Post by JoannaL on Mar 23, 2021 21:30:09 GMT -5
Sen. Marco Rubio Has Questions about UFOs
Senator Marco Rubio – well known for his loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential primary – is eagerly awaiting a briefing by security officials on “unidentified aerial phenomena” threatening U.S. military assets. A member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Rubio wants answers to reports of UFOs “flying over military installations.”
Explaining his interest, Rubio remarked, “For me, there’s stuff flying over military installations and no one knows what it is, and it isn’t ours. If stuff’s flying over the top of your most sensitive installations, and it’s not ours, and no one knows whose it is – you should find out who it is, and tell us.”
The $2.3 trillion appropriations bill signed into law by President Trump in late December did more than provide emergency relief for the economy amid the China virus pandemic, it provided funding for the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. But apart from financing intelligence services vital to U.S. security, it included a section for “Advanced Aerial Threats,” which calls on the director of national intelligence and secretary of defense to create a report analyzing unidentified aerial objects.
The security agencies were given 180 days from the signing of the bill to present their report to congress on all “observed airborne objects that have not been identified,” along with what they are able to discover by working with security experts across the military and private sectors.
“I don’t know that there are aliens,” Rubio continued. “I don’t know that they ever visited here. When you talk about that stuff everybody gets stigmatized about it and no one wants to sound weird. My thing is very simple: we don’t know what that stuff is flying over the top of our installations. Let’s find out – maybe it’s another country and that would be bad news, too.”
John Ratcliffe, former National Intelligence Director, wants the report to be made public. “There are a lot more sightings” the public aren’t aware of, he said. “When we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain,” he continued. “Movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for. Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
It seems, however, that Rubio is more concerned about foreign adversaries than those from out of this world, although he admitted, “That would be one heck of a way to top the last year and a half.”
The report is expected to reach the senate by the end of June 2021.
Source: Caitlin McCall, Fox News, March 23, 2021.
