UFOs: National Security Threat or Extraterrestrial?

Even though unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) are often conflated with the search for extraterrestrial life, they often have more to do with national security than with scientific advancement. And while extraterrestrial life may indeed be real in the form of microbes on far-away planets, the shroud of secrecy surrounding UAPs—which exists for national security reasons—has fed decades of conspiracy theories and spurred hundreds of movies and television shows about little green men arriving on Earth. Recent Congressional hearings on UAP sightings, and the release of an unclassified NASA investigation into them, have once again brought UAPs back to the fore. The truth about alien life is out there—is the United States’ defense-led focus on UAPs getting in the way of finding it? This episode was originally released by Why It Matters on March 27, 2024. Find us UFOs: Close Encounters of the National Security Kind - https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/ufos-close-encounters-national-security-kind Why It Matters - https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/why-it-matters Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/39tmKmi Spotify - https://spoti.fi/3ACtkTq Google Podcasts - https://bit.ly/2W5Ef94 Host Gabrielle Sierra Podcast Host and Senior Producer Episode Guests Philippe Ailleris Copernicus Programme Project Controller, European Space Agency Shane Harris Intelligence Correspondent, Washington Post Kai-Uwe Schrogl President, International Institute of Space Law Related Episodes Space Jam - https://www.cfr.org/podcasts/space-jam Subscribe to our channel: https://youtube.com/playlist The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher. Visit the CFR website: http://www.cfr.org Follow CFR on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/cfr_org Follow CFR on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/councilonfor...