Okay y’all, tomorrow is a big day in UFO land. As your resident geek, I am happy to give you the resources you might need to make up your own mind, but I am also always happy to share my thoughts and options, as you well know.
Tomorrow’s congressional hearing on the House Oversight Committee, “Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection,” will be streaming live at 10:00 AM EST. Here is the link.
If you are new to this topic, don’t fret. Please check out “working vocab” tab on Wonderstanding above to get the lowdown. If you need a refresher, UAP stands for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon, anything strange that defies what we understand about reality, flying around in our skies and seas. Sounds like science fiction, but it’s real. You may be surprised that you haven’t heard this was happening in our Congress. This is actually the third hearing of this sort. Here is a 20 minute film created by the New Paradigm Institute with highlights from the November 2024 congressional hearing, authentic UFO/UAP footage, and exclusive interviews with leading voices in the disclosure movement.
Recently, the SOL Foundation released a video of Congresswoman Luna and Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb discussing the upcoming congressional meeting and speculations about the comet 3i/Atlas, which appears to be quite interesting and unique. For scientists like Loeb, anomalies like AiAtlas do not disrupt but inspire science. This is where true science lies: finding weird stuff out there and asking why.
My two cents: I need to take a moment here to discuss that although I believe Luna’s efforts are genuine regarding UAP transparency, I do not agree with most of her political positions at all. I have strong feelings for the freedom and sanctity of women’s bodies. And peace. And human rights. But I digress. She is a talented communicator with an eye for detail, but her ethics I simply do not understand.
Why This Can Feel Disorienting
I know this might feel unsettling. What if UAPs are real and not just science fiction? How would that change the way you see life, your place in it, or what you thought you knew? What would it not change?
Now think about what we call normal: money, time, countries, religion. Imagine explaining all of it to a being from another reality. Would it make any sense at all? Money rules everything even though it has no real value. Some people are born with endless access, others almost none. Invisible gods supposedly love us but punish instincts every other creature follows naturally. We pretend we are separate from nature while depending on it completely. We divide the world into countries, treat paper and numbers as life itself, and measure our worth by rules we invented. We act as if we already know everything about life, history, and the universe, even though we barely understand a fraction.
Step back and it is obvious: what we take for granted as normal is arbitrary, inconsistent, and sometimes ridiculous. That tension, between how strange the world is and how inevitable it feels, is exactly why conversations about UAPs, consciousness, and new ways of seeing reality can be both disorienting and liberating.
All of this sets the stage for why tomorrow’s congressional hearing matters. Learning about UAPs and efforts to increase transparency is not just about strange sightings in the sky. It is about challenging assumptions, opening our minds, and seeing what is possible when we take the universe seriously.
Tomorrow’s Congressional Hearing
Tomorrow, September 9, 2025, at 10:00 AM EST, the U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will convene a hearing titled “Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection.” This session aims to address the need for greater transparency regarding UAPs and discuss measures for protecting whistleblowers who report such phenomena. Witnesses include:
- U.S. Air Force veteran Jeffrey Nuccetelli
- UAP witness Chief Alexandro Wiggins
- Investigative journalist George Knapp
- U.S. Air Force veteran Dylan Borland
Why the Congressional Hearing Matters
Congress is actually holding public hearings on UAPs, which means these sightings are finally being taken seriously at the federal level. This is already the third hearing, so it is not just a one-off headline but an ongoing interest. Lawmakers are even talking about how to protect people who come forward, basically admitting there are credible witnesses out there. The goal is to open things up, build transparency, and rebuild public trust, showing that UAPs are more than a curiosity and touch bigger questions of policy and society.
Key Developments This Summer
In one of the very few things Republicans and Democrats can agree on, Senator Chuck Schumer has re-introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026. The goal is to make more information about UAPs public and finally bring some transparency to a topic that has been treated like a cosmic secret club for too long.
Here is the kicker: the fact that this amendment even exists is a kind of disclosure in itself. Lawmakers would not be putting this forward if these phenomena were not real, if there were not credible witnesses, and if non-human intelligence or unexplained aerial objects were not already being taken seriously at some level. For many people, this may represent the first time that official recognition of non-human intelligence is being hinted at in federal legislation.
Part of the reason transparency has been so limited may lie in how the defense system has operated. Billions of dollars have gone missing in the Department of Defense, and it is likely that private contractors have always held advanced technology, keeping the public in the dark. If powerful interests can control what technology and information we see, it is no wonder that government secrecy has persisted for decades.
The original amendment, proposed by Schumer in July 2023, was a rare bipartisan and bicameral effort to force the government to declassify and release records on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs). This shows that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle recognize there is something happening that deserves public attention.
These are not just bureaucratic moves. They are steps toward holding the system accountable, taking sightings seriously, and finally admitting that the universe might be a lot weirder than we thought. Take a look at the amendment if you are ready to have your reality shift a smidge.
References: congress.gov | Senate Dems
Smartypants article with resources: N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation and Public Policy
other uap developments this summer
That’s a lot to digest right now, I know. If you need a palate cleanser, here are some other things that seem too strange to be true (but remember, our “truth” is weird af).
Plasma
Plasma! If you did not know, plasma is the fourth state of matter, and most of our universe is made of it. Some discussions suggest plasma could even be intelligent or connected to consciousness. This cracks open the limits of what we thought we knew and invites bigger questions about reality.
3i/Atlas
3i/Atlas is the newest comet-like object in the news. Humans have a habit of thinking we understand everything, which is simply not true. Avi Loeb, founder of the Galileo Project at Harvard, has written extensively about this. When3i/Atlas moves closer to Mars in a few weeks, we should have more data to work with. Here is the video again of him discussing this topic at length.
Dr. Beatriz Villarroel’s Research
This summer, Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, renowned for the VASCO project, identified multiple transient objects in the First Palomar Sky Survey that appeared and disappeared in ways that defy conventional astrophysics. These anomalies could suggest extraterrestrial artifacts or phenomena. Watch her interview.
Other Amazing Interviews
- Diana Pasulka in the New York Times- Here is a video with one of my favorite minds on these topics, with a religious studies lens.
- Garry Nolan (co-founder of the SOL foundation) on Joe Rogan They start discussing UAP about an hour and ten minutes in.
Both provide smart perspectives on the weird, unexplained, and mind-expanding aspects of UAPs.
Last, but not least, the New Yorker just came out with this article entitled Whats the Deal with UFOs just in time for the congressional meeting.
Closing
As we watch tomorrow’s hearing and follow the latest discoveries, it is worth remembering that the universe is far stranger and more wondrous than we often allow ourselves to believe. UAPs, anomalous comets, plasma, and vanishing stars are not just curiosities, they are invitations to expand our thinking, question what we take for granted, and embrace a sense of wonder. The more we explore, the more we realize the world is bigger, weirder, and more beautiful than we ever imagined.
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