Amid soaring national interest in UFOs, House lawmakers conducted an uncommon hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, focusing on the US government's knowledge and management of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP).
This marked the second hearing of its kind in decades, with the previous one happening a half-century ago. NewsNation correspondent Joe Khalil noted the unprecedented public interest, tweeting about the remarkably long line of people waiting to attend the congressional hearing.
So I think it’s fair to say there’s some interest from the general public in this UAP/ UFO House Oversight hearing this morning.
I can’t remember ever seeing a line this long to get a seat into a congressional hearing pic.twitter.com/Intlk2IEX0
During the hearing, the House Oversight Committee received testimony from three witnesses: Ryan Graves, a former Navy pilot who reported multiple UAP sightings; David Fravor, another former Navy pilot famous for witnessing the 2004 "Tic Tac" incident; and Dave Grusch, a former intelligence official turned whistleblower, who accused the US government of unlawfully withholding UAP information from Congress.
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