UFO Report: Unclassified report on UFOs must be released within 180 days, thanks to Covid-19 emergency relief and spending bill

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The Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense now have just under six months to provide Congressional Intelligence and Armed Forces Committees with an unclassified report on “unidentified aerial phenomena.”

It’s a provision that was tucked away in the “commission commentary” section of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, which was included in the massive spending bill.
That report must include detailed analyzes of UFO data and intelligence gathered by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and the FBI, as per the Senate Intelligence Committee guideline.

It should also detail “an inter-institutional process to ensure timely data collection and centralized analysis of all unidentified aerial phenomena reporting to the federal government” and designate an officer responsible for that process.

Finally, the report should identify potential threats to national security from UFOs and assess whether there could be opponents from the country behind such activities, the committee said.

The report filed must be unclassified, the committee said, although it may contain a classified attachment.

A spokesman for the Office of the Director of the National Intelligence Service confirmed the news to fact-checking website Snopes.

Congress has long been interested in UFOs

The Pentagon released three short videos in April last year showing “unidentified aerial phenomena” – clips previously confirmed by the US Navy to be real.

The videos, one from 2004 and the other two from 2015, show what appears to be unidentified flying objects moving quickly while captured by infrared cameras. Two of the videos feature service workers reacting in awe at how fast the objects move. A voice speculates it could be a drone.

Newly released incident reports provide details of the US Navy's 'UFO' encounters

It is still unclear what the objects are and there is no consensus on their origin. Some believe it may be drones piloted by terrestrial opponents seeking to gather information, rather than the aliens we normally equate with UFOs.

In August, the Pentagon announced that it was forming an investigation group.

Members of Congress and Pentagon officials have long been concerned about the appearance of the unidentified aircraft that have flown over US military bases. The Senate Intelligence Committee voted last June to have the Pentagon and the intelligence community provide a public analysis of the encounters.

But it isn’t the first time the Pentagon has investigated aerial encounters with unknown objects. The Pentagon previously studied recordings of such incidents as part of a secret program that has since been closed, launched at the behest of former Senator Harry Reid.

That program launched in 2007 and ended in 2012, according to the Pentagon, as they felt there were higher priorities that needed funding.

Former head of the program Luis Elizondo told CNN in 2017 that he personally believes that “there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone.”

CNN’s Ryan Browne contributed to this report.

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