Congress is holding a classified hearing on UFOs where members will be looking for definitive proof of their existence. This comes at a time when acceptance of the possibility of extraterrestrial life is peaking in America, with people on social media claiming 10-foot-tall aliens are already in Miami.
Members of the House Oversight Committee will discuss UFOs behind closed doors on Friday, Jan. 12.
American intelligence officers and government watchdogs who oversee the intel community will be at the meeting with the lawmakers.
There has been increased activity on Capitol Hill concerning the topic since 2020 when the federal government admitted that multiple Navy pilots have encountered “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAPs).
Videos of some of the encounters were released, and there is still no public explanation of what the videos show and how the objects reached Earth.
In 2023, former intelligence official David Grusch gave testimony claiming the government had “non-human biologics” from a “recovered UFO” in its possession.
Grusch asserted that the government was reverse engineering UFOs to try and learn the technology, but the Pentagon denied the claims.
The amount of Americans who believe UFO sightings are proof of alien life rose from 20% in 1996 to 34% in 2022, according to a YouGov poll.
An Ipsos poll found that 42% of Americans believe in UFOs, while one in 10 surveyed said they have actually witnessed some kind of UAP.
A large police presence spotted at a mall in Miami on New Years Day caused online users to speculate that 10-foot aliens prompted the significant response from police.
Police said the incident was a large brawl between teenagers.
“Have you ever seen this many police and emergency vehicles responding to a fight at a mall,” one person on TikTok questioned. “Why do we have every single police officer in the city here?”
The incident is reminiscent of one in Las Vegas in 2023 when a 16-year-old called the police, claiming to see aliens in his backyard.
“It has big eyes, it’s looking at us… and they’re very large, nine feet, 10 feet — they look like aliens to us… Big eyes, and they’re not human, they’re 100% not human,” the boy said in his call to police.
Some members of Congress are open believers in extraterrestrial life as so-called “credible witnesses” have come forward in recent years describing their experiences with UAPs.