UAP Witnesses Are Legally Sealed. Congress Says Fix It.

A group of lawmakers and a former intelligence officer stood on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on June 9 and said something that doesn't usually get said out loud: people inside the federal government have direct knowledge of recovered non-human materials and technology, and they legally cannot tell Congress what they know.

David Grusch, the former Air Force officer who in 2023 testified under oath that the U.S. operates secret UAP retrieval programs, was back. This time, flanked by Reps. Eric Burlison, Jared Moskowitz, Anna Paulina Luna and Tim Burchett, he said additional witnesses are sitting on that information and staying silent. Not because they're protecting national security in any conventional sense. Because they signed agreements that make disclosure a federal legal exposure, and no immunity exists to protect them if they talk.

Burlison called on President Trump to waive nondisclosure agreements for anyone with knowledge of UAP programs, anyone who has come forward and anyone who will. Luna, who chairs the House Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, echoed it. Speakers said a White House meeting on permanent immunity was expected in the days following.

Grusch added that his investigation found what he described as "slush funds to the tune of billions of dollars per annum" funding activities operating entirely outside congressional oversight. He named the Defense Intelligence Agency specifically, accusing it of obstructing lawful requests from Congress.

The result is a closed loop. Classification protects programs from oversight. Oversight can't create accountability without information. Information can't surface without immunity. Immunity isn't in place. The universe is under no obligation to wait for paperwork. The people who may have touched what came out of it apparently are.

Read the full story at C-SPAN, June 9, 2026

Hot Take: Every witness who knows something and can't say it is, legally speaking, not a secret. Just a liability that hasn't been triggered yet. The immunity push isn't whistleblower advocacy. It's Congress trying to unlock a filing cabinet it technically owns.