Disclosure Act — legislation that would direct federal agencies to declassify UAP records and publish them on public websites.123
Grusch said that "President Trump now has an historic opportunity; this press conference is about moving from testimony to action," and urged that "the American people judge the facts for themselves." James Fox said "the public deserves real answers, Congress deserves access, and reality should not be classified." Representative Burlison credited the administration's PURSUE effort, calling President Trump "the first president to take concrete steps towards transparency on UAP."23
Assessment
The press conference is significant as a political marker in the 2026 disclosure cycle rather than as a source of new documentary evidence. The lawmakers' presence and the timing — days after PURSUE Release 02 and shortly before Release 03 — show sustained congressional pressure for declassification legislation. Grusch's underlying claims about non-human intelligence remain his own assertions and have not been independently corroborated in the public record; AARO's published reviews continue to report no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial origin. This page records the event and its demands, not a validation of the claims made at it.123