Washington promises UFO disclosure. History suggests otherwise.

U.S. Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray explains a video of an unidentified aerial phenomena as he testifies before a House Intelligence Committee subcommittee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on May 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. Kevin Dietsch / Staff/ Getty Images

Many years ago, I was sitting on a boat in the middle of Lake Mead outside of Las Vegas. It was an impossibly dark night and the brilliant sea of stars overhead was perfectly reflected in the still, black water all around me. It was a quiet, hot summer night that I was enjoying with some friends.

That’s when the UFO came and crashed our party. My potential alien encounter started out as a pinpoint of light that was not much bigger than one of those brilliant stars. It came straight down out of the sky and hovered a few miles away at the shore ...