US Congress to hold first public hearing on UFOs

A House subcommittee (https://bit.ly/39fgnWK) will hold
a hearing next week about UFOs, the first open congressional
hearing about UFOs in more than 50 years
https://youtu.be/6pLIiUv-p8k.
“Congress hasn’t held a public hearing on unidentified aerial
phenomena (UFO’s) in over 50 years,” Andre Carson, a Democrat
from Indiana, tweeted Tuesday morning. “That will change next
week when I lead a hearing in @HouseIntel on this topic & the
national security risk it poses. Americans need to know more
about these unexplained occurrences.”
The hearing will be held Tuesday, May 17 in front of a subcommittee
of the House Intelligence Committee, which is chaired by California
Rep. Adam Schiff. Schiff told the New York Times that the committee
is holding the series to explore “one of the great mysteries of our time
and to break the cycle of excessive secrecy and speculation with truth
and transparency.” Two current Pentagon officials will testify at the
hearing.
After the New York Times published an article about the existence
of a Pentagon UFO project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat
Identification Program (AATIP) in 2017, government disclosures about
UFOs have come repeatedly. Last year, the Pentagon released a report
about its UFO program that detailed 143 sightings of aerial objects
that could not be explained between the years of 2004 and 2021.
That report was considered to be pretty underwhelming because much
of the information had previously been disclosed, and a lot of the
report simply sought additional funding for the Pentagon. But a
classified version of that report was obtained earlier this year by
government transparency organization The Black Vault, which
appears to have far more interesting details about the potential
nature of UFOs.
Since then, Motherboard and other outlets have obtained hundreds
of pages of reports and research on futuristic technology funded by
the government under the AATIP and a related program called the
Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Application Program. The
Barack Obama Presidential Library has also said it has thousands
of pages of UFO documents.