EXCLUSIVE: Majority Leader Scalise confirms attending "eye-opening" classified UFO briefing
In our latest episode — House Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) tells Ask a Pol UAP that a classified UAP briefing he attended had “some things that are eye-opening” — but won’t go further. When pressed on whether Americans deserve the same information, he says, “some things you still don’t know all the answers.” Asked directly: adversary or extraterrestrial? “You can’t discuss what happens in the classified briefing.”
Who?
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) — Majority Leader, US House of Representatives
Ask a Pol asks:
Rep. Burchett says you had a classified UAP briefing — was it eye-opening?
Key Scalise:
“We had a classified briefing that some of us went to. Obviously, you can’t talk about what was discussed at the briefing,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise exclusively told Ask a Pol UAP.
But was it eye-opening?
“Whenever you go to a briefing like that, there’s some things you see that are eye opening,” Scalise said. “And that’s about as far as I’ll go.”
Caught our ear:
Would you be okay with the American people getting that same information?
“You don’t know certain things — or some things you can kind of get some idea of what’s going on,” Scalise tells us. “Some things you still don’t know all the answers. That feeling. I’ll just leave it at that.”
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Steve Scalise (4-28-2026)
SCENE: House Majority Leader Steve Scalise is making his way through the Capitol when Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo — tipped off by Rep. Tim Burchett — catches the No. 2 House Republican for a rare on-the-record reaction to a classified UAP briefing.
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Matt Laslo: “Hey, how are you, sir?”
Rep. Steve Scalise: “Good.”
Laslo: “What I hear from Congressman Burchett is that you had a briefing on UAP?”
Scalise: “Well, we had a classified briefing that some of us went to. Obviously, you can’t talk about what was discussed at the briefing.”
Laslo: “Was it eye-opening?”
Scalise: “Well, you know, whenever you go to a briefing like that, there’s some things you see that are eye-opening — and that’s about as far as I’ll go.”
Laslo: “Was it outside of our reach?”
Scalise: “Well, I mean, I’m not going to get into that.”
Laslo: “Would you be okay with the American people getting that same information?”
Scalise: “Obviously, you know, you don’t know certain things — or some things you can kind of get some idea of what’s going on. Some things you still don’t know all the answers. That feeling. I’ll just leave it at that.”
Laslo: “Were they an adversary or extraterrestrial?”
Scalise: “You can’t discuss what happens in the classified briefing.”
Laslo: “I got to try. Thank you, sir.”
Scalise: “Yeah.”
Laslo: “How are you? See you.”
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