Harry reed has been interested in the phenomenon since at least the nineties. He's himself said, like, there were many times over the years when my staff members told him to stop associating himself with this u f o stuff. A decade later, it doesn't seem so embarrassing to be associated with the stuff. How does that happen? The primary reason is that it appears in the air times, which just legitimizes the whole thing.
Congress just had its first hearings on UFOs in over 50 years. We revisit a 2021 episode where the New Yorker’s Gideon Lewis-Kraus explained why the US government started taking sightings seriously.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro and Cristian Ayala, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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