Kirk Mcconnell

Now the conversation needs to shift again with more of a focus on biology and less on technology.

Having served for decades on the staff of Congressional Intelligence and Defense Committees, Kirk McConnell, who is standing here today in the back, He was present in classified settings when highly credible sources briefed senators, including Marco Rubio, about recovered non-human bodies.

Unlike legitimate national security concerns that require us to keep advanced technologies of non-human origin secret, that justification should not apply to biological evidence.

Knowledge of the existence of another life form, studied and documented by qualified experts, should not be considered a threat to national security.

On 20th of January 2026, the thirtieth anniversary to the day, a public press conference took place at the National Press Club in Washington, organized by the filmmaker James Fox, who made the 2022 documentary Moment of Contact about the case.

US Representatives Eric Burlison was in the room, Tim Burchett and Ana Paulina Luna, Brazilian Senator Eduardo Geraio, retired Air Force Colonel Fred Clausen, former Senate staffer Kirk McConnell, and the Brazilian witnesses themselves.

The single most significant new element was the public testimony of Dr. Italo Venturelli, a Brazilian neurosurgeon who says he was brought in and saw a living non-human being.

His description, about the size of a seven-year-old child, a teardrop-shaped cranium, lilac, teardrop-shaped eyes, pale skin, a small mouth, three fingers and an opposing thumb.