Possible widespread firings of FBI​ agents are raising concerns about ​the agency’s ability to keep the public safe and to be politically independent.

FBI agents who are part of a secretive group investigating the surge of “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” what the government uses to refer to UFOs, are worried that they could lose their jobs in a possible FBI purge targeting officials who worked on Jan.

Details are coming to light about a secret FBI group that allegedly investigates UAPs, according to Politico. Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot who claims he saw UFOs, says the group is made up of more than a dozen staff who “spend much of their time tracking down UAPs.