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an American military drone conducting

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surveillance in the Middle East suddenly

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an unidentified object Zips in and out

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of frame

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slow it down and it appears to be a

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metallic sphere but where it came from

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and what it was doing remained a mystery

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to the Pentagon one of many

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we are tracking over a total of 650

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cases the head of the Pentagon office

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investigating UFOs told a senate

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subcommittee the sightings are

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concentrated off the east and west coast

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of the U.S in the Middle East and the

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South China Sea here's a second video

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the camera is watching another drone

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when an oblong object flies past this

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time an infrared sensor was able to get

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a different View and identify it as a

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commuter airliner

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Pentagon says there is still no credible

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evidence any of the unidentified objects

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Came From Outer Space

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David Martin CBS News the Pentagon

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whatever they are there's a whole Fleet

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of them they seem to defy the rules of

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physics hovering stopping on a dime

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moving at Hypersonic speeds flash

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splashed today the man in charge of

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investigating uaps said his office now

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has 650 reports more than half have a

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round or sphere shape possibly balloons

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typically white translucent or metallic

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observed at 10 to 30 000 feet so far no

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sign of alien involvement no credible

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evidence thus far of extraterrestrial

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activity Sean Kirkpatrick says this case

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remains unresolved a cylinder object

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spotted somewhere in the Middle East but

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this flying object with a tail he says

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turns out to be a plane this is the Heat

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Signature off of the

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engines of a commuter aircraft that

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happen to be flying in the vicinity more

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concerning Russia or China could have

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advanced capabilities the U.S doesn't

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have could you describe Potential Threat

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that might exist out there if they are

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foreign are there capabilities that

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could be employed against us absolutely

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two months after U.S Fighters shot a

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Chinese spy balloon out of the sky The

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Washington Post reports leaked

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intelligence documents not verified by

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NBC News suggest China could soon deploy

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a high altitude spy drone able to travel

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at three times the speed of sound and

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able to surveil and attack American

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targets the adversary is not

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waiting

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they are advancing and they're advancing

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quickly the pentagons

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in threat and what's not as an F-18

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pilot you personally saw one of these

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well initially we first saw these on our

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radar systems we upgraded to a new radar

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and we started noticing many more

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objects out in our working years that we

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weren't expecting we eventually were

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able to uh correlate those on our

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infrared sensor our at flear and

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eventually we got close enough to these

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objects to see them with their own

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eyeballs and the first time that

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happened to our crew from my Squadron

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vfa 11 were proceeding out to our

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working areas at the very entrance to

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the area was one of these objects that

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went right between the two aircraft the

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object was described as a dark gray or

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it was estimated to be about 5 to 15

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feet in diameter which is similar to the

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uh the orbital objects that were

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described today in the hearing you're a

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trained engineer you say that the

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aircraft you've seen did things that are

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abilities that they can fly 13 000 miles

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per hour evade radar fly through air and

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underwater they have no wings no sign of

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propulsion

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well I can't claim uh seeing all those

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behaviors myself personally but those

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are the behaviors that have been

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described as we've gone to look at this

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topic more completely we'd often see

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these objects uh actually being

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completely stationary Which is less

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exciting perhaps than 13 000 miles an

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hour but for fighter pilots who operate

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in the these areas every day having

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something completely stationary in

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Hurricane force winds is very peculiar

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and so we'd see a plethora of behaviors

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that we can't describe what we need to

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do is get more data and as we get more

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data through Aero and through other

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organizations I think we're going to see

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the range of behaviors exhibited

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increase the recent speculation there

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just in the last month or so there was a

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paper written by someone who was

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speculating that perhaps these objects

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whatever they are were attracted to

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Earth's water as a source of fuel

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because so many of these sightings

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appear over in the Atlantic or the

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Pacific Ocean do you think there's any

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it's not really my area of expertise to

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delve into as Dr Kirkpatrick said today

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he's engaging Academia with some of the

