Houston, Congress has a UAP problem — the curious case of a non-existent UFO hearing
Are GOP leader’s pulling the strings and sabotaging UAP inquiries?
What we know: “there will not be a hearing…next week”
“We have not had a hearing notice for next week yet and they have to give a weeks notice, so we know that there will not be a hearing on that subject next week,” a House Oversight Committee minority staffer confirms to Ask a Pol.*
*more from them below…
WTF’s up with the UAP Caucus?
If you’re like us, you’re asking yourself, ‘WTF’s up with the Congressional UAP Caucus?’
We only know what our sources know, and in this 119th Congress — sadly — that’s meant we haven’t known much of anything at all.
Like, we’ve confirmed there’s no public UAP hearing next week, but no one’s been able to tell us the fate of the classified SCIF briefing with whistleblower David Grusch that’s, supposedly, been rescheduled for the week of May 12th.
Below find a brief, real-time case study in congressional ineptitude.
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Real-time case study in ineptitude — or was this GOP leader’s plan all along?
Below find Ask a Pol’s rough timeline of the unraveling of next week’s UAP hearing.
Wednesday evening — Luna confirms UAP hearing
We’re still on for next week’s public UAP hearing in the House?
“Yup, yup,” Secrets Task Force Chair Anna Paulina Luna replies without hesitation.*
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Friday 10:44am — Dean Johnson breaks news: Hearing off
11:01am — Chris Sharp confirms UAP hearing off
11:59am — Ask a Pol breaks news to UAP Caucus members
“Next week’s UAP hearing is off now?” Ask a Pol texts a UAP Caucus member just before noon Friday morning.
“I haven’t heard that,” the perplexed UAP Caucus member replies. “Where did you hear that”?
4pm EST — Ask a Pol ramps up pressure
After returning from lunch with an editor and doctor’s visit, Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo realizes no one — including members of Congressional UAP Caucus, Secrets Task Force and Oversight Committee aides — has returned his texts or emails.
With most congressional offices set to go directly to voicemail at 5pm EST sharp, Laslo frantically starts re-emailing (and adding chiefs of staffs to un-replied to inquiries…), re-texting and calling the Oversight Committee directly.
Crickets from Congress ensued…
4:37pm — Oversight minority staff laps lawmakers
With minutes to spare before the Capitol complex goes quite for the weekend, a Democratic staffer answers the Oversight Committee’s minority line.
“We have not had a hearing notice for next week yet and they have to give a weeks notice, so we know that there will not be a hearing on that subject next week,” a House Oversight Committee aide for the minority tells Ask a Pol.
Any word on new date?
“It’s possible that they’re still planning to do it, they just haven’t told us yet,” the helpful aide tells Ask a Pol on background. “So we don’t know which date — or whether — it will happen in the future.”
4:48pm Friday — UAP Caucus member 2
Still no word from the first UAP Caucus member we pinged, but after sharing what the Oversight staffer told us at 4:48pm EST, we finally get a response — not an answer; merely a reply… — from a second UAP Caucus member.
“Know what’s up?” we texted.
“I don’t,” the UAP Caucus member replies. “But I’ll ask.”*
*as of publication time, we still haven’t gotten an answer…
5:08pm Friday — Oversight majority staff confirms negative
“There is not a public hearing next week,” a senior Oversight Committee aide confirms to Ask a Pol on background.
Ineptitude or did Luna lie to Ask a Pol? Something’s off…
Still no word on what exactly happened, in part because senior members of the Congressional UAP Caucus and Secrets Task Force were left completely in the dark, either by Chair Luna or, potentially, because of her…*
*It remains unclear whether Luna never intended to give the required notice of the public UAP hearing — which would mean she misled-to-lied to Ask a Pol subscribers earlier in the week — or whether her and her team simply forgot to submit the necessary paperwork…
Stay tuned for the fate of next week’s UAP SCIF briefing
While we’ve asked roughly a dozen members of Congress and their aides, Ask a Pol still have’t gotten an answer as to the fate of next week’s — already rescheduled… — classified SCIF briefing with David Grusch, Lue Elizondo and AARO…
Ineptitude? UAP Caucus has a new look…
Below find other notable moments from what looks to be Congress’ currently stalled UAP investigation in the 119th Congress.
