U.S. holds 1st hearing on UFOs in over 50 years: ‘A potential national security threat’
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Navy officials testified that over 400 incidents of unexplained aerial phenomena have been spotted by military personnel since 2004.
For the first time in more than half a century, the U.S. held a public hearing about UFOs on Tuesday morning. The hearing came almost a year after a report found that U.S. military pilots had encountered over 144 UFOs since 2004.
The U.S. intelligence report was only able to identify one of the “unexplained aerial phenomena” (UAP) — which is the military’s updated term for UFOs — as a large deflating balloon. As for the other 143 incidents, the report said that they would require further study. Most of the UAPs were likely physical objects though, according to the report.
The public hearing began at 9 a.m. ET, before moving behind closed doors.
In the first hour, Navy officials confirmed that over 400 UAPs have been reported.
The House Intelligence Committee’s Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation subcommittee convened the hearing, which is being chaired by André Carson, a Democratic representative for Indiana.
Ronald Moultrie, undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security, and Scott Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence were slated to testify. After the public hearing is over, the subcommittee will hold a closed-door briefing and hear further testimony.
Carson warned in his opening remarks that “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are a potential national security threat, and they need to be treated that way.”