Congress will hold its first public hearing on UFOs in decades next week. The hearing will include evidence of “unidentified aerial phenomena” and testimony from top officials from the Pentagon.
The hearing, which will be held on Tuesday, comes after Congress requested a report on UFO sightings across the country in June of last year. The report included nearly 150 reports of UFO sightings, only one of which could be explained.
That report, released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, was meant to shed light on the mystery of those dozens of flying objects, spotted from 2004 to 2021, but instead said it didn’t have adequate data to put all but one of them into a category.
That one UAP — shorthand for “unidentified aerial phenomena” — was a large, deflating balloon, the report said.
Congress to hold hearings on UFOs
“The others remain unexplained,” the report, which was required by Congress, added. In 143 of the reported cases, they “lack sufficient information in our dataset to attribute incidents to specific explanations.”