By Aaron Miller-
A group of senior American politicians have warned that UFOs pose “national security concerns”.
It comes following a confidential briefing on a highly anticipated report on unidentified aerial phenomena that is set to be released later this month.
Members of Congress were given advanced details about the contents of the Pentagon report, which is scheduled to be released before 25 June, many expressing concern about the findings.
Some of the worry is about the extent of details the report would reveal about ufos, and what information will be kept out of the report. There have been expressions that the report would have lots of redactions in the report, and an indication that some potentially details will be left out of the report.
Active Ufo researchers insist that divulging all the details of ufos in the upcoming report could be very alarming for the public and the world, an outcome the authourities would like to avoid.
“Clearly, something’s going on that we can’t handle,” Tim Burchett, a Republican congressman from Tennessee, told TMZ.
A series of government videos showing unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs have already been released to the public in past times, including footage from a navy F-18 fighter jet which showed an oblong object flying through the sky near San Diego in 2004.
April photos and videos taken by navy personnel leaked online showed triangular-shaped objects buzzing in the sky, and in May leaked military footage showed an oval flying object near a navy ship in San Diego – an apparent UAP hotspot. Footage
“We take the issue of unexplained aerial phenomena seriously to the extent that we’re dealing with the safety and security of US military personnel or the national security interests of the United States, so we want to know what we’re dealing with,” Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democratic congressman from New York, told the New York Post.
“I think it’s important to understand that there are legitimate questions involving the safety and security of our personnel, and in our operations and in our sensitive activities, and we all know that there’s [a] proliferation of technologies out there,” he continued. “We need to understand the space a little bit better.”
Last week Luis Elizondo, the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, told the Washington Post that UAPs posed a serious threat.
“In this country we’ve had incidents where these UAPs have interfered and actually brought offline our nuclear capabilities,” he said.
“We also have data suggesting that in other countries these things have interfered with their nuclear technology and actually turned them on, put them online.”
The flurry of recent videos and the imminent release of the report has ignited an excitement around unidentified flying craft that has not been seen for decades. Barack Obama even weighed in, telling CBS recently that “there’s footage and records of objects in the skies, that we don’t know exactly what they are”.
Val Demings, a Democratic congresswoman from Florida, was also present at the UAP briefing.
“You know it’s always about our safety and security. Our national security is No 1, and so that’s really the area where we really focused on this morning,” Demings said.
The unclassified version of the UAP report released to the public will contain a classified index, which could prevent the most sensitive information from being released.