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I started meeting with pilots, and pilots were very upset because they kept running into these drones and other aircraft. They were really worried that they would crash into them. They kept giving the Department of Defense (DoD) data, videos, and information, saying, "What's going on? This is a UAP. You've got to do something about it. Whose is it? What is it?"

In some instances, they retaliated against the service members, the pilots. They said, "You're just crazy about aliens, and we're not going to take you seriously anymore." It ruined their careers. While I was chair of the personnel subcommittee, I said, "That's not acceptable. These are men and women who are serving bravely for our country, and they're just reporting what they see. You need to look at it, analyze it, and figure out whose it is."

Well, we set up the office three years ago, and we fully funded it in the defense bill. This is fascinating because we don't know who's making these types of aircraft. I'm sure some of it's China, some of it's Russia, and some of it's Iran. They are at the forefront of drone technology. We already know one weather balloon was Chinese, and they're spying. They're spying on our bases, on our nuclear sites, and overhead.

So, I've made this office. I created it. It's up and running. I made sure the DoD fully funded it because they didn't even want to fund it. We will get to the bottom of it. But did anybody watch the hearings last week? We had some strange testimony. We had some pilots who saw this craft. It's a tic-tac. Here's the video. It had strange flying patterns. We don't understand what it was. Those pilots should not be discriminated against. The information's there.

Then the second guy, I think, was in Navy intelligence. He said, "Well, I was in charge of looking at all the existing UAP programs, and I talked to everybody I could and found out what I could." He talked to people who said, "Not only do we have a program, but it's super secret. We have dead aliens, and we have crashed aircraft. What? I don't know what this is. They will not tell me about it. I cannot get to the bottom of it. I cannot get any data and information." So, we don't know if it exists. We don't know if that's real. Those individuals will have to testify in front of the Aero office.

So far, whistleblowers have been reluctant to testify to the Aero office because it's part of the Department of Defense. They're afraid of retaliation. They're afraid of lots of things that they cannot come forward with. So, we made sure in the Aero provisions that it has whistleblower protection. We made sure that if you sign a non-disclosure agreement, you can come forward and share your testimony.

But how many people saw Oppenheimer? Okay, Oppenheimer is about developing the bomb during World War II. All those scientists who worked on that project had to sign nondisclosure agreements. What I've heard about those nondisclosure agreements is that because it was wartime, it had provisions that said, "Including if you disclose under penalty of death."

The big worry is that people who sign nondisclosure agreements to work on any type of program for the military, that it had language in there that made them think that that was true. So, there's a lot of fear. I don't know if we'll ever get to the bottom of it. I don't know if we'll ever get the information about special access programs that are need-to-know only that Congress is not read in on.

I'm trying to get to the bottom of it. I put a provision in the defense bill this year that said you can't fund any special access programs if you don't come through Congress. So that's one push, and then the other push is just trying to get these whistleblowers to talk to the guy who's head of Aero, who's very competent and very capable.

The last way I'm going to try to find out how Aero is going to operate is, because we keep seeing all these drones, weather balloons, and spy balloons, is we're going to get better sensors. We're getting better sensors on our aircraft, better sensors at our bases, better sensors at these nuclear sites. So whatever's flying around them, we'll know whose they are because they're most likely adversarial – they're most likely Chinese, they're most likely Iranian, trying to get intelligence, trying to get data. And if it's not, we'll catