“My amendment will establish a formal office to report and respond to UAPs and give us the scientific capabilities needed to track and share data, investigate sightings, and develop a response to this growing security threat. Staying ahead of UAP sightings is critical to keeping our strategic edge and keeping our nation safe,” said Senator Gillibrand. “Our national security efforts rely on aerial supremacy and these phenomena present a challenge to our dominance over the air. The office will be administered jointly between the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence, and will empower military and civilian personnel working for the DoD and Intelligence Community to report incidents and information involving UAPs. By doing so, the office will have the authority to establish a coordinated effort to report and respond to UAPs, significantly improve data-sharing between agencies on UAP sightings, address national security concerns, and report health effects people may experience in relation to UAP events.

Gillibrand has been working alongside Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Congressman Ruben Gallego (AZ-07) to establish an office that would replace the current Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and would have access to Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community data related to UAPs. Today, UAPs pose a significant challenge to our national security, appearing in sensitive U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is announcing the inclusion of her Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) amendment in the FY22 NDAA. “Our goal is to strike that delicate balance,” he said, “one that will enable us to maintain the public’s trust while preserving those capabilities that are vital to the support of our service personnel.U.S. Moultrie, the Pentagon's top intelligence official, noted the government’s need to balance transparency with protecting national security.

“And so we've not attempted any communication with that.” Bray said the objects shown in videos at the hearing appear to be unmanned. pilots, and no fighter pilots have tried to communicate with a UAP. Moreover, no UAP has ever attempted to communicate with U.S. Bray echoed that conclusion, telling lawmakers that “the UAP task force doesn't have any wreckage that isn't explainable, that isn't consistent with being of terrestrial origin.” The 2021 report determined that the government had found no evidence of aliens. “So it's a data issue that we're facing.” “We have insufficient data either on the event itself, the object itself or insufficient data,” said Ronald Moultrie, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence & Security. In just the last year, the database of reports of UFOs has more than doubled to about 400 incidents, Bray told lawmakers.īut higher quantity has not led to higher quality. The military’s efforts to destigmatize reporting UAPs has led to an increase in reports. The quantity of data being gathered is improving. MORE FROM FORBES FAA Can't Explain Pilot's UFO Sighting Last Weekend Over New Mexico By Suzanne Rowan Kelleher government technology, and a catch-all miscellaneous category that the authors simply called “other.” The report’s verdict was that there is simply not enough data to identify most of these objects.

“The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP,” concluded the unclassified report, which many decried as a nothing burger after intelligence officials admitted they didn't know what the vast majority of phenomena were.Īmong the handful of theories offered in last year’s report: airborne debris, natural atmospheric conditions, technology from foreign adversaries or top-secret U.S. Last year, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a preliminary report covering 143 UAP sightings dating back to 2004. House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee The triangular object, shot with a night-vision lens, was determined to be a drone.

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