Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna detailed a bizarre UFO encounter involving an “airspace incursion” that left an experienced military pilot rattled while she was serving in the US Air Force.
Luna (R-Fla.) told Joe Rogan on Wednesday that she experienced an alarming event that she still questions today during her time stationed at the Portland Air National Guard Base as an airfield management specialist.
“There had been an airspace incursion that had taken place when I was still at the Guard, and I remember talking to some of the pilots about it, and I was like, ‘What was that?’” she said on “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
Luna served six years in the Air Force as an airfield management specialist, overseeing airfield safety and efficiency, including coordinating flight operations and frequently communicating with F-16 pilots.
However, when she asked the pilots, none of them were willing to talk about what they saw in the sky.
“They’re like, ‘Eh, we can’t really talk about it.’ And no one really wanted to address it,” the 36-year-old Florida representative recounted.
After mulling it over, Luna said, she concluded that airspace incursion was likely an unidentified anomalous phenomenon (UAP).
Rogan, 58, pushed back and asked how Luna didn’t know it wasn’t another military’s aircraft or something highly classified that the pilots weren’t willing to share with her.
Luna said one of the pilots appeared rattled given the way he spoke about the incident.
“From what I gathered, he didn’t want to get taken off flight status, and was like, ‘I really can’t discuss it,’” she said.
The F-16 pilot, however, did tell her that whatever it was, they couldn’t “really identify it.”
“It essentially outperformed them,” she shared.
Luna further explained that there’s a “crazy” stigma around those who report seeing UAPs, and for members of the armed forces, that could jeopardize their security clearance and reputation.
The Air Force veteran noted the US government has not always been transparent with the public, especially about UFOs.
“What I can tell you is, when you have thousands upon thousands of people from around the planet throughout time that have reported something, to say those people are crazy … that’s a disinformation campaign to get people to shut up about it,” she told Rogan.
Luna, who leads a task force created by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform investigating the possibility of UAPs, called for more “transparency” from the US government.
“I’d like to see the federal government roll out some of the stuff we’ve been given access to because I think that information belongs in the hands of the American people,” she said.
She also believes the government is trying to replicate technology from craft believed to be made by extraterrestrial life.
“Without getting into classified conversations, there have been incidences where I believe very credible people have reported that there have been movements outside of time and space,” Luna said.
“Based on the photos that I’ve seen, I’m very confident that there’s things out there that have not been created by mankind.”
In 2025, there have already been more than 2,100 sightings of UAPs across the US reported to the National UFO Reporting Center, marking a significant increase from the 1,492 sightings reported throughout all of 2024.
The Pentagon has remained firm in saying that there is no evidence that unexplained sightings are extraterrestrial life and disavowed the existence of any UFO retrieval programs.
Last week, a Harvard physicist asserted that new images of the Manhattan-size interstellar object rocketing through our inner solar system back his claim that it’s not a comet, but instead possibly an alien probe that may “destroy us.”
“Here, the glow is actually in front of it. We’ve never seen such a thing. A comet doesn’t glow in front,” Dr. Avi Loeb said after the object was discovered in early July.
