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Today in Focus

How the search for UFOs reached the US Congress

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The quest to discover whether or not we’re alone in the universe has become an obsession for many Americans. Some of them are elected officials, reports Adam Gabbatt in Washington DC. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:09.6

Today, the truth is out there.

0:12.5

Maybe how UFOs landed in the US Congress.

0:25.7

Over the past few weeks, there's been a lot of talk of UFOs,

0:29.6

which isn't unusual.

0:30.8

UFOs are cool, but what is unusual is that recently,

0:35.3

this UFO chatter has gone beyond internet forums and weird YouTube channels

0:40.8

and kooky podcasts that I may or may not listen to.

0:44.5

In the past few years, the Pentagon has admitted it's pilots seeing things up in the sky

0:50.3

they can't explain.

0:52.0

And a few weeks ago, space ships got their day in the US Congress.

0:56.8

Adam Gabbard, a reporter with Guardian US,

0:59.2

has the inviable task of covering UFOs for the Guardian.

1:02.9

And he was there.

1:04.1

Before the hearing, I walked up to the public committee room where it's a place.

1:09.4

And before I even get there, you can hear the noise of this crowd.

1:14.0

Just excited chatter.

1:16.0

A level of energy that I don't think we normally get in this state halls of Congress.

1:21.5

The subcommittee hearing and unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAPs will come to order.

1:27.8

Welcome everyone.

1:28.9

Without a judge.

1:29.6

Looking across this committee room, what are you saying?

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