US Select Senate Intelligence Committee directs Department of National Intelligence to report on Unidentified Ariel Phenomenon

Senator Marco Rubio's reference to UAP catches observers off-guard

Press Release

Toronto [ZNN] In an unprecedented legislative attempt to respond to growing pressure within the US Senate, Senator Marco Rubio Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has broken with tradition by directing the Department of National Intelligence (DNI) to report on unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) in its annual INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021. Stemming from Pentagon briefings on UAP/UFOs with Senators, they want to know more.

The terminology - unidentified aerial phenomenon - has never before been used in modern-day Senate committee annual fiscal reports. This has caught many political observers off-guard. The term unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) replaces the acronym UFO - unidentified flying objects - in official circles.

• In the AUTHORIZATION ACT SECTION designated as -‘Advanced Aerial Threats', the SELECT SENATE COMMITTEE states, [it] "...supports the efforts of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force at the Office of Naval Intelligence to standardize collection and reporting on unidentified aerial phenomenon, any links they have to adversarial foreign governments, and the threat they pose to U.S. military assets and installations.”

• The Committee also stated, “… the Committee remains concerned that there is no unified, comprehensive process within the Federal Government for collecting and analyzing intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena, despite the potential threat.”

The 'requirement to report' also indicates the SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE must receive a report within 180 days of the date of enactment of the Act on unidentified aerial phenomena(UAP) from the Department of National Intelligence.

It is unclear why the chair of the powerful SELECT SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE, Senator Marco Rubio, decided to inject a segment on UAP into the generally staid annual FISCAL YEAR ACT. However, in an interview, Senator Rubio made his feelings more than clear, “We have things flying over our military bases and places where we are conducting military exercises - we don’t know what it is and it isn’t ours…” [Listen to his interview below**]

The background on this legislative move by Chairman Rubio demonstrates he is not the first to seek answers about the matter of UFOs.

• Former Senate Majority Harry Reid along with two other senior Senators raised the same issue. Reid and his colleagues Senators Inouye and Stevens were successful in obtaining $22 million of Senate funding for a UFO investigation program within the Pentagon.

• The program designated AATIP- Advanced Aerial Threat Investigation Program - ran from 2007 to 2012. 

• The program was headed by Luis Elizondoa former intelligence officer.

• It is worthy of note that Rubio would insert into the 2021 AUTHORIZATION ACT language identical to the 2007 Pentagon program’s term - "ADVANCED AERIAL THREATS".

According to UAP Washington lobbyist, Steven Bassett* Executive Director of the Paradigm Research Group- this move by the SELECT SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE is an effort to establish Congressional or Senate hearings on the UAP issue. Bassett predicts there will be government hearings - perhaps as early as the spring of 2021. In his comments Bassett re-asserts what former Presidents Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta were up to when their respective administrations tried to delve into the UAP matter as far back as 1981 and into the mid 1990’s.

As stated in the legislation, Rubio warns, “...the Committee finds that the information sharing and coordination across the Intelligence Community has been inconsistent, and this issue has lacked attention from senior leaders.” 

It appears Senator Rubio and his Co-Chair Senator Mark Warner want answers. Will the Department of National Intelligence comply, or will Rubio's Committee have to find another way to pry loose what US intelligence and military agencies are guarding so closely about UAP? 

ZNN contends that - implicit in this Senate Committee’s legislative directive to the DNI - Senator Rubio appears to be tactfully and strategically engaging the hypothesis that these craft known as unidentified aerial phenomenon may not originate from the planet Earth. If these tactics work for Senator Rubio, the Extraterrestrial hypothesis may well have entered a new era in US politics.

Media Resources

The relevant section on Senator Rubio’s UAP directive can be found at: SENATE ACT SECTION

The entire INTELLIGENCE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021can be found at: FULL SENATE ACT

*LISTEN TO BASSETT’S ASSESSMENT

Mr. Bassett can be reached at: prg@paradigmresearchgroup.org

**RUBIO INTERVIEW

SENATORS RECEIVE BRIEFINGS ON UFO SIGHTINGS

Senator Rubio can be contacted at: 

284 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3041

Web site: https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/washington-d-c-office

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