An astrophysicist who works for a defense contractor reportedly briefed top officials at the Pentagon earlier this year about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth” after materials were discovered that scientists were not able to create themselves.
The program, the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, is primarily focused on discovering whether any nation, especially enemies of the U.S., have developed cutting edge aviation technology that could threaten U.S. national security.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who is the acting chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, told CBS Miami this month that he was concerned about the national security risk of unidentified aircraft flying over our military bases.
“We have things flying over our military bases and places where we’re conducting military exercises and we don’t know what it is and it isn’t ours,” Rubio said. “So, that’s a legitimate question to ask. I would say that frankly that if it’s something outside this planet that might actually be better than the fact that we’ve seen some technological leap on behalf of the Chinese or the Russians or some other adversary that allows them conduct this sort of activity.”
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