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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The US military does log and investigate UFO reports from military servicemen.

While it may or may not be aliens, it’s definitely something of interest to national defense. It could be an unknown Chinese spy aircraft. Some sort of Russian prototype missile. Who knows – but we’d like to know, and UFO reports from military test pilots are considered much more concerning than some nobody because those people are familiar with aircraft and not so easily bamboozled by a weather balloon.

During the last administration the Pentagon was asked to compile a report on these incidents and provide it to Congress, so many things have just recently been declassified and discussed.