Congress’ UFO Hearing Was Really a Desperate Call for Action. Who Will Answer It?
The U.S. House of Representatives hearing on Wednesday morning about so-called unidentified anomalous phenomena—a.k.a. UAPs—was only mostly a clown show.
Ignore the rightwing religious rhetoric from some House Republicans; disregard some congresspersons’ insinuation that the White House is hiding aliens because it hates America; tune out the vague conspiratorial ramblings from one attention-seeking whistleblower. What’s left, after you filter out the bluster, is a compelling argument for a better system of centralizing, correlating, and vetting sightings of UAPs.
Lots of people have seen, or at least think they’ve seen, airborne objects they can’t explain. It’s been happening for decades. Despite the long history of UAP sightings—or, to use older terminology, unidentified flying objects, or UFOs—there’s no single reporting system.