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travis

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thanks john i wanted to ask you about

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this new uap

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office that was created by deputy

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secretary hicks and announced last week

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um

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the

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aerial object identification and

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is there it's a mouthful was there any

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coordination with lawmakers on capitol

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hill they're proposing

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related legislation like representative

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gallego and senator

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gillibrand

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and secondly some former pentagon

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officials who had worked on this issue

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chris mellon and lou elizondo have said

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that this is an effort for the pentagon

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to be less transparent

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on uaps and i was just wondering if you

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if you had any response

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on the first one um i can't i can't

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speak to pending legislation obviously

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i'd refer to those members but uh but we

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absolutely kept members of congress

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informed

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as we

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this group together and and announced it

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um and it is

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to your second question it is really

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designed to help us better coordinate

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the reporting processes

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the actual reports themselves and the

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analysis of those reports so that

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getting them sort of piecemeal and ad

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hoc as we've been getting them from uh

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from from the services

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this is a way to coordinate the the

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input so that we can

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there's a common set of parameters for

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how to report them and to analyze them

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and then to assess what we've got and

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not all reports are going to manifest

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themselves in something that we consider

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a national security threat

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so this is a chance for us to to be a

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much more

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organized in the way we process these

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reports

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and as we have we will certainly

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continue to be as transparent as we can

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about uh these phenomena and uh and and

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the impact that they may or may not be

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having

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on our ability to operate is there any

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specific commitment to release some data

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or information on these to the public at

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some point something beyond the briefing

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to congress a closing yeah i mean i

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don't have a specific report to to

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announce today that on any kind of a

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frequent basis that we would do but i

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can assure you that our intention is to

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be as transparent about uh this

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phenomena as as we can again try this

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understanding that um

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uh that

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that there'll be national security

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considerations that we have to keep in

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mind but we'll be as transparent as we

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can but not i don't want to leave you

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with the impression that there'll be

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sort of a regular drum beat of uh you

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know of some kind of report that uh that