Members of the United States Senate are pushing for the creation of an office to track unidentified aerial phenomena, commonly referred to as UFO (unidentified flying object).
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The proposal comes in the aftermath of the Pentagon's report, which analyzed 144 reported sightings in June of this year.
While the Pentagon was unable to identify most of the sightings, it concluded that at least 18 showed signs of advanced technology.
A bipartisan group of senators, led by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, introduced an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act to establish an "Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office."
The proposed office would have the authority to investigate "any resource, capability, asset, or process of the Department and the intelligence community."
If established, the office would be tasked with tracking UFO sightings, coordinating with allies regarding their own sightings, and briefing lawmakers twice a year about sensitive information.
The potential UFO-hunting bureau would be the best-funded and most publicly transparent UFO investigation ever conducted by the US government.
"If it is technology possessed by adversaries or any other entity, we need to know," Gillibrand said in an interview with Politico.
"Burying our heads in the sand is neither a strategy nor an acceptable approach."
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
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