1 #ufotwitter - @Travis_Tritten (TT): "I wanted to ask you about this new #UAP office that was created by @DepSecDef - Hicks and announced last week. The Aerial Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group."
@PentagonPresSec John Kirby (JK): "Well put (laughter)."
@PentagonPresSec John Kirby (JK): "Well put (laughter)."
2 TT: "It's a mouthful. Was there any coordination with lawmakers on Capitol Hill that are proposing related legislation like @RepRubenGallego & @gillibrandny? And secondly, some former Pentagon officials who had worked on this issue, @ChrisKMellon & @LueElizondo, have said that
3 TT: "this is an effort for the Pentagon to be less transparent...
JK: "Hmm."
TT: "...on UAPs. And I was just wondering if u had any response?"
JK: "On the first one, I can't speak to pending legislation, obviously, I'd refer to those members. But we absolutely kept members
JK: "Hmm."
TT: "...on UAPs. And I was just wondering if u had any response?"
JK: "On the first one, I can't speak to pending legislation, obviously, I'd refer to those members. But we absolutely kept members
4 JK: "of Congress informed as we fashioned this group together and announced it. To your 2nd question, it is 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 designed to help us better coordinate the reporting processes, the actual reports themselves & the 𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘴 of those reports. So rather than getting
5 JK: "them sort of piecemeal and ad hoc, as we've been getting them, from the services, this is a way to coordinate the input so that we can...there's a common set of parameters for how to report them & to analyze them & then to assess what we've got. And not all reports are
6 JK: "gonna manifest themselves in something that we consider a national security threat. So this is a chance for us to be much more 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘥 in the way we process these reports. And as we have, we will certainly continue to be as transparent as we can about these
7 JK: "phenomena and the impact that they may or may not be having on our ability to operate."
TT: "Is there any specific commitment to release some data or information on these to the public at some point? Something beyond a briefing to Congress or a closed door briefing?"
TT: "Is there any specific commitment to release some data or information on these to the public at some point? Something beyond a briefing to Congress or a closed door briefing?"
8 JK: "Yeah, I don't have a specific report to announce today on any kind of a frequent basis that we would do, but I can assure you that our intention is to 𝘣𝘦 as transparent about this phenomena as we can. Again, Travis, understanding that they'll be national security
9 JK: "considerations that we have to keep in mind, but we'll be as transparent as we can. But not...I don't want to leave you with the impression that they'll be sort of a a regular drumbeat of some kind of report that gets posted on the website every couple of months."
10 Follow-up: If it's not something u consider to be of national security concern, will you release all data related to it? If something is suspected of non-human, is that considered a national security concern? Why CAN'T we get a regular report every 6 months or even quarterly?
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