The latest congressional hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena opened with a blunt statement that the American public has been denied the truth and that federal agencies have repeatedly obstructed oversight. Chairwoman Anna Paulina Luna wasted no time in accusing the Department of Defense and the intelligence community of slow-walking reports, burying disclosures, and intimidating those who came forward. She singled out the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, known as Arrow, for issuing a report that excluded agencies with active UAP investigations and ignored testimony about classified programs. That report, criticized even by former senior defense officials such as Chris Mellon, was described as error-ridden, incomplete, and deliberately misleading. Luna told the hearing that members of Congress had been blocked from viewing videos and files unless they belonged to armed services or appropriations subcommittees, leaving the majority of elected representatives shut out of programs funded with public money. She declared that this lack of transparency amounted to contempt for Congress and contempt for the public.

The most striking testimony came from those who had witnessed events firsthand. Jeffrey Nucatelli, a former Air Force military police officer, described a series of incursions at Vandenberg Air Force Base between 2003 and 2005, at the very time when the base was conducting launches for the National Reconnaissance Office described as the most important in twenty-five years. Nucatelli recounted what became known as the Vandenberg Red Square incident, when Boeing contractors reported a massive glowing red square silently hovering over missile defense sites. Later that night, security personnel reported a bright, fast-moving object approaching from the ocean. Nucatelli responded to the scene and heard his colleagues screaming over the radio as a triangular craft larger than a football field silently hovered above them before vanishing at impossible speed. In the following days, more patrols encountered erratic objects over the ocean and at one point a craft either landed or hovered on the base flight line before shooting away. Witnesses to that encounter were threatened and told to stay quiet. Nucatelli himself later witnessed a thirty-foot sphere of light hovering just two hundred feet above his home before it ascended into the stars. He told Congress that official records of these incidents exist within Arrow and the FBI and that the repeated pattern of intimidation against witnesses had silenced many who feared for their careers and their families.

Alexandro Wiggins, a senior chief operations specialist in the United States Navy, provided testimony about a 2023 incident off Southern California. Serving aboard the USS Jackson, he observed a self-luminous tic-tac-shaped object emerge from the ocean and link up with three others before all four disappeared simultaneously with synchronized acceleration. Wiggins underscored that there were no sonic booms, no propulsion signatures, and no control surfaces visible on the ship’s Sapphire imaging system. He confirmed that the tracks were recorded by multiple sensors and correlated with visual observation. He stressed that these incidents are not rare, that they recur in U.S. operational areas, and that the lack of a systematic reporting structure continues to endanger aviation and maritime safety. His demands to Congress were straightforward: establish standardized procedures for sensor data capture, guarantee that service members can report encounters without stigma or career risk, and declassify data wherever possible to rebuild public trust.

Dylan Borland, a former Air Force geospatial intelligence specialist, delivered some of the most damning testimony of the day. He described witnessing a one-hundred-foot equilateral triangle craft near the NASA hangar at Langley Air Force Base in 2012.