Almost a year after a U.S. intelligence report on UFOs provided few answers to what military pilots had encountered in more than 140 incidents, top Pentagon officials will face Congress in the first hearing in more than 50 years focused on UFOs.
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The intelligence report could only explain one of the military's 144 encounters with Unexplained Aerial Phenomena, the military's new term used to describe UFOs, reported since 2004. That report did not contain the words"alien" or"extraterrestrial" and said that the unexplained UAP incidents would require further study. Still, it did say that most of the phenomena were likely physical objects.
Committee chairman Rep. Andre Carson, D-N.Y., tweeted last week that"Americans need to know more about these unexplained occurrences."Video footage released by the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science purportedly shows pilots observing a UFO while aboard a U.S. Navy aircraft. The public's renewed interest in UFOs has been sparked in recent years by the leaks of once classified videos and the Navy's declassification of videos that recorded its pilots' encounters.Jeremy Corbell, a documentary filmmaker and UFO enthusiast, who has released some of those videos, said the hearing reflects the public's interest in UFOs.
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