This past week in Disclosure:

Sep 19 – Former President Donald Trump shares reports of UAP incidents he received from fighter pilots

In response to a question on Area 51, Trump segues into a description of UAPs reported to him by 4-5 US fighter pilots:

"There was a round object going 4x faster than my F22"

Sep 19 – Rep. Carson provides a "no comment" amidst rumours of an alleged discovery of non-human life by the James Webb Space Telescope

Amidst a swirl of uncorroborated (as yet) rumours related to a potentially significant discovery by the JWST, some have speculated Members of Congress may have received a briefing on this topic.

When asked whether he had attended any classified briefings in connection to the JWST, Rep. Carson replied – "no comment".

Many commentators have speculated wildly based on this statement (in combination with some uncorroborated claims), however this author believes it would be unwise to read into this in any meaningful way at this juncture.

Sep 19 – Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand confirms the US Senate will hold a UAP hearing in November

In conversation with Askapol, Sen. Gillibrand relayed that the US Senate will hold a UAP-related hearing in November. The hearing will be hosted by the Armed Services Committee.

She had previously suggested this hearing would provide an opportunity for the new head of AARO to provide additional context on the Historical Review Report, and to elaborate on the results of ongoing/completed UAP case analyses.

Sep 20 – the UAPDA fails to make it into the manager's package for the FY25 NDAA

According to the latest publicly available legislative package put forth, the 2024 UAP Disclosure Act will not be considered for inclusion in the FY25 National Defense Authorization Act.

The language includes 3 UAP-related actions, which have been summarised here.

Sep 20 – Rep. Nancy Mace will chair the 2nd public UAP hearing on Nov. 13th in the US House

Speaking to Askapol, Rep. Mace confirmed the follow-up to last year's UAP hearing in the US House is scheduled for November 13th.

"For me, it's about government transparency. How much money and where are we spending this? And then, you know, I want whistleblowers to feel like they can come forward. I want people protected. Every American deserves the right to know how their how their tax dollars are being spent and what it’s being spent on. And if it's no big deal, why hide it?”

Sep 20 – Top-ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee shares thoughts on upcoming UAP Hearing

In a conversation with Joe Khalil, Sen. Wickers comments on the upcoming UAP-related hearing in the US Senate:

"[The UAP issue] is not going away, I don’t think we should be afraid of hearing from experts & trying to winnow the myths from the reality"

Things to look out for in the near future:

September/October/November

• According to Senator Gillibrand – a public hearing in line with AARO's latest report can be expected soon, saying –"I’m hoping July, and if not then September. But I’m trying to do July.” This has more recently been confirmed to be happening in November.
• Speaking with Askapol, Reps. Luna and Burchett indicated that the next UAP hearing is likely to come after the August recess. More recently, this UAP hearing has been penciled in for November 13th.

Beyond/currently unknown

• Following the UAP hearing on the 26th of July, Members of Congress have called for a select committee with subpoena authority, to “go about the task of collecting information from the Pentagon and elsewhere” on unidentified flying objects. There have been conflicting messages from various Members of Congress on whether this is likely to happen anytime soon. Note – a select subcommittee was formally requested on March 13th.
• Reps. Moskowitz, Luna, and Burchett have repeatedly stated their intent to hold field hearings to overcome stonewalling from the Pentagon and military establishment "I think we [Congress] should try to get into one of these places [housing UAP evidence]…and if they won't let us in I think we should have a field hearing right outside the building…and the military will have to explain why that is." – Rep. Moskowitz (D) It is currently unknown when exactly we might expect that to occur, however as of Jan 12 – Rep. Luna confirmed: "I feel confident that we have enough evidence to move forward with our first field hearing. We will be announcing details soon."
• Several journalists have indicated that first-hand witnesses of the alleged UAP legacy programs are in the process of providing testimony/evidence to the relevant authorities (e.g. the IC IG) and/or are on the verge of making public statements in the near future (Example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4)
• David Grusch has received additional clearances through DOPSR to discuss some of his (alleged) first-hand knowledge of Legacy programs. He has mentioned he may be covering more of this information in an upcoming Op-Ed

Skimmed through this post but need a quick refresher on how we got to this point? Check out this handy Disclosure Timeline to get up to speed.