Verbatim report of proceedings

Monday, 11 March 2024 - Strasbourg

One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

  Francisco Guerreiro (Verts/ALE). – Mr President, recently, the Pentagon and its currently Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) investigative programme, named AARO, published a report considering that AARO has not discovered any empirical evidence that any sighting of UAP represented off-world technology or the existence of a classified programme that had not been properly reported to Congress.

However, Luis Elizondo, the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), replied that this public report is intentionally dishonest, inaccurate, and dangerously misleading. The same conclusion can be reached when analysing the recent statements of US top officials in the army, which mentioned in the congressional hearing that the government has secret programmes and that some UAPs are not explained by current human technology.

For me and many others, one thing seems rational and obvious: someone is hiding something and it’s not those who are seeking the answers.