Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets
Subcommittee within the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. anna-paulina-luna (R-FL). Functions as the primary congressional venue for UAP transparency hearings and whistleblower outreach.
Activity
- Sept 9, 2025 — Hosted “Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection” hearing; witnesses included USAF veterans jeffrey-nuccetelli and dylan-borland. Discussion topics included aaro effectiveness. (src-uap-whistleblower-protection-act-2025-09, src-uap-whistleblower-hearing-2025)
- Fall 2025 — Heard testimony from current and former service members on UAP encounters near U.S. military installations; one senior Navy officer described a 2023 California-coast Tic Tac sighting in which a glowing object emerged from the ocean and joined three similar objects before they sped away. (src-trump-pentagon-uap-files-2026-05)
- April 2026 — Continued hearings on UAP transparency, including the first active-duty Navy testimony from alexandro-wiggins and the Yemen orb Hellfire video released by eric-burlison. (src-uap-transparency-hearing-2026-04)
- April 29, 2026 — Chair Luna on miranda-devine’s Pod Force One says she has “observed things that are of nonhuman origin and creation” inside a SCIF; pledges a press conference upon declassification. Frames the work as Task Force advocacy for further uap-disclosure (src-luna-nonhuman-origin-pod-force-one-2026-04).
- May 22–26, 2026 — Task Force member eric-burlison sent UAP records interrogatories to The MITRE Corporation, an ffrdc, demanding a classified briefing for Task Force members and invoking the FY2024 NDAA uap-records-collection (nara Record Group 615); builds on a prior mit-lincoln-laboratory letter. Extends Task Force pressure from agencies to private contractors. (src-burlison-mitre-press-release-2026-05, src-burlison-mitre-uap-records-2026-05)
- June 9, 2026 — Hosted the Capitol Hill david-grusch press conference, featuring the billions-scale slush-fund claim, DIA obstruction allegations, immunity/NDA-waiver discussion, and eric-burlison’s Yemen MQ-9 dead-drop footage. (src-fox-grusch-hidden-billions-2026-06)
- July 8, 2026 — Member eric-burlison sent letters to CIA Director john-ratcliffe and FBI Director kash-patel demanding records on the 1996 varginha-incident, extending the Task Force’s records-accountability template from FFRDCs to intelligence agencies. (src-burlison-varginha-cia-fbi-records-2026-07)
Related pages
- anna-paulina-luna
- house-oversight-committee
- us-congress-uap-caucus
- uap-disclosure
- uap-whistleblower-protections
- src-uap-whistleblower-hearing-2025
- src-uap-whistleblower-protection-act-2025-09
- src-uap-transparency-hearing-2026-04
- src-trump-pentagon-uap-files-2026-05
- src-luna-nonhuman-origin-pod-force-one-2026-04
- src-burlison-mitre-press-release-2026-05
- src-burlison-mitre-uap-records-2026-05
- mitre
- ffrdc
- david-grusch
- src-fox-grusch-hidden-billions-2026-06 — June 9 2026 Grusch press conference hosted by the Task Force
- src-burlison-varginha-cia-fbi-records-2026-07 — Jul 8 2026 CIA/FBI Varginha records letters
- varginha-incident
- john-ratcliffe