Why UFO Witnesses Are Too Terrified to Testify: The Intimidation Campaign - Hearing Update

Cristina Gomez
Jul 22
3 min read

Updated: Jul 25

The most significant “PUBLIC” UFO disclosure effort in modern history is collapsing before our eyes, as witnesses with firsthand knowledge of recovered craft and non-human biologics back out of UFO congressional hearings at the last minute, citing death threats and career destruction. This is the latest UFO hearing updates.

Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, who chairs the House Task Force on UAP Transparency, was forced to postpone what was supposed to be the critical follow-up hearing to David Grusch’s testimony back in 2023. “They postponed the date because we couldn’t get people to testify,” Luna explained to reporters, revealing that witnesses were getting “SCIF flu” — refusing to show up even for classified briefings in secure facilities.

The witness intimidation represents a dramatic escalation from when intelligence officer David Grusch first testified under oath in July 2023, claiming the U.S. government operates a “multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse-engineering program” and has recovered “non-human biologics” from crash sites. Representative Eric Burlison, who has been working closely with Grusch, confirms that despite public drama, Grusch continues cooperating with AARO, the Pentagon’s UAP investigation office. However, the broader whistleblower community has gone silent. The retaliation Grusch faced — including what he described as “very brutal” professional and personal attacks that made him fear for his life — appears to have sent a chilling message to others with similar knowledge.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna speaking to press — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna

Luna’s frustration extends beyond individual witnesses to the entire system designed to handle UAP disclosure. When asked about AARO, supposedly created as a safe space for UAP whistleblowers, Luna was blunt to Mat Laslo from Ask a Pol: “I think AARO should be cut. I think that they’re a joke.” This assessment gains credibility when compared to reports from Luis Elizondo, who revealed that the FBI is now running its own UAP investigation that is “running laps around the Department of Defense’s AARO program.” The FBI’s small but effective team has apparently made more progress than the Pentagon’s dedicated UAP office, with Luna rating a recent FBI briefing as “10 out of 10.”

While witnesses disappear and hearings get cancelled, legislative efforts continue through the UAP Disclosure Act (UAPDA) for the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act. Burlison is working with Senator Mike Rounds on what could be the most significant piece of UAP legislation ever, modeled after the JFK Records Act to mandate disclosure of government UAP records. The first UAPDA was severely watered down, but there’s new hope with leadership changes. “It’s my hope that now that we have a different Intel chair, that we’ll have a different outcome,” Burlison explained, noting that former Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner “wouldn’t even discuss” UAP issues, while new Chairman Rick Crawford “seems open to help.”

Congressman Mike Rounds speaking at congressional hearing — Congressman Mike Rounds

Perhaps most revealing are recent statements from Senator Rounds, who co-sponsors the disclosure legislation. When asked about UAP whistleblowers, Rounds admitted he’s “talked to individuals who have seen materials that they were analyzing, but they did not know what it was from.” When pressed about examining these materials himself, his response was telling: “Where would I go to ask?” A sitting U.S. Senator doesn’t know where to access potentially non-human technology that his own government apparently possesses, suggesting either unprecedented compartmentalization or deliberate restrictions on congressional oversight.

The suppression pattern extends beyond UAPs to other extraordinary discoveries. At Hawara, Egypt, military satellite specialist Timothy Akers used classified radar technology to detect a 40-meter metallic object buried 60 meters beneath an ancient pyramid. Acres, who spent years tracking submarines for the British Army, described the object as having “material properties unlike anything in his military career” and speculated it might be “some kind of portal, either interdimensional or interstellar.” Despite confirmation from multiple independent scanning teams, Egyptian authorities completely suppressed excavation attempts, with Dr. Zahi Hawass threatening researchers with national security sanctions and even jailing Professor Aladdin Shaheen, dean of Cairo’s archaeology faculty.

Images under pyramid with Timothy Akers — Images with Timothy Akers

The identical response pattern across different types of discoveries — initial confirmation followed by immediate suppression with threats against investigators — suggests a coordinated effort to prevent disclosure of potentially world-changing information. Whether involving metallic objects under pyramids or non-human biologics in government facilities, the response remains consistent: silence, intimidation, and cover-up. With the 2025 NDAA representing perhaps the last hope for legislative disclosure, the window for transparency may be closing as those with the most important information become too frightened to speak, even in the most secure settings possible.