GOP Rep. on UFO Whistleblower: ‘I Believe He’s Telling the Truth’

House lawmakers left a classified briefing on UFOs largely disappointed with the information provided by officials Friday morning, and vowed to hold more hearings on the issue in the near future.

Members of the House Oversight Committee were briefed by the Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community in a secure location in the Capitol, seeking clarity on allegations made by a whistleblower who alleged that the government is covering up evidence of aliens. The whistleblower, former Air Force officer David Grusch, told Congress that the government was in possession of “nonhuman biological material.”

Given the classified nature of the briefing, it was unclear how the Inspector General weighed in on the claims from Grusch, but a number of lawmakers left the meeting signaling they were persuaded even more of Grusch’s authenticity as a whistleblower.

“I believe that he’s telling the truth, I think that he is a credible witness,” Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., said Friday.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., said the Inspector General gave lawmakers a ruling on what it thinks of Grusch’s claims, but he would not reveal the details.

“This is the first real briefing that we’ve had that we’ve now made, I would say, progress on some of the claims Mr. Grusch has made,” Moskowitz told reporters as he left he briefing. “This is the first time we kind of got a ruling on what the IG thinks of those claims.”

Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., struck a similar tone as Luna.

“It didn’t disqualify anything I’ve thought in the past,” Burchett, who has been one of the most prominent congressional voices calling for transparency on the issue, said.

A number of lawmakers were frustrated, however, with the briefing, with one even calling it a waste of time. Members have consistently criticized federal officials for lagging transparency on UAPs, and those frustrations continued on Friday.

“I think they have a lot of questions that remain unanswered,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., said. “Unfortunately, I just wasted time in there not kind of figuring out whether those were true and instead kind of dancing around the edges talking about things that aren’t really as important to me.”

Lawmakers also said that they were hopeful that the information that was given to them in the briefing would now lead to more public hearings in the committee’s oversight of the issue. The chamber last held a hearing on UAPs in July, where Grusch detailed his allegations to lawmakers.