https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12805617/us-military-ufos-space.html

US military is seeing UFOs in SPACE, official report says

19:25 EST, 29 November 2023

The Pentagon branch tasked with protecting America from space-based threats, local and galactic, has detected thousands of UFOs in Earth's orbit, DailyMail.com can reveal.

US Space Force, America's newest military branch created under President Trump in 2019, told personnel this month that the sightings were so regular that they are 'hindering threat identification,' the branch's core mission.

While many of the sightings will prove to be man-made space junk and 'natural debris' like meteoroids, US foreign adversaries continue to launch spy satellites, like North Korea's new Malligyong-1, and other covert orbital platforms.

One new concern, Space Force noted: the risk of threatening spacecraft hidden in the large unwatched area between Earth and the moon, dubbed 'cislunar' orbit.

In their new report, published this month, Space Force's leadership emphasized the importance of finding these grave 'threats' among mere 'hazards' like space junk.

But the military branch also went into considerable detail on a weirder, new category of potential 'hazards and threats' under scrutiny.

Space Force's mandate 'to rapidly identify and respond to threats and hazards,' the strategy document noted, also includes, 'objects that exhibit abnormal observables and patterns of life and cannot [be] correlated to any owner or point of origin.'

DailyMail.com has reached out to STARCOM, Space Force's Space Training and Readiness Command which published the new document, for detailed clarification on its precise meaning by the terms 'abnormal observables' and 'patterns of life.'

In recent years, Pentagon officials tasked with investigating UFO cases, including the now famous 2004 Tic Tac incursions, have focused their attention on 'five observables' they say are unique features of serious unexplained phenomena.

'Unidentified aerial phenomena' or UAP that check off these 'observables' appear to display either one or all of the following: (1.) gravity-defying behavior, (2.) eerily low observability on radar or other sensors, (3.) sudden or instantaneous accelerations, (4.) hypersonic speeds without signatures like 'sonic booms,' and (5.) so-called 'trans-medium' travel between air, sea and outer space.

It's unclear from the Space Force STARCOM document, however, whether these five, established UFO techno-signatures overlap with their own 'abnormal observables.'

It's also unclear what 'patterns of life' have been detected from orbital unknowns.

Across US military branches, the term 'patterns of life' has been used to reference the thermal heat signatures given off by living human targets, for everything from drone warfare to troop deployment surveillance.

The Pentagon's departing UFO investigation chief, physicist Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, also used the term to indicate UAP mysteries that would include extraterrestrial craft.

'We are executing a rigorous science and technology plan to ensure controlled calibration of sensors, patterns of life, and signature characterization development,' Kirkpatrick said last December.

'More data will help build a more complete picture and support the resolution of […] anomalous phenomena.'

Thermal signatures from the body heat of a living thing (whether terrestrial or E.T. in origin), may fall into this category, to judge from the passages of Space Force's new strategy document that focused on the infra-red capabilities of US military satellites.

'Optical and infrared sensors with relatively wide (one square degree or more) field-of-view,' Space Force's STARCOM advised, 'are also well suited for searching for unknown objects or objects with only a roughly known location.'

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However, Lt. General DeAnna Burt, the deputy chief devoted to Space Force's cyber and nuclear operations, among others, have also used 'patterns of life' to reference detectable, routine activity by any and all technological platforms in space.

Last May, Lt. Gen. Burt dropped the term of art while criticizing China for its opaque and noncooperative space program activities.

'We've said what our capabilities are,' Lt. Gen. Burt told SpaceNews. 'If you are honest and say what things are and have patterns of life that indicate they are what they are, then it's an everyday operation,' Burt said.

Whatever Space Force's intent, the branch issued its new publication in mid-November to announce, in part, its plan to identify and track UFOs in orbit around Earth — a high priority initiative the branch calls 'Space Domain Awareness' (SDA).

The strategy document, titled 'Space Doctrine Publication 3-100, Space Domain Awareness,' outlines Space Force's mission to successfully monitor a vast orbital range that includes everything from low earth orbit (LEO) to the moon.

STARCOM drafted the document as part of its mission to educate and train US Space Force personnel, officially dubbed 'guardians.'

Since the branch's creation in 2019, the number of orbital knowns and UFO 'unknowns' shadowing the Earth has skyrocketed by the thousands.

Space Force, citing NASA data, published a chart revealing that there are now over 25,000 objects total in orbit, although most were determined to be 'rocket bodies,' 'spacecraft,' 'mission-related debris' or other known man-made objects.

