Colin Trevorrow Attends Congressional UAP Hearing as Four Witnesses Testify Under Oath

Hollywood director Colin Trevorrow was among members of the public who attended a high-profile congressional hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) on Sept. 9, 2025, where four witnesses provided sworn testimony about encounters they said could not be readily explained.

The hearing, convened by the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, included testimony from investigative journalist George Knapp and three U.S. military veterans: Jeffrey Nuccetelli, Alexandro Wiggins and Dylan Borland. During the proceeding, Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., played previously unseen black-and-white video from Oct. 30, 2024, that shows a Hellfire missile fired from a U.S. drone striking and apparently bouncing off a spherical object over the Arabian Sea near Yemen.

Nuccetelli, a former Air Force military police officer, described the newly shown footage as “exceptional evidence” of UAPs, and the witnesses recounted multiple encounters with a variety of unexplained craft. Testimony described large triangular craft, luminous cube-shaped objects reportedly larger than a football field, and Tic Tac–shaped vehicles earlier associated with Navy encounters over the Pacific.

Borland, a former Air Force geospatial intelligence specialist, told the committee that after reporting an incident he said occurred at Langley Air Force Base in 2012 — when he reported a roughly 100-foot triangular object that allegedly interfered with his phone and then rapidly ascended — he faced career and administrative consequences. Borland said agencies blocked him from work, altered documents and manipulated his security clearance after he brought the sighting to his superiors. Two of the witnesses also told lawmakers they believed government officials had attempted to silence or discredit people who reported UAP encounters.

Knapp, a longtime reporter who has covered alleged government activity around Area 51, and the veterans testified under oath about their experiences and how they assess military and government responses to reported incidents. The panel proceeded as part of a broader congressional effort, begun in recent years, to scrutinize and declassify information on UAPs and to assess potential national security and aviation-safety implications.

Trevorrow, the 48-year-old director best known for the Jurassic World franchise, was seen seated behind Knapp by attendees and journalists covering the hearing. His presence drew attention online, with users on social platforms suggesting a possible connection to film work. In May, entertainment trade publication Deadline reported that Trevorrow is developing an untitled conspiracy thriller set in the late 1980s centered on Knapp and the Area 51 story. Committee proceedings provided no confirmation of any film-related activity tied to the director’s attendance.

The term UAP has been adopted by military and government officials to describe airborne, maritime or space-based objects or phenomena that evade ready explanation by current scientific or technical understanding. Congressional interest in UAPs has increased over the past several years, producing a mix of classified briefings, public testimony and calls from lawmakers for greater transparency and interagency cooperation.

Lawmakers at the hearing focused on collecting sworn accounts, assessing newly released imagery and video, and questioning agencies about record-keeping and the handling of personnel who report anomalous incidents. The committee did not issue immediate findings at the session’s conclusion, and members of the task force signaled that further review of evidence and witness accounts will continue as part of its declassification efforts.