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more low probability uh highly

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speculative and yet more technically

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challenging uh postulations

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um what we really need to focus on is

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ensuring that we can get more data from

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our Frontline operators such as the

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pilots not only in the military but on

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the commercial side as well right

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because it was acknowledged today in

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hearing I just wanted before you move on

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to that there it has been an incident

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with a commercial air airplane a

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commercial flight a plane flying over

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failure of two major systems on board

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after it flew underneath one of those

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mysterious objects very similar to what

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that's correct it did have a loss of its

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autopilot function as well as its uh its

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detected warning system for

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approximately other aircraft

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mishap with aircraft never happened due

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to one uh big issue it's always a

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culmination of small issues that gather

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up and we mitigate that in our Aviation

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safety framework by mitigating those

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individual smaller problems so they

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don't build into a much larger problem

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what we've strangely done with this

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issue is we've said that we're not going

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to address we're not going to mitigate

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this safety issue even though we've had

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a continuing number of safety hazard

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reports come in now from our Navy

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personnel and I would expect from our

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other forces as well however we just

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the Air Force or Coast Guard or any of

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the other branches so far as the public

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is aware well one big headline from the

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hearing today is that military Pilots

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are finally being taken seriously

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Senator Rubio had also you've talked

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about it several lawmakers have talked

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about it about the stigma of the eye

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rolling and the snickering that come

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with hey I think I just saw something

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that was a UFO do you see this changing

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because I know there was a culture for a

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long time of these Pilots being on

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honestly afraid to say oh my God I can't

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absolutely and I I see that change

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occurring and it's certainly not

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occurring evenly uh it's occurring about

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a wave and some people are on one side

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of the wave and they're you know they're

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fully into it and they're engaged and

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they're reporting it and they want to

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learn more and I think some people are

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where they're still uh not really

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accepting that this problem exists and I

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just want to encourage people this isn't

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about drawing conclusions about what

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these objects are where they're from

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there's really no reason to have any uh

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disregard for what these are because we

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just simply don't know at this point and

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in that uncertainty potentially is going

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to be national security problems and if

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not we still need to be scientifically

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curious about what those could be we

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know that there is tremendous public

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interest in UAP and a desire for answers

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from Arrow by its very nature the UAP

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challenge has for decades lent itself to

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mystery sensationalism and even

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conspiracy

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well a bipartisan group of lawmakers are

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digging into solving a decades-old

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mystery UFOs is the Senate armed

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services subcommittee on emerging

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threats and capabilities second hearing

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on the phenomenon in over 50 years

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interest in UFOs surge following a 2017

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publication of videos recorded by Navy

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fighter jets that saw unknown objects

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flying in unique and extraordinary ways

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the Department of Defense established a

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special office in response to heightened

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interest in UFOs or uaps as they're now

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known for more on this I'd like to

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welcome Harvard University professor of

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science avilo thank you so much for

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being here so this office now tracking

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over 650 cases a huge jump from 366 back

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in January so does that surprise you

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receives as part of their day job people

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monitoring the sky and military

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personnel or sensors that the government

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owns and they want to figure it out

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because we cannot afford the luxury of

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not knowing about technologies that our

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adversaries May possess and I address

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this uh phenomena from a different

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perspective as a scientist we cannot

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allow for an extraterrestrial object to

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be in our sky that we haven't known

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about and so I see science complementing

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the government interest but of course

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our approach is different as a scientist

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I want the data to be open to the public

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and follow the scientific method

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now of the 366 reported in January

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analysts said that over half were

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unremarkable but that implies that over

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150 were not easily categorized as

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balloons or drones so how is this

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determined and do you think those

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numbers are accurate

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I think the government has limited data

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because it's collected by chance by all

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these sensors that are on fighter jets

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the Navy has on on ships and so forth uh

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what we are doing in the scientific

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Community I have the Galileo project

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that I'm leading and we built already an

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observatory monitoring the sky 24 7. in

