New UFO hearings continue an “endless loop” of sensation
Astronomer Adam Frank asks: With so many extraordinary claims, why can’t anybody produce the proof?Two subcommittees of the House Oversight Committee recently held a joint hearing titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.” As with previous congressional hearings on UAPs, there were many extraordinary claims but essentially no extraordinary evidence.
A few points about these extraordinary claims are worth noting. Sean Kirkpatrick was the recent director of the Department of Defense’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). This is one organization that’s been handling UAP studies. Kirkpatrick has talked about what he sees as a long-running circular conversation among UFO enthusiasts in the government. People who claim to know about something talk to other interested people. Those people then talk to others about that first person and their claims. This goes on and on until a kind of murky mythology builds up where no one has actual proof of anything, but everyone says they know someone who does.
New UFO hearings continue an "endless loop" of sensation
Astronomer Adam Frank asks: With so many extraordinary claims, why has nobody been able to produce the proof?
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