I felt that this subject deserves it's own thread.
To start it off, here's something from Senate Intelligence Committee of the United States Senate dated July 20, 2022.
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-r...port/132/1
It's an unclassified summary of parts of the classified 2023 Intelligence Authorization Act.
Buried under piles of bureaucrat-speak is some interesting stuff relevant to the UAPs.
Section 703 renames the office that will carry on the activities of the UAP Task Force and clarifies its authorities, duties and leadership. They are now referring to UAPs as "Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena". (The new name of the office is the Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office.)
Section 704 establishes reporting procedures.
Section 705 directs the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct an independent review and compilation of historical unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena information in the possession of the United States.
This is followed by some extraordinary text that I expect MR will like. Here it is, with highlighting by me:
"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. The Committee was hopeful that the new office would address many of the structural issues hindering progress. To accelerate progress, the Committee has, pursuant to section 703, renamed the organization formerly known as the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and the Aerial Object Identification and Management Synchronization Management Group to be the Unidentified Aerospace - Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office. That change reflects the broader scope of the effort directed by Congress. Identification, classification and scientific study of unidentified aerospace - undersea phenomena is an inherently challenging cross-agency, cross-domain problem requiring an integrated or joint Intelligence community and DoD approach. The new office will continue to be led by DoD, with a Deputy Director named by the Intelligence community. 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". Temporarily 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."
Some questions and comments from me:
What is behind their saying that threats are "multiplying exponentially"? What has led them to include "space" and "undersea" in the UAP definition? Are they just striving for completeness, or do they have cases that they don't want to talk about publicly that have unsettled them a little (as the multiplying threats idea suggests)?
The worry about "technology surprise" certainly suggests that they are taking these things seriously and aren't just dismissing them. The openness to "unknown unknowns" is very positive in my opinion, from a philosophical perspective. They aren't just restricting themselves to expected sorts of "known unknowns", unknowns that will resolve into familiar classifications when enough is learned about them. They are seemingly open to (and perhaps concerned about) the possibility that something truly new might be happening here, something that might not have a nice explanatory category all prepared it.
To start it off, here's something from Senate Intelligence Committee of the United States Senate dated July 20, 2022.
https://www.congress.gov/congressional-r...port/132/1
It's an unclassified summary of parts of the classified 2023 Intelligence Authorization Act.
Buried under piles of bureaucrat-speak is some interesting stuff relevant to the UAPs.
Section 703 renames the office that will carry on the activities of the UAP Task Force and clarifies its authorities, duties and leadership. They are now referring to UAPs as "Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena". (The new name of the office is the Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office.)
Section 704 establishes reporting procedures.
Section 705 directs the Comptroller General of the United States to conduct an independent review and compilation of historical unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena information in the possession of the United States.
This is followed by some extraordinary text that I expect MR will like. Here it is, with highlighting by me:
"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. The Committee was hopeful that the new office would address many of the structural issues hindering progress. To accelerate progress, the Committee has, pursuant to section 703, renamed the organization formerly known as the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force and the Aerial Object Identification and Management Synchronization Management Group to be the Unidentified Aerospace - Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office. That change reflects the broader scope of the effort directed by Congress. Identification, classification and scientific study of unidentified aerospace - undersea phenomena is an inherently challenging cross-agency, cross-domain problem requiring an integrated or joint Intelligence community and DoD approach. The new office will continue to be led by DoD, with a Deputy Director named by the Intelligence community. 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". Temporarily 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."
Some questions and comments from me:
What is behind their saying that threats are "multiplying exponentially"? What has led them to include "space" and "undersea" in the UAP definition? Are they just striving for completeness, or do they have cases that they don't want to talk about publicly that have unsettled them a little (as the multiplying threats idea suggests)?
The worry about "technology surprise" certainly suggests that they are taking these things seriously and aren't just dismissing them. The openness to "unknown unknowns" is very positive in my opinion, from a philosophical perspective. They aren't just restricting themselves to expected sorts of "known unknowns", unknowns that will resolve into familiar classifications when enough is learned about them. They are seemingly open to (and perhaps concerned about) the possibility that something truly new might be happening here, something that might not have a nice explanatory category all prepared it.