Restoring Public Trust through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection - An Analysis (by Kevin Randle)

by Kevin Randle, published on September 10, 2025

Original Source: https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2025/09/restoring-public-trust-through-uap.html?m=1

Well, that was a colossal waste of time. There was nothing there that we haven’t seen before. Oh, don’t get me wrong, a few nuggets dropped, but I don’t think many picked them up.

I’m talking about the “Restoring Public Trust through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection” hearing. That long title tells us little about what we witnessed as congressional representatives, led by Anna Paulina Luna, talked about the importance of transparency and the courage of those who had come forward to tell tales that are basically unsupported by additional witnesses or by evidence gathered through instrumentation, such as radar and other sensor arrays.

Just last week, I reported on a man who appeared in the documentary Age of Disclosure. He said that he had seen non-human craft and non-human bodies. One of the representatives at this meeting, Eric Burlison, was so unimpressed by this revelation that he mentioned he wasn’t interested in talking with Jay Stratton. I believed that when it was announced that first-hand witnesses would be interrogated at this hearing, we would hear from other first-hand sources about their encounters with those non-human aliens and descriptions of close-up examinations of those non-human craft.

After listening to the opening statements by Luna and Representative Jasmine Crockett, which said more about Crockett’s political bias than about alien visitation, we got down to the witnesses. Not one of them talked about first-hand experiences involving those non-human aliens. They didn’t talk about seeing the bodies rumored to have been stored at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base or at the now-closed Lowry Air Force Base near Denver. Instead, they described personal sightings or government-related experiences involving whistleblowers or George Knapp, who reportedly saw Soviet and, more recently, Russian files on their UFO investigations.

I will note that Representative Luna was not overly impressed with the former head of AARO, Sean Kirkpatrick. She called him a documented liar and said he dismissed evidence that might suggest UFOs were nothing more than Earth-based technology or misidentifications without properly investigating. In other arenas, she said he blocked information and discredited witnesses. She was responding to Kirkpatrick’s remark that the hearings were a parade of “charlatans and grifters.” That suggested a somewhat open hostility by Kirkpatrick to the idea of alien visitation, which was the problem with Project Blue Book until it was closed in 1969. A long list of those in charge of Blue Book rejected the idea of alien visitation out of hand with no regard for evidence presented to the contrary.

At this latest hearing there was Jeff Nuccetelli, an Air Force veteran who had a role in the investigation of mass UFO sightings at Vandenberg AFB beginning in 2003. Yes, he saw a strange craft, and he spoke with the witnesses and gathered evidence of the sightings. His sighting wasn’t particularly impressive, but it was a first-hand account.

Alexandro Wiggins, a former Navy chief petty officer, talked about his sighting on the USS Jackson in 2023 that involved various forms of instrumentation. He saw four glowing objects come out of the ocean and take off into the sky without breaking formation. It was a somewhat better documented case, but it didn’t involve a close-up view of alien bodies or of the craft that emerged from the ocean.

Dylan Borland, who told us about harassment by government officials, including the loss of his job as a Geospatial Intelligence Analyst for the Air Force. That was a result of his sighting of a glowing triangle that took off from Langley AFB. Although there were no other witnesses because of the late hour, the close approach of the UFO caused his cell phone to fail. After he reported his sighting, his life and career took a dramatic turn. He lost his job and cannot find another in his field of expertise. For those paying attention, apparently his unemployment benefits are going to expire in just a few weeks.

And then there was Joe Spielberger, described as the Senior Policy Counsel with the Project on Government Oversight, known as POGO. He was not there to talk about a first-hand UFO sighting or an observation of those rumored alien bodies, but to talk about whistleblowers and how the government operates when dealing with them. If he had any first-hand knowledge of UFOs (like Representative Burkett, I don’t like UAP) he never mentioned it.

Here is where the hearing, at least for me, slipped off the rails. Not one of the witnesses had any first-hand knowledge of alien creatures. Those who had seen craft were talking about watching something anomalous in the atmosphere and not the remains of a wrecked flying saucer. They were witnesses to their own sightings, often without the benefit, for the most part, of corroborating witnesses or electronic data.

