The Pentagon program that investigates unidentified flying objects may be instructed to release some of its information to the public once Congress passes the intelligence authorization act, the New York Times reported recently, as ex-advisors suggest that "vehicles not made on this earth" were placed in US government storage.
The directive appeared last month in a Senate committee report that reportedly looked at spending on intelligence agencies for the coming year.
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It stated that the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, part of the Office of Naval Intelligence, standardizes collection and reporting on "unidentified aerial phenomenon." The program is not so much about finding little green men as it is about seeing if other countries are using new aerial technologies that can pose a threat to the US.
In April, the Pentagon released three unclassified videos taken by Navy pilots that have circulated for years showing interactions with "unidentified aerial phenomena." One of the videos shows an incident from 2004, and the other two were recorded in January 2015. The videos became public after unauthorized leaks in 2007 and 2017.
Video: US Naval Air Systems Command
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaking to a Miami TV station on July 17, indicated that he would be more comfortable if the unit has found signs of aliens visiting us than if it has found that America's adversaries have come up with a major technological advancement.
"The bottom line is that if there are things flying over your military bases and you don't know what they are because they're not yours, and they exhibit – potentially – technologies that you don't have at your own disposal, that to me is a national security risk and one we should be looking into," Rubio, acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said.
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told the NY Times that he "came to the conclusion" that UFO materials were in the government's possession. "After looking into this, I came to the conclusion that there were reports – some were substantive, some not so substantive – that there were actual materials that the government and the private sector had in their possession."
The Pentagon program's previous director, Luis Elizondo, a former military intelligence official who resigned in October 2017 after 10 years with the program, is among a small group of former government officials and scientists with security clearances who, without presenting physical proof, told the NY Times they are convinced that objects of undetermined origin have crashed on earth with materials retrieved for study.
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