The growing number of unexplained phenomenon claims has been brought to light once more by a claimed UFO sighting over Capitol Hill.
Dennis Diggins, a licensed tour guide and member of the US Air Force, apparently captured an apparent UFO sighting over Capitol Hill this week in a photo. The widely shared image created a lot of controversy and sparked a heated online discussion on social media, with some people choosing to refute the claims while others resorted to comedy.
Diggins’ click appears to capture four enigmatic lights floating over the Statue of Freedom, which is positioned atop the Capitol dome, according to The New York Post. Another video, taken from a different perspective and posted on X (previously Twitter), made others wonder how these dazzling lights had suddenly “materialised.” Panic swept Twitter when the video faded into a more real-time image of these sparkling figures hovering over the US government landmark.
Apparent UFO sighting over Capitol Hill follows a similarly focussed Congress hearing
This reported UFO sighting coincidentally occurs just weeks after the US Senate and House of Representatives convened for a hearing to examine purported covert government operations that have for decades hid proof of the presence of extraterrestrial non-human intelligence. US military soldiers testified in support of these allegations at the congressional hearing, “Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Exposing the Truth.”
Anecdotes of inexplicable phenomena and some objects “exhibiting flight and structural characteristics unlike anything in our arsenal” were supposedly shown by officials. A retired US Navy rear admiral, a former NASA associate administrator, and a former US counterintelligence officer were among the whistleblowers there who advocated for greater government openness on UFO issues.
An expert debunked the ‘UFO sightings’
Experts did their utmost to save the day as concerns over the topic grew following the possible Capitol Hill incident, denying alien involvement and attributing the images to light reflections. John Greenewald Jr., a researcher and ufologist, immediately weighed in on the topic on X. “For decades and decades, the lights at the US Capitol building have been causing ‘UFO sightings’ in the camera lens.” He further criticised individuals who have been “passing them around, again” and those who “are buying it” by attributing the image to “just lens flares.” “New photo, same lens flare ‘phenomenon,'” he concluded.
Pentagon’s official statement
In a March report, the Pentagon firmly said that it had not discovered any evidence of alien technology, despite growing concerns over the extraterrestrial issue. “Every investigation, regardless of classification level, determined that the majority of sightings were commonplace objects and phenomena and the consequence of misidentification,” the report stated.