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Longtime Las Vegas reporter attends UFO Congress hearing. What came of it?

Area 51 entrance
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Area 51 entrance

Each year now, the Department of Defense seems to be nearing disclosure.

Disclosure, that is, of what they know—or don't know—about UFOs.

In 2017, it released video footage taken from a fighter jet over the Pacific Ocean of oval objects flying unbelievably fast and in ways they hadn’t seen aircraft fly.

Years earlier, the late-Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada appropriated $22 million to the government to study UFOs, which he saw as a potential threat to American security.

Then last year, Congress held hearings about the extent of UFO reports coming to the DOD. After that, the DOD formally announced they would welcome military eyewitness accounts—trying to assure soldiers they wouldn’t be ridiculed or reprimanded.

And last week Congress held another hearing. This one went further. And George Knapp, the KLAS-TV, Channel 8 reporter who let the world know 30 years ago about Area 51 in Nevada, was there.

Knapp’s testimony was read into the official congressional record of the House Oversight Committee, and he joined State of Nevada to talk about it.
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Guests: George Knapp; Chief Reporter, Channel 8

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Joe Schoenmann joined Nevada Public Radio in 2014. He works with a talented team of producers at State of Nevada who explore the casino industry, sports, politics, public health and everything in between.