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Three months after Chinese spy balloon, DoD still hasn't strengthened UFO analysis office
WASHINGTON – Nearly three months after the Defense Department spent at least $1.6 million to shoot down three unidentified objects later believed to have been harmless, the Senate Intelligence Committee wants to know why the Pentagon hasn’t made more progress strengthening its UFO analysis office, The Post exclusively learned.
“There are objects in our airspace and near military facilities that we cannot identify. What’s worse, our government spent too many years ignoring or downplaying the threat,” the committee’s top Republican Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) exclusively told the Post on Friday.
“Thankfully, that is beginning to change, but as we saw earlier this year, the defense and intelligence communities are still struggling.”
Congress in December ordered the Pentagon to strengthen its relatively new “All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office” (AARO) that studies unidentified aerial phenomena — military jargon for UFOs — as part of the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which lays out its policy and spending priorities for the year.
