House Lawmakers Request Speaker McCarthy Establish a Standalone UFO Committee in Formal Letter

House Lawmakers Request Speaker McCarthy Establish a Standalone UFO Committee in Formal Letter
(L-R) Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) talks with Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) during a House Oversight Committee hearing titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications on National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency" on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 26, 2023. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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A group of four House lawmakers—three Republicans and one Democrat—has signed on to a letter calling for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) to stand up a new select committee specifically tasked with seeking out the details about unidentified flying objects (UFOs) they believe the government has been keeping secret for years.

“Mr. Speaker, we ask that you immediately establish a Select Committee, outside the jurisdiction of any standing committee, and with subpoena authority, to go about the task of collecting information from the Pentagon and elsewhere for the benefit of the public and to discharge our constitutional, legislative and oversight roles,” reads the letter, which was signed by Reps. Matt Gaetz, (R-Fla.), Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) and Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.).