Pentagon officials briefed reporters today on the effort to resolve hundreds of reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, UAPs. Briefers were Ronald Moultire, undersecretary of defense for intelligence, and Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office. 1/
My takeaways: there are 100s of additional UAP reports that are now being investigated, dating back to 1996, including some undersea events reported by submariners. They would not detail what they are seeing in space but did not say they are not detecting space-borne UAPs. 2/
Asked directly by @julianbarnes if there is evidence of "space aliens," both said no but they are pursuing a rigorous scientific method and not ruling anything out. They also said to their knowledge there are no crashed materials of unknown origin. 3/
@julianbarnes They have no evidence so far of "transmedium" vehicles. They maintain all military branches now have UAP reporting mechanisms and the intelligence agencies are fully cooperating with AARO office. The Pentagon is also investing in some new sensors to collect more data on UAP. 4/
@julianbarnes The process includes deconflicting reports of "blue" vehicles, meaning U.S. technologyy that might be of a classified nature. Some UAP are considered threatening, though they stressed that could simply be because they are appear to be surveying military installations. 5/
Some portion of the UAP appear to exhibit flight characteristics that are beyond what appear to be conventional technology in our arsenal or that of others. They stressed repeatedly that the investigative effort is just getting going. 6/
Perhaps most intriguing, Moultrie and Kirkpatrick said they are committed to following Congress' direction to unearth any compartmented programs from years past that may reveal more about the phenomena, if they exist. 7/
They are also taking early steps to undertake what Kirkpatrick said will be the enormous task of compiling a historical record of what the government has known about UAP dating to 1945 and any efforts to mislead Congress or the public. 8/
In all, I think it was illuiminating in this respect: The Pentagon leadership, at least, realizes they have to try to answer the mail on this, as difficult as it might be and the resistance they may face internally to be transparent. 9/
They gave a strong impression that they realize they don't know everything and there could be revealing things to be learned as this effort evolves. It was a mostly serious back and forth, with well-though-out questions from the media and sober and mostly direct answers. 10/
There is a long way to go, to be sure, but there can be no doubt that the Overton Window has dramatically moved on this subject. Congress is throwing punches and it is generating a response. The head in the sand strategy is dying or dead. 11/
Lasty, they also gave the strong impression that the much-awaited unclassified report to Congress from the Director of National Intelligence is coming out before the end of the year and will outline both resolved UAP cases and those that remain in the unknown category. 12/12
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