UFO House Intel panel: ‘Approximately 400’ UFO sightings by gov sourcesBy Lee Brown and Samuel Chamberlain
May 17, 2022
The Pentagon’s task force investigating UFO sightings has received hundreds more reports since last year, a top naval intelligence official told lawmakers Tuesday — adding that officials are still baffled about “what is out there.”
Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray made the disclosure before a House Intelligence subcommittee during the first open congressional hearing on UFOs in more than 50 years. The public session lasted approximately 90 minutes, after which lawmakers and witnesses retreated behind closed doors for a classified briefing.
“Since the early 2000s, we have seen an increasing number of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft or objects,” Bray told the House Intelligence Committee’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence and Counterproliferation, known as C3. “Reports of sightings are frequent and continuing,” he added, conceding fears that they could “pose potential threats” to security.
A report released last year by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Navy-led Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force, found that 144 UFO sightings had been reported by government sources since 2004. However, since the report was released, Bray said, “the UAP Task Force database has now grown to contain approximately 400 reports.”
That number includes “at least 11 near-misses” involving US assets, according to Bray.
Bray went on to suggest that the increased number of reports were in part because “the stigma has been reduced” and American servicemembers no longer fear being labeled conspiracy theorists or mentally unstable.
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https://nypost.com/2022/05/17/house-intel-panel-to-hold-first-open-ufo-hearing-in-decades/
