Politico | UFOs catch Congress’ interest: ‘We’ve got to get an answer’
- Anticipation builds ahead of release of Pentagon report on UFOs
- US lawmakers worry it could be technology developed by foreign adversaries
This story is published in a content partnership with POLITICO. It was originally reported by Andrew Desiderio on politico.com on June 23, 2021.
US lawmakers used to laugh when asked about UFOs. Now they have real questions – and they’re eager for the rare answers they will get this week.
There is no evidence to date that points to a sci-fi scenario of aliens from another galaxy visiting Earth. But the recent uptick in mysterious airborne objects – spotted mostly by naval pilots over US military installations as well as at sea – has lawmakers worried that a foreign adversary like Russia or China has developed technology that Western governments can’t identify.
“There’s stuff flying in our airspace and we don’t know who it is and it’s not ours. So we should know who it is, especially if it’s an adversary that’s made a technological leap,” said Senator Marco Rubio, the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.