UAP Hearings Timeline: Every Congressional Hearing, by Date

The short answerCongress has held public UAP hearings in a clear sequence since May 17, 2022, when a House Intelligence subcommittee heard testimony from two Pentagon officials in the first open hearing on the subject in more than 50 years. Since then, House and Senate panels have heard from two directors of the Pentagon's UAP office, from naval aviators who testified about their own encounters, and from witnesses whose claims were entered into the record as testimony, not as findings. This page lists each hearing by date, names who testified on the record, and separates what was said from what was established.

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That separation is the rule for the whole timeline. A hearing record proves that a witness said something under oath or on the record. It does not, by itself, prove the thing said. Where a claim was contested, this page says so.

What UAP hearings has Congress held, in order?

Date	Committee	Witnesses on the record	What the hearing added
May 17, 2022	House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation	Ronald Moultrie, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security; Scott Bray, Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence	First public hearing in over 50 years. Officials described the scope of the 2021 preliminary assessment, 144 reports, and showed previously unreleased military clips
April 19, 2023	Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities	Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, Director of AARO	The AARO director testified on his office's caseload, its reporting process, and stated his office had found no credible evidence of extraterrestrial activity in the cases reviewed to that point
July 26, 2023	House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs	David Grusch, former intelligence officer; Commander David Fravor, retired; Ryan Graves, former Navy pilot	Sworn testimony from two aviators about their own encounters, and a set of much wider claims from Grusch, reported below as claims
November 13, 2024	House Oversight, joint subcommittees	Luis Elizondo, former Pentagon official; Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet, retired; Michael Shellenberger, journalist; Michael Gold, former NASA official	Testimony on alleged programs, Navy encounter accounts relayed by a retired flag officer, and a document a witness said he had received, entered into the hearing record
November 19, 2024	Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities	Dr. Jon Kosloski, Director of AARO	An open AARO update to the same subcommittee that heard Kirkpatrick in 2023. Kosloski said the office held over 1,600 reports, walked through case resolutions including Go Fast, and said AARO had found no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology
September 9, 2025	House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets	Jeffrey Nuccetelli, Air Force veteran; Chief Alexandro Wiggins, U.S. Navy; George Knapp, journalist; Dylan Borland, Air Force veteran; Joe Spielberger, Project on Government Oversight (minority witness)	Further first person military accounts, and a video described as military footage from Yemen, played in the hearing, which UAP Press covered as a record question in its own briefing

As of November 9, 2026, no further UAP hearing has been noticed. House Oversight Chairman James Comer told Ask a Pol on September 16, 2026 that he wanted to hold another UAP hearing in November, after a planned September date fell through, but he also said the topic and witnesses weren't settled.

The committee's hearing page lists no UAP hearing, and Congress returns from its election recess this week. That's a proposal, not a scheduled hearing. This timeline adds a hearing by date when it's held, not when it's rumored. The UAP Case File Digest and our weekly UAP news roundup flag any newly scheduled hearing first.

What happened at the May 2022 hearing?

The May 17, 2022 hearing was an institutional hearing, not an encounter hearing. Moultrie and Bray testified as officials responsible for the work. They described how the Pentagon was organizing UAP reporting after the June 2021 preliminary assessment from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which had cataloged 144 reports from U.S. government sources and said it could explain one of them with high confidence.

Bray showed the panel military video clips, including footage that the officials then walked through frame by frame to show how a night vision recording, combined with a camera effect, could make an ordinary object appear to move in an extraordinary way. That demonstration is worth remembering when later hearings are covered. The first hearing established two things at once: Congress intended to keep asking, and officials intended to show their working when they had an explanation.

No witness at the 2022 hearing described a personal encounter. The aviator testimony came the following year.

What did the July 2023 hearing actually establish?

The July 26, 2023 hearing is the one most often quoted, and the one most often quoted loosely. Three witnesses testified under oath.

Commander David Fravor, retired, described the November 2004 encounter off San Diego that he had flown himself. His testimony matched the account documented in our Case File 001, The Tic Tac Incident: radar tracks held by USS Princeton, an object reported by four aviators, and an infrared recording made by a second crew. That is first person testimony about an event with a sensor record behind it.

Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot, testified about repeated encounters reported by aircrews operating off the East Coast in the years after 2014, and about the reporting culture problem he said those crews faced. That is also first person testimony, about a pattern of reports from his own squadron environment.

David Grusch testified to a different category of material. He said, in summary, that he had been told by others about long running programs involving recovered craft and related material, and that he had faced retaliation after raising concerns through official channels. Grusch stated in the hearing that his knowledge came in large part from interviews with other people, and he declined to provide certain specifics in open session. Those statements are part of the congressional record as testimony and claims attributed to Grusch, and our briefing on David Grusch's 2023 testimony tracks what evidence has followed since. They are not, in the hearing record itself, corroborated findings, and no document entered in that open hearing independently established them. UAP Press reports them exactly that way, as we do in every briefing that touches this hearing.