It was George Knapp’s discussion of his investigations in Russia that caught my attention. I’m not sure if others caught it, but he talked of a Russian colonel who told him about an intrusion at a Russian missile base that knocked out the base’s ability to respond, if necessary, to an attack by another nation. I found this interesting because of the 1967 intrusion on one of the missile fields controlled by Malmstrom Air Force Base. A large glowing disc seemed to knock out one and possibly two flights of missiles. According to the theory of the time, an outside force taking the missiles offline was supposed to be impossible. Our Air Force claimed that it was some sort of technical glitch such as an EMP, but that would have taken out more than just the missiles. Knapp did mention that the Russians didn’t offer the EMP excuse to him as the source of the problem. It was something off-world.

For those who might be interested in more about the Malmstrom Air Force Base intrusion, see:

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2020/12/coast-to-coast-belt-montana-ufo-sighting.html

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2025/06/aaro-uap-wall-street-journal-somewhat.html

There is some duplication of information in these two postings, but they provide a good analysis of those sightings and the activity around Belt, Montana at the time. There are other links embedded in those articles.

The other point is that each of the men telling their whistleblower tales talked about harassment by government officials, careers that were derailed, loss of security clearances and therefore income, and reputations that now suggest they are less than reliable, keeping them from finding other work.

Okay, much of that was somewhat interesting, but we have heard all this before from others. We have heard impressive first-hand reports of UFOs and we have heard about the suppression of the information. Just watch Close Encounters of the Third Kind when the air traffic controllers ask the pilots of an airliner if they want to report their UFO sighting. They say, “No,” telling us that there is a price to pay for saying they have seen a UFO. I could list several pilots who have found themselves grounded after reporting UFOs and few returned to the cockpit. Just ask Captain Kenju Terauchi of JAL 1628 about his experiences after reporting a UFO.

We were shown another video of what has been called a drone flying near US naval vessels. That drone was attacked by a Hellfire missile and we see the impact, but moments later the drone, apparently undamaged, flies away at high speed. It is an interesting bit of video that was kept under wraps for months and tends to support the theory of alien technology. This was not the first report of an attempted intercept that failed. At one point, orders had been issued to fighter pilots to shoot down a UFO.

Even with that video, I was disappointed because I thought we might learn who some of those first-hand witnesses to alien bodies might be. David Grusch talked about them months ago, but we still don’t know who they are. (I was going to say that we have no clue, but I believe I do have clues about who they are.) You can see my long list of Grusch’s sources here:

https://kevinrandle.blogspot.com/2024/04/david-grusch-and-his-ufo-crashes.html

I will note one other thing. I reported last week on Coast-to-Coast AM that Eric Burlison was unimpressed with Jay Stratton, who claimed to have seen non-human bodies. Burlison made a couple of comments that suggested he was pretending to have an open mind on the subject, but it was clear to me he was on the far side of the fence. Apparently he didn’t want someone who would claim to have seen non-human bodies to testify before a congressional committee. That might be a reason the Roswell case was ignored.

And I can’t close this rather limited and quick analysis without making one other comment: Roswell. Here is the case that would break this all wide open. Don Schmitt, Tom Carey and I have spoken with many first-hand witnesses to the alien nature of the crash. We have gathered some interesting written evidence and have statements from the children of the witnesses, including Jesse Marcel Jr., whose father was the Air Intelligence Officer at the Roswell Army Air Field during those days in early July 1947. That’s not to mention that Marcel had talks with his father about what he had seen. Jesse Jr. also handled some of that strange metallic debris collected by his father. Yes, those witnesses have passed, but we have written, audio and videotaped interviews with those claiming first-hand knowledge of non-human entities and craft.

My takeaway from this hearing was that nothing has changed. Here we are, years down the road, and while Congress is expressing an interest in the topic, they have yet to get to the heart of the matter. Sightings by sincere witnesses who have nothing other than their tales of seeing unusual craft. Stories of government harassment to keep them quiet and a still somewhat skeptical press that refuses to spend time digging for more information. Sorry, George, I don’t include you among those who wink at the tales of alien visitation. You have put in the work.

The point is we are now decades down this road and we are doing the same thing we have done before. We even had a “scientific” study of UFOs by scientists at the University of Colorado, who fifty years ago told us there was nothing to UFO sightings and it was a waste of time and money to continue the investigations. This was accepted as gospel. This latest round of interest in UFOs proves that their conclusions were wrong.

How long will this charade last? Are we really on the road to Disclosure, or are we being set up for another eventual conclusion that there is nothing alien about UFO sightings? We can then spend another fifty years wondering about the truth because we don’t have it yet.

NOTE: Since I don’t think the Roswell incident was the result of the crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft, I don’t agree with what Randle said in the article when he brought up Roswell. However, I’m on board with everything else he wrote.