Congress's UFO hearing shows the hardest part of discovering alien life may be announcing it. Here's how NASA might break the news.

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A time-lapse of the Milky Way Galaxy as seen from the International Space Station.

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Leaked Pentagon docs show the shot-down Chinese spy balloon may have had a feature known as 'synthetic aperture radar' that can see through certain materials, WaPo reports

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Photo provided by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory 15 April 1994 in Pasadena, Ca, shows false-color composite image of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines taken by Spaceborne Imaging Radar-C and X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on orbit 78 13 April 1994.

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The Chinese spy balloon was gathering intel on sensitive US military sites and sending it to Beijing in real-time: report

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Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Feb. 5, 2023.
Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Feb. 5, 2023.

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From pigeon-mounted cameras to dragonfly drones, here's how aerial surveillance has evolved to spy on people over the past 200 years

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A man is being instructed how to use an aerial camera on a plane during World War II.
A man is being instructed how to use an aerial camera on a plane during World War II.

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Democratic Rep. Judy Chu, the first Chinese American woman elected to Congress, blasts a Texas GOP congressman after he questioned her loyalty to the US: 'It is racist'

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California Democratic Rep. Judy Chu hit back at Texas GOP Rep. Lance Gooden after he responded to her criticism of a Republican effort to investigate Biden economic appointee Dominic Ng.

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PHOTO: A U-2 pilot took a selfie with the Chinese spy balloon the day before the Air Force shot it down

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A U-2 Dragon Lady flies above the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, California, Mar. 23, 2016.
A U-2 over the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California in March 2016.

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Relax, those objects in the sky are probably just from one of the 90 countries and 10,000 companies that make up the nearly $1 trillion space economy

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The mystery objects shot down by US fighter jets were 'most likely' harmless civilian objects, Biden says

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President Joe Biden speaks at the White House on January 12, 2023.

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Biden aides briefed former Trump officials on the Chinese spy balloon intrusions the ex-president has claimed never happened

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Former President Donald Trump (left) and a suspected Chinese spy balloon before it was shot down off the coast of Garden City, South Carolina, on February 4, 2023.

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China threatens to punish the US for shooting down its spy balloon that floated past sensitive military sites before a jet shot it out of the sky

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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin.

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