UAP HEARINGS 2022

The Pentagon is Still Stonewalling Congress on UFOs

Intelligence officer Scott Bray’s slippery answer to a question about a UFO over ICBM missile silos at Malmstrom AFB in 1967 makes it clear the Pentagon’s ‘transparency’ is empty rhetoric.

David Bates
Point of Contact
Published in
7 min readMay 18, 2022

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Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana was the site of a documented UFO sighting in 1967 and 1975.

In an otherwise predictably lame congressional hearing on UAPs Tuesday, there came a brief exchange nearly an hour in illustrating that Pentagon officials are playing disingenuous word games so they can avoid talking meaningfully about UFOs — even when they’re talking to Congress and C-SPAN is streaming it live.

In one sense, the roughly 90-minute hearing before a House Intelligence subcommittee was remarkable: It was the first public hearing on UFOs held by Congress since 1966. Two Pentagon officials — Naval Intelligence Deputy Director Scott Bray and Ronald Moultrie, the undersecretary of intelligence in the Department of Defense — fielded softball questions by lawmakers in the context of a new normal: Congress has directed the Pentagon to actively study UFOs and to report their findings to them and the public regularly.

There were other takeaways. We learned that around 400 UAP reports have been collected since the Defense Intelligence…

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