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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Publicity for congress people.

The military released a lot of records and videos on various UFO investigations (they call them UAPs “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon”) they have done over the years, and basically, its totally uninteresting, no aliens, no green men, nothing particularly special, and most are “we don’t know” or “its probably a mistake or atmospheric issue, etc.”. But it sure sounds cool and no one is going to let a good chance at publicity go away.