What the hearing did establish, institutionally, is documented. Aviator safety reporting and whistleblower protection language moved forward in defense legislation in the period that followed, and the witnesses' names and statements are a permanent part of the House record.

What did the 2024 and 2025 hearings add?

The November 13, 2024 joint hearing extended the witness pattern. Elizondo testified about his past role in Pentagon UAP work and about programs he said existed. Gallaudet, a retired rear admiral, testified about encounter reports he said had reached him during his Navy service, including a 2015 East Coast incident account that he described from an email he said was later removed from his account. Shellenberger testified about a program name and a document he said a source had given him. Gold testified from his NASA and FAA experience on reporting systems. As with 2023, the record holds what each man said. The claims that rest on a witness account are labeled that way here, and readers can weigh the difference between a document shown in a hearing and a document described in a hearing.

Six days later, on November 19, 2024, a Senate panel heard from the Pentagon's UAP office itself. Dr. Jon Kosloski, who'd taken over AARO that August, told the Armed Services emerging threats subcommittee that the office held more than 1,600 UAP reports, that many resolved to birds, balloons and drones, and that AARO had "discovered no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology." He also presented resolutions of named cases, including the Go Fast video, where AARO assessed the object was near 13,000 feet rather than skimming the water. AARO posts his statement, slides and video on its congressional products page.

The September 9, 2025 hearing, held by the House Oversight Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets under Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, continued the military witness format. It's the hearing at which Rep. Eric Burlison played a video said to show a Hellfire missile striking an object off Yemen. UAP Press covered that clip on its own record terms: what the video shows, what the Pentagon said, and what analysts argued, in our briefing on the Hellfire missile video from Yemen. It is a good example of why this timeline links out rather than summarizing loosely. The hearing is the event. The video is a separate record question.

How should you read a UAP hearing record?

Read it in three layers.

First, the procedural layer, which is never in dispute. The committee, the date, the witness list, and whether testimony was sworn are facts of the record, published by Congress.

Second, the first person layer. When a pilot testifies about a flight he was on, or an official testifies about a caseload his office handled, you are reading testimony about the witness's own experience or work. It can still be weighed and questioned, but it is a different kind of statement from a relayed account.

Third, the relayed layer. When a witness testifies that other people told him about programs, materials or events he did not personally work on, the hearing record establishes that he said it. Establishing the underlying claim takes documents, and the place to look for them is the release record, not the hearing transcript. Our log of every Pentagon PURSUE tranche by date is where UAP Press tracks that document stream, release by release, and the Case File Digest flags each new tranche and each newly scheduled hearing as they appear.

Where do the records stand as of November 9, 2026?

Hearings put testimony on the record. Records releases are where claims get tested. Here's where the main document streams stood when this page was last checked:

PURSUE (war.gov/ufo): Release 07 posted on October 23, 2026, adding 28 records for a total of 478. No Release 08 has been posted or dated. Our PURSUE release log tracks each tranche.
AARO Historical Record Report, Volume II: still unpublished. AARO's congressional products page lists Volume 1 (2024) only, along with the FY2025 annual report added July 20, 2026.
National Archives: Record Group 615, the UAP Records Collection, is open. Our guide to declassified UFO documents shows where to read the originals, and Project Blue Book covers the older Air Force files.

Last checked: November 9, 2026.

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Questions people ask

When was the first modern congressional UAP hearing?

On May 17, 2022, before a House Intelligence subcommittee, with Pentagon officials Ronald Moultrie and Scott Bray testifying. It was widely reported at the time as the first public congressional hearing on the subject in more than 50 years.

Did the 2023 hearing prove that recovered craft exist?

No. The July 26, 2023 hearing entered David Grusch's claims into the record as sworn testimony. Grusch stated that much of his knowledge came from other people he had interviewed, and the open hearing did not include a document that independently established the claims. The aviator testimony in the same hearing, from Fravor and Graves, concerned their own encounters and is a separate category of evidence.

Has AARO testified at an open hearing?

Yes, twice before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities: Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick on April 19, 2023, and Dr. Jon Kosloski on November 19, 2024. Kosloski said AARO held more than 1,600 reports and had found no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology.

Who has testified about their own encounter?

Commander David Fravor testified in July 2023 about the 2004 Tic Tac encounter he flew. Ryan Graves testified at the same hearing about encounter reports from his own squadron operating areas. Military witnesses in the September 2025 hearing also gave first person accounts, listed in that hearing's official record.

Are more UAP hearings scheduled?

Not as of November 9, 2026. House Oversight Chairman James Comer said in September 2026 that he wanted to hold another UAP hearing in November, but no date, topic or witnesses have been announced, and the committee's hearing list shows no UAP hearing. Hearings are usually noticed about a week ahead, so the UAP Case File Digest is the page to watch.

Where can you watch the hearings?

Full hearing video and transcripts are published by the committees on official congressional channels and records. UAP Press covers each hearing in the Case File Digest and in paired video coverage on the UAP Press YouTube channel, with the documents and dates set out in writing here.

Corrections: if something here is wrong, tell us and we'll fix it and say so on this page.