Is the "Deep State" trying to block UAP Laws and Investigation in Congress?
New information revealed by our partner, Ask a Pol, suggests that opposition to the UAP Congressional Investigation stems from 'hostile' civil servants within the Deep State.
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While the UAP declassification law has been debated for years, new statements first reported by Sentinel News revealed that there has been an influence campaign regarding the Congress’ UAP investigations.
Former AARO acting director Tim Philips declared:
The reason that members of the UAP caucus were not read into the SAP programs was because their leadership denied it. AARO requested it, the SAPCO, the DOD SAPCO requested it. And those requests were turned down by their own leadership, they felt they did not have a need to know.
Following this statement, our partner Matt Laslo questioned politicians to shed light on the issue.
Representative Anna Paulina Luna, Chairwoman of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, responded to his questions:
Ask A Pol: What do you make of this report from Tim Phillips, that you guys weren't allowed to see the SAPs in a SCIF because of GOP leadership?
Rep. Luna: We actually just asked people about that, so, they both denied it, the people that we asked about it.
This did not seem to satisfy the Congresswoman, who added the following regarding AARO:
Rep Luna: But I also, too, don't really like AARO’s response on it, so I've told people that I think AARO needs to have their funds redirected.
Then, Ask a Pol questioned Rep. Comer, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, who lent his authority to Rep. Luna's Task Force following presidential orders signed by President Trump on 23 January 2025 regarding the declassification of US secrets.
I don’t know. It’s not me.
After denying any influence, he confirmed his support for the task force.
I'm gonna do whatever she wants.
He then attributed the Task Force's struggles to the “Deep State”, a topic that is still considered by many to be a conspiracy theory.
It's difficult to get stuff. I told her that when we started. I said:
‘Listen, you're — you know, everybody said, ‘Oh, you need to demand this.’
You can demand it all day long, and you run into the deep state. The Deep State doesn't want… and Trump's cabinet, people came in, released the JFK files, released the Epstein files.
It's still gonna take some deep state bureaucrats to do it, you know?
Was this a deflection or information? This is not the first time that the responsibility of the hierarchical structure of elected officials in Congress has been questioned.
When the last UAP declassification bill was partially rejected, Sen. Schumer tweeted:
It is an outrage the House didn’t work with us on our UAP proposal for a review board. This means declassification of UAP records will be up to the same entities that have blocked and obfuscated their disclosure for decades. We will keep working to change the status quo.
He also stated on the Congress floor:
The United States government has gathered a great deal of information about UAPs over many decades, but has refused to share it with the American people. That is wrong, and additionally, it breeds mistrust. We've also been notified by multiple credible sources that information on UAPs has also been withheld from Congress, which if true is a violation of the laws requiring full notification to the legislative branch.
It is really an outrage the House didn't work with us on adopting our proposal for a review board, which, of course, by definition here, is bipartisan in the Senate. Now it means that declassification of UAP records will be largely up to the same entities that have blocked and obfuscated their disclosure for decades.
The law he co-sponsored with Sen. Rounds would create a declassification group under the President's authority, with the power of eminent domain to recover UAP debris held by private contractors and researchers.
Sen. Rounds recently told Ask a Pol regarding the UAP Disclosure Act :
I just think we'd be better off if we made sure that individuals that may have information regarding, you know, their own knowledge of things that were simply unexplainable…
If they felt that there was a place where they could go to make the reports, but also for individuals who may have, because of their official capacity, information that could help us explain some of these phenomenon, that they knew that there was a place where they were expected to make that report, to a central filing location…
The reasons and responsibilities behind the various attempts to kill the UAPDA and Rep. Luna’s Task Force remain unclear to this day, although many figures expressed their opinions:
Rep. Timmons made an interesting comment after Rep. Turner left the Chair of the House Intelligence Committee.
I think it's becoming increasingly front and center, so I think Intel‘s gonna have to get involved. I mean, you know, I think most of the members on the Committee have been generally unimpressed with the response — the responses that we've gotten
I mean, you know, I do think that's something that will happen. I think the Intelligence Committee will start looking into it more, because how do you not? I mean, you know, the increased frequency and degree of sightings has created a lot of buzz.
We need to look into it more and get the American people answers. But I also think that Trump is going to be informing the public more than the Biden administration
Regarding the Executive Branch, Christopher Mellon stated to Space.com :
Regarding the UAP issue, DoD and the [intelligence community] clearly have a serious trust issue with important members of Congress who are not backing down and likely to escalate.
I've seen this pattern many times. So, although the Executive Branch feels they dodged a bullet on the Schumer language, until they earn Congress' trust, they are going to be fighting a prolonged and likely losing battle.
Rep. Tim Burchett declared in the New York Times that the “intelligence community rallied” against the proposals.
Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet stated in a recent interview on the Good Trouble Show:
Ultimately, we know that the government had control and knowledge of recovered craft and UAP information and troves of video data, et cetera. And at some point down the road, either it was decided from the get go or after successive administrations, including the Congress on knowledge of this, of this information was curtailed. And ultimately, I don't think every administration elected officials were even kept in the know. So ultimately, we don't have that today. So to go and do the forensics of how that occurred, that would take a larger effort. And AARO claimed to have done it, but they did not, in the historical records report. Ultimately, it needs to be done. And for all the right reasons, we have a balance of powers in the government. And the Congress absolutely has to have knowledge of this to affect legislation that would benefit the public.
With prominent figures starting to call for support of the next UAPDA, one can only wonder for how long the ‘Deep State’ can remain ‘hostile’ towards something that has been witnessed by a significant proportion of the population, that is being monitored and investigated by its own military and by NASA.