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Last week's hearing, 'Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,' included a new slate of witnesses who provided testimony about UFO sightings.
You would think if anything could break through the noise of our news cycle, UFOs could.
This needs to be a bigger deal, folks, because the American people ‒ nay people of the world ‒ need this right now.
Last week, for the second time in two years, there was a congressional subcommittee hearing on UFOs, or as they have been foolishly rebranded “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” shortened to UAPs.
One of the visionaries helping uncover the truth is none other than Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Wis., who chairs the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs.
Last week’s hearing, titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth," included a new slate of witnesses who provided testimony about UFO sightings and what the government may or may not know about them.
One witness, Luis Elizondo, a former military intelligence officer, went so far as to say, "Excessive secrecy has led to grave misdeeds against loyal civil servants, military personnel and the public, all to hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos."
Alien spacecraft, dead extraterrestrials now in Congressional Record
Last year’s testimony included former Pentagon official David Grusch telling a congressional committee that he had learned of a decades-long Pentagon program focused on “crash retrieval and reverse engineering” of UFOs from other planets. Grusch also said remains found at the spacecraft crash sites were nonhuman "biologics.”
Yes, crashed alien spacecraft and dead extraterrestrials made it to the Congressional Record.
However, neither in the aftermath of last year's and last week's hearing did the terms "UFO," "alien," "UAP" or even "government cover-up" break the 25 most searched terms in Google Trends.
What were people searching for last week? Would it surprise you if I said: "mike tyson jake paul fight"?
To be fair, neither of these hearings provided real evidence to prove that UFOs or UAPs are extraterrestrial in nature. Even so, the collection of testimony indicates that UAPs are very real in the sense that there are unexplained phenomena.
And yet, apparently, most of us do not care enough to let that information even make a blip on our news cycle.
All the more reason that right now is the right time for these tight-lipped folks in defense and intelligence departments, whose jobs could very well be on the chopping block anyways in a second Trump administration, to just let it rip.
Declassify everything. Tell us the truth is out there.
Then send President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump out to do a tag team Bill Pullman-"Independence Day"-esque speech, encouraging us to not be consumed by our petty differences and instead be united in our common interests. Give us a new enemy!
Or at the very least, declassify everything just to remind humans of our standing in the universe.
I don't know who said it first, but right now feels like a good time for everyone to remember that we’re just "ghosts driving meat-coated skeletons made from stardust riding a rock floating through space."
Kristin Brey is the "My Take" columnist for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, where this column originally appeared.