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The Pentagon declassified photos and videos of UFOs to Congress. The full video can be watched below of the first congressional UFO hearing in a generation.
A small object appeared to zip past a military pilot in one brief video. “I do not have an explanation for what this specific object is,” Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray said.
In another video, glowing triangles are seen in the night sky. The video and photo of the glowing triangles were unresolved for a while until they were identified as unmanned aerial vehicles. Here’s the full video of the hearing:
A report in 2021 was published by The Black Vault that said the government recorded 144 reports from 2004 to 2021, including 80 that “involved observation with multiple sensors.”
A section on “common shapes” of the UFOs was completely redacted.
The government has said that UFOs “probably lack a single explanation.”
Possible explanations are “airborne clutter,” such as birds and balloons, “natural atmospheric phenomena,” such as ice crystals, or “foreign adversary systems” from Russia, China or other countries.
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Bray continued to emphasize that many UAP reports have a “limited amount of high quality data and reporting” which “hampers the ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature and intent of UAP.”
Bray also said Tuesday that there have been at least 11 “near misses” between U.S. military aircraft and UAP. He also said the U.S. military hasn’t tried to communicate with UAP, including the unexplained object in the video shown earlier in the hearing which “may or may not be in controlled flight.”
The presentation happened in a House Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee Tuesday.
Lawmakers are warning that although there is still a stigma associated with UFOs, which the government officially calls Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), they are a serious national security threat.
“Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are a potential national security threat. And they need to be treated that way,” subcommittee Chairman Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., said Tuesday.
“For too long, the stigma associated with UAPs has gotten in the way of good intelligence analysis,” Carson added. “Pilots avoided reporting, or were laughed at when they did. DOD officials relegated the issue to the back room, or swept it under the rug entirely, fearful of a skeptical national security community.”