The provision that the committee, led by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, voted on is part of the intelligence authorization bill, which is dated June 17, according to Politico. The bill must still be voted on by the entire Senate before the UFO provision is binding.
“The Committee remains concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive process within the federal government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, despite the potential threat,” the bill reads.
The provision requires that the analysis be completed by the secretary of defense and the director of national intelligence within 180 days of the bill’s passage. And although the report will be public, the committee will allow a classified annex.
The committee goes on to say that while it “understands that the relevant intelligence may be sensitive,” it points out that “the information sharing and coordination across the Intelligence Community has been inconsistent, and this issue has lacked attention from senior leaders.”
In April, the Pentagon officially released three videos that showed UFOs, although the government refers to the flying objects as “unidentified aerial phenomena.” In the videos, which are sourced from Navy F/A-18 Super Hornets and were released through the Freedom of Information Act, strange objects can be seen flying at high speeds. Some of the objects are seen turning while they soar through the air, and pilots in the jets are heard musing at the unexplainable occurrence.
Pentagon spokeswoman Sue Gough told the Washington Examiner at the time that the “DOD is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos. The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.’”
From 2007 to 2012, the Pentagon ran a $22 million Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which was formed to investigate UFOs. (Washington Examiner)
