From BBC:
On 13 November 2024, four witnesses appeared before the Joint Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability of the US Congress for a session of testimony about so-called ‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs)’. This is the necessary rebrand of the term ‘UFO’ – people spouting those three letters in the past were hardly seen as credible, or worthy of testifying in front of the US government.
Suspicions about government cover-ups have been in the air since the 1947 Roswell incident, but this recent surge in interest regarding government secrecy was triggered in 2017 thanks to a New York Times article about the Pentagon’s alleged UAP programme. This caused the US congress to take bipartisan interest in uncovering the extent to which the US government and intelligence agencies had withheld information about sightings. They committed to provide transparency to the American public.