Chinese ‘spy balloon’ is featured in US congressional hearing about UFOs

The spy balloon incident that roiled US- China relations earlier this year was Exhibit A on Wednesday at a Congressional hearing about UFOs when the committee chairman used it as an example of the federal government’s lack of transparency and preparedness on the subject.

In his opening remarks, Representative Glenn Grothman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs, demanded clarity from the White House on the government’s investigations into unidentified flying objects – or, as the Pentagon prefers, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) – the sightings of which have puzzled millions in the US and beyond for decades.