Space Force leadership said it hopes to positively identify any and all UFOs to determine if they should be recovered or if they pose a clear and present danger to the United States.

Or, in military's own unique jargon, Space Force hopes to 'distinguish between sources of spacecraft anomalies in support of anomaly resolution, recovery, and space attack assessment,' the new document states.

But that will cost money, alongside Space Force's other duties providing satellite and other space-based support for American troops on the ground worldwide.

This year, the new military branch is requesting a $30 billion budget from Congress for 2024, just one of many UFO-centric provisions to the 2024 National Defense Authorization (NDAA) now approaching a heated, contested vote on Capitol Hill.

As detailed by the law creating Space Force, the military branch has two related but distinct duties.

First it must organize, train and equip personnel to 'protect US and allied interests in space.' But, secondarily, it must also 'provide space capabilities to the joint forces' here on Earth, such as maintaining spy satellites and other space-based military hardware.

Space Force's STARCOM noted that figuring out the mystery of what these UFOs or UAP are is essential, in part, so that it can get on with it's other military troop-support tasks.

'Anomalous indications,' the new guidance document states, 'unnecessarily consume SDA resources (e.g., sensors, communication nodes, command and control [C2] centers, planners, operators) that would otherwise be supporting space and terrestrial combatant commands.'

One new concern, the document added, is the growing threat of foreign spy satellites and worse, in the large dark orbital region between the Earth and the moon, dubbed 'cislunar' orbit.

'Current sensor capabilities will find that the vastness of space between the Earth and the moon, and around the moon, creates challenging conditions for search, custody, and collection operations in support of joint forces,' the branch's new strategy document stated.

Space Force noted plans by the US Air Force Research Lab for a new security and monitoring probe, the Oracle spacecraft, which 'aims to launch in 2026 to an area of gravitational stability between the Earth and the Moon to test techniques to monitor space traffic that travels through that region.'

Given all this uncharted territory, which is at best poorly monitored by US defense systems, it is no surprise that the branch's 'guardians' are requesting $3.9 billion more from taxpayers for 2024 than its 2023 fiscal year budget.

At present, over 60 percent of the US Space Force's budget, or about $19.2 billion worth, has been earmarked for research, development, testing and evaluation.

Nearly $20 billion, in other words, just to create the tools and techniques for the new and growing problem of defending US interests from foreign military activity, terrestrial and possibly extraterrestrial, in outer space.

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America is going back to the moon! NASA's Christmas Eve launch will be first time US craft has landed on the lunar surface in more than 50 years

12:12 EST, 30 November 2023

America is set to land a craft on the moon in January, marking the first touchdown on the lunar surface since the last Apollo mission more than 50 years ago.

Humans will not be making the journey, but a six-foot-tall lander called Peregrine is set to launch on Christmas Eve at 1:50am ET and arrive on January 25.

The craft was designed by Pittsburg-based Astrobotic, a space robotics company, which NASA commissioned in 2019 to carry out the mission.

Peregrine will take off from Florida, carrying 21 lunar payloads such as experiments, and touch down in a region of ancient basaltic lava flows.

The US last ventured to the lunar surface during the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972, which saw four astronauts trek across the barren landscape.

John Thornton, Astrobotic CEO, said: 'It’s incredible to realize that we are just a short time away from our Peregrine spacecraft beginning its journey to the moon.

'After years of dedication and hard work, we are so close to having our moonshot.

'We invite you to follow along as Peregrine, with seven countries represented aboard, launches to the moon and attempts one of the first successful landings of an American spacecraft since Apollo.'

Peregrine will launch aboard the inaugural flight of the new rocket, Vulcan Centaur, developed by aerospace manufacturer United Launch Alliance.

Thornton said that the probe will take 'a few days' to reach lunar orbit but will have to wait until January 25 before attempting landing so that light conditions at the target location are suitable.

The descent will be carried out autonomously, without human intervention, but monitored from the company's control center.

Astrobiotic’s lunar lander stands on four shock-absorbing legs and attaches to the launch vehicle via a standard clamp.

'The Peregrine Lander precisely and safely delivers payloads to lunar orbit and the lunar surface on each mission,' reads the company's official website.

'Payloads can be mounted above or below the decks and remain attached or deployed according to their needs.'

Peregrine can hold up to 265 pounds of payloads released from the underside of the deck.

