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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adam Gabbatt in Washington

UFOs back in spotlight as ‘surreal’ Washington hearing buoys believers

For the scores of UFO enthusiasts who flooded to the Wednesday hearing, some of the politicians listening appeared to be completely sold.
For the scores of UFO enthusiasts who flooded to the Wednesday hearing, some of the politicians listening appeared to be completely sold. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/Reuters

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

The Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, inadvertently swept up in this week’s remarkable UFO congressional hearing in Washington through her role on the House of Representatives oversight committee, seemed determined to not get too carried away by a surge of interest in UFOs that is transfixing much of the US.

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