Rep. Nancy Mace on UFO secrecy: ?Are they keeping the president of the United States in the dark??

UFO research remains one of the federal government’s most closely guarded secrets. Rep. Nancy Mace wants that to change.

The South Carolina Republican argues that an overclassification of data, including reports involving military and commercial pilots’ close and sometimes dangerous encounters with unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, only fuels more questions and undermines Americans’ faith in their government. Ms. Mace cited the annual budget for the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) as one example of unnecessary secrecy.

“I know how much AARO costs every year. I know how much they’re requesting for their future budget. But I can’t tell you that number — and it’s not zero — I can’t tell you that number, and it’s a pretty steep number, because that number is classified,” she told the Threat Status Weekly Podcast in an exclusive interview.