The Senate’s Intelligence Committee Criticises Pentagon As UFOs ‘Exponentially’ Increase, Whilst Making Clear That New Office Will Not Investigate ‘Man-Made’ Objects
Written by Christopher Sharp - 26 July 2022
The Senate’s Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) has released its Explanatory Report for its Intelligence Authorization Act 2023 language, which has provided context for Congress’s more significant push for transparency regarding Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena (UAP).
And it is the first time Congress has officially expressed its displeasure with the Department of Defense’s (DoD) slow progress in investigating UAP. More so, and most alarmingly, as previously disclosed by sources to Liberation Times, the threats from transmedium craft are rapidly expanding, as stated in the below language within the report:
‘At a time when cross-domain transmedium threats to United States national security are expanding exponentially, the Committee is disappointed with the slow pace of DoD-led efforts to establish the office to address those threats and to replace the former Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force as required in Section 1683 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022.’
Furthermore, in a possible pushback against the DoD, which has recently rebranded the doomed Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) into the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), the report makes it clear that the SSCI intends to call it the Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office.
If the current bill is enacted, then AARO, which now also possesses its own Twitter account, will have to change its name again, representing something of an embarrassment for the DoD.
The bill would also create a core group consisting of representatives from:
The Central Intelligence Agency
The National Security Agency
The Department of Energy
The National Reconnaissance Office
The Air Force
The Space Force
The Defense Intelligence Agency
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
The group would need to be established no later than 180 days after the enactment of the bill. This could be translated as a way of Congress taking control, providing targets which must be met by the UAP Office, currently known as the AARO.
But the big headline is in terms of how the Senate is taking control with its immunity language.
Most notably, very strong protection will be provided to whistleblowers, wishing to provide information about potential illegal and secretive UAP programs, perhaps dating back decades.
Of significance, as stated in the explanatory report is the ‘elimination of cap on compensatory damages for retaliatory revocation of security clearances and access determinations.’ The cap currently stands at $300,000 and the language will cover serving and former serving employees. Therefore, the risk of taking action against employees may outweigh any meaningful positives by employers.
Reacting to the Report, former Director of AATIP and current Space Force contractor, Lue Elizondo, stated:
"Our Senators, Representatives and their staff who proposed this language should be commended. This historic bill serves the best interests of the American people and should be an indicator of the level of commitment and resolve these Congress persons have.
“Let this be a warning shot to those in the Pentagon who remain defiant against the will of the American people. The time has arrived for truth and reconciliation and for those who remain obstinate, let it be known you are on notice."
One DoD insider speaking to Liberation Times has provided exclusive insight regarding the situation, commenting:
“Congress is rightfully disappointed in the USDI officed AOIMSG - now AARO, the successor program to the UAP Task Force. The AARO is one quarter of a calendar year away from having existed for one year, yet only recently has the Director responsible for the program been selected and named.
“This slow-paced and bureaucracy laden organization fails to keep pace with adversarial advancements and Congress is taking the reins to create the UAP Joint Program Office. Congress is requiring the office to be staffed by prior UAPTF members as these DoD and IC individuals were responsible for authoring a tangible report, something AARO has failed to do.”
Support for such new language has been bipartisan, with Senators Blunt (R-MO), Rubio (R-FL), Gillibrand (D-NY) and Heinrich (D-NM) supporting the renaming and modification of the ‘Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office’, which would replace what is currently named AARO.
It is understood by Liberation Times that the Comptroller General’s review of UAP records dating back from 1947 reflects the establishment of the Atomic Energy Commission on 1 January 1947, followed by the National Security Act of September 1947. According to defense sources, a clear paper trail of government agencies taking control and covering up the UAP topic could be extended to this date, covering alleged crashes, such as Roswell.
And like other UAP provisions, the Comptroller General’s UAP review is a bipartisan effort, supported by Senators Rubio, Gillibrand and Heinrich.
It seems that classified briefings and reports have convinced Senators within the SSCI that UAP does not reflect normal adversary technology, as the Explanatory Report notes:
‘The formal DoD and Intelligence Community definition of the terms used by the Office shall be updated to include space and undersea, and the scope of the Office shall be inclusive of those additional domains with focus on addressing technology surprise and ``unknown unknowns.''’
The Report goes on to state that, ‘temporary nonattributed objects, or those that are positively identified as man-made after analysis, will be passed to appropriate offices and should not be considered under the definition as unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena.’
This is a significant revelation and in effect states that the UAP Office will not be investigating man-made craft, and will instead investigate unknown phenomena, which are not attributable to any nation or non-state actor. Therefore, even (though many experts doubt) if China or Russia possessed crafts which move between space, air and water, the UAP Office would not be handling such reports if identified as such.
Liberation Times spoke to one defense source, who stated that the new revelations make this the most significant UAP story since the New York Times article of 2017.