UFOS & the AIAA Initiative

From Bryan Bender's 10-19-22 POLITICO article entitled "'New Territory': America’s Top Aerospace Sleuths Join UFO Hunt":

The country’s largest organization of government and private sector technical experts is launching a project to study “unidentified aerial phenomena,” after concluding that recent incursions by mysterious craft pose a safety hazard to military and commercial aircraft, according to people involved in the effort [...].

Meanwhile, new legislation moving through Congress, as part of the annual defense and intelligence policy bills, goes further.

The National Defense Authorization Act passed by the House in July would establish new procedures for current or former government officials to come forward with any information they may have about UFOs without fear of reprisal.

The proposed intelligence bill also directs the Government Accountability Office to undertake a historical recounting of government efforts involving UFOs over the past 75 years, including any recovery of UFO technology or government efforts to spread disinformation about the subject [...].

The AIAA [American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics] initiative is focused primarily on the flight safety implications of unannounced craft intruding into protected military airspace or traveling dangerously close to commercial flights.

[Ryan] Graves [a former Navy fighter pilot and defense contractor] cited as an example the 11 “near misses” since 2019 — involving UFOs coming within 500 feet of an aircraft — that Scott Bray, the deputy director of naval intelligence, reported to Congress in May during its first public hearing on the topic in more than five decades.

To read the entire article, click HERE.