This week, a bipartisan group of House lawmakers formally requested the creation of a select committee to investigate the federal government’s response to UFOs as interest in mysterious sightings and concerns about flight safety continues to grow.
A letter sent on Tuesday to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) noted that “recent” whistleblower testimony and “new evidence” pertaining to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), which is the government’s preferred term for UFOs, underscore the need for a select panel under the auspices of the House Oversight Committee.
“Given the Oversight Committee’s role as the principal investigative body in the House of Representatives and its broad authority to investigate ‘any matter’ at ‘any time’ under House Rule X, we believe it is proper for the committee to investigate and assess how…
