“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.