Astrobotic delivered its probe to Florida last month for launch preparations.

Sharad Bhaskaran, Astrobotic’s Peregrine Mission One director, said: 'As we know, space is a difficult environment. We’re ready for launch after successfully completing a battery of industry-standard acceptance testing, so Peregrine has the best chance for mission success.

'Peregrine and the team are ready.

'After launch, we will separate from the Vulcan Centaur and establish power and communications with the spacecraft to guide it to the moon.

'Then, we will attempt a historic autonomous landing on the lunar surface.'

While Peregrine will be the first US-owned probe to land on the moon since 1972, NASA is set to put American boots on the lunar surface in 2025.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12809961/America-going-moon-NASAs-Christmas-Eve-launch-time-craft-landed-lunar-surface-50-years.html

Mary Cleave, first female astronaut to fly after Challenger explosion, dies at 76

November 30, 2023 8:42am EST

Retired astronaut Mary Cleave, the first woman to crew a spaceflight after the shocking Challenger explosion of 1986, died on Monday, NASA announced. She was 76.

A cause of death was not immediately released.

Cleave, a scientist with training in civil and environmental engineering, was the first woman to serve as an associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

Born in Southampton, New York, in 1947 to Howard and Barbara Cleave, both teachers, Mary Cleave received a Bachelor of Science degree in biological sciences from Colorado State University, Fort Collins, in 1969. She went on to obtain a Master of Science in microbial ecology and a doctorate in civil and environmental engineering at Utah State University, Logan, in 1975 and 1979, respectively.

Cleave was selected as an astronaut in May 1980.

Five years later, she launched her first NASA mission, STS-61B, aboard the space shuttle Atlantis on Nov. 26, 1985.

On that mission, the crew deployed communications satellites, conducted two six-hour spacewalks to demonstrate space station construction techniques, operated the Continuous Flow Electrophoresis experiment for McDonnell Douglas and a Getaway Special container for Telesat and tested the Orbiter Experiments Digital Autopilot, NASA said in a statement.

In 1989, Cleave became the first woman to fly in space after the Challenger tragedy, in which seven astronauts died after the shuttle exploded shortly after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 28, 1986. The mission, STS-30, was her second aboard the shuttle Atlantis.

Over four days, the Atlantis crew successfully deployed the Magellan Venus exploration spacecraft, the first planetary probe to be deployed from a space shuttle. Magellan arrived at Venus in August 1990 and mapped more than 95% of the planet's surface, NASA said.

The STS-30 crew also worked on secondary payloads involving indium crystal growth, electrical storms, and Earth observation studies, according to NASA.

After the mission, Cleave transferred to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in 1991. There, she worked in a laboratory that monitored ocean vegetation globally.

In 2000, Cleave became deputy associate administrator for advanced planning in the Office of Earth Science at NASA’s Headquarters in Washington, D.C. From 2005 to 2007, she was the associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, where she "guided an array of research and scientific exploration programs for planet Earth, space weather, the solar system, and the universe," NASA said.

Cleave received numerous awards throughout her career, including two NASA Space Flight medals; two NASA Exceptional Service medals; an American Astronautical Society Flight Achievement Award; a NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal; and NASA Engineer of the Year.

Cleave retired from NASA in February 2007.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/mary-cleave-first-female-astronaut-fly-challenger-explosion-dies-76

NASA and IBM are building an AI for weather and climate applications

Wed, Nov 29, 2023, 9:01 PM PST

NASA and IBM have teamed up to build an AI foundation model for weather and climate applications. They’re combining their respective knowledge and skills in the Earth science and AI fields, respectively, for the model, which they say should offer “significant advantages over existing technology.”

Current AI models such as GraphCast and Fourcastnet are already generating weather forecasts more quickly than traditional meteorological models. However, IBM notes those are AI emulators rather than foundation models. As the name suggests, foundation models are the base technologies that power generative AI applications. AI emulators can make weather predictions based on sets of training data, but they don’t have applications beyond that. Nor can they encode the physics at the core of weather forecasting, IBM says.

NASA and IBM have several goals for their foundational model. Compared with current models, they hope for it to have expanded accessibility, faster inference times and greater diversity of data. Another key aim is to improve forecasting accuracy for other climate applications. The expected capabilities of the model include predicting meteorological phenomena, inferring high-res information based on low-res data and "identifying conditions conducive to everything from airplane turbulence to wildfires."

