SOMETHING'S OUT THERE
Congress must hold hearings on UFO sightings after long-awaited report was ‘inconclusive,’ rep demands
CONGRESS must hold hearings on UFOs after the long-awaited report into sightings was "inconclusive," a Democrat lawmaker has said.
Congressman André Carson said on Sunday he "hopes" that in the "very near future" there will be an open session to discuss the findings.
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The Democrat told CBS News' on Sunday it would be "arrogant to say that there isn't life out there."
He added: "Certainly I believe that there's something in the expanse of the universe. Now, the question is, is there life in our solar system?
"Perhaps the moons of some of our planets will give us clues. Maybe there's microbial life. Maybe there's life in some of the oceans on the moons.
"We'll find out very soon, hopefully."
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Carson's comments came after the US government released its report into unidentified aerial phenomena which confirmed that the flying objects may be a .
The lawmaker called that report "inconclusive," adding: "What we do know is that there have been nearly 150 sightings... 80 of those sightings have been detected with some of the best technology the world has ever seen.
"And we can't rule out something that's otherworldly, but that's a very small percentage."
Noting that it is "curious" that many of the sightings have been near military bases, he added: "We don't want our adversaries to have, one, a technological advance over us in terms of what they can do with their capabilities.
"If it is otherworldly, we have to take into account our advancements in terms of our cell phone technology and why aren't these images being captured?
"We have to think about the nearly 4,000 satellites that are orbiting the Earth right now. Most of those satellites have cameras attached to them.
"Why hasn't any of that information been released? And so we still want to make sure that our adversaries don't have a technological edge on us, but we still can't rule out that two to six percent that could be something we can't explain, maybe even otherworldly."
It appears the US Department of Defense (DoD) is , similar to secretive agencies in hit TV show The X-Files and movie series Men in Black.
DoD officials released a memo at the end of last month which stated they will now seek to "formalize" the investigations of UFOS, often now referred to as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs).
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Intelligence officials which examined 144 sightings of “unidentified aerial phenomena."
But, the US government could only identify one incident with “high confidence” – a large .
That case was put down to "airborne clutter."
The report said it didn't find any evidence that UAPs resulted from or foreign countries – despite not knowing what they were.
It stated: "We don’t have any clear indications that any of these unidentified aerial phenomena are part of a foreign [intelligence] collection program, and we don’t have any clear data that is indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary."
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But, it couldn't rule out either potential hypothesis.
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