Congress has received the latest secret briefings on UFOs violating protected airspace but lawmakers aren’t impressed.
Members of the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services committees recently received classified progress reports that the Pentagon and other spy agencies are now required to pursue in an effort to take UFO reports more seriously.
“Lawmakers receiving the latest secret briefings on UFOs say national security agencies still aren’t taking seriously the reports of highly advanced aircraft of unknown origin violating protected airspace.” https://t.co/GngNTKGGTj
— Saagar Enjeti (@esaagar) May 2, 2022
However, some legislators are demanding more analysts and surveillance systems dedicated to determining the aircrafts’ origin instead of just reports of their existence.
One of them is New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who has called the phenomena “an urgent issue.”
“Senator Gillibrand believes that the DoD needs to take this issue much more seriously and get in motion,” said one of her aides. “They have had ample time to implement these important provisions, and they need to show us that they are prepared to address this issue in the long-term.”
This comes four months after Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act requiring the Pentagon to create the Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office (ASRO).
The office was granted the authority to pursue “any resource, capability, asset, or process” to investigate “unidentified aerial phenomena” or UFOs. ASRO is expected to be fully operational by June.
“The head of [ASRO] shall supervise the development and execution of an intelligence collection and analysis plan to gain as much knowledge as possible regarding the technical and operational characteristics, origins, and intentions of unidentified aerial phenomena,” read in the legislation.
Florida Senator Marco Rubio expressed his dissatisfaction at the Pentagon due to the slow progress of establishing the office.
“Rubio is definitely frustrated,” said one of Rubio’s aides. “They are not moving fast enough, not doing enough, not sharing enough … The administration is aware of the concerns but it is not at the level it needs to be.”
Meanwhile, some are accusing the Pentagon of hiding information from Congress, including Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee, who is a member of the House Transportation Aviation Subcommittee.
“I don’t trust the Department of Defense to get this right since leadership there has always been part of a cover-up,” Burchett said. “It is clear from the public evidence that we don’t have full control of our airspace.”
