Remarkable Washington hearing on UFOS buoys belief

As the world heard tales of recovered alien bodies, crashed extraterrestrial spaceships, and an apparently violent plot to conceal both, not everyone was willing to believe.

-  Adam Gabbatt

The Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, swept up in last week's remarkable UFO congressional hearing in Washington through her role on the House of Representatives oversight committee, seemed determined to not get carried away by a surge of interest in UFOs.

Speaking afterwards, the leftwing congresswoman sought to characterise her colleagues' quest to uncover the government's alleged alien coverup as an investigation into national security and military furtiveness.

"This committee has encountered instances before where either defence activity has not been forthright," Ocasio-Cortez told the Guardian. "I do believe that there is a very large question about what is being disclosed and we have a responsibility to pursue that truth."

It was a commendably bland take on a two-hour-plus hearing that was unlike anything Congress had ever seen before.

David Grusch, the former US intelligence officer who claims that the US government is harbouring "intact and partially intact" and "non-human" pilots, appeared in Washington, under oath, to repeat the same.