💬 Quoted… ​​“I was informed in the course of my official duties of a multi-decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to which I was denied access.”

Three retired military veterans testified yesterday at a House Oversight Committee hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena, aka UFOs.

• During the hearing, former intelligence official and whistleblower David Grusch repeated previous claims that agencies within the federal government have withheld information about recovered “non-human” vehicles since the 1930s. (Background)

🦠📈 Stat of the Day: Much like SpaceX, cases of syphilis have been skyrocketing – and US health officials are on the verge of declaring a national health emergency because of it, Bloomberg reports. In 2021, the latest year for which government data is available, rates of syphilis were the highest since 1990. At least 176,000 cases were reported, a 32% increase over the previous year.

🤔 Did You Know?... Roughly two-thirds of Americans wear some form of corrective eyewear (aka glasses, contacts, or monocles🧐)

📰 Worth a Read: Public libraries are awesome and here are things you might not know about them → (How About This)