In Brief: House GOP Plans Late July Hearing on Space Aliens and Crashed Saucers

7/13/2023

Under pressure from members of the GOP caucus, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy has signed off on a hearing looking into claims that the U.S. has secret treaties with murderous space monsters and recovered their crashed flying saucers. Rep. Tim Burchett, the 2020 election denier who appeared on Ancient Aliens to claim the Bible is a record of space alien visitation, will lead the hearing. And lest there be any doubt that the embarrassing spectacle is all about space aliens, Burchett told Politico today, “That’s what it is about: aliens.” An anonymous Republican told Politico that some in the GOP understand that the hearing could become a debacle if “people run wild with it,” but thanks to the party’s razor-thin control of the House, members with wacky personal agendas have extraordinary leverage over the Speaker, making it almost impossible to stop a fantastical descent into sci-fi conspiracy theories. The hearing is currently planned for the end of the month.

Late in the day, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer backed a bipartisan Senate proposal to create a commission to declassify UFO documents, which the New York Times correctly characterized as an effort to combat conspiracy theories and tamp down on UFO fever of the kind seen on the House side.

13 Comments

House, members with wacky personal agendas

7/13/2023 07:43:39 pm

They should all sober up

Questions

7/13/2023 07:54:26 pm

Why don't the aliens land on the front lawn of the White House?
Why don't people know that if we ever get visited by alien spacecraft we would know about it within minutes. There are powerful telescopes looking at the Universe that have not spotted a single flying saucer.

Bob Jase

7/14/2023 08:16:17 am

So Hunter Biden is from Alpha Centauri too?

Doc Rock

7/14/2023 01:03:24 pm

This morning there was a clip of Burchett on Fox News on the bar TV at my current favorite watering hole that caters to staff coming off the night shift at the local hospital. He was pushing the same UFO spiel that didnt make sense even after my 3rd Mimosa. He did get a thumbs up from one nurse but she was taking full advantage of the 2 for 1 screwdriver special. I gave her the benefit of the doubt by attributing it to the Titos.

Clete

7/15/2023 06:58:37 pm

When I was in college a group of us would gather to watch the latest brain fart from ancient aliens. After each time then announcer would say the magic words "Ancient alien proponents say yes" to some half assed idea the one holding a two minute rag would then take a shot of whiskey. By the end of the show one or more of us would be almost drunk enough to believe in ancient aliens.

Kent

7/14/2023 04:26:18 pm

In my day we called them "breasts" but I guess I'm old fashioned and not an alcoholic.

Doc Rock

7/15/2023 07:52:14 pm

Oh, we are all quite sure that your thoughts on breasts are most certainly old-fashioned. Albeit in an isolated Jack Mormon compound elder sort of way.

Love It

7/14/2023 07:33:23 pm

I like the new graphics and update form for DC UFOs. A good way to collate your tweets that no one gets to see anymore. A good way to expand your blog and stick it to Elon at the same time. Good job! For whatever my opinion is worth.

DONNA

7/15/2023 12:44:42 pm

Skepticists are clearly on the losing side of history. The tide is turning.

Bob

7/17/2023 06:39:51 pm

There seems to be a direct correlation between the rising number of UFO sightings and the declining amount of mental hospitals and in-patient beds.

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/0*wWAE_fGTtqBN1bu5.png

"At the peak of availability in 1955, there were 340 beds per 100,000 [5]. In 2010, the number of state beds was 43,318 or 14.1 beds per 100,000 [7]."

https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/deinstitutionalization-people-mental-illness-causes-and-consequences/2013-10

Bill Birkeland

7/16/2023 11:42:54 am

First, what is unusual about "crazy people" being in power? It happens to every country eventually.

Second, a couple of years from now, we will see if "Skepticists are clearly on the losing side of history." So far, the "evidence" is nothing more then second and third hand hearsay and rumors and the promises of hard evidences that are so far always never fulfilled.

Finally, I feel sorry for the lower rank civilian and military personnel with crazy bosses who will be expected to find all of this seemingly imaginary alien hardware, technology, and bodies. How can they either prove to or tell their crazy bosses and the public either that they don't exist?

Paul

7/17/2023 04:11:24 pm

Skepticist, sounds like a painful, medical condition. Not a valid scrabble word, but accepted usage, still sounds painful or stupid.

As for the rest, the country is falling apart and the powers that be want to waste taxpayer money and time arguing about basically non-issues. Pull your head out of your -cist.

Thanos could do a snap today and we would probably be better off…

Kent

7/17/2023 07:53:44 pm

"Oh, we are all quite sure that your thoughts on breasts are most certainly old-fashioned. Albeit in an isolated Jack Mormon compound elder sort of way."

Wow, you really nailed me on that one. "Waitress, another mimosa! And let me tell you how I nailed this guy on the internet last nite!"

--- awkward pause because of the obvious ---

Okay, so you hate Noah, Muhammad, Moses, and Jesus. And Charlie Chaplin and Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis. And every Army enlistee with four 12 year old wives in base housing. But if that's your scene, that's fine. Might want to check out the marriage laws in the Several States. Yes, I'm the perv for knowing the speed limit.