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Colorado Congressman Jason Crow Joins Public Hearing On UFOs

(CBS4)- Colorado Congressman Jason Crow participated in a historic moment at the nation's Capitol: Congress' first public hearing on UFOs in more than half a century.

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The hearing comes after a Congressional-mandated report released last year found that most of the incidents analyzed remain unidentified. There have been nearly 150 reports of unidentified aerial phenomena since 2004.

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"Since the early 2000s, we have seen an increasing number of unauthorized and/or unidentified objects in military-controlled training areas and training rangers and other designated airspace. Reports of sightings are frequent and continuing," said Scott Bray, Deputy Director Of Naval Intelligence.

A new office under the Secretary of Defense is dedicated to investigating hundreds of reported UAPs.

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