WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — The House Oversight Committee hearing on UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena)/UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) will take place on July 26, Reps. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., confirmed to NewsNation.

Neither office confirmed any details beyond the date as of Monday, but some House Oversight Committee members are expected to hold a news conference Wednesday to take questions and provide more information about the hearing. Members Burchett and Luna have been driving the effort to arrange hearings on the topic.

The chair of the House Oversight Committee, Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., claimed he and other lawmakers were going to try to get a hearing on the topic later this month.

While responding to questioning from NewsNation’s Chief Washington Correspondent Blake Burman, John Kirby, the National Security Council’s coordinator for strategic communications for the White House, said UAPs are considered a legitimate issue for the Biden administration.

“We wouldn’t have stood up an organization at the Pentagon to analyze and try to collect and coordinate the way these sightings are reported if we didn’t take it seriously. Of course we do,” Kirby told Burman.

Kirby said the White House wants to get to the bottom of the issue since it has impacted trainings.

“Some of these phenomena, we know, have already had an impact on our training ranges for when pilots are out trying to do training in the air, and they see these things, they’re not sure what they are, and it can have an impact on their ability to perfect their skills. So already had an impact here, and we just want to better understand it,” Kirby said.

He continued: “We’re not saying what they are, what they’re not. We’re saying that there’s something our pilots are seeing. We’re saying it has had an effect on some of our training operations. And so, we want to get to the bottom of it, we want to understand it better.”

Kirby said the administration “will always want to be as transparent with members of Congress and with the American people as we can, considering national security concerns.”

Members of Congress have recently said they want to investigate UFOs after claims made by David Grusch, a former member of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Grush spoke in June to investigative journalist Ross Coulthart on NewsNation about his time in Congress’ Unidentified Aerial Phenomena task force, which is now called the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO.

Last week, NewsNation sources said the hearing will take place in Washington, D.C. However, there was discussion about taking lawmakers on the committee to Florida to meet with some “insiders” who had more on some possible UAP information.

At the moment, that trip is still undecided. As of now, one of the two leading members of this hearing has confirmed the date as July 26. Congress goes on recess the week after.

The Pentagon has said there is no information “to substantiate claims that any programs regarding the possession or reverse engineering of extraterrestrial materials have existed in the past or exist currently.”

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced he was introducing new legislation to declassify government records related to UFOs. The Senate majority leader said the measure will be an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act and be modeled after the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act.

Podcast host and filmmaker Jeremy Corbell, who thinks Schumer’s plan is a major development, said direct witnesses to UFOs are “ready to roll” and just need to be given a hearing date.

Margot Mather and Caitlyn Shelton contributed to this report.