An open Congressional hearing on UAP is to be held next week.
For the first time in more than five decades, a hearing discussing an unidentified aerial phenomenon becomes available to the public.
A House subcommittee is planned to hold next week the first open congressional hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) in more than half a century, with testimony from two top defense intelligence officials.
The hearing comes after the release last June of a report requested by Congress on “UAPs.
The nine-page “Preliminary Assessment” from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence focused on 144 UFO incidents dating back to 2004 and was able to explain only one.
The panel will be led by Representative Andre Carson, who is the chairman of the subcommittee overseeing next week’s hearing.
This hearing aims to allow the public to hear directly from subject matter experts and leaders in the intelligence community on one of the greatest mysteries of our time,
and break the cycle of excessive secrecy and speculation with truth and transparency.
Two experts to testify during the public hearing will come from Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald S. Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott W. Bray.
When is it?
The hearing will be held Tuesday, May 17 at 10 a.m. EST and will be the first public hearing to discuss the subject of UAP since 1970.
Why now?
The public hearing comes amid a recent push from inside DC, where lawmakers, keen to see action on the issue, insist on bringing those findings outside closed-door meetings.
Following the public hearing, there will be a closed-door meeting for lawmakers sitting in subcommittees, known as the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, to hear a classified hearing on the Pentagon program.