The first congressional hearing on unexplained aerial phenomena, known as UAPs, took place on Tuesday.
The question and answer session was hosted by the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation and was attended by two Pentagon officials.
The subcommittee's chair, Indiana representative, stated in his opening remarks that UAPs are unexplained and true. They need to be investigated, and many threats need to be mitigated.
Scott Bray shared a declassified video of a sphere-shaped object that a pilot flew in a Navy training range. There is a clip in the video.
Bray didn't have an explanation for what the object was.
Pentagon officials were able to discuss the technical details of how the U.S. military collects UAP data during a classified hearing.
The officials threw some cold water on the popular conspiracy that the U.S. military has evidence of crashed aircraft that didn't originate on Earth. Bray said that the military doesn't have any explanation for the mysterious debris, which isn't consistent with being from the ground.
Bray said there was no material that would suggest anything other than a non-terrestrial existence.
The Department of Defense established a task force to investigate UAPs in 2020, a milestone in recent government efforts to be more transparent on a topic it once refused to discuss. The task force wants to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.
The Pentagon's UAP task force has a database of 400 reports, up from 143 a year ago.
In the hearing, Pentagon officials and lawmakers alike made efforts to legitimize discussions of UAPs, encouraging service members who observe such phenomena to come forward.
Tuesday's hearing provided little fodder for the most exotic, extraplanetary explanations that people love to speculate about.
There is a chance that some UAPs observed by U.S. service members could be hypersonic technology from American adversaries. It would show that other nations have more advanced technological capabilities than the U.S. military.
More mundane explanations are still being considered for true believers. Stray weather balloons and visual distortions are produced by the equipment used to record the images.
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