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Kirk McConnell

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Kirk McConnell

Kirk McConnell is a former U.S. congressional staffer who spent 37 years on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and the House Intelligence Committee before retiring in early 2024. He was among the bipartisan Senate staff who investigated the UAP issue on behalf of interested senators.

Varginha Capitol Hill conference (Jan 2026)

McConnell opened the January 20, 2026 National Press Club conference on the varginha-incident, organized by james-fox. He stated that senators — including now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio — held SCIF meetings “with very credible sources reporting both direct and secondhand knowledge of the reality of highly intelligent nonhuman beings, government retrievals and reverse engineering of craft not made by human beings, and the recovery of bodies of non-human beings.”

He argued that non-disclosure agreements do not bar witnesses from sharing UAP information with Congress when presented in secure facilities like SCIFs — “It’s illegal to withhold information from Congress” — and noted that no one has ever been prosecuted for providing classified information to Congress. He added that “we’re not yet at the tipping point for most members of Congress.” (src-varginha-capitol-hill-2026)

June 9, 2026 — Grusch press conference

At/around the June 9, 2026 Capitol Hill event, leslie-kean cited McConnell as having witnessed classified Senate briefings — including marco-rubio — about recovered nonhuman bodies (src-lawmakers-crash-retrieval-immunity-2026-06).

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