Leslie Kane

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My name is Leslie Kane.

I'm one of the reporters who wrote the 2017 New York Times story that fundamentally changed the conversation about UAP.

In the years that followed, members of Congress met with the Navy pilots and received classified briefings.

Some came to realize that the observed objects were highly unlikely to be American, Russian, or Chinese technology, but nobody would publicly confirm what they were.

Then in 2023, the conversation changed again.

Former intelligent official and whistleblower David Grush met with members of Congress, providing them with detailed information about covert government programs that he said possessed craft of non-human origin.

This had been hidden from congressional oversight for decades.

I was privileged to have interviewed Mr. Grush extensively before publishing his story with my colleague Ralph Blumenthal three years ago.

Six weeks after the story broke, Mr. Grush testified under penalty of perjury in an open congressional hearing.

While under oath, he spoke about an ultra-secret crash retrieval program and stated that some craft contained specimens or pilots, which he called non-human biologics.

The potential existence of another living, intelligent, advanced species has more implications for humanity than the recovery of technological hardware.

Now the conversation needs to shift again with more of a focus on biology and less on technology.

Having served for decades on the staff of Congressional Intelligence and Defense Committees, Kirk McConnell, who is standing here today in the back,

He was present in classified settings when highly credible sources briefed senators, including Marco Rubio, about recovered non-human bodies.

Unlike legitimate national security concerns that require us to keep advanced technologies of non-human origin secret, that justification should not apply to biological evidence.

Knowledge of the existence of another life form, studied and documented by qualified experts, should not be considered a threat to national security.

By what authority can any institution withhold confirmation of what may be the most consequential scientific discovery in human history?