UFO hearing - live: Sightings are ‘frequent and continuing’, Navy tells Congress
There have been 144 encounters of mysterious craft between 2004 and 2021
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Your support makes all the difference.A House Intelligence subcommittee will today hold a hearing about unidentified flying objects and the possibility that we have encounted alien life.
The hearing on “unidentified aerial phenomena” will be broadcast on the House Intelligence’s YouTube page at 9:00am ET (2:00pm GMT).
Testimony is expected from many high-ranking intelligence and defence officials. It follows a report on UAPs last year which found that there were 144 encounters between 2004 and 2021.
Although the report said that the evidence was “largely inconclusive”, it stated the most of the phenomena reported “do represent physical objects” and that the United States currently lack data to indicate any UAP are part of a foreign collection program or indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary.”
The proceedings will be chaired by Representative Andre Carson, who said that people needed to be informed about the events.
“Congress hasn’t held a public hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UFO’s) in over 50 years”, he tweeted. “Americans need to know more about these unexplained occurrences.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has also said that “there’s much to learn about unidentified aerial phenomena” and that “the American people deserve full transparency.”
The deparment is fully committed to the principle of transparency to the American people, but it is a “delicate balance”, Mr Moultrie says
“We know that services members have identified unexplained ariel phenomenon”, Mr Moultrie says
“The last time congress had a hearing on UAPs, it was half a century ago. I hope it does not take 50 more years for congress to hold another, because transparency is desperately needed.
Rep. Carson now turns to Mr Crawford for his statements - who says he is interested more in the intelligence that can be gathered about China and other “potential adversaries”
“You have to convince the audience today and most especially our military and civilian aviators the culture has changed”
Rep. Carson asks for an update on AOIMSG - “the group does not even have a named director”.
“For too long the stigma associated with UAPs has gotten in the way of good intelligence analysis”, Rep. Andre Carson says
The hearing has now begun - with a moment of silence for the victims of the Buffalo shooting
At the end of last year, a US military pilot apparently tracked a “fleet” of UFOs above the South China Sea.
The video was filmed on 24 November and, according to American Military News, was uploaded to a UFO tracking website on 4 December.
The pilot can be heard saying, “I don’t know what that is,” and adds: “That is some weird s***”. The video ends with the alleged UFOs vanishing from thin air, to which the pilot says “gone”.
He was reportedly flying at an altitude of 39,000 feet above the South China Sea, not far from Hong Kong, when he witnessed the lights.
The footage, which lasts for 53-seconds, shows three sets of four lights that were flying above the clouds in unison, and that resemble no known aircraft.
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