Congress hears testimony on aliens the government hides

a POSIWID view of this is that these "government reveals UAP secrets" stories always seems like a way to issue an interrupt and neutralize volatility in another mainstream story by redirecting attention to it. it's a popular distraction tactic with a lever attached to it. a hearing like this only takes a few days to a couple of weeks to schedule and arrange, and time spent mulling the story is time not spent on the present issues. UAPs aren't secret, it's a managed narrative.

we don't need official disclosures to have serious conversations about consequences, meaning, and what we can learn from the fact of being observed. the best are probably already elaborated in fiction, notably in the star trek franchise regarding the species wide and civilizational reorientation impacts of first contact.

if anything, the need for these performative hearings indicates how far off human civilization is from an official first contact, (I would estimate at least another century or more) because they exist to nudge a very long tail of people who are psychologically and culturally unprepared for it. by unprepared, I mean their strategy for negotiating in the world will revert to a zero sum material nihilism, like that of an animal or less than human, instead of elevate their perspective to an infinite sum openness to the possibilities of a nagivable universe.

Surely if there's good evidence we can do better than testimony. Otherwise this is just a distraction wasting everyone's time. Who cares?!

The title is edited to be more clickbait than the actual article title.

I also find it amusing that Russia, China, EU and the US fought wars, proxies, engage in espionage and were very close to global nuclear war on a few occasions. But they always have the unwavering commitment to hide any evidence about aliens /s. Among generations and different leaderships without doubt.

> Evidence for the above was offered by four so-called whistleblowers who claimed the US government actively covered up evidence.

Was it these guys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Gunmen ?

In the same way that viruses can randomly embed themselves into human DNA, memes can randomly embed themselves into our social DNA. This is a prime example.

Nothing like wasting time and getting a nice pay check for it.

How about spending time on fixing issues that will affect US Citizens. Like funding for Social Security and Medicare ?

Oh wait, that means they will actually have to think about real world problems instead of sitting, drinking coffee and asking people dumb questions no one cares about.

>> Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO) asked panelists if they are familiar with "rumors that have come up to the Hill of a secretive project within the Department of Defense involving the manipulation of human genetics with what is described as non-human genetic material, potentially for the enhancement of human capabilities – hybrids." All four speakers said no

Stopped reading when I saw this person's name.

Hell if it keeps them from passing any laws for a couple years, have fun

I think the mixture of loyalty and psychopathy from government employees makes a weird mind landscape for people outside these institutions. The belief "the government has secrets and is keeping them from us" cannot be easily refuted. When I was in university, I had a professor that used to make jokes about how people who think the government is spying on everyone wore tin foil hats.

I am thoroughly annoyed by the title of the article: The government hears testimonies from government employees about government work! I'm saddened that this is considered newsworthy.

Now these “subscribe for full access” people can say they testified before Congress.

Room-temperature superconducting magnetic energy storage, powering a craft with a thruster like this: https://ivolimited.us/

I'm a researcher in this area if anyone wants to have a proper conversation. I'm 95% convinced that the major powers of the world have recovered crashed/landed non-human intelligence craft.

Before anyone responds to this comment, I would urge you to watch this video of Majority Leader Schumer and rising republican leader Mike Rounds giving a soliloquy on the senate floor to try to pass their UAP Disclosure Act and ask yourself - why would two senate leaders put their credibility on the line to try to pass a bill that references non-human intelligence 21 times?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8a0P617nqw&t=93s

And, I would urge you to read the bill. It's one of the most comprehensive pieces of legislations that has been put out this decade https://www.congress.gov/118/crec/2024/07/11/170/115/CREC-20...