Part of: Nancy Mace and the UAP hearings · UAP & the Hearings
“Reverse engineer alien craft?”, Mace presses a Pentagon witness
At the November 13, 2024 UAP hearing, Mace pressed former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo on whether secret programs aimed to reverse-engineer recovered craft. He answered ‘Yes.’
During the November 13, 2024 UAP hearing she co-chaired, Mace ran a yes/no exchange with former AATIP director Luis Elizondo on the core contested claims about crash-retrieval programs. Elizondo answered "Yes." The full hearing video is public: the House Oversight Committee posted it and C-SPAN carried it gavel-to-gavel (both linked below). The quote is verified word-for-word against the official GovInfo transcript.
Source: House Oversight Committee, full hearing video (YouTube) · C-SPAN, gavel-to-gavel coverage · GovInfo, official hearing transcript · Full dispatch
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