Over the past few weeks, there’s been a lot of talk of UFOs. Which isn’t unusual in the US – over the decades, it has become for many enthusiasts a kind of obsession. But what is unusual is that recently this UFO chatter has gone beyond internet forums, YouTube channels and kooky podcasts. Now it’s arrived in Washington.
In the past few years, the Pentagon has said pilots are seeing things up in the sky that they can’t explain. And a few weeks ago, spaceships got their day in Congress
Adam Gabbatt has the enviable task of covering UFOs for the Guardian and he was there. He tells Michael Safi how the hearing unfolded and where the investigation is going next.
And the Republican congressman Tim Burchett, who is co-leading the inquiry, explains why the latest hearing was a necessary step along the way to discovering what the US government really knows about the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA
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