'We've got to get an answer': UFOs catch Congress' interest

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Lawmakers used to laugh when asked about UFOs. Now they have real questions — and they’re eager for the rare answers they’ll get later this week.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee looking into the budget estimates for National Institute of Health and the state of medical research, on May 26, 2021. | Stefani Reynolds/Pool via AP

“There’s stuff flying in our airspace and we don’t know who it is and it’s not ours. So we should know who it is, especially if it’s an adversary that’s made a technological leap,” said Sen. Marco Rubio , the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Republicans and Democrats alike viewed those steps as positive but long overdue, especially since classification barred lawmakers from publicly discussing the nature of the threats. While lawmakers stayed mum, some former U.S. presidents openly teased juicier details — in the case of some airborne objects, “we can’t explain how they moved,” Barack Obama told late-night host Stephen Colbert last month.

Rubio, whose perch on the Intelligence Committee puts him in a selective group of eight lawmakers privy to the nation's most sensitive intelligence, said he has “no reason to believe” that the report will give credence to theories about extraterrestrials. Instead, he said, the report will detail “advanced technologies that we don’t possess [that] are in our restricted airspace almost on a nightly basis now.

“There have been questions about the sightings and whether they’re natural phenomena, whether they’re drones, whether they’re weather balloons or vehicles from nation-states or non-state actors spying on our military or spying on U.S. citizens,” said Rep. André Carson , who chairs a key subpanel on the Intelligence Committee.

 

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You would think they would care more about the theft of trillions in the stock and treasury markets... but nope.

We're about to see all kinds of spending...

Wow the U in UFO actually has meaning.

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aliens djinn demons angels (original meaning snake) are all the same thing. there's no mystery but much is put on them to stop us getting rid of them for they are the minority and we are their source of energy. they are fckers and are behind the chaos deaths etc of the world.

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Isnt that what spies are for? Human and technological? I would be more concerned about waves injuring peoples brains like happened in Cuba and other places.

Can't be Chinese technology, all theirs is known because it was stolen from the West.

There is evidence everywhere. anyone who can sit and write the title you have clearly has no understanding of the universe. It's okay, you carry on thinking your favourite companies came up with that brand new tech out of nowhere, dumb fucks

Or put another way their is no proof that they were not alien in nature....

I hope it's Britain... The Empire Strikes Back! 💪

Or maybe they (largest military in the world by a mile) developed it themselves and it started to leak so they decided to pretend they have no idea what it is so they can deny having developed such technology 🤫

Rather: novel combinations of existing technology. Physics-defying 🛸 movements that are witnessed by our brave servicemen and women are more likely to be exploitation of special effects principles... by another military. Hopefully there is an earthly explanation.

which foreign adversary exactly? seems unlikely. people have been spotting UFOs for a really long ass time.

If that were true we would be toast by now. It is not ours nor any other country. The question is what are we going to do about finding out who or what it is

I still hold the notion that these are extraterrestrial pilots flexing on Terran pilots about how fast their shit goes

I like how this awful article was immediately contradicted by the report 24 hours after it was published.

what counts as evidence? How about a pics of UFO's taken by reputable sources & witnessed by many?

Thanks to marcorubio for insisting they release this report..... even though it came on a Friday in June when everyone's at the beach NOT watching the news.

Did you even read the report? Seriously though...

Plenty of evidence: 80 encounters observed with multiple sensors and professionals. Beyond human physics = extraterrestrial by default. Semantic chicanery doesn't negate the phenomenon.

I can’t believe they’re still using the foreign adversary argument. WE, the citizens of planet Earth, don’t buy that argument.

Does anybody really believe that cockamamie explanation by “the gvt” that it fears foreign technological leaps? If they really believed that they would have initiated a War on Adverserial Technology ages ago It’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard in the last hour or so

There’s no evidence it’s foreign adversary either. Doh!

Nice having our Tech team back from TDY for the end-of-month UFO/UAP report. TL;DR is most documented events can be explained, but not all. BTW 'tic-tac' was an insect on the camera optics. Anyways. Welcome back folks and let's get back to GGTF work! UFOs aliens ufotwitter

If “aliens” from another galaxy that we can’t reach could reach earth, they would’ve already destroyed us or made themselves known.

The technology described and shown in released videos existed at least as long ago as April 28, 1976. For 20 min. on that date, my sibling and I saw two, identical craft executing the same “impossible” maneuvers & speeds. Unlikely foreign adversaries could do that 45 years ago.

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Stop trying to freak people out, Politico. If these things were an alien and a thread we'd already be dead. Obviously the aliens are cool and chill af.

I’m happy to see them investigating such phenomena. I don’t believe they are “aliens,” that’s just silly. It’s probably some natural phenomenon or advanced technology from some nation or institute.

Even if it was advanced aircraft technology made by a foreign state actor, why would they violate US air space and risk an act of war testing this stuff when they can just test it in their own backyard?

Well well! And I wasn't expecting them to arrive until NEXT weekend! IndependenceDay Checkmate

They are already among us, constantly adapting themselves to the counter-measures humans can think of.

From a fringe field of science discussed in basement offices to a mainstream report that could be released as soon as Friday, Washington's embrace of UFOs has been a long time coming

Our staff can lie about advanced projects. Strategic necessities should be self-evident. The American people demand air superiority and we have it. China and Russia also have advanced offensive programs. We’re simply trying to do our best as to not let our citizens down. 🌐❤️✅

Oof not gonna age to well there Andrew. How is the ET hypothesis a “wacky theory”? Its actually more embarrassing/wacky to believe another nation is that much farther technologically in the air than we are. Who gets these amateurs to write on this subject?

The point apparently made by Sen. Inhofe — that UFO reports go back many years— does not lend support to the notion that all of this can be attributed to technological advances by an adversary nation. Reporter AndrewDesiderio seems rather poorly informed on the subject matter.

We really, really don’t need to “get an answer”

Can we send Marco Rubio as a peace offering?

“Wild theories about alien life” Garbage writing. It’s likely it is alien life, at least a portion of the phenomenon. Watch The Phenomenon by James Fox, or read Leslie Kean’s UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record. We’re not alone, and they’re here.

They hardly wanna know what happened on Jan 6! UFO can wait!

Really... UFO but No on Insurrection marcorubio

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