Alien news conference series#

Not all representatives, however, were convinced. He added that the hearing would 'break the cycle of excessive secrecy and speculation with truth and transparency.' Adam Schiff, chairman of the House intelligence committee. Tomorrow's hearing 'will give the public an opportunity to hear directly from subject matter experts, and leaders in the intelligence community, on one of the greatest mysteries of our time,' said Rep.

The document database, created by the Defense Intelligence Agency's secretive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) that ran from 2007 to 2012, included reports on more than 300 medical accounts of human interaction with UFOs - some of which included burn injuries, brain damage, nerve damage, heart palpitations and headaches from alleged close encounters with 'anomalous vehicles.' In April, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made by the tabloid the US Sun brought more than 1,500 pages of UFO-related documents to public scrutiny, Live Science previously reported. government has released that documents strange, seemingly unexplained, activity. Two planes report 'bright green UFO' swooping through the clouds over Canada 9 strange, scientific excuses for why humans haven't found aliens yet The 2021 report, which did not draw conclusions from the 'largely inconclusive' accounts, could only explain one of the sightings (which turned out to be a large, deflating balloon) and said that 'we currently lack data to indicate any UAP are part of a foreign collection program or indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary.' It also denied that the sightings were in any way linked to clandestine tests by the U.S. Bray, meanwhile, is an expert in intelligence collection and analysis, and works to provide intelligence summaries to the U.S. Moultrie, who was sworn in last June, advises Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on security matters and has worked in senior roles in both the CIA and NASA. The AOIMSG was organized within Moultrie's office. If the experts still haven't ruled out an extraterrestrial explanation, representatives could also ask them to give further details on the UAPs' potential methods of propulsion, alongside any exotic material that could have been collected from them. What the hearing will reveal isn't clear, but pertinent questions include whether UAPs could be satellites, belong to foreign governments or be purposeful fakes. (Image credit: Bettmann/Getty Images) (opens in new tab)Īfter this public hearing, Congress will hold a closed, classified hearing on the activity of the Pentagon group - known as the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) - that has been tasked with uncovering the possible explanations for the sightings. representatives will question Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray on what they know about the unexplained phenomena.Ī government employee photographed a UFO that hovered for 15 minutes near Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico, on Dec.16, 1957. Americans need to know more about these unexplained occurrences.'Īt the public hearing - streaming live here (opens in new tab) from 9 a.m. 'That will change next week when I lead a hearing in House Intelligence on this topic and the national security risk it poses. 'Congress hasn't held a public hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena (UFO's) in over 50 years,' meeting Chair and Indiana Representative Andre Carson wrote on Twitter (opens in new tab).

Alien news conference series#

Congressional oversight committees have been investigating the claims since 2017 after Politico and the New York Times dropped a series of bombshell reports on the Pentagon's secret UFO research office, and the testimonies of the Navy pilots and radar crew who had encountered the strange aerial objects.