The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) released a statement Wednesday in response to questions about a newly surfaced video of an alleged unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP).

What’s now been dubbed a “jellyfish” UAP was allegedly recorded by the U.S. military over a U.S. joint operations base in Iraq around 2018 and released by investigative journalist Jeremy Corbell.

NewsNation has not independently verified this footage.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a speech that information on UAPs, better known as UFOs, is being kept from Congress in violation of the law.

The House and Senate were recently debating UAP disclosure measures attached to the annual defense spending bill, which would have mandated government agencies to release information on the phenomena. But lawmakers say the bills have been stripped down and made less effective.

In a speech, Schumer gave his support to disclosure efforts.

Lawmakers pushing for transparency on Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAPs), more commonly referred to as UFOs, say they are facing an “orchestrated effort” to deny them access to information about the subject.

Rep. Tim Burchett, R.-Tenn., one of the loudest voices on the topic, said congressional efforts to provide more transparency on UAPs have been stymied by the defense and intelligence communities.

In an unusual presentation this week, a pair of "non-human" corpses said to be at least 1,000 years old were displayed to Mexico's Congress, with suggestions the bodies could be from another planet.

The specimens were unveiled by self-proclaimed ufologist and journalist Jaime Maussan, in front of an audience of lawmakers and scientists on Tuesday. Maussan told the congressional session in Mexico City: "They are beings, non-humans who are not part of our terrestrial evolution and that after disappearing we do not [think] there is a subsequent evolution."

Former Navy pilot Ryan Graves spoke out after allegedly "alien corpses" were displayed in Mexico, calling the incident an "unsubstantiated stunt."

What were alleged to be 1,000-year-old "non-human alien corpses" were presented in glass display cases before the Mexican Congress on Tuesday during its first hearing on UFOs. The event has become a social media spectacle after Mexican journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan testified under oath that the mummified specimens were "non-human beings that are not part of our terrestrial evolution." 

The truth is still out there.

NASA announced Thursday that it has appointed its first-ever director of UFOs to lead experts who’ve yet to see proof of alien spacecraft — but still have no idea what a number of mysterious flying objects actually are.

The space agency admitted the ongoing mystery while releasing findings from a yearlong independent study into reported sightings of what are now formally referred to as “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP.

A pair of alien “bodies” were displayed in Mexico’s Congress on Tuesday as part of the country’s first hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs).

UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan brought the specimens to Mexico City, claiming that they were recovered in Peru in 2017. He said carbon dating shows that they are between 700 and 1,800 years old.

Former Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves has spent years pushing for a proper, centralized system enabling military and commercial pilots to report sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena. It may finally be coming.

The Pentagon announced Thursday the launch of a website that will publish unclassified material from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, the agency within the Department of Defense that’s responsible for investigating reports of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, commonly known as UFOs.

The Pentagon on Thursday announced the launch of a new website with the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which will provide the public with declassified information about UFOs, or what the government calls unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).

Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said at a press briefing that the new website will provide the public with information including videos and photos associated with resolved UAP cases as they are declassified and approved for public release.