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Liberation Times whistleblower hearings report

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Date	14 October 2022
Topics	Crashes & retrievals (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Government programs (topic)
People	Christopher Sharp, David Grusch, David Fravor, Ryan Graves
Testimony	Shellenberger testimony, p. 211
Year	2022 in UFO history
Timeline	2022 on the UAP Timeline
Sources	5

On 14 October 2022 journalist Christopher Sharp of the website Liberation Times reported that new public congressional hearings on UAP were expected once the 2023 defence authorization bill became law, and that whistleblowers had been contacted to testify.^[1]

The report

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Citing anonymous sources, Sharp wrote that the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2023 would include intelligence-bill language giving whistleblower protections to people coming forward about UAP, and that information about alleged retrieval and reverse-engineering programs had been verified by Congress. He suggested hearings might come before Christmas 2022. The article quoted filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, who said "the Silver Bullet is coming", and reporter George Knapp, who said some people were willing to come forward if protected.^[1]

What followed

Scott Bray (deputy director of naval intelligence) and Ronald Moultrie (Defense Department’s under secretary for intelligence) testify to House… — Scott Bray (deputy director of naval intelligence) and Ronald Moultrie (Defense Department’s under secretary for intelligence) testify to House… Photo: U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

The 2023 defence bill, signed in December 2022, included protections for people reporting UAP information to Congress. The hearings came later than Sharp's sources suggested: on 26 July 2023 a House Oversight subcommittee heard from former intelligence officer David Grusch and former Navy pilots David Fravor and Ryan Graves. Grusch testified that the United States had a decades-long program to retrieve and reverse-engineer non-human craft, but said he could give details only in a classified setting, and provided no public evidence.^[2]^[3]

Liberation Times

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) Photo: US House of Representatives · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

Sharp, who founded Liberation Times and also writes for the Daily Mail, has continued to report on UAP and congressional efforts, including interviews with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna after the 2023 hearing.^[4]

People and topics

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Christopher Sharp — Journalist at Liberation Times.
Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
House Oversight Committee — The House committee that held UAP hearings in 2023 and 2024.
David Grusch — Former intelligence officer who testified in 2023 that the U.S. has recovered non-human craft.
U.S. Navy — The U.S. naval service, whose pilots reported the UAP encounters revealed in 2017.
David Fravor — Navy pilot who saw the 2004 Tic Tac object.
Ryan Graves — Former Navy F/A-18 pilot who testified to Congress about frequent UAP sightings off the East Coast in 2014–15.
Reverse engineering — Studying a recovered object to learn how it works and copy it.
Non-human intelligence — A term for intelligent beings of non-human origin, used in UAP legislation.

On the Timeline

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Bradshaw Ranch black site claim (14 October 2022) — Steven Greer suggests a ranch near Sedona was turned into a black site.
Grant Cameron's UFO pilot accounts (20 October 2022) — Grant Cameron publishes accounts of people who say they piloted a UFO.

See every 2022 event on the UAP Timeline →

References

Christopher Sharp, "Exclusive: more UFO hearings are coming as whistleblowers are called forward and legacy programs are verified by Congress", Liberation Times (14 Oct 2022) · liberationtimes.com · archived copy
"The congressional hearing on UAP: what we learned from yesterday's testimony", The Debrief (Jul 2023) · thedebrief.org · archived copy
David Grusch UFO whistleblower claims — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
"Representative Luna spells out seriousness of UFO whistleblower testimony", Liberation Times (Jul 2023) · liberationtimes.squarespace.com · archived copy
Liberation Times (Christopher Sharp) · liberationtimes.com · archived copy

Further reading

U.S. congressional hearings on UFOs — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy

Categories: 2022 | Christopher sharp | Crashes retrievals | David grusch | Government programs | House oversight committee | Secrecy cover-up | Timeline event | Unidentified anomalous phenomena | Us navy

This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.

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