US / Congress holds first public hearing on UFOs in 50 years (photos)

But only the first part of the session will be open to journalists and the public.

The long-awaited evidence comes from two military officials in charge of investigating evidence of spotting by pilots, some of which are being released after decades of cover-up of military secrecy.

Pentagon officials are expected to say at the hearing about their difficulties in gathering evidence from witnesses as they are concerned about their safety.

The hearing will be held in the congressional committee on intelligence, counter-intelligence and terrorism.

The two officials who will testify are Ronald Moultrie – Pentagon intelligence chief, and Scott Bray, deputy. director of maritime intelligence.

“The American people expect their leaders to respond to any potential security threat, especially those we do not understand,” said Congressman André Carson in a statement.

The hearing will initially be held in public and then the door will be closed to what was reported to be “a classified information session with congressmen”.

Scientists and experts have been prepared in advance for questions that can be asked by congressmen to witnesses, writes the BBC.

Christopher Mellon, a former senior Pentagon official, said an important question could be whether there were few observations of such phenomena even off Earth.

“If something like this were to be confirmed, many misunderstandings like those of atmospheric phenomena, ‘Chinese lanterns’ or civilian drones would not be extinguished,” he said.

The last time such a hearing was held in the US was in 1966, where, among other things, a UFO that was seen in Michigan by more than 40 people was discussed.

Reports of UFOs have been made by pilots in many cases and ways, such as the manner of flight, the appearance of objects and the interference they caused in terrestrial systems.

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