UFO sightings are no longer restricted to grainy YouTube videos or alien conspiracy subreddits. A House panel will hold the first congressional hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) in over 50 years to follow up with a Pentagon report that was released last June on U.S. military sightings of unidentifiable flying vehicles. The hearing, scheduled for May 17, will be held by the House Intelligence Committee’s subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation and will include the testimony of two top defence intelligence officials, the New York Times reports. “Since this is an area of high public interest, any undue secrecy can serve as an obstacle to solving the mystery, or it could prevent us from finding solutions to potential vulnerabilities,” Representative André Carson, the chairman of the subcommittee, told the New York Times. “This hearing is about examining steps that the Pentagon can take to reduce the stigma surrounding reporting by military pilots, and by civilian pilots.” What is the UFO Pentagon report? In June 2021, the Pentagon released a highly anticipated report on UAP (the military term for UFOs), the first to be released in decades. The report broke down sightings of UAPs that took place between the years…
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For the First Time in Decades, Congress Will Hold Public Hearings on UFOs