Comer Said He’d Try for a November UFO Hearing. Congress Is Back. Nothing Is on the Calendar.

CASE FILE: RW-DAILY-2026-1110-PM

Subject: Proposed House Oversight UAP hearing in the November 2026 lame-duck session; delayed AARO Historical Record Report, Volume II

Dates: Comer interview 16 Sept 2026 (published 7 Oct); Congress returned 9 Nov 2026; status as of 10 Nov 2026

Location: U.S. Capitol / House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Washington, D.C.

Status: Remarks CONFIRMED · A November hearing date UNVERIFIED (none listed) · Volume II unreleased CONFIRMED as a public gap

The claim

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee said he wanted another public hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena during the November lame-duck session. Congress came back to work on 9 November 2026. A day later, that hearing still has no date, no topic and no witness list on the committee’s public calendar.

The comment comes from Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), recorded on the Capitol grounds on 16 September 2026 by reporter Matt Laslo of Ask a Pol UAP and published, with a transcript and a 46-second video, on 7 October. A planned session in the third week of September had fallen through after House leaders canceled sitting days. “So we’ll, we’ll try to pick it back up in November,” Comer said. “I think it’ll be an aggressive lame duck period.”

Asked what the hearing was supposed to cover, he was blunt: “I don’t know that we ever agreed on a topic.” He added, “I’d like to have another one. I think there’s demand for it. It’s just getting good witnesses in is always a challenge.” For the substance, he pointed to Reps. Tim Burchett, Anna Paulina Luna and, “Burlison more than anybody,” meaning Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.).

That is the claim now being tested in real time. The House is in session. The lame duck has started. The question is whether a hearing actually gets noticed before this Congress ends, or whether a sidewalk intention stays just an intention.

Running in parallel is a second, older piece of unfinished congressional business. In a statement to the New York Post published 31 October, Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.), who chaired the first modern public UAP hearing in 2022, said the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office “has delayed the release of a key historical UAP record report for almost two years” and called for its “immediate release.” The document that matches that description is Volume II of AARO’s Historical Record Report. Volume I has been public since March 2024. Volume II has not.

The video evidence first

There is no official committee video of a November 2026 UAP hearing, because no such hearing has been posted. The primary video is the Ask a Pol sidewalk interview itself.

1. “NEWS: Oversight Chair planning UAP hearing during ‘aggressive’ post-election lame duck session,” Ask a Pol UAP

• Uploaded: 7 October 2026 (YouTube upload date)
• Length: 46 seconds
• What it shows (from the video’s title and description, and from the transcript Ask a Pol published the same day): Laslo asks Comer what became of a planned UAP hearing. Comer says leaders “keep canceling days on us,” that the committee had aimed for the third week of September, and that he would “try to pick it back up in November.” The YouTube description points to the full transcript on Substack and identifies the exchange as an exclusive.

2. “SCOOP — House Oversight Chair James Comer: ‘I would like to have another [UFO] hearing,'” Ask a Pol UAP

• Uploaded: 27 June 2026
• Length: 78 seconds
• What it shows (from the video’s own description, which includes a short transcript): months before the September cancellation, Comer was already on record wanting another hearing after the Pentagon began releasing UAP files. “I would like to have another — what I call UFO, you all call something else — hearing,” he said, then added that scheduling was hard “when you don’t know when we’re going to be here and when we’re not.”

3. Official context, not this month’s hearing: the last public House Oversight UAP hearing on the committee’s own channel is still “Restoring Public Trust Through UAP Transparency and Whistleblower Protection,” held 9 September 2025 by the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets and uploaded 11 September 2025, running 2 hours 52 minutes 10 seconds. That is the kind of proceeding Comer said he wanted to hold again. It is not evidence that a 2026 follow-up has been scheduled.

Timeline

• 17 May 2022: A House Intelligence subcommittee holds the first public congressional UAP hearing in more than 50 years. Carson chairs the session. Official transcript: congress.gov, HHRG-117-IG05.
• 26 July 2023, 13 November 2024, 19 November 2024 and 9 September 2025: further open hearings in the House and Senate, including the July 2023 Oversight session and the 2025 Luna task-force hearing. The official videos and transcripts are collected in our earlier file, Congress and UFOs: The UAP Hearings of 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.
• February 2024 / cleared 6 March 2024: AARO issues Historical Record Report, Volume I, a 63-page review of U.S. government UAP investigations from 1945 through 31 October 2023 (Department of War PDF). The report says Volume II “will include any findings resulting from interviews and research completed from 1 November 2023 to 15 April 2024” and “will be published in accordance with the date established in Section 6802” of the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act. Volume I also states that “additional claims will be addressed in Volume II” and that AARO “will report the results of the unresolved allegations in Volume II.”
• Late 2025: According to an FBI report later released by the administration, witnesses on a helicopter mission near an undisclosed West Coast military base described orange orbs flying alongside the aircraft and smaller objects against a mountain backdrop, the New York Post reported on 10 October 2026.
• 27 June 2026: Comer tells Ask a Pol he would like another UFO hearing, with the scheduling caveat about an election-year calendar.
• 16 September 2026: Laslo records the lame-duck comments on the Capitol grounds, during one of the last House votes before the midterm recess.
• Third week of September 2026: The window Comer said the committee had been aiming for. In the interview he says House leaders canceled the sitting days and the hearing did not happen. Ask a Pol reported that Speaker Mike Johnson had canceled the final two weeks of the September session.
• 7 October 2026: Ask a Pol publishes the 16 September transcript and uploads the 46-second video. Sentinel News, a partner outlet, recaps the same interview.
• 10 October 2026: Burlison tells the New York Post he would “explore” whether intelligence personnel from the late-2025 helicopter encounter could testify publicly, and warns that “having them come forward publicly may expose other things.” He says some witnesses have already met members of Congress behind closed doors and that one is a career official at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence who is not known to the public. No open-hearing appearance is announced.
• 31 October 2026: The New York Post reports that Democrats are preparing, if they take the House, to form their own UFO caucus and a select committee that would supplant Luna’s declassification task force. In the same story, Carson accuses the administration of having “slow walked several of the statutory requirements Congress established for UAP disclosure” and demands immediate release of the delayed historical report.
• 3–4 November 2026: Democrats win both the House and the Senate, according to an NPR analysis of Associated Press race calls, updated 4 November at 1:52 a.m. ET. NPR reports that Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is poised to become speaker in January and that Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) is expected to become chair of House Oversight.
• 9 November 2026: Lawmakers return to Capitol Hill for the first time since the election, CBS News reports, for a lame-duck sprint that includes Republican leadership elections, a 11 December government-funding deadline, and the year-end defense bill. The House schedule for 9 November is live on house.gov.
• 10 November 2026: A review of the committee’s public hearings archive and calendar lists no UAP or UFO hearing for November. GOP leadership elections are set for this day, per CBS.

What believers claim

Readers of the Ask a Pol clip have treated Comer’s November remark as a scheduled event: another open hearing, possibly with the intelligence witnesses Burlison described, before Republicans hand over the gavel. On the other side of the aisle, Carson’s delayed-report charge and the Post’s select-committee reporting have been read as a coming Democratic takeover of the disclosure agenda, or as proof that Volume II is being held back because it contradicts Volume I. Neither reading is a documented fact. They are the interpretations now sitting on top of a still-empty calendar and an unpublished second volume.

What the research found

1. Comer did say he wanted a November hearing. He did not announce one. The 16 September remarks are on tape and in a published transcript. The words are “we’ll try to pick it back up in November,” plus an admission that the topic was never agreed and that “getting good witnesses in is always a challenge.” That is an intention, not a notice of a hearing.