When former President Donald Trump signed into law the massive $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief package in 2020, it triggered a countdown to a deadline by which the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense must provide lawmakers a report on everything they know about UFOs like the ones seen in the recently leaked footage.īuried within the thousands of pages of legislation under the "Committee Comments" section of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, a stipulation requested a report to senators on intelligence and armed services committees regarding any information surrounding UFO sightings and whether they present any potential threat. This is something that the military is very interested in, and they have been lying to the American public," Corbell added. "They are penetrating and there are incursions in our most restricted airspace around our nuclear weapons. Representative Gerald Ford of Michigan, who was House Republican leader at the time, organized a hearing in response to scores of witness accounts of strange glowing lights and large football shapes at low altitude around Dexter, Michigan, which an Air Force official had famously explained away as "swamp gas.Footage shows UFO flying off the coast of Californiaįootage released by filmmaker Jeremy Corbell and confirmed as authentic by the Pentagon shows a spherical UFO flying off the coast of San Diego. In 1966, nearly a decade before he became president, then-U.S. Air Force terminated an inconclusive UFO program code-named Project Blue Book in 1969.ĭuring its 17 years in existence, Blue Book compiled a list of 12,618 total UFO sightings, 701 of which involved objects that officially remained "unidentified." But the Air Force later said it found no indication of a national security threat or evidence of extraterrestrial vehicles. The session will mark the first open congressional hearing on the subject since the U.S. government after decades spent deflecting, debunking and discrediting observations of unidentified flying objects and "flying saucers" dating back to the 1940s. Still, the report marked a turning point for the U.S. officials told reporters ahead of the report's release last year, though the paper itself avoided any explicit reference to such possibilities.
government or commercial entity, or by a foreign power such as China or Russia, according to the report.ĭefense and intelligence analysts have likewise yet to rule out an extraterrestrial origin for any UAP case, senior U.S. While reaching no conclusions, last year's report said the UAP sightings probably lack a single explanation.įurther data and analysis were needed to determine whether they represent some exotic aerial system developed by a secret U.S. The other is Scott Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence.īoth of them were scheduled to testify behind closed doors following the public hearing. defense undersecretary for intelligence and security, is one of the two officials called to testify during Tuesday's hearing. Ronald Moultrie, who oversees the new group as U.S. The Navy task force behind the paper was replaced in November by a new Defense Department agency named the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group.
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"The American people deserve full transparency," Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said in a statement last week announcing the hearings.ĭefense and intelligence analysts who prepared the assessment offered no findings about the origins of any of the 144 sightings included in it, except for one attributed to a large deflating balloon.
The hearing on Tuesday was expected to re-examine the findings of that report, a nine-page "preliminary assessment" compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and a Navy-led task force the Pentagon formed in 2020. The report did, however, include some UAPs previously revealed in Pentagon-released video footage of enigmatic airborne objects exhibiting speed and maneuverability exceeding known aviation technology and lacking any visible means of propulsion or flight-control surfaces. The focus, instead, was on possible implications for U.S.
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