HHRG-118-GO06-20230726-SD004.pdf

STATEMENT TO CONGRESS by George Knapp Rep. Burchett and members of the committee, Thank you for inviting me to share some information that hopefully will be useful to your pursuit of UAP/UFO transparency. The public appreciates your courage in tackling this still- controversial subject, especially in light of the inevitable pushback members of Congress have already faced for daring to ask basic questions and for refusing to accept the stonewalling, veiled threats, and overt ridicule that have characterized the position of our military and intelligence agencies for the past 75 years. My name is…

The other person | met in 1989 related to the UFO mystery was a billionaire businessman named Robert Bigelow, who owned vast real estate and hotel properties in multiple states. Bigelow began funding private UFO investigations as well the work of UFO organizations UFO. To date, he has spent more of his own money on UFO investigations than any person in the history of the world—tens of millions of dollars. In 1996, Bigelow created his own research organization, the National Institute for Discovery Science, with a science advisory board made up of PhD-level academics, two of the former astronaut…

Upon my return from Moscow, | shared much of this information with NIDS, with Senator Reid, and with a senior staff members for the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Russian MOD had confirmed to me that they were studying UFO cases in the hope that they might understand and eventually duplicate the technology that had allowed the UFO pilots to so thoroughly dominate Russian airspace and weapons systems. The information made lasting impression on Senator Reid and others and became a key factor in a secretive program that was launched a few years later. As the committee knows, the current wave …

pressing the issue, seeking access to the exotic materials, he was met with harsh rebukes. The door, in essence, was slammed in his face. And powerful interests began to apply pressure to end AAWSAP. It lasted a mere 27 months before the plug was pulled, instead of a five year operation as planned by DIA. AAWSAP investigated a wider range of phenomena than mystery craft seen in the sky. Some of the encounters reported by intelligence operatives were downright weird. AAWSAP personne! suspected that the sighting of weird creatures and bizarre phenomena in the proximity of UFO activity might be s…