Andy Ogles

Tennessee Republican who raised the Holman Rule at the July 2023 hearing; UAP Caucus member leaving Congress in January 2027 after losing his primary.

Current role: U.S. Representative for Tennessee's 5th district (R) until January 2027; lost the August 2026 Republican primary. Member of the UAP Caucus

Former roles:

Mayor of Maury County, Tennessee (2018–2022)

Background

Businessman and former Maury County mayor who has represented Tennessee's 5th district since 2023. At the 26 July 2023 House Oversight hearing he used his questioning to establish, through the three witnesses, a national security framing of UAP, and he raised the Holman Rule, a House rule allowing appropriations amendments that cut specific programs or federal salaries, as a lever against agencies that withhold information from Congress (Holman Rule). He co-signed the August 2023 letter to the IC Inspector General and is a member of the UAP Caucus. After Tennessee redrew its congressional map in May 2026, he lost the 6 August Republican primary to former state agriculture commissioner Charlie Hatcher and leaves Congress in January 2027.

On the record

2025-12-12 – Ask a Pol – on another public UAP hearing: "They're supposed to have a hearing coming up. I don't know when it's scheduled for, but it should be pretty soon." and "Or maybe because of the holiday, it may not be til January." No further Oversight UAP hearing had been scheduled as of October 2026. Ask a Pol · oversight.house.gov search
2023-08-22 – letter to IC Inspector General Thomas Monheim, with Reps. Burchett, Luna, Moskowitz, Burlison and Mace, asking which intelligence community members, facilities, bases or other actors are involved in UAP crash-retrieval and reverse-engineering programs. Letter · X
2023-07-26 – House Oversight hearing – said he would use the Holman Rule against efforts to keep Congress in the dark, and led the witnesses through a sequence of yes-or-no questions on whether UAP may be probing defence capabilities, collecting reconnaissance, showing interest in nuclear technology, outmatching U.S. military capabilities and posing an existential national security threat. Transcript, pp. 48–50 · Disclosure Diaries

Responses and criticism

2026-06-25 – Oversight Chair Comer said he would like another UAP hearing ("I think that would be popular.") but none was noticed before the election recess, and Ranking Member Robert Garcia said in September that Democrats would decide the future of the Secrets Task Force only after November. Ask a Pol, June · Ask a Pol, Sept

Timeline of involvement

2023-01-03 – takes office in the House
2023-07-26 – Holman Rule remarks and national security questioning at the Oversight hearing
2023-08-22 – ICIG letter
2025-12-12 – says another public UAP hearing is coming
2026-08-06 – loses the TN-5 Republican primary to Charlie Hatcher
2027-01-03 – term ends

Relevant links

Part of the Key People in Disclosure series. Verified 2026-10-10. Spotted an error? Reach out.