U.S Congress Opens UFO Investigation-Plans for Witness Hearings on May 17th
For the First Time in 50 YRS Congress is Having a Hearing on UAP's, is it a Distraction?
Not since the 1970’s and the old days of Project Blue Book, has the U.S Congress called for witnesses upon hearing of a UAP(Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) report. Regardless of whether it’s a distraction or not, it’s always interesting to hear the government hint at the idea of foreign intelligent life.
Tomorrow on Tuesday May 17th, members from the House Intelligence Subcommittee will hear testimonies from Pentagon high ranking security officials regarding the declassified report released last June.
The report, which was highly publicized and generated a great deal of public interest, had found that the UAPTF(Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force) was able to collect 144 incident reports dating from 2004 to 2021. Many of which directly involved highly trained military aviators and up to 80 of those are said to have involved observation from multiple sensors. Indicating that at the minimum, something was there.
The government has declared the investigation to be “largely inconclusive”, but still leave the door open to the possibility that it could be an adversarial threat or some kind of external force.
“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,” said Representative André Carson, Democrat of Indiana and the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee’s subcommittee on counterterrorism, counterintelligence and counterproliferation, which is holding the hearing. “This hearing is about examining steps that the Pentagon can take to reduce the stigma surrounding reporting by military pilots, and by civilian pilots.”
Scheduled witnesses include Ronald S. Moultrie, under secretary of defense for intelligence and security, and Scott W. Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence.
Following the public hearing, there will be a closed-door meeting for lawmakers who sit on the subcommittees to hear a classified hearing on the Pentagon program, known as the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group.
The chance of any massive bombshell announcement to the public is slim to non but still, it’s another step in the direction of the government even acknowledging the phenomena in over 50 years.
It was back in 1966 when, Gerald R. Ford, then the House Republican minority leader from Michigan, organized a hearing in response to reports of U.F.O.s by over 40 people, including 12 policemen. The Air Force explained them away as “swamp gas,” which Mr. Ford said was “flippant.”
“I believe the American people are entitled to a more thorough explanation than has been given them by the Air Force to date,” Mr. Ford said in a letter to two House committees on March 28, 1966. Air Force officials testified about the sightings.
Two years later, Congress held a second hearing in which scientists from outside the Air Force presented papers on their own studies of the phenomenon and called for continued study of unidentified flying objects.
The Air Force concluded in 1969 that no U.F.O. had ever threatened national security; that the objects did not display technology beyond what was present-day knowledge; and that there was no evidence indicating the objects were extraterrestrial. The Air Force concluded that no further investigation was warranted.
Now supposedly today, after leaps in sensor technology, we finally have what may be evidence of tech that supersedes anything we publicly know as possible.
Regardless I personally see the investigations as worthwhile and it’s clearly something the American people are curious in. It gives the government a chance to be transparent and could if accomplished, help boost trust in the establishment. It’s hard to be focused on war and control when the possibility of alien craft flying around our airspace becomes a matter of fact.
In the end we shall see and it’s entirely possible the only reason this is happening right now is to offer a distraction to individuals concerned with the encroaching inflation crisis and possibility of direct conflict with Russia.
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