Unidentified aerial phenomena are a potential national security threat
Key lawmakers warned at a House hearing on Tuesday that unidentified
aerial phenomena - popularly known as
UFOs - must be investigated and taken seriously as a potential threat to national security.
The event marked the first congressional public hearing on
UFOs in decades, a high-profile moment for a controversial topic that has long been relegated to the fringes of
public policy.
For many
lawmakers and intelligence and military personnel working on unexplained aerial phenomena, the bigger concern with the episodes is not that alien life is visiting
Earth, but rather that a foreign adversary like R
ussia or China might be fielding some kind of next-generation technology in
American airspace that the
United States doesn't know about.
