Congress Holds First Public Hearing on UFOs in Over 50 Years - ‘We Want to Know What’s Out There’

I predict there will be results. I also predict the results will not be shared with the public. 

Nanoo Nanoo

Where is Harry Reid when Congress needs him?

I think it's time the American people heard what we've found in our skies. We are so divided partly because we don't all trust science or our government. Finding out more about secrets such as UFOs might help us find common ground.

I don't know if these objects are alien in nature, but I support hearing the truth about what we've seen and found so far.

1st open congressional hearing after DOD restarted tracking efforts in 2017 of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP)

Congress rewrote the charter for that organization, which is now called the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG), and DOD established a dedicated task force to investigate UAPs in 2020

Pentagon’s UAP task force maintains a database of reports of unexplained aerial sightings that contains 400 reports, up from 143 less than a year ago (2021).

Its a Pentagon threat review of National Security including other countries as well as outer space. The review by the Pentagon only concluded that “US technology was not involved” but was unable to find “evidence of alien activity or to rule it out”! 

Like previous reporting efforts there is an unclassified public portion, and then a closed portion on methods. 

Last year (2021) there was an unclassified report delivered to Congress for further review (no doubt for budgets). The purpose of the review was to, “to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to US national security." “The review of 120 incidents is expected to conclude that US technology was not involved in most cases.” “US government report on sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) found no evidence of alien activity but does not rule it out, officials have told US media.” “many UFO sightings can be everyday objects that increasingly clutter air space: weather balloons, metallic party balloons, amateur and professional drones, all with varying radar signatures.” 

50 years ago, the US government ended Project Blue Book to catalog and understand sightings of objects in the air that could not be immediately explained as national security threats

https://www.space.com/future-ufo-research-after-congress-hearing

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57355192 

https://m.economictimes.com/news/defence/looming-us-intelligence-report-to-address-ufos/articleshow/83004495.cms

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/17/ufo-uap-hearing-pentagon/

The Pentagon says military UFO reports are way up – TechCrunch

Congress held its first hearing on UFOs — now called UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) — in more...

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When we now know that there are endless galaxies why would we be naieve enough to believe that we are the only sentinent beings that exist. Of course there are other far more advanced civilizations out there. To see the progress in my own lifetime has been incredible. We have so much more advancement that will come long after I am gone. I remember when a basic computer took up an entire room at our school and the same computing power is available on a simple smart phone. Yes there is intelligent life out there. To think that they would even want to check us out is either very frightening or highly laughable. The truth is out there!

They are not going to admit what they know about UFO's. 

I think it could be interesting to find out whats going on.

UFO hearings? Given what the "Republican" Party has become, I wait with amusement to see the wackiness they will bring to the process. Time to get out the popcorn.

No.  And I do.not.care. Too many Americans are worried about putting food on the table.

Causes

you seem to be avoiding 

buffalo shootings

replacement theory

exposing dumbkopf rhetoric espoused by desantis abbot mastriano and other surrogates etc

these should be a high priority? 
ufo's can wait 

Waste of taxpayers money once again!!  Along with sending billions to Ukraine!  Did we fix our boarder?  Do we have baby formula on shelves?  How's our gas prices?  

We have been investigating these things since the 1940s, why should we expect different results THIS time? 

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Who cares about UFOs? Is this really an issue worth discussing? Come on!

I absolutely believe in UAP’s and accept the possibility that UFO’s could exist as well. Both start with ‘U’: ‘unidentified’. Since no one can say what these observations actually are the ‘AP’:’Aerial Phenomena’ in ‘UAP’ is a better description than conferring physical object status to unexplained phenomenon as in the ‘FO’:’Flying Object’ in ‘UFO’. 

Any ‘object’ moving through air must displace air as it moves. Objects moving through air at supersonic speeds will generate shock waves and sonic booms. With proper cameras the shock waves can even be imaged, yet there have been no observations of either sonic booms nor shock waves that must be generated when anything that we would consider to an ‘object’ moves at supersonic speeds. UAP is a much better and more accurate description. 

I accept that there can be many observations by human eyes and human instruments that cannot be explained by any means that we currently know of. For example, I could imagine a very advanced alien race that developed the ability to travel through the tenth dimension that quantum string theory must have for it to be able to account for all the physics associated with known quantum mechanics, and that such travel could leave a non-physical shadow that spills into the three spatial dimensions that dominate our existence. That, of course, begs the question of why would any such advanced alien race have any interest in such a primordial life form as we would represent to them? I guess our very existence could be the equivalent of one alien kid’s ant-farm. 

