Hearing-origin evidence
The September 2025 UAP hearing narrative begins with Oversight announcing a hearing focused on UAP transparency, whistleblower protection, and accountability standards for federal agencies. The official committee hearing page identifies date, venue, witnesses, and task-force context for this hearing before the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, documenting the formal origin of the event.1 The follow-up “Hearing Wrap Up” press release confirms the hearing’s policy emphasis and records the committee’s stated conclusion that transparency failures and whistleblower barriers remained unresolved.2
Role and official contributions
The announcement press release set that hearing as a task-force event on Sep. 3, 2025 while Congress.gov’s hearing transcript records the hearing minutes and explicitly captures Jasmine Crockett yielding as Ranking Member to offer an opening statement.34 In that statement she tied the hearing to cross-agency safety, transparency, and whistleblower protections and pressed for federal reporting clarity and non-retaliation norms.4 The same hearing materials also show the hearing as framed by the Oversight chair and ranking structure rather than as a general member testimony session.4
Evolution through the 2025–2026 hearing era
The Oversight subcommittee page for the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets lists Jasmine Crockett as Ranking Member with the committee membership context and party structure, showing her role in the hearing body.5 Related hearing pages through January and February 2026 on the same Oversight portal show continuing committee activity under the same task-force and committee framework, documenting the active hearing cycle immediately following the Sept. 2025 UAP hearing period.67