Who?
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) — fmr. NASA astronaut, US Navy combat pilot
LISTEN: Laslo & Kelly
PSA:
Congress is out; interview predates 4th UFO file dump
ICYMI — MSM, international & off-beaten-trail UFO coverage
Ask a Pol asks:
Have you looked at any of the newly declassified UFO files videos the Pentagon’s been disclosing this summer?
Key Kelly:
“I had my staff print out all the UFO files,” Sen. Mark Kelly exclusively told Ask a Pol UAP. “We have them in binders, so people can look through them. There’s some interesting stuff in there: Drawings of aliens.”
Laslo laughs.
Is there anything that’s moving your staff or you?
“On this?” Kelly said. “No.”
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Caught our ear:
“It’d be good if we had more information,” Kelly told us.
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Mark Kelly (6-10-2026)
SCENE: Ask a Pol founder Matt Laslo catches Sen. Mark Kelly — a former NASA astronaut and Navy combat pilot — at the Capitol in June ahead of Congress’s two-week July Fourth recess.
Matt Laslo: “You looked at any of these videos — the UFO disclosure stuff?”
Sen. Mark Kelly: “I had my staff print out all the UFO files.”
Laslo: “Yeah?”
Kelly: “We have them in binders, so people can look through them. There’s some interesting stuff in there: Drawings of aliens.”
Laslo laughs.
Laslo “Is there anything that’s moving your staff or you?”
Kelly: “On this?”
Laslo: “No?”
Kelly: “No.”
Laslo: “No?”
Kelly: “No.”
Laslo: “Yeah?”
Kelly: “But, you know, I’ve been in meetings about this.”
Laslo: “Yeah.”
Kelly: “The only compelling thing I’ve ever seen — and you can go online and find the 60 Minutes interview with the guy who’s the squadron F-18 squadron commander…”
Laslo: “Yeah, yeah.”
Kelly: “…and the wingman. That is hard to explain.”
Laslo: “Yeah?”
Kelly: “And I just don’t — I mean, it’d be good if we had more information.”
Laslo: “Yeah? Do you think it’s adversaries with advanced tech?”
Kelly: “I have no idea. No idea. I’ll tell you what, he doesn’t think it is.”
Laslo: “Yeah?”
Kelly: “Cause I’ve talked to that guy a couple times.”
Laslo: “Oh, yeah?”
Kelly: “And he thinks it’s somewhere else.”
Kelly enters a room.
Laslo: “Have a good one, sir.”
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