House Oversight Committee lawmakers are set to hold a hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) next week.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), a member of the panel who has helped drive the conversation about UFOs on Capitol Hill, said a hearing will be held on Wednesday, July 26.

“We’re done with the cover-ups,” he added in a tweet.

The House Oversight Committee will hold a hearing on UAPs on Wednesday, 7/26.

We're done with the cover-ups.

— Rep. Tim Burchett (@RepTimBurchett) July 17, 2023

It was not immediately clear who has been invited to be a witness at the hearing, and as of press time it does not appear on the Oversight Committee’s online calendar.

But Burchett previewed the hearing last week along with Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), another member of the committee, according to ABC News.

“We’re going to have professionals in here, and we’re getting blowback from some of the alphabet agencies,” Burchett told reporters.

“I’m sick of government … that does not trust the people,” he also said.

David Grusch, a U.S. military veteran who served as a combat officer in Afghanistan and a former intelligence official, revealed to The Debrief in a report published early last month that he gave classified information to the Intelligence Community inspector general and Congress. He claims the disclosure shows some programs have retrieved craft of non-human origin, and this information has been illegally kept from Congress.

“We are not talking about prosaic origins or identities,” Grusch told the outlet. “The material includes intact and partially intact vehicles.”

In response to the claims, the Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) tasked with investigating UAPs said it has “not discovered any verifiable information to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse-engineering of any extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.”

AARO Director Sean Kirkpatrick said in May that his office was reviewing about 800 cases of UAP cases, a jump from 650 he mentioned during a hearing in April when he said only a “small percentage” of the objects studied by his team displayed signatures that could be reasonably described as “anomalous” and none of them presented “credible” evidence of extraterrestrial life.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, emphasized the gravity Grusch’s claim during an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity last week.

“We have people that have very high clearances both today and in the past, who did really important work for our government or continue to do important work for the government, who have come forward with some claims about the U.S. having in the past recovered exotic materials and then reversed engineered those materials to make advances in our own defenses and technologies,” Rubio said.

“Either they’re telling the truth, and that is something that obviously would be the biggest story in human history, or we have people in really important positions in government who are crazy, and who are out there making up stories, and who are still in positions of importance,” Rubio said. “Either one is a big problem. So we’ve got to figure out which one of these two it is, because the second one in particular would be very troubling.”

Rubio and other lawmakers are now pushing legislation to bring forth UAP disclosures from the government.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told reporters on Monday that he supports letting the American people “see what we have, where we go.”

“I’d love to see whatever facts and information we have,” McCarthy said.

McCarthy said if the U.S. military found such evidence of a UFO, “the Department of Defense would tell us because they would probably want to request more money.”

A former FBI supervisory agent confirmed “key” aspects of whistleblower testimony about the federal investigation of President Joe Biden‘s son, Hunter Biden, according to a top Republican lawmaker.

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) said the FBI veteran participated in a transcribed interview with his panel on Monday, just two days before a pair of Internal Revenue Service whistleblowers are set to testify about the inquiry.

“Today, a former FBI supervisory special agent assigned to the FBI’s Wilmington office and the Biden criminal investigation confirmed key portions of the IRS whistleblower’s testimony,” Comer said in a statement.

“The night before the interview of Hunter Biden, both Secret Service headquarters and the Biden transition team were tipped off about the planned interview,” Comer added. “On the day of the Hunter Biden interview, federal agents were told to stand by and could not approach Hunter Biden — they had to wait for his call. As a result of the change in plans, IRS and FBI criminal investigators never got to interview Hunter Biden as part of the investigation.”

Such claims line up with testimony from IRS officials, supervisory special agent Gary Shapley and a “Whistleblower X,” who made disclosures to the House Ways and Means Committee that were released to the public last month: Plans by Shapley and FBI supervisory agent Joe Gordon to interview the younger Biden in early November 2020, shortly after the presidential election, were allegedly disrupted and gave way to Biden announcing publicly that he was under investigation.

So far, the years-long investigation into the 53-year-old Hunter Biden has amounted to a plea deal for tax and gun violations that could keep him out of prison. A judge is set to hold a hearing on the agreement on July 26.

But the whistleblower allegations have raised the prospect that the DOJ has slow-walked the Hunter Biden investigation, possibly for political reasons, and allowed the statute of limitations to run out on more serious charges that could have been brought in years that covered when he was working on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings while his father was leading U.S. policy in Ukraine as vice president.

Comer did not release any quotes in his Monday evening release, but he did share a list of “key takeaways”:

“As part of the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden, there were multiple witness interviews planned for December 8, 2020. IRS Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and the former FBI supervisory special agent were assigned to interview Hunter Biden. On the evening of December 7, 2020, Shapley and the FBI supervisory special agent learned that FBI headquarters had notified Secret Service headquarters about the planned interview with Hunter Biden. Additionally, they learned the Biden transition team was notified about the planned interview. This was not the original plan by the career agents, which frustrated their investigative efforts because people found out who didn’t need to know. On December 8, 2020, Shapley and the FBI supervisory special agent were notified they would not be allowed to approach Hunter Biden’s house and instead would have to wait near his residence until Hunter Biden contacted them. The former FBI supervisory special agent told committee investigators he had never been told to wait outside to be contacted by the subject of an investigation. As a result of these actions, Shapley and the former FBI supervisory special agent never interviewed Hunter Biden.”

Delaware’s U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a Trump appointee, told House Republicans that he has been granted the “ultimate authority” in leading the inquiry, including when it comes to bringing charges. Attorney General Merrick Garland seemed to agree, testifying to Congress that Weiss “has full authority to … bring cases in other districts if he needs to do that.” And Biden’s attorney, Chris Clark, has said “any suggestion the investigation was not thorough, or cut corners, or cut my client any slack, is preposterous and deeply irresponsible.”

Still, Comer indicated that he is not ready to let the matter go. “The Justice Department’s efforts to cover up for the Bidens reveals a two-tiered system of justice that sickens the American people,” he said in his statement. The Oversight Committee, along with the Judiciary Committee and Ways and Means Committee, will continue to seek the answers, transparency, and accountability that the American people demand and deserve.”