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The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services will be conducting an open hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) or Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) next week on April 19 (Wednesday), confirmed press secretary Cole Stevens.
The hearing has been scheduled to address the growing concerns surrounding the allegedly growing UAP incidents. The lawmakers are also expected to bat for increased transparency and funding for investigation into the UAP sightings Dr Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) will also be speaking at the hearing which will be conducted by Emerging Threats and Capabilities subcommittee.
The Senate Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities will hold an open meeting regarding UFOs at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 19.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is doubling down on solving the decades-old UFO mystery. On Wednesday, the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities will hold the second hearing on the phenomenon in over 50 years.
Senators participating in this week’s hearing should focus instead on military reports of unknown craft exhibiting extraordinary flight characteristics. They may consider asking questions such as:
1. Of the 500-plus UAP reports by service members in recent years, how many describe “remarkable” flight characteristics? Does AARO have high confidence that any UAP exhibited highly advanced technology?
2. Are the objects in the now-famous “Gimbal,” “GoFast” and “FLIR1” UAP videos still unidentified? If so, what are AARO’s working theories for them?
3. Rigorous, verifiable public analyses of the Navy videos confirm fighter pilot accounts that the objects exhibited highly advanced technology. Is AARO aware of these open-source assessments?
4. Has AARO characterized the UAP observed, often via multiple sensors, by dozens of naval aviators off the U.S. East Coast in recent years? If not, what is AARO’s working hypothesis for these highly anomalous encounters?
5. In a striking development, AARO director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick recently co-authored a scientific paper theorizing that extraterrestrial probes may be drawn to water on Earth’s surface. To what extent did recent UAP encounters – the most compelling of which occurred over water – inform this groundbreaking paper?
6. Do you agree with former director of national intelligence John Ratcliffe’s statement that UAP possess “technologies that [the United States does not] have and, frankly, that we are not capable of defending against”? Why or why not?
7. Last week, Space Force Maj. Gen. John Olson stated that UAP encounters have “occurred globally.” Could you provide additional context?
8. How many of AARO’s 500-plus cases involve detections by multiple sensors, including satellite (or other space-based) systems?
9. How many UAP-related videos and images are in AARO’s possession?
10. The U.S. government has a long history of triumphantly highlighting “resolved” UAP reports while ignoring, downplaying or force-fitting scientifically absurd explanations onto compelling UAP cases. Recent press reports suggest that this may be occurring again. What steps will AARO take to prevent this?
originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
Found a direct real-time streaming source……
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originally posted by: Baablacksheep
a reply to: Ophiuchus1
Yep..watching.
In an open hearing on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 19, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), shared a video that depicts an apparent silver, orb-like object cross the sensor’s field of view.
This clip was taken by an MQ-9 in the Middle East, and while AARO assesses the object in the clip is not exhibiting anomalous behavior, the object remains unidentified.