每日英語跟讀 Ep.K385: 美國國會50年來首次幽浮聽證會

<p>每日英語跟讀 Ep.K385: US Congress dives into UFOs, but no signs of extraterrestrials</p> <p> </p> <p>US Congress held its first hearing in half a century Tuesday last week on unidentified flying objects. And no, there is still no government confirmation of extraterrestrial life. Congress last held a hearing on reports of UFOs — unidentified flying objects synonymous with space aliens — in the 1960s, and even in the realm of fiction, Scully and Mulder of The X-Files seem to have retired.</p> <p>上週二，美國國會針對不明飛行物舉行了聽證會，這是半世紀以來首次。政府仍未證實外星生命的存在。國會上次就UFO（「不明飛行物」，外星人的代名詞，或音譯為「幽浮」）的報導舉行聽證會是在一九六○年代。甚至在虛構情節的領域，「X檔案」的史卡利與穆德似乎也已退隱。</p> <p>Testifying before a House Intelligence subcommittee, Pentagon officials did not disclose additional information from their ongoing investigation of hundreds of unexplained sightings in the sky. But they said they had picked a director for a new task force to coordinate data collection efforts on what the government has officially labeled “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UA...