Marco Rubio

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Marco Rubio
Official portrait of U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio
Official portrait of U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio Photo: U.S. Department of State · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons
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On the Timeline1 event, 2022

Marco Rubio (born 1971) is an American politician who represented Florida in the US Senate from 2011 to 2025 and became Secretary of State in 2025. As a leader of the Senate Intelligence Committee he pushed for the June 2021 intelligence report on UAP and later said he had heard first-hand accounts from officials supporting whistleblower David Grusch's claims.[1][2][3]

The 2021 report

President Donald Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio (FL), Jared Kushner, and Mrs. Ivanka Trump visit a fourth grade classroom at Saint Andrew's Catholic School…
President Donald Trump, Sen. Marco Rubio (FL), Jared Kushner, and Mrs. Ivanka Trump visit a fourth grade classroom at Saint Andrew's Catholic School… Photo: The White House from Washington, DC · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

In June 2020 the Senate Intelligence Committee, then chaired by Rubio, voted to require the intelligence agencies and the Pentagon to track and analyse unidentified aerial phenomena and to report on them. The result was the preliminary assessment published in June 2021.[4][6][7] After a June 2020 hearing he had asked for the release of Navy footage, saying he worried that a foreign rival might have made "some technological leap", while allowing that the answer might be a "boring" conventional one.[2]

Grusch's claims

President Donald J. Trump signs a Memorandum of Understanding between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America at the Palace of…
President Donald J. Trump signs a Memorandum of Understanding between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America at the Palace of… Photo: The White House · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

In June 2023, after Grusch went public, Rubio, then vice-chairman of the Intelligence Committee, told NewsNation that people in "high positions in our government" had given his committee first-hand accounts that supported Grusch's allegations. Some, he said, had come forward before whistleblower protections were in law, and many were fearful for their jobs or of harm coming to them. He did not say whether he found the claims credible, but called for a "mature" understanding.[3]

Legislation

Kirsten Gillibrand , official photo, 116th Congress.
Kirsten Gillibrand , official photo, 116th Congress. Photo: US Senate Photography · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

With Kirsten Gillibrand, Rubio proposed wide-ranging UAP provisions for the 2023 defence bill, some of which were softened in negotiations; the final act expanded the Pentagon's new UAP office and created protections for people reporting UAP information.[5]

Later

A high school yearbook photograph of Marco Rubio from his 1989 graduating class.
A high school yearbook photograph of Marco Rubio from his 1989 graduating class. Photo: South Miami Senior High School · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

Rubio appeared in the 2025 documentary The Age of Disclosure.[1]

On the UAP Timeline

Official portrait of US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.
Official portrait of US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. Photo: US Senate · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

References

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