UFOs took center stage Tuesday in Washington, D.C., as the U.S. Senate held hearings that tried to explain some sightings while raising questions about at least one unknown close encounter.
The Senate hearing followed last week's proceedings in the US House of Representatives citing a number of provocative satellite images that have never been seen in public.
A hearing of the Armed Services Committee's Emergencies and Capabilities Subcommittee, chaired by New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, discussed the work of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) established by Congress in 2022, a new Office of Defense.
While testifying before the committee, AARO Director John T. Koslosky said there are still cases to be investigated, such as the 2015 “Go Fast” UFO sighting, in which a US Navy fighter pilot videotaped a fast-moving object. The ocean floor near the coast of Florida can be partially an optical illusion.
“Using very careful geospatial intelligence analysis using trigonometry, we assess with high confidence that the application object is not exactly close to water, but rather closer to 13,000 feet,” Koslosky said. “If the platform is flying and catching the object, if it is close to the platform from a higher position, an optical illusion called parallax makes the object appear to be moving faster.”
In another instance, Koslosky said lights that witnesses said were UAPs turned out to be Starlink flares. Koslosky in 2010 In 2013, a Customs and Border Patrol aircraft spotted an object flying over a Puerto Rico airport.
“We assessed that it was probably a pair of balloons or sky lanterns hovering over the runway at seven knots and descending about 200 meters,” he said, adding that video of the incident would be released after reporting. This year.
Despite this, Koslosky says that not every UAP perspective can be easily explained.
“To be clear, AARO does not believe that every object is a bird, balloon or UAV,” he said. “We have very unusual things. It's just a solution feature. We can only solve things that we understand.
Kosloski then told the committee an unnamed law enforcement officer saw a UAP mid-size car and said what he called “blacker than black.”
He said it was about the size of a Prius, four to six feet wide. And as soon as he got 40 to 60 meters away from the object, he tilted about 45 degrees, and then he shot vertically, 10 to 100 times faster than any drone he had ever seen before,” Koslosky recalls. “He did this from inside the vehicle without making as much sound as he knew.”
Kosloski testified that the UAP left his view through the windshield, emitting red and blue lights that illuminated the interior of the vehicle and vividly described someone setting off fireworks from the vehicle or off the road. It burns.” Kosloski did not say when the incident occurred.
According to Koslosky, the agency is developing new technology to inform the public, Congress and other UAPs while AERO is being studied rather than once it has been resolved.
The Senate hearing on UAPs coincides with political changes in Washington, with Rep. Tim Burchett calling on President-elect Donald Trump to prioritize transparency in UAP investigations.
“It's not all about finding little green men or flying saucers,” writes Burchett. “Forcing federal bureaucracies like the Pentagon to be transparent with the American people.”
Although the hearing did not break new ground on the alien rescue, the Senate, like the House, said the hearing would go ahead and continue to ask witnesses to come forward.
When unidentified anomalous phenomena enter our airspace, we need to know about it. We must distinguish. But to do that, we need to reduce the stigma and credibility challenges associated with these events, Gillibrand said.
“Our service members, scientists, foreign partners and the general public need to know that their reporting, research and analysis will be taken seriously and acted upon in good faith.”
Edited by Sebastian Sinclair
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