So, let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Because of the 2022 midterm elections, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense receive a Get Out of Jail Free card for blowing their deadline to deliver a UFO report – as required by law – to Congress by October 31. Is that right? And lawmakers are good with that because they’re too busy fighting for their political futures to care that their legislation is being blown off?
Like everybody else, when last Monday’s deadline came and went, I thought, well, OK, they’ll probably do what bureaucracy always does with news it wants underplayed by dropping it around 5 p.m. Friday when everybody knocks off for Happy Hour. That’s what ODNI did in June 2021 with its nine-page “Preliminary Assessment” of UAP/UFOs, when it conceded it couldn’t explain 143 of 144 related incidents dating back to 2004. But 5 o’clock Friday came and went without a peep from officialdom. What gives?
Well, maybe the bureaucrats made an end run already, delivering the package in a way nobody expected. More on that in a moment. But first, let’s set the stakes by reviewing what Section 1683 of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act actually requires the intelligence community to do.
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