This is as bipartisan as it gets. Senator Chuck Schumer, senate majority leader, has introduced a bill that legally requires all individuals with direct knowledge of non-human technology to disclose it. Both the senate and house are pursuing parallel tracks pushing for disclosure, both of which involve republicans and democrats. You're welcome to dismiss this all as a ruse, but you do so in ignorance.

Ah, the old “Believe Chuck Schumer, or you’re an idiot” argument.

I think I will dismiss this as pure, government-grade stupid, if not a “ruse” (which I don’t think most of these people have the intellectual ability to maintain against anyone but the most credulous partisan).

I feel like the UFO thing is fairly bipartisan, and also I don't think a particularly good distraction for anything, because nobody is paying much attention to it. Maybe it's a fun distraction for the congresspeople. I know if I was in congress, this would be the highlight of my week and I don't believe any of it.

You may be right that it's a distraction, but man you are shoehorning this into your preconceptions. UFOs are a generally interesting topic, long before any of:

>If you had to take a guess why theyre pitching wild this year between the hunter biden witch hunt and aliens, chances are good its because their scorched earth policies on sex, gender, and womens health are widely viewed as incredibly unpopular and a single legislator in their party --Tommy Tuberville-- has been outed as stonewalling more than 230 military promotions in order to push, surprise, more LGBTQ+ culture war.

Unfortunately, there was no revealing testimony or subpoenas. If they're serious about getting to the truth about UFOs, let's see them bring in the leads of the Pentagon and force them to testify. But they aren't serious. It's a joke of a hearing.