eli5: What’s with the UFO hearings at Congress and all these military sightings of UFOs popping up??

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eli5: What’s with the UFO hearings at Congress and all these military sightings of UFOs popping up??

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There’s something you need to understand right off the bat: UFO does not equal “alien spacecraft.” It literally means “unidentified flying object.” It means something in the air that hasn’t been identified. Could be a drone, could be a hypersonic missile, could be an aircraft prototype that someone slapped together in their garage and is testing it out without telling the FAA, could be a new stealth aircraft, etc.

If there’s something flying through US controlled airspace and nobody can tell what it is, that’s a pretty big deal. Of course Congress is going to want to know what the military is doing about it.