Congress Wants to Know: Do Aliens Exist?
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🗓️ 31 July 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In a recent public hearing, three government officials told Congress that not only are “unidentified anomalous phenomena” real, they’re a major national security concern. But one witness took his testimony even further, claiming the government possesses materials of “non-human origin.” How much do we really know about UAPs – or, as they’re more commonly known, UFOs? And now that Congress is involved, are we about to learn a whole lot more?
Guest: Garrett Graff, contributor at WIRED magazine; author of the forthcoming book, “UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here—and Out There”
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| 0:36.0 | Last week, things got a little weird in Washington. |
| 0:40.0 | The subcommittee hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAPs will come to order. |
| 0:47.0 | Wednesday morning, the House Oversight Committee gabbled into here testimony |
| 0:50.0 | from three witnesses with experience in military and intelligence. |
| 0:54.0 | All of them said that had close encounters with the unexplainable. |
| 0:59.0 | There was a pilot who reported an unidentified flying object to the Pentagon back in 2014. |
| 1:05.0 | The object described as a dark gray or a black cube inside of a clear sphere |
| 1:09.0 | came within 50 feet of the lead aircraft and was estimated to be 5 to 15 feet in diameter. |
| 1:14.0 | There was a Navy commander who said he saw something, an alien vehicle, |
| 1:19.0 | out over the Pacific in 2004. |
| 1:22.0 | You know, it's been said it's probably the most credible UFO sighting in history |
| 1:26.0 | based on all the sensors that were tracking it. |
| 1:29.0 | This encounter has become known as the Tiktak incident |
| 1:32.0 | because that's what the alleged craft looked like, a white Tiktak. |
| 1:36.0 | The world needs to know that. It's not a joke. |
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