Congress held its first public hearing on unidentified flying objects in decades on Tuesday, centering on investigation into alleged military meetings with inexplicable objects.
By numbers: The database tracking unidentified object sightings has grown to about 400 reports. According to witnesses, sightings are “frequent and ongoing.”
Hearing follows USA government report on unidentified air phenomena (UAP)
- The report concluded that UAP could pose a threat to national security, but found no evidence of aliens from incidents.
- last hearing on UFO was in 1966 when then Republican House Minority Leader Gerald Ford held two hearings on reports of sightings. in Michigan and other parts of country before that year.
- One already cleared UAE video by the Navy was attributed to lens aberrations and aperture. shape of night vision goggles before record frames.
- Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray showed another video of a military span with UAP which is yet to be explained.
The resolved reports are divided into five explanatory categories.
- Mess in the air
- Natural atmospheric phenomena
- US government or US industrial development programs
- Foreign enemy systems
- “Other”, which serves as a “warehouse of difficult cases and for possibility of surprise and potential scientific discovery,” Bray said.
There were 11 close misses between unknown objects and USA military assets
- US military personnel recorded no clashes or direct communication. with UAP, Bray said.
- They are also No found debris material “this does not match with Existence of earthly origin,” he said. added.
Subcommittee of the House Intelligence Committee on The Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation Division interviewed Defense Department officials about the US Department of Defense. work I study UAPs.
- Air Objects Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) established. in November 2021 as successor to established U.S. Department of Defense Unidentified Air Phenomena Task Force. in response to reports from naval pilots and other military personnel about clashes with UAP over some years.
- Some videos from the reports were published by the Pentagon in 2020, including recordings from infrared cameras. of fighters.
What they say: Bray and Deputy Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and security Ronald Moultrie stressed that the main objectives of the Pentagon with The AOIMSG is to systematize and synthesize the raw anomalous data collected by military personnel and identify the UAP.
- “We know that our troops have encountered unidentified aerial phenomena, and since the UAP represents a potential flight safety and general safety risk, we are making a concerted effort to determine their origin,” Moultrie said.
- “Since the early 2000s, we have seen an increase in the number of unauthorized or unidentified aircraft or objects in military-controlled training grounds and training grounds, as well as other designated airspace,” Bray said. in his opening remarks. “Reports of sightings are frequent and ongoing.”
- The Pentagon attributes the frequency of observation of increased presence of commercial drones nearby military sites and the best sensor equipment detection of debris such as mylar balloons, in military airspace, Bray said.
- frequency can also be referred to AOIMSG standardized reporting procedures for Members of the Navy and Air Force, as well as the Pentagon, have recently urged members of the military to report all abnormal phenomena while at sea or at sea. in flight, Bray said.
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Editor’s Note: This story has been corrected to show Gerald Ford was House Minority Leader, not House Majority Leader.
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