Congress Wants to Know: Do Aliens Exist?
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🗓️ 31 July 2023
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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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| 0:30.0 | Last week, things got a little weird in Washington. |
| 0:40.7 | 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 from three witnesses |
| 0:51.3 | with experience in military and intelligence. All of them said that had close encounters |
| 0:57.1 | with the unexplainable. There was a pilot who reported an unidentified flying object |
| 1:02.8 | to the Pentagon back in 2014. The object described as a dark gray or a black cube inside |
| 1:08.5 | of a clear sphere came within 50 feet of the lead aircraft and was estimated to be 5 to |
| 1:13.2 | 15 feet in diameter. There was a Navy commander who said he saw something, an alien vehicle, |
| 1:19.7 | put over the Pacific in 2004. |
| 1:28.9 | This encounter has become known as the Tick-Tack Incident because that's what the alleged |
| 1:32.9 | craft looked like, a white Tick-Tack. |
| 1:40.4 | But some of the most shocking testimony came from a U.S. intelligence officer named David |
| 1:45.0 | Grosh. He told lawmakers, he had knowledge of a government program that collects alien |
| 1:50.5 | ships. He even implied that humans had been injured by aliens. Congress people were especially |
| 1:57.2 | interested in what he had to say. |
| 2:00.1 | Has any of the activity been aggressive, been hostile to any reports? I know of multiple |
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