This follows another foundational model that NASA and IBM deployed in May. It harnesses data from NASA satellites for geospatial intelligence, and it's the largest geospatial model on open-source AI platform Hugging Face, according to IBM. So far, this model has been used to track and visualize tree planting and growing activities in water tower areas (forest landscapes that retain water) in Kenya. The aim is to plant more trees and tackle water scarcity issues. The model is also being used to analyze urban heat islands in the United Arab Emirates.

https://www.engadget.com/nasa-and-ibm-are-building-an-ai-for-weather-and-climate-applications-050141545.html

United States Space Force Prepares X-37B for Launch

Nov. 29, 2023

The Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, in partnership with the United States Space Force and SpaceX, is making final preparations to launch the seventh mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. Due to launch delays and pad availability, USSF-52 will now launch on Dec. 10, 2023.

The seventh mission of the X-37B, also known as OTV-7, will be the first to launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket—designated USSF-52—with a wide range of test and experimentation objectives. These tests include operating in new orbital regimes, experimenting with space domain awareness technologies and investigating the radiation effects to NASA materials.

These tests are key to ensuring safe and responsible operations in space for all users of the space domain. Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall said about the mission, “this seventh flight of the X-37B continues to demonstrate the innovative spirit of the United States Space Force.”

The X-37B, which first launched in April 2010, has accrued a total of 3,774 days in space. The previous missions have successfully experimented with Naval Research Laboratory technology designed to harness solar energy and transmit power to the ground; tested the effects of long-duration space exposure to organic materials for NASA; and provided an opportunity to launch a spacecraft designed and operated by cadets at U.S. Air Force Academy.

https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3599989/united-states-space-force-prepares-x-37b-for-launch/

MUOS SATCOM System Completes Successful Demonstration in Canada

Nov. 30, 2023

The Canada Department of National Defense (DND), in conjunction with the U.S. Navy and U.S. Space Force, is the first partner nation to successfully access the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) Narrowband Global SATCOM System.

MUOS is the U.S. Department of Defense’s newer, more advanced UHF SATCOM system and is designed to provide joint warfighters with reliable, worldwide voice and data communications in challenging weather environments and through thick foliage. MUOS offers significant improvements over legacy systems, including a ten-fold increase in overall communications capacity, reduced signal interference and improved connectivity performance.

Canada DND used MUOS for voice and data transmission using AN/PRC-117G terminals from two different locations in Ottawa - Major EJG Holland VC Armoury and the Carling Campus.

Canada’s ability to close communication links on Canadian soil using Canadian-procured radio terminals through a Space Force UHF Narrowband military satellite system is a tremendous achievement, said Thomas Cesear, MUOS Integration Lab Lead.

Years of extensive planning, design modification and implementation went into getting the Tactical Narrowband SATCOM - Geosynchronous (TNS-GEO) project to the point of demonstration on Oct. 25, 2023. Not only did Canada demonstrate they could push to talk and connect from one Canadian radio terminal to another Canadian radio terminal - in other words, make a Point-to-Point (P2P) call - but they also were able to successfully accomplish other services like Point-to-Net (P2N) with chat, file transfer, email, as well as group calls.

Taking the demonstration event one more step further, the U.S.-Canadian team completed a call from Ottawa, Canada to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) laboratory in San Diego, California.

“We are very proud of this accomplishment,” said Scott Mackenzie, TNS-GEO project manager for the Canada DND, who observed the entire demonstration event. “It is a measure of the superb teamwork between the Canadian and United States teams. And it bodes well for a successful formal demonstration in March of next year.”

The two-day demonstration was more than four years in the making. In March of 2019, Canada, through the TNS-GEO Coverage Project, initiated a foreign military sales project with the U.S. to provide access to MUOS.

The Navy MUOS program office, formerly PMW 146, developed concept of operations, assisted in the design of local terminal provisioning tool, conducted ground-system feasibility and trade studies. The Implementation Phase, which was the second FMS case for the overall effort to provide Canada access to MUOS, began May 2022. PMW 146 essentially laid the foundation for implementing the necessary changes to MUOS that ultimately allow Canada MUOS UHF SATCOM access.

In March 2023, the MUOS program, led by U.S. Navy Capt. Peter Sheehy, director of Narrowband SATCOM Acquisition Delta, was transferred from Navy to Space Force’s Space Systems Command (SSC), becoming Narrowband SATCOM Acquisition Delta, part of SSC’s Military Communications & Positioning, Navigation and Timing Program Executive Office.

