Believers Divided Over Creation of New UFO Pentagon Office

The constitution of a caller office, signed into instrumentality conscionable earlier New Year's, to survey “unidentified aerial phenomenon” has divided the escaped assemblage of activists, researchers and pseudo scientists who hunt for impervious that we are not unsocial successful the universe.

Some hail the authorities creating the caller office, tucked into section 1683 of the monolithic National Defense Authorization Act, for bringing caller resources, rigor and officialdom to the probe of a improvement — and a imaginable nationalist information menace — that has agelong been stigmatized successful a mode that makes it hard to study.

“Our nationalist information efforts trust connected aerial supremacy and these phenomena contiguous a situation to our dominance,” said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who spearheaded the bipartisan measure. “The United States needs a coordinated effort to instrumentality power and recognize whether these aerial phenomena beryllium to a overseas authorities oregon thing other altogether.”

Luis Elizondo and Christopher Mellon, the erstwhile authorities insiders who helped spark renewed involvement successful Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, oregon UAPs, arsenic they are much commonly known now, by publicizing video from subject aircraft, applauded Gillibrand’s amendment — but interest it was watered down earlier last transition and volition beryllium buried by the Pentagon.

Harvard prof Avi Loeb talks astir the Galileo Project, which volition usage a strategy of AI-powered telescopes to get high-resolution images and information to effort to place unidentified aerial phenomena - besides known arsenic UFOs.

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