A bipartisan amendment introduced by New York senator and former Democratic presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand is aiming to create a more expansive military and intelligence program to study numerous reported UFO sightings of unidentified flying objects by the U.S. Navy and Air Force.
The amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act establishing an “Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office” with the approval to pursue “any resource, capability, asset, or process of the Department and the intelligence community” to investigate sightings of UFOs or UAPs within the U.S. Department of Defense is being discussed in Congress this week, Politico reports.
“We’ve not had oversight into this area for a very long time,” Gillibrand said via Politico. “I can count on one hand the number of hearings I had in 10 years on this topic. That’s fairly concerning given the experience our service members have had over the last decade.”
The amendment expands beyond a previous change made to the House version of the bill, as well as other previous public efforts to study UAPs and UFOs.
Gillibrand, who serves on the Armed Services and Intelligence committees, said she was urged to introduce the amendment due to “repeated reports over the last two or three years of these increased sightings by Navy pilots and Air Force pilots” and believes possible explanations on the sightings are so varied, which calls for a dedicated effort.
“You have a million questions that must be answered for a million reasons,” she said, citing “the entire spectrum of unidentified aerial phenomena.”
“You’re talking about drone technology, you’re talking about balloon technology, you’re talking about other aerial phenomena, and then you’re talking about the unknown,” she said. “Regardless of where you fall on the question of the unknown, you have to answer the rest of the questions. That’s why this is urgent. That’s why having no oversight or accountability up until now to me is unacceptable.”
The amendment would create a separate “aerial and transmedium advisory committee” composed of experts from several top agencies including NASA, the FAA, the National Academies of Sciences, the head of the Galileo Project at Harvard University, the director of the Optical Technology Center at Montana State University, the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, and the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics.
Earlier this month, a top U.S. spy chief said pilots nationwide are reporting numerous UFO sightings that could be of alien origin.
Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) overseeing all 16 of the nation’s spy agencies, spoke publicly at the Our Future in Space event at the Washington National Cathedral on November 10 and fielded questions about UFOs, amid the growing national security debate following years of related conspiracy theories.
Haines admitted that strange encounters with unidentified flying objects needs to be highlighted for more investigation to gain a better understanding.
“The main issues that Congress and others have been concerned about is safety of flight concerns and counterintelligence issues,” Haines said at the Our Future in Space event via the Sun. “Always there’s also the question of ‘is there something else that we simply do not understand, which might come extraterrestrially?”
The Sun pointed out that Haines hesitated when she said “extraterrestrially,” but is now the highest-ranking intelligence official to acknowledge the possibility of alien existence.
Haines’ comments come months after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a preliminary assessment on unidentified aerial phenomena in June.
In the report, the UAP Task Force admitted to receiving reports of 144 unexplained encounters between the U.S. military and UFOs and didn’t rule out the possibility of alien connections, though still not explicitly selling the theory either.
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Original Article: https://www.iheart.com/content/2021-11-18-office-to-investigate-ufos-pushed-in-bipartisan-proposal-this-is-urgent/
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We should have an investigation. I’d like to know how the pilots of these extraterrestrial vehicles have managed to know where all the high resolution cameras are so they can avoid them. Over the decades, I have seen multiple photos and videos of these UFOs and UAPs, including ones taken by military personnel, and none are clear enough to be conclusive. When I served in the military back during the Vietnam Conflict, we had better cameras and video gear than they seem to have now. And why hasn’t any satellite surveillance system picked them up?
Have you heard of the gun boat in ‘Nam that fired on a UFO and it redirected the rounds BACK at their boat? And another incident where a ship fired at the same, or identical craft, and was hit with rockets that were fired at it by a different ship the DAY BEFORE?! The crew found pieces of the missiles and ID’d them. The thing was somehow able to catch the missiles and hold them for hours with losing momentum!
Thank you for your service, Sir!
It’s a way to spend America’s money and keep our eyes off of the real evil that we should be fully aware of
The government looking into UFOs is like foxes investigating disappearing chickens. They’ve been working with many species of aliens for decades. There’s secret video of a craft landing at an AF base, and aliens getting out and meeting with President Eisenhower. Not one, but two Russian space missions where the Cosmonauts saw seven 100 ft. smiling ‘angels’ outside their capsules. And check out ‘Skinny Bob’ on YouTube and tell me he isn’t real.