The White House has said that UFOs (unidentified flying objects) or UAPs (Unexplained Aerial Phenomena) are a “real issue” – and then revealed that they are having “an impact” on the United States Air Force.
The admission was made by John Kirby – the White House’s Coordinator for Strategic Communications at the National Security Council – during a media briefing on Monday (July 17). When asked if the phenomena were a “legitimate concern”, he said: “Yeah. We wouldn’t have stood up an organisation at the Pentagon to analyse and collect and coordinate the way these sightings are reported if we didn’t take it seriously.”
Kirby, a retired United States Navy rear admiral, continued: “Some of these Phenomena, we know, have already had an impact on our training ranges. Pilots are out trying to do training in the air and they see these things.”
“They’re not sure what they are, but they can have an impact on their ability to perfect their skills. So it’s already had an impact here.”
“We just want to better understand it. We’re not saying what they are – or what they’re not.
“We’re saying there’s something that our pilots are seeing. We’re saying it has had an effect on some of our training operations – and so we want to get to the bottom of it. We want to understand it better. So, yes.”
It comes just days after New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer announced new legislation that would create a commission with the authority to declassify government documents about UFOs. And, previously, Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio said that multiple whistleblowers with access to restricted government information have claimed first-hand knowledge about US activity involving UFOs.
In an interview with NewsNation, Rubio – vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence – said: “People who we entrusted to do some really important things for our country are saying some pretty incredible things that I think we have an obligation to take seriously and listen to.”
And, over the weekend, activist and hacktivist collective Anonymous vowed to ‘uncover the truth’ about UFOs (unidentified flying objects), UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) and extraterrestrial intelligences (ETI). Anonymous announced it was launching what it calls Project Disclosure – an initiative that aims to gather information regarding “UAPs, UFOs, and extraterrestrial intelligences visiting our planet”.
The shadowy decentralized organisation, know for known for its cyberattacks against several governments and corporations, said it is “troubled” by the “lack of accountability in government funding” for “technological advancements made by aerospace companies involved in classified government black projects”.
