UFOs had their day in Congress. One strange sighting came at this California launch site
A red square the size of a football field hovered in the sky for nearly a minute before zipping off.
That's how a former Navy pilot described a mysterious, unidentified aerial phenomena that was spotted at Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central Coast in 2003, brought to light last week during a House Oversight subcommittee hearing.
Once dismissed as conspiracy theories or fodder for a good party joke, UAPs — more commonly referred to as UFOs — are now under scrutiny on Capitol Hill, where the July 26 hearing sought to investigate the phenomena and whether they pose a national security risk.
Ryan Graves, a his own sightings on the East Coast in 2014 and 2015, and was asked about the Vandenberg event by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla). Graves did not observe the event himself but said a witness came to his organization, Americans for Safe Aerospace, with a firsthand account and evidence including police blotters and other documentation.
