UFO sightings are not restricted to grainy YouTube movies or alien conspiracy subreddits. A House panel will maintain the primary congressional listening to on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) in over 50 years to observe up with a Pentagon report that was launched final June on U.S. army sightings of unidentifiable flying autos.

The listening to, scheduled for May 17, might be held by the House Intelligence Committee’s subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation and can embody the testimony of two prime protection intelligence officers, 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, advised 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 launched a extremely anticipated report on UAP (the army time period for UFOs), the primary to be launched in many years. The report broke down sightings of UAPs that occurred between the years 2004 to 2021, and unclassified info on army investigations into these incidents.

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The report didn’t precisely present solutions, itemizing a complete of 144 incidents, and solely one among them was correctly recognized as “airborne clutter.” The remaining 143 had been left unexplained, though the report did affirm that these had been very a lot actual flying objects, simply that the federal government has no concept what they’re. Of course, the report had no point out of aliens as a possible trigger of those unidentifiable autos. But I imply, it didn’t not say they had been aliens.

The report was a results of the Intelligence Authorization Act, which known as for the discharge of an unclassified, all-sources report on UAPs following leaked movies captured by U.S. Navy pilots that confirmed odd-looking flying autos with unidentified maneuvers. In one video, the pilot might be heard exclaiming, “What the fuck is that?” as a cluster of aircrafts pulls some loopy stunts.

The authorities’s essential concern with these unidentifiable flying autos just isn’t an alien invasion, however reasonably that that is some type of technologically superior plane employed by China or Russia that might probably threaten the U.S. army. The Pentagon report listed 11 incidents of close to misses between a army automobile and a UAP.

Although it didn’t present many solutions, the report lay the groundwork for additional investigations into these incidents. And subsequent week’s public listening to could also be a part of that effort.

The goal of the listening to is to “give the public an opportunity to hear directly from subject matter experts and leaders in the Intelligence Community on one of the greatest mysteries of our time, and to break the cycle of excessive secrecy and speculation with truth and transparency,” according to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.