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/

Maybe some context here would help: Elizondo and Mellon purposely buried AAWSAP when they went public in 2017. It was a huge part of the story purposely left out. They made a strategic decision not to bring AAWSAP and Skinwalker into the discussion. 1/
ufotrail.blogspot.com/2022/04/report… I have discussed this with them numerous times and their view was that it would muddle their message on UAPs and the successor AATIP program that Elizondo oversaw. Moreover, the AAWSAP players, particularly Lacatski, refused to talk and still won’t beyond written responses. 2/

UFO/UAP NEWS: The government-wide spending package released today would require classified quarterly reports to congressional committees on "unidentified aerial phenomena." See page 2363: docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/… 1/ It states: "The Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense shall jointly require that each element of the intelligence community and component of the Department of Defense with data relating to unidentified aerial phenomena..." 2/

The top nuke commander, @US_Stratcom Adm. Charles Richard, to @SASCDems and @SASCGOP on avoiding nuclear war with Russia: “We have long had hotlines between the United States and Russia. They date back to the Cold War. They're still there. They're tested every day.” 1/ “And those are still available to us. We are a long way from needing to use anything like that right now." 2/

I asked @NASA Administrator @SenBillNelson what he sees as his agency’s role in investigating UFOs/UAPs: “It’s a natural conclusion for me as a thinking human being … 1/ “ … in a universe that is so large that I can’t even conceive how large, that there is not some form of life that maybe has evolved into intelligent beings?” 2/

NEW: @SenGillibrand issues statement on her UFO provision in final defense bill: "...The office will have the authority to establish a coordinated effort to report and respond to UAPs, significantly improve data-sharing between agencies on UAP sightings... 1/ ...address national security concerns, and report health effects people may experience in relation to UAP events. The office...will empower military and civilian personnel working for the DoD and Intelligence Community to report incidents and information involving UAPs." 2/

From today’s @morningdefense: Congressional efforts to force the military and spy agencies to take reports of UFOs more seriously got more interesting with a new NDAA amendment proposed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand to create an ‘‘Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office.’’ 1/ The provision, far more expansive and detailed than one adopted as part of the House version of the bill, stipulates that the head of the new Pentagon office will pursue “any resource, capability, asset, or process of the Department and the intelligence community.” 2/

I asked the new secretary of @usairforce, Frank Kendall, today if he has been briefed on UAPs and if he has thought about what the service’s role should be in defending American airspace against unidentified craft. 1/ “I’ve given a great deal of thought to defending American airspace but not against UFOs. If asked to do that then we will do it. This is a thing that’s been around for a great many years.” 2/