US: Congressional committee orders publication of report on UFOs

The director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense must provide an unclassified report on UAP, another term for unidentified flying objects, within six months, to the Congressional Intelligence and Armed Services Committees.

The order for the report was included in a document accompanying the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021.

It directs the report to include, among other things: “A detailed analysis of data of the FBI, which was derived from investigations of intrusions of unidentified aerial phenomena data over restricted United States airspace” and “identification of any incidents or patterns that indicate a potential adversary may have achieved breakthrough aerospace capabilities that could put United States strategic or conventional forces at risk”.

While the report should be unclassified it may contain a classified annex.

Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the Ministry of Defence, told Scottish Legal News: “The deadline is 25 June, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the report was submitted before then.

“I welcome this move, but suspect people will be disappointed. The report must be unclassified but can have a classified annex, so the unclassified summary – all the media and the public are ever likely to see – may be quite bland and unrevealing.

“All the interesting material will doubtless be in a highly-classified annex that will never be made public.”