Denese Cordaro, SSC deputy director for Narrowband, praised the remarkable level of coordination involved in making this FMS project so successful to this point.

“I cannot say thank you enough to the Navy International Program Office (NIPO) for shepherding this FMS case all the way from its infancy stage to this exciting implementation phase,” Cordaro said.

https://www.ssc.spaceforce.mil/Newsroom/Article-Display/Article/3602459/muos-satcom-system-completes-successful-demonstration-in-canada

Discovery Alert: Watch the Synchronized Dance of a 6-Planet System

NOV 29, 2023

The discovery: Six planets orbit their central star in a rhythmic beat, a rare case of an “in sync” gravitational lockstep that could offer deep insight into planet formation and evolution.

Key facts: A star smaller and cooler than our Sun hosts a truly strange family of planets: six “sub-Neptunes” – possibly smaller versions of our own Neptune – moving in a cyclic rhythm. This orbital waltz repeats itself so precisely it can be readily set to music.

Details: While multi-planet systems are common in our galaxy, those in a tight gravitational formation known as “resonance” are observed by astronomers far less often. In this case, the planet closest to the star makes three orbits for every two of the next planet out – called a 3/2 resonance – a pattern that is repeated among the four closest planets.

Among the outermost planets, a pattern of four orbits for every three of the next planet out (a 4/3 resonance) is repeated twice. And these resonant orbits are rock-solid: The planets likely have been performing this same rhythmic dance since the system formed billions of years ago. Such reliable stability means this system has not suffered the shocks and shakeups scientists might typically expect in the early days of planet formation – smash-ups and collisions, mergers and breakups as planets jockey for position. And that, in turn, could say something important about how this system formed. Its rigid stability was locked in early; the planets’ 3/2 and 4/3 resonances are almost exactly as they were at the time of formation. More precise measurements of these planets’ masses and orbits will be needed to further sharpen the picture of how the system formed.

Fun facts: The discovery of this system is something of a detective story. The first hints of it came from NASA’s TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), which tracks the tiny eclipses – the “transits” – that planets make as they cross the faces of their stars. Combining the TESS measurements, made in separate observations two years apart, revealed an assortment of transits for the host star, called HD 110067. But it was difficult to distinguish how many planets they represented, or to pin down their orbits.

Eventually, astronomers singled out the two innermost planets, with orbital periods – “years” – of 9 days for the closest planet, 14 days for the next one out. A third planet, with a year about 20 days long, was identified with the help of data from CHEOPS, The European Space Agency’s CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite.

Then the scientists noticed something extraordinary. The three planets’ orbits matched what would be expected if they were locked in a 3/2 resonance. The next steps were all about math and gravity. The science team, led by Rafael Luque of the University of Chicago, worked through a well-known list of resonances that potentially could be found in such systems, trying to match them to the remaining transits that had been picked up by TESS. The only resonance chain that matched up suggested a fourth planet in the system, with an orbit about 31 days long. Two more transits had been seen, but their orbits remained unaccounted for because they were only single observations (more than one transit observation is needed to pin down a planet’s orbit). The scientists again ran through the list of possible orbits if there were two additional, outer planets that fit the expected chain of resonances across the whole system. The best fit they found: a fifth planet with a 41-day orbit, and a sixth just shy of 55.

At this point the science team almost hit a dead end. The slice of the TESS observations that had any chance of confirming the predicted orbits of the two outer planets had been set aside during processing. Excessive light scattered through the observation field by Earth and the Moon seemed to make them unusable. But not so fast. Scientist Joseph Twicken, of the SETI Institute and of the NASA Ames Research Center, took notice of the scattered light problem. He knew that scientist David Rapetti, also of Ames and of the Universities Space Research Association, happened to be working on a new computer code to recover transit data thought to be lost because of scattered light. At Twicken’s suggestion, Rapetti applied his new code to the TESS data. He found two transits for the outer planets – exactly where the science team led by Luque had predicted.

The discoverers: An international team of researchers led by Rafael Luque, of the University of Chicago, published a paper online on the discovery, “A resonant sextuplet of sub-Neptunes transiting the bright star HD 110067,” in the journal Nature on Nov. 29.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/tess/discovery-alert-watch-the-synchronized-dance-of-a-6-planet-system/

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Pauses Science Due to Gyro Issue

NOV 29, 2023

NASA is working to resume science operations of the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope after it entered safe mode Nov. 23 due to an ongoing gyroscope (gyro) issue. Hubble’s instruments are stable, and the telescope is in good health.

