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When UFOs Bring Congress Together

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Ben Watson
Dec 01, 2025
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Sometimes it takes something out of this world to bring Congress together on both sides of the aisle. And that is exactly what happened earlier this month with the private screening of the recently released documentary The Age of Disclosure, where members from both parties gathered in the same room to watch a film that presents what it describes as an 80-year cover-up by the U.S. government regarding the UFO phenomenon.

While it is tempting to go down the rabbit hole and explore purported evidence and information surrounding the existence of UFOs, there is simply too much material to do that route justice here. That is for another article another day. Instead, the purpose of this piece is simply to point out why the topic of UFOs is such a rare example of members of Congress being able to unite around a single cause when so typically they are polarized. And the reason is fairly simple. Something unexplainable is happening in our skies, and the skies do not discriminate based on politic…

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