On Nov. 13, two subcommittees of the House Oversight Committee held a joint hearing provocatively titled “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth,” during which they heard from four witnesses who spent just over two hours making the case that American skies are indeed being plied by un-American—and quite possibly unearthly—machines.

Former military officers told Congress that unidentified phenomena are real but secret government organizations have hidden the evidence.

The hearing aimed to "pull back the curtain on secret UAP research programs conducted by the U.S. government," but it was short on hard evidence.

During a House Oversight Committee Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, a former Pentagon official testified that information about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs),