Congress Is Meeting Over Government Secretly Hiding UFOs
Was E.T. based on a true story? That’s what Congress aims to find out through a recently announced hearing on UFOs. As Politico reports, The House Oversight Committee is hoping to have a hearing on possible extraterrestrial activity by the end of the month.
A bipartisan group of senators wants to have congressional hearings to unveil what different government agencies know about UFOs.
Plans for the hearing were announced after it was revealed earlier this year that the Pentagon and other national security agencies are currently investigating hundreds of incidents involving aircraft of an unknown origin. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, dropped the UFO bombshell earlier this year during a previous hearing on unexplained aircraft.
Kirkpatrick later co-wrote an academic paper with Harvard professor Avi Loeb theorizing that some of the unexplained aerial phenomena the Pentagon was researching could be “probes” from an alien mothership.
“That’s what it is about: aliens. … I think people deserve to know,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.), recently told POLITICO. Burchett and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla) were the two members of Congress put in charge of the hearing after it was approved by the Oversight Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy.
“The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence, and unexplainable phenomena.”
-Senator Chuck Schumer
Comer confirmed that the plan is to host the hearing on UFOs before the end of July if possible and that the committee is currently working out who to call for witnesses during the hearing.
Despite the divide between Republicans and Democrats growing bigger by the day, the UFO hearing seems to be one of the few issues in Washington today with bipartisan support. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) released a statement in which he declared, “The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence, and unexplainable phenomena.”
“There are some people who want to stop it.”
-An anonymous source, claiming there is an effort to stop the hearing
Schumer vowed to fight for “transparency” in regard to any information the government may have involving “unexplained phenomena.”
Meanwhile, what pushback there is against the proposed hearing on UFOs is allegedly coming from within the Oversight Committee itself and the Defense Department. While an Oversight Committee staffer denied that there was any opposition to the hearing whatsoever, a GOP member speaking anonymously to Politico said differently.
“There are some people who want to stop it.” said the anonymous Republican before specifying that the major concern among the dissenters was that a public hearing on the existence of aliens and alien spacecraft could cause people to “run wild with it.”
Given how easily misinformation spreads in our current political climate, it’s hard to argue with them. Headlines like “Government Admits Aliens are Real!” are sure to run rampant as soon as the hearing actually gets underway. Especially if anything even remotely close to the above sentiment gets revealed.
The call for a hearing on UFOs comes at the same time that Senators are planning to introduce an amendment to the annual Department of Defense budget that would require classified documents involving unexplained phenomena to be released to the public.
“For decades, many Americans have been fascinated by objects mysterious and unexplained,” said Minority Leader Schumer. Schumer went on to add that “answers” regarding those same mysterious and unexplained objects were long overdue.
If the measure is passed, classified documents involving UFOs and UAP—unidentified anomalous phenomena—will have to be disclosed to the public within 25 years of their initial drafting. In addition, the government would be granted “eminent domain” over alien technologies and biological remains even if discovered by a private party.
