WASHINGTON, DC – According to reports, Congress held its first public hearing regarding UFOs in over fifty years this week, where military officials shared images and videos once classified regarding various unexplained sightings.

Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup caught up with Fox News following the May 17th hearing in Congress, sharing his “takeaway” from the hearing and general concerns about what the military officially refers to as “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.”

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“My takeaway is that we need to continue to pursue this and to make sure that we are doing things in the proper way and really trying to gain as much knowledge as we can of these types of things.”

The Republican congressman added, “And hopefully, one day we’ll definitively know what it is, where it’s coming from. And at the same time, it’s important that we are collecting data properly, working to protect our warriors in the space and the area of operation that they work.”

Outside of mentioning the “lack of data” that often accompanies reported sightings of UFOs, Rep. Wenstrup also brought up concerns on whether the likes of private and commercial pilots possess avenues to report sightings themselves, highlighting most of the information presented during the hearing came via military sightings.

“One of the things that I was concerned about yesterday is in this situation. You’re having things reported perhaps from pilots, perhaps from a ship, but what about private and commercial pilots, things like that? Are they able to report any findings? Have they seen any findings? These are things that we’re interested in as well.”

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Rep. Wenstrup further stressed that these UFO sightings represent a potential “national security concern,” insofar that the unknown origin of these flying objects could spell trouble if they’re compliments of any sort of known or unknown hostile.

There was a point in time when claims of seeing UFOs or believing in extraterrestrials were chalked up to being a part of the tinfoil hat crew, for lack of a better term. But in recent years, the government has finally started admitting there’s more to the UFO business than the mere maligning of anyone who asserts they saw something funny in the sky.

Back in June of 2021, the Pentagon shared an intelligence report with Congress regarding their inability to explain away nearly all of the 144 sightings of UFOs the military had documented since 2004.

In the unclassified report released last year, the Pentagon noted, “The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP.”

The report also mentioned that in some of the sightings, the UFOs “appeared to exhibit unusual flight characteristics,” which is basically stating that military officials couldn’t understand how the flying objects before them were actually flying.

This piece was written by Gregory Hoyt on May 18, 2022. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.

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