This chapter explores the reasons behind Congress's interest in UAPs, including the mysterious incidents and the Pentagon's response to the allegations, along with Congress's struggle to obtain information from the Pentagon.
The recent congressional hearing on unidentified aerial phenomenon–also known as UAPs– gave a high-profile platform to what we used to call UFOs. But why now–and was this a substantive government inquiry or a summertime Washington diversion?
Bloomberg’s Roxana Tiron and Megan Scully join this episode to make sense of the hearing and claims that UAPs may pose a threat to national security. And astronomer Seth Shostak gives his view of theories that some UAPs may be alien spacecraft.
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