UFOs To Be Discussed Again At Congress: What Happened At Last Hearing

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Less than six months ago, witnesses testifying in the halls of Congress reignited public interest in UFOs with regaling accounts of shadowy government cover-ups and strange craft seen whizzing through the sky.

The hearing was the second time in as many years that elected officials paid serious heed to the possibility that extraterrestrials – or some other force – were not only invading U.S. airspace, but that the military knew about it.

Now, another type of meeting to discuss UFOs is set to take place Thursday, May 1, on Capitol Hill. But this event – described as a "briefing," not a "hearing" – won't include testimony under oath, but rather will be a public series of discussions with members of Congress about the unexplained objects, which the government now refers to as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP.)

In fact, three of those scheduled to appear during the briefing, hosted by the nonprofit UAP Disclosure Fund , testified in November 2024 before subcommittees of the House Oversight Committee. The Disclosure Fund, which advocates for government transparency about UAP, said the session will "offer a science‑driven perspective" about the phenomena, as well as the implications for national security.

Here's a recap of what happened not only at that explosive November hearing, but in the days, weeks and months after:

During more than two hours of testimony Nov. 14, four witnesses described to Congress reports of strange craft out-maneuvering U.S. military aircraft and flying in ways beyond the capabilities of known human technology.

In his opening remarks, Luis Elizondo, a former military intelligence official, lambasted the intelligence community for its decades of "excessive secrecy" around UAP reports – "all to hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos," he said. Elizondo resigned and went public in October 2017 after 10 years of running a Pentagon program to investigate UFO sightings.

Elizondo, Gallaudet and Gold are all scheduled to appear May 1 during the UAP briefing. Elizondo is on the Disclosure Fund's board of directors, while Gallaudet joined the organization's advisory board in February 2025.