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A database of reports of UFOs now includes about 400 incidents, up from 143 assessed in a report released about a year ago, a Navy intelligence official ...

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Key lawmakers warned at a House hearing on Tuesday that unidentified aerial phenomena -- popularly known as UFOs -- must be investigated and taken seriously ...

"The intelligence community has a serious duty to our taxpayers to prevent potential adversaries such as China and Russia from surprising us with unforeseen new technologies," he said. "Today we will bring that organization out of the shadows," Carson said. "Given the nature of our business, national defense, we've had to sometimes be less forthcoming with information in open forums than many would hope," he said. He said that showed "an observation in real time" and suggested that it demonstrated how there is frequently a limited amount of data to work off of. He went on to say, "For too long, the stigma associated with UAPs has gotten in the way of good intelligence analysis. And they need to be treated that way."

An intelligence subcommittee will hear testimony from two Pentagon officials on observations by military pilots and others.

Some strange movement could be attributed to movement by the sensor, Mr. West said. That possibility, lawmakers and officials have said, is why the phenomena need to be examined more carefully. But he said that it was important to identify the images. And any threats they pose need to be mitigated.” After the report last year, intelligence officials pledged to renew their efforts. “I am looking for you to assure us today that all conclusions are on the table.” Of the 143 episodes examined by the Pentagon, only one could be identified and categorized: “a large, deflating balloon.” They need to be investigated. But lawmakers insisted on Tuesday that the Pentagon had been too dismissive of explanations. The image, which remains unexplained, is an example of how difficult it is to determine what a short video clip may show. “Therefore, disclosures must be carefully considered on a case-by-case basis.” The split-second image, shot through the window of an FA-18 fighter jet, shows a spherical object in the distance.

Intelligence officials said reports of "unidentified aerial phenomena" have increased since the June 2021 release of a government report on UAPs.

"The intelligence community has a serious duty to our taxpayers to prevent potential adversaries such as China and Russia from surprising us with unforeseen new technologies,” Crawford said. He shared a few short videos and images of unidentified objects to demonstrate how fleeting the observations can be. A government database that tracks possible sightings has gained about 400 incidents since last June, when the U.S. Director of National Intelligence made public a report examining UAPs, he said. DOD officials relegated the issue to the back room, or swept it under the rug entirely, fearful of a skeptical national security community.” Investigators later determined the mysterious objects were unmanned aerial systems. "For too long, the stigma associated with UAPs has gotten in the way of good intelligence analysis," Carson said.

(CNN) Future President Gerald Ford was the top Republican in the House when he forwarded tips about UFO sightings to the Air Force in 1966. The Air Force sent ...

When the catalog of recent UAP sightings was released by the Director of National Intelligence in 2021, CNN's Anderson Cooper talked to retired Navy Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich. She was one of the pilots who witnessed a UAP in November 2004. "I'm trying to reduce the stigma for other air crew -- so that if they see something, or when they see something, they'll say something. Moultrie argued there's a movement toward more disclosures in the intelligence community. But she said it was important for people who see unexplained things to come forward, so that experts can study and explain them. Bray showed several videos to lawmakers: one featuring a few frames of a fast-moving UAP that has not been identified, and two featuring triangle-shaped lights recorded by camera through night vision goggles. That's a gaping and subjective loophole. And that they will not feel embarrassed or ashamed to make the reports ... and that they'll contribute to this data pool of information that we have." The program was expensive, and none of the reported UFO sightings were shown to be a national security threat, according to the Air Force When the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a landmark report on UAPs "Reports of sightings are frequent and continuing," Deputy Director of Navy Intelligence Scott Bray told members of the House Intelligence Committee. The Pentagon recently created a dedicated office to "facilitate the identification of previously unknown or unidentified airborne objects in a methodical, logical and standardized manner," according to another official, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie. In fact, the number of UFO sightings logged by the US government near government property is on the rise, a US Navy Intelligence official told lawmakers on Tuesday in the first public congressional hearing on UFOs in more than 50 years.

At the first congressional hearing on UFOs since the '60s, Pentagon officials said there were now about 400 reports of UFO or UAP encounters reported by the ...

And finally we're beginning to have the conversation without ridicule and stigma that has so injured the search for scientific truth on this topic." "I have gone to conventions -- I'll say it on the record. "It's the biggest story of our time. It is representative government representing the citizens and their interest." We have our questions." "Reports of sightings are frequent and continuous." "We're now reasonably confident that these triangles correlate to unmanned aerial systems in the area," Bray explained. "We also understand that there has been a cultural stigma surrounding UAP," Moultrie said. Got to break the ice somehow," he told the panel in one lighthearted line of questioning, adding, "We have our we have our inquisitiveness. Officials who looked at that video found a similar pyramid shape. "Pilots avoided reporting or were laughed at when they did." "This is a great example of how it takes considerable effort to understand what we're seeing in the examples that we are able to collect," he added.

Congress held its first hearing on UFOs — now called UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena) — in more than 50 years.

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Unidentified aerial phenomena—commonly referred to as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs—pose a potentially serious national security threat to the United ...

Bray responded that China has its own directorate investigating UAPs and that, “clearly a number of countries have observations in their air space they cannot identify.” Bray said “standardized reporting” will be key to better ascertaining the data collected from sources outside the Defense Department. “Some appeared to remain stationary without discernable means of propulsion—that’s pretty intriguing,” Schiff said. Bray also said U.S. aircraft have not discharged armaments or fired weapons at UAPs. Tuesday’s open session was likely only a partial view of the intelligence at hand; many lawmakers sought detailed answers in a closed session later Tuesday. "For too long, the stigma associated with UAPs has gotten in the way of good intelligence analysis. In an exchange with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., Bray said there have been “11 near-misses”—but no collisions—between U.S. aircraft and UAPs. In the exchange, Bray said the U.S. government has not attempted communication with any UAPs, nor have any UAPs appeared to attempt communication with U.S. aircraft. But they are real,” he added. "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are a potential national security threat. “I can simply say there are a number of events we do not have an explanation for—we can’t explain them with the data that we have,” Bray said. And they need to be treated that way." UAPs are unexplained, it's true.

The hearing, which will include testimony from military intelligence officials, is the first on the subject since 1969. It will be livestreamed on the House ...

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