This episode originally aired on May 19, 2022 2022 has certainly been a busy year for space news, but it wasn’t all looking at what’s happening out there. Some of the news and research was about what’s happening on our own planet. Earlier this year, Congress held a public hearing on a topic that hasn’t been discussed openly in a congressional hearing in decades: unidentified flying objects. Yes, UFOs, or as the Pentagon is calling them, unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP. The hearing follows a report from the director of national intelligence released in June of 2021 that said there were over 140 recorded sightings of UAP. The report and the hearing highlighted some national security concerns but this also marks a shift away from the “stigma” attached to conversations about and the study of UFO’s. Chris Impey, a professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, has been following these developments. Below is an edited transcript of his conversation with Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams about the hearing. Chris Impey: I was pleased because congressional hearings can, you know, be sort of a little circus-like. There were mostly sensible questions, and the two Pentagon officials, you know, I think they did…
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