In May 2022, two senior U.S. defense intelligence officials appeared before a House of Representatives intelligence subcommittee hearing on UFOs. It was the first public U.S. congressional hearing on the subject in fifty years. The hearing came 11 months after a government report documented more than 140 cases of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, observed by U.S. military pilots since 2004.
In April 2022, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the US Department of Defense, filed by a British news agency The Sun, resulted in the release of more than 1,500 pages of documents related to UFO sightings from the secretive Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP). The cache of documents included reports of nerve damage, radiation burns, and even "unaccounted for pregnancy" related to the sighting. The appearance of these documents has again fueled the market for debates concerning alien UFOs.
According to a 2021 research report by the Pew Research Center, slightly more than half of Americans regard UFO sightings reported by people in the military as likely evidence of intelligent life outside Earth. Around 40% of these say that military-reported UFOs are “probably” evidence of extraterrestrial life.
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