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the infrared Optical radio and audio and

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we're analyzing the data with artificial

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intelligence and we plan to make many

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more copies of this observatory in place

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them in various locations and the sky is

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not classified but the government needs

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to know what these objects are in order

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to figure out whether they pose any

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national security threat and

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um Dr Sean Kirkpatrick did mention he's

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concern that some of them do some of

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them may represent technologies that go

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beyond what we imagined that the chain

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these are developing really interesting

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um so what big questions do you believe

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are still being left unanswered

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objects may have originated from an

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civilization and

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um and to figure this out we really need

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the much better data than the government

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was able to collect anecdotically so we

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need to build new observatories that

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we own and what we heard about today is

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past data mostly classified the public

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cannot access it what the Galileo

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project that I'm leading is doing is

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collecting new data with an operating

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Observatory at Harvard University right

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now that will make copies of and stay

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tuned because in the coming year we will

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collect more data than was ever reported

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by government and let's see what it

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shows all right well we have about 40

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seconds left I have to ask you this do

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you think we are alone in the universe

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what are your observations no I think

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it's arrogant of us to think that we are

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unique and special and the smartest kid

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in the class of intelligent

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civilizations that ever existed since

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the Big Bang Albert Einstein was not the

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smartest scientist who ever lived over

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the past 13.8 billion years and we can

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learn from them and so let's just look

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out through our telescopes and figure

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out what we are missing

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all right Harvard University professor

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of science Avi lope thank you hear the

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music a rare open hearing has taken

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place in the U.S this morning with the

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pentagon's UFO Chief testifying before

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Congress 7 News U.S correspondent Tim

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Lester is in Washington D.C Tim uh

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what's he had to say

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well morning that he interestingly has

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had to say some fascinating things about

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case numbers the Pentagon the military

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headquarters and Congress behind me

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wouldn't touch the question of

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unidentified flying objects for about 50

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years there was a hearing way back in

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the 60s eventually though case numbers

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became such and they were credible

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enough that last year they really did

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have to grasp the issue and politicians

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formed a congressional inquiry into the

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issue and formed also a committee to

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investigate them within the Pentagon in

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America's military Heartland now that

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committee's Chief has gone back to

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Congress here today to report to

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politicians on where things are up to he

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says case numbers have grown from at

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last report just above 500 to now more

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than 650 Active cases on the committee's

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of those over 650 you know we've

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prioritized

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about uh half of them to be of of

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um anomalous interesting value

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and now we have to go through those and

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go how much do I have actual data for

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Sean Kirkpatrick there talking about how

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he's had this rise in workload he does

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admit that he's reluctant to close cases

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and often doesn't have the evidence to

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so there will be a bit of a tendency for

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case numbers to climb but the whole

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issue is getting more currency here

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partly because of the shooting down of

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that Chinese balloon which was spurred

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on a bit by the work of this committee

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and also because Jets of course over the

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U.S and Canada shot down three

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unidentified flying objects earlier in

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the year still no explanation for those

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one thing though the chief does tell us

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Nat he says we still don't have firm

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evidence of extraterrestrial life so

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those uh so the ultimate quest of the

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committee perhaps not yet satisfied now

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right so they're unidentified just that

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we just don't know what they are yet

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it's interesting because for Years Tim

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people who thought UFOs were up there

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was sort of classed as a bit nutty but

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now the Pentagon has formed a new

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department and they're taking it

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completely and in fact part of their

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problem is that a lot of these sightings

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were being made by highly trained Naval

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and Air Force pilots between 15 and 25

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000 feet in altitude where military jets

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spend a lot of time and they couldn't be

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dismissed they're simply too well

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trained in their craft so ultimately

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Washington had to go okay we'll take a

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serious look at this and they are but no

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sign any Are from Mars or any other

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no extraterrestrial life yet but we'll

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tell you the moment we hear about it

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Matt well you're in Washington so you're

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in a very important place so we'll cross