SCIF Cancelation: Chair Luna v. Lue Elizondo, Matt Ford & Rep. Eric Burlison
On April 29th, Secrets Chair Luna told Ask a Pol their scheduled classified SCIF briefing was canceled because newly hired congressional staffer David Grusch had a scheduling conflict.
“Grusch could not make it,” Luna told Ask a Pol.
Lue Elizondo immediately disputed Chair Luna
Good Trouble Show w/ Matt Ford backed up Elizondo
UAP Caucus / Secrets Task Force member also disputed Luna
Grusch’s congressional boss, Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO), told Ask a Pol the SCIF briefing was postponed due to:
- Delays in getting Grusch’s full security clearance restored.
- “The other reason was that we had, everybody was jammed with meetings,” Burlison told us.
“I trust Donald Trump” — New Jersey residents don’t…
What ever happened to Ronald Reagan and the GOP’s decades long creed, ‘trust but verify’? In Trump’s GOP, Republicans on the Congressional UAP Caucus have all but abandoned their previous investigation into UAP incursions over sensitive military, inteligence and nuclear sites from coast to coast.
UAP Caucus Republicans ran with the Trump administration claim — backed up with no evidence — that the FAA approved the ‘drone’ incursions that set law enforcement, pilots, the Coast Guard, air traffic controllers, elected officials and entire communities across the northeast on edge at the end of last year.
Elected leaders across New Jersey aren’t buying what Trump’s White House is selling though, including GOP Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), veteran helicopter pilot Rep. Mikie Sherill (D-NJ) and Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ).
Senate Armed Services Committee Chair Roger Wicker (R-MS) also begs to differ with the White House claim, along with SASC member Sen. Tim Kaine (D-NJ) and senior HPSCI member Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) — seriously, to name but a few skeptics…
‘UAPs’ didn’t even come up in Secrets Task Force until mid April
“It doesn't sound like the new Task Force on Declassification of Federal Secrets has talked UAPs yet,” Ask a Pol asked the other UAP Caucus Co-chair on April 9, 2025. “Have you guys talked UAPs in the Secrets Task Force yet?”
“Not yet. I don't think so,” Rep. Tim Burchett told Ask a Pol. “No.”
Secrets Task Force a success — if goal is to keep members “busy” and irrelevant
When we first informed Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) — a member of both the Armed Services & Intelligence Committees — of Luna’s new Secrets Task Force in the House, he laughed. But the laughter was short-lived.
"Better than having them looking for things to get into,” Rounds told Ask a Pol last month.
If that’s the goal of Speaker Mike Johnson and Oversight Chair James Comer — keeping the formerly pesky Congressional UAP Caucus tied up with JFK, RFK, MLK, 9-11, Epstein, COVID’s origins, etc. etc. etc. — then the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets is a resounding success.
“I think it will be the most interesting,” Chair Comer told Ask a Pol in February after launching the temporary (6 month shelf life) Task Force and powerless (they can only subpoena with Comer’s permission, after all).
“Interesting” is not the same as effective. The Secrets Task Force is the new UAP Caucus, at least according to Co-chair Tim Burchett who GOP leaders passed over when they empowered Luna with a gavel.
And as of now, five months into this new Congress — and with a mere one month left for the Secrets Task Force (unless it’s granted an extension) — it seems Republican leaders are getting their money’s worth out of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.
“It all revolves around a distrust of the government. If you ever gonna build, regain, trust in the government, you have to be transparent,” Comer told Ask a Pol in February. “That’s what the goal of the Task Force is, to get transparency for the federal government.”
Here Secrets Task Force members just want to know their schedules.
And, as of now, UAPs keep taking a back seat to, seemingly, every conspiracy under the sun. Somewhere, someone in a corner office is smiling, even as last year’s whistleblower still can’t even speak freely in the marble halls of his new office, your United States Capitol.
We’ll let you know if any of our sources get back to us with an answer on next week’s SCIF briefing. Here we’re left wondering if Chair Luna even bothered to request a room…
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More of this energy Matt. We’re either getting played or this is total incompetence. Either way American taxpayers deserve better.
This is top notch reporting, Matt! I’m glad we finally got an article with your analysis tying the different words congressmen are telling you. Keep this up! And don’t quit forcing them to twist their words