The telescope automatically entered safe mode when one of its three gyroscopes gave faulty readings. The gyros measure the telescope’s turn rates and are part of the system that determines which direction the telescope is pointed. While in safe mode, science operations are suspended, and the telescope waits for new directions from the ground.

Hubble first went into safe mode Nov. 19. Although the operations team successfully recovered the spacecraft to resume observations the following day, the unstable gyro caused the observatory to suspend science operations once again Nov. 21. Following a successful recovery, Hubble entered safe mode again Nov. 23.

The team is now running tests to characterize the issue and develop solutions. If necessary, the spacecraft can be re-configured to operate with only one gyro. The spacecraft had six new gyros installed during the fifth and final space shuttle servicing mission in 2009. To date, three of those gyros remain operational, including the gyro currently experiencing fluctuations. Hubble uses three gyros to maximize efficiency, but could continue to make science observations with only one gyro if required.

NASA anticipates Hubble will continue making groundbreaking discoveries, working with other observatories, such as the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope, throughout this decade and possibly into the next.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-space-telescope-pauses-science-due-to-gyro-issue/

Lawmakers: ‘Orchestrated effort’ to block UAP transparency

Updated: NOV 30, 2023 / 02:28 PM CST

Lawmakers pushing for transparency on Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAPs), more commonly referred to as UFOs, say they are facing an “orchestrated effort” to deny them access to information about the subject.

Rep. Tim Burchett, R.-Tenn., one of the loudest voices on the topic, said congressional efforts to provide more transparency on UAPs have been stymied by the defense and intelligence communities.

“At least since 1947, there has been a long history of covering this up,” he said, referencing the 1947 Roswell incident involving an object that crashed into a rancher’s land. Many believe the U.S. government covered up evidence of an alien spacecraft, while the government maintains the object was a high-altitude balloon.

Lawmakers emphasized the fact elected officials were being denied information at the discretion of unelected government employees and that taxpayer money was funding programs investigating UAPs

“How do you expect us to continue to send taxpayer money to fund government projects if you aren’t even telling us what those projects are?” Rep. Anna Luna, R-Fla., asked.

Representatives noted that regardless of whether one believes UAPs are extraterrestrial in origin, are the result of secret U.S. technology or are technology from adversaries like China, American taxpayers should be informed.

The subject of UAPs garnered attention after whistleblower David Grusch said the Pentagon was operating a secret UAP retrieval program. Grusch told NewsNation the program was operated without the oversight of Congress and that he believes the U.S. has recovered spacecraft and possibly even bodies of extraterrestrial origin.

Grusch’s claims sparked a congressional hearing where he and other witnesses spoke on the subject. However, Grusch declined to answer a number of questions in an open setting but has yet to brief lawmakers in a SCIF, a secure area used to discuss matters of national security.

Luna announced Congress has recently received permission to question Grusch in SCIF but said it has become clear there is an “orchestrated effort” to block members of Congress from accessing information.

Lawmakers have also complained that a closed-door hearing with Defense Department officials yielded little information, something Burchett speculated was by design. He suggested leaders were siloing information so that officials could truthfully testify they did not know anything about UAPs and that the government was avoiding Freedom of Information Act requests by storing recovered materials with private contractors.

The Senate and House have been working to reach an agreement on a measure that would mandate government disclosure of UAP records and make any recovered technology or extraterrestrial remains the property of the government. Sources told Newsnation they believe there have been efforts to weaken the language in that bill as well.

At the press conference, several lawmakers objected to the Senate amendment authored by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., calling it overly complicated. Specific objections included the use of a nonelected committee to review documents set for disclosure and the 25-year time frame provided for releasing records.

Leaders also questioned why secrecy was so paramount if government agencies are also telling the public UFOs do not exist.

“If this is all false, why at every turn are there people trying to stop the transparency and the disclosure? It’s that alone that piques the interest,” said Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla.

Regardless of origin, Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., maintained that both Congress and the public deserve to know about UAPs and the potential threats they pose to national security.

“The truth is out there, and the American people are ready,” he said.

https://www.newsnationnow.com/space/ufo/lawmakers-roadblocks-uap-disclosure/