This line of speculative reasoning can begin to be quite interdependent on the kinds of circular logic which essentially says that if ‘A’ is true then ‘B’ must be true as well. If ‘B’  is true, ‘C’ must be true as well. And if ‘C’ is true, then ‘A’ must be true.  While all of these statements can be absolutely true there is no assurance that  ‘A’, ‘B’ or ‘C’ was ever true in the first place. Even though the logic of each statement is clear they are often buried within other facts or observations and hard to connect. So an argument which starts with “let’s presume that ‘A’ is true” eventually ‘proves’ that ‘B’ is true and than ‘C’ is as well. When ‘C’ is eventually proven true it is used to ‘prove’ that ‘A’ is true as well forgetting the possibility that the original assumption that started the circular chain could have been wrong in the first place. A closed loop which really only boils down to that fact that if any of the assertions ‘A’, ‘B’ or ‘C’ can be independently proven true, than all must be true. This test is often skipped as can be seen in the complex circular logic that self supports the narrative of ancient alien visitations.

I believe that all UAP observations can eventually be explained by currently unexplained atmospheric phenomenon, instrumentation anomaly’s or, for human observations by the fact that what people ‘see’ is not in anyway like the way a camera images things; but rather a presumed image constructed by the brain’s ability to recognize patterns to fill in the details of the minimal information that the human eye actually provides. 

This latter part requires some explanation. 

The eyes normally dither in small circular motions and the only optic nerves that ‘fire’ are those that sense changes in light or color intensity- they only ‘see’ the edges of things and the brain fills in the details based on stored patterns on what the minimal information provided by optic nerves most likely means. This is a very efficient use of brain resources  which allows quick response to visual input, particularly response to imminent threats. It is also the reason why slight of hand magicians can deceive us with magic tricks - because the brain does not see things in the peripheral vision very well at all and in constructing what we would consider to be the image of what we see, will simply omit the details of things it does not expect to see. If something prominent within the more detailed central field of view is ‘seen’, the brain attempts to match it to a pattern that it has trained itself to recognize - and for weird, unexpected or never before encountered sights can come up with some bizarre pattern matches for what people ‘see’ their ‘own eyes’. 

I believe that all UAP’s can be explained by atmospheric processes or instrumentation anomalies which we currently do not understand or the physical processes that underlie human perception. Why would an alien civilization capable of even intra solar system travel, let alone interstellar travel have any interest at all in observing our ancient ‘primordial’ life? How could any such alien culture able to get to earth without being observed be so careless and let themselves be observed tooling around in our atmosphere? The most plausible explanation is that they never came at all.

We could look into the rabbit hole of conspiracy theory logic and assume that they were just a survey party coming here to assess how long it would take to remove all matter within earth’s orbital plane to clear the path for the high speed lanes of the coming trans-galactic super highway system being constructed - and they really don’t care if we were to spot them.

I believe that within the enormous expanse of the observable universe that many forms of life have arisen, including some that we would recognize as life or as life similar to our own, that some of that life must be sentient and some may be much more evolved and intelligent than we can begin to imagine. 

Extraterrestrial meteoroids have been found to carry organic compounds, some chemical remnants of amino acids and other precursor chemicals of the kind that proteins use to construct, manage and regulate life’s processes - leaving some astrophysicists to think that our life on this planet was facilitated by or even seeded by the remnants of former extraterrestrial life. The recent landmark discoveries of vast stores of water, active biochemical processes and traces of organic chemicals on or within Jupiter’s and Saturn’s larger moons provide all the building blocks needed for life to form and which may have formed on them already. These moons were expected to be cold void rocks as were all moons orbiting interstellar planets were also thought to be - and the likelihood of finding extraterrestrial life becomes much greater with this discovery. I think that there will someday be an unquestionable first contact and I hope for it to occur within my lifetime. Nothing like this has happened yet.

When retired General Petreaous was asked about the UAP hearings he seriously stated that ‘every now and then one of the aliens housed at Area 51 gets loose and spreads some mischief - it took a moment for Jake Trapper to realize that the normally quite serious Patraeous was hooking him with a pretty good joke - in made my day. 

The mystery isn't getting any closer to being solved.

No, they will not tell EVERYTHING.

Speaking of out of this world the little rat on wheels Madison Cawthorn lost the election today and blamed everybody but himself and his own idiot behavior. This is what the Republican party is today a bunch of absolute idiots liars and losers, it's unfortunate but this is where we are our forefathers must be spinning in their graves.

Fix the existing problems of inflation, gas prices, crime, child care, employment, and on and on.  Then deal with this waste of time.

The Congress needs to deal with the economy, closing off our southern border and forcing this idiot President to release United States petroleum production instead of playing with ET! Do your job and get the country back headed in the right direction.

I think hearings will produced conclusive results. Whether the public hears/sees those results, I don't know.

I don't believe they will tell the public anything even if they know something.

CAUSES ASKS: "Do you think the UAP investigation will produce conclusive results for the public?"  ME: Nope, but as a news item it's lots more fun to follow than, say, the Ukraine war or GOP conspiracy theories and mass shootings...   Do keep us informed!