According to press secretary Cole Stevens, The US Senate Committee on Armed Services will hold an open hearing on UFOs or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) on Wednesday, April 19, the following week. The purpose of the hearing is to address the mounting worries about the purportedly increasing UAP events. Additionally, it is anticipated that the politicians will advocate for more financing and openness in the UAP sightings probe.
At the hearing being held by the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), will also be speaking.
Lawmakers Call for Funding
The announcement was made after Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the AARO chair, publicly criticised the Department of Defence for failing to provide funding for a second consecutive year.
“A major problem is the fact that AARO is not fully funded. According to Gillibrand, who was quoted by the Roswell Daily Record, “We need to make sure that our government is treating the UAP issue seriously and allocating the necessary funds to strengthen our comprehension and reaction skills.
Additionally, she singled out Michael J. McCord, Under Secretary of Defence (Comptroller), by expressing disappointment over the funding’s lack on behalf of her department.
Can you explain why AARO wasn’t completely funded, keeping in mind that we can’t delve into exact budget numbers in this forum?
The Pentagon decided to look into military sightings of UFOs in recent years, and they have moved forward with that decision. A large number of previously secret reports have been made public as a result, and they make the report that Earth may not be our only home.
The declassified UFOs videos were presented to the US House of Representatives intelligence panel by Ronald Moultrie and Scott Bray, two senior Pentagon officers, in May 2022.
UFO reports, according to them, are “frequent” and have been increasing for more than a decade. They said that some of these sightings were mysterious, according to US officials.
US Navy Declines To Release UFO Videos
The US Navy, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made last year, stated that it will not be releasing any additional unidentified flying object (UFO) videos into the public realm due to potential national security risks.
“This information’s dissemination will be detrimental to national security because it could give enemies useful insight into Department of Defense/Navy activities, weaknesses, and/or capabilities. No parts of the videos may be separated for publication, according to Gregory Cason, deputy director of the FOIA office for the Navy.
