Washington – House panel spent first public congressional hearings on unidentified flying objects in more how half a century on Tuesday, with senior Pentagon officials cite the number of “Unidentified Air Phenomena” (UAPs) reported by pilots and military personnel rose to around 400.
Deputy Minister of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Scott Bray, a Naval Intelligence official, testified before a House subcommittee about how Department of Defense prepares reports of UAP after congressional mandate report released last year found most of incidents analyzed remain unidentified.
Rep. Andre Carson, Democrat of Indiana and Chairman of House Subcommittee on Intelligence on Counterintelligence, counterterrorism and counterproliferation opened hearings stating that UAPs “are potential national security risk and they need treat it way.”
“Too long a stigma associated with UAP received in in way of good intelligence analysis. The pilots avoided reporting it or were laughed at when they did so. Department of Defense officials downgraded issue in the back room or even sweep under the carpet, afraid of skeptical national security communityCarson said. – Today we know it is better. UAPs are inexplicable, it’s true. But they real. They are need be researched. And any threats they pose need be relaxed.”
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Last year report published by the Office of director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the Pentagon’s UAP Task Force found no evidence that the objects are extraterrestrial or belong to a foreign enemy, but the report also couldn’t explain most of objects.
Investigators were able to find one of 144 reports analyzed in their study of unidentified objects “in the form of a large deflating balloon.” But the remaining 143 reports of UAP from 2004 to 2021 remain mystery.
Few doubt that unidentified objects real objects, whatever they are, because at least 80 of 144 incidents were detected by multiple sensors, the report says. found. “UAP is clearly safety of flight issue and may represent challenge us national security,” the statement said.
AT public part of hearing followed by a classified session, Bray said the number of the number of reported incidents has risen to around 400 since last year report. He said sightings are “frequent and ongoing” and often occur in military training grounds or other designated airspace.
He showed the deputies a video of one UAP spotted by Navy pilot in 2021, “a spherical object” that “rapidly passes in the cockpit of airplane.”
“I have no explanation for what this particular object is,” Bray said.
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Here is a video that Bray showed during the hearing, depicting fleeting behavior from a naval aviator. pass by object. Pilot in cabin of a Navy fighter filmed the footage, and Bray showed it to show “a typical speed wherein military aircraft may approach unknown an object.”
Another video showed a floating triangular object. off West coast through night vision goggles. Picture of a similar object also saw through night vision devices, was captured off another coast years later. Bray said the UAP task force concluded that these triangular objects were “unmanned aerial systems” and that their triangular appearance was result of light passing through night vision goggles before recording SLR camera.
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Bray said the UAP task force has no debris or evidence that the objects are of extraterrestrial origin. He said there were no collisions between strange objects and American planes, but noted that there were at least 11 “pre-crash situations.” He added that other countries had their reports of UAP and some of those countries communicate with the US about its findings and vice versa.
Pentagon in authenticated in recent years of several videos and images showing objects being investigated by the UAP task force. past year, Department of Defense confirmed three images posted by MysteryWire and video posted directed by UFO was filmed by the Navy personnel.
In 2020, the Pentagon released three videos – FLIR, GOFAST and GIMBAL – showing collisions. military the aviators had with unidentified objects. Fighter pilots who witnessed the object in 2004 FLIR video talked about “60 Minutes” last year about them experience.
In November 2021, the Pentagon established the Air Object Identification and Control Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) to replace the Navy’s UAP task force. with intention of improved coordination of reporting and investigation of incidents.
last public congressional hearings on UFO has been carried out in 1960s to disbandment of US Air Force “Project Blue Book” program who researched and analyzed reports of UFO. project existed from 1947 to 1969 and was disbanded. in part because the objects were found not pose a threat to national security, according to the Air Force fact sheet.
