The public portion of the event lasted fewer than 90 minutes. The hearing featured testimony from top government officials and the display of images and video of unidentified aerial phenomena. And any threats they pose need to be mitigated,” he said. DOD officials relegated the issue to the back room, or swept it under the rug entirely, fearful of a skeptical national security community.” Pilots avoided reporting, or were laughed at when they did. He went on to say, “For too long, the stigma associated with UAPs has gotten in the way of good intelligence analysis. André Carson of Indiana, the chairman of the panel holding the hearing, warned in his opening remarks, “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are a potential national security threat. The event marked the first congressional public hearing on UFOs in decades, a high-profile moment for a controversial topic that has long been relegated to the fringes of public policy.įor many lawmakers and intelligence and military personnel working on unexplained aerial phenomena, the bigger concern with the episodes is not that alien life is visiting Earth, but rather that a foreign adversary like Russia or China might be fielding some kind of next-generation technology in American airspace that the United States doesn’t know about.ĭemocratic Rep. Key lawmakers warned at a House hearing on Tuesday that unidentified aerial phenomena – popularly known as UFOs – must be investigated and taken seriously as a potential threat to national security.
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