A thorough, credible and transparent assessment of the UFO phenomenon will require us to attempt the unthinkable — and escape our own history.
From a political atmosphere so toxic and black that nobody can agree on the color of smoke comes an unlikely pair of bipartisan congressional proposals that could prove the most consequential legislation of our time. Don’t stick a fork in it yet – it’s not a done deal. And don’t pop the cork – if it becomes law, it’s just the bottom rung in the ladder towards accountability. But it appears as if, finally, after more than half a century of denial and subterfuge, our longstanding UFO dilemma will become a structural component of the national agenda.
Last month, building upon a provision of a spending bill stewarded by Republican counterpart Marco Rubio in 2020, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence chair Mark Warner (D-VA) introduced S. 2610 into the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2022. Called “Support For and Oversight Of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force,” it orders the Secretary of Defense and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to immediately release UFO data to the Pentagon’s one-year-old UAP Task Force. From there, it instructs the UAPTF to produce quarterly updates “to the appropriate committees of Congress.”
But the House upped the ante just a few days ago.
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