Nancy Mace and the UAP hearings
Rep. Nancy Mace chaired or co-chaired two major House Oversight UAP hearings, July 26, 2023 and November 13, 2024, and made a series of on-record statements about unidentified aerial phenomena, recovered craft, and alien technology. The 2023 exchange about 'nonhuman biologics' went globally viral; the 2024 hearing drew formal cross-aisle praise. In December 2024 she said alien craft 'has to be on the table' in the New Jersey drone controversy.
Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) has been one of the most visible congressional voices on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, chaired or co-chaired two House Oversight UAP hearings, and made a series of on-record statements that range from sharply skeptical to openly speculative. Witnesses' claims of crash-retrieval programs and recovered non-human craft are contested; the Defense Department said it has no "verifiable information" substantiating them. Both sides of the record, the striking questions and the bipartisan praise she earned for asking them, are documented here.
July 26, 2023. The House Oversight National Security Subcommittee heard testimony from former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch, who alleged under oath that the U.S. government had secretly recovered crashed non-human craft. Mace drew the hearing's most-replayed exchange:
Mace: "Were they, I guess, human or nonhuman biologics?"
David Grusch: "Non-human."
The exchange went globally viral. The hearing's internet meme wave was driven entirely by social media, every major late-night comedy show was dark during the 2023 WGA writers' strike (May 2, September 27, 2023).
The July 26, 2023 House Oversight UAP hearing. Watch on C-SPAN.
November 13, 2024. Mace co-chaired a joint hearing with Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI), "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Advancing a Fact-Based Discourse." She opened by putting the alleged classified program name "Immaculate Constellation" directly into the congressional record, "So, come at me bro, I guess", then ran a yes/no exchange with former Pentagon AATIP director Luis Elizondo on crash-retrieval programs and reverse-engineering of alien craft. Elizondo answered "Yes" to both. The same hearing drew formal cross-aisle recognition from Elizondo, Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), and Rep. Grothman.
December 2024. As unidentified drone sightings spread across New Jersey and the Northeast, Mace said on the record that alien craft "has to be on the table. It has to be an option." Authorities later attributed most sightings to ordinary aircraft, hobbyist drones, and misidentified celestial objects.
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"Human or nonhuman biologics?", Mace's question that defined the 2023 UAP hearing
At the July 26, 2023 House Oversight UAP hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace asked whistleblower David Grusch whether the government's recovered remains were 'human or nonhuman biologics.' Grusch answered: 'Non-human.' The two-word reply made Mace the congressional face of a hearing that trended worldwide and set off days of internet memes.
"Come at me bro": Mace's most striking lines from the 2024 UAP hearing
Co-chairing the November 13, 2024 House UAP hearing, Rep. Nancy Mace put the alleged classified program name 'Immaculate Constellation' on the record, pressed a former Pentagon official on whether the government had reverse-engineered alien craft, and challenged the DoD's claim it had no crash-retrieval programs. The hearing's primary transcript is in the official GovInfo record.
Mace says mystery drones being "craft from outer space" has "to be on the table"
Asked in December 2024 whether the wave of unidentified drones over New Jersey and the Northeast could be alien in origin, Rep. Nancy Mace said on the record that 'craft from outer space' had to be 'on the table' as an option.
Nancy Mace's UAP leadership recognized by journalists, Congressional colleagues, and UAP advocates
Mace has received documented praise and recognition for her leadership on UAP (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena) from mainstream journalists, Congressional colleagues across the aisle, Pentagon officials, and key figures in the UAP advocacy community. Here is a comprehensive catalog of verified statements from the July 2023 and November 2024 Congressional hearings on UAP.