UAPs, UFOs, WTF?

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🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Congress this week held its first public hearing on unidentified flying objects in more than 50 years, as the House Intelligence Committee’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation hosted two Department of Defense officials to discuss military encounters with unexplained objects.

David Priess sat down with the Washington Post’s Shane Harris—who has been watching this issue for quite some time and who watched the hearings quite closely—to talk about the long U.S. government history with UFOs (now called unidentified aerial phenomena), the recent move toward more transparency, and the legitimate reasons, having nothing to do with aliens, why some things will remain classified.

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1:07.7	What it shows you is that the people holding this hearing for the most part and the witnesses
1:12.4	have opened up their minds to the possibility and frankly the reality that there are objects
1:18.9	in the sky, they are objects and there's no explanation for what they are.
1:25.2	Just being able to admit that out loud I think is a huge stab and fascinating and mysterious
1:33.5	and like slightly unsettling to be clear but that's that is important and I think that
1:38.8	people deserve to know that not just from the standpoint of these could be potential
1:43.5	threats to US national security and national interests but the government has the capabilities
1:48.8	in the technology to detect these objects and if it genuinely says like look these things
1:54.7	are very strange and fascinating and we don't know what the heck they are people should
1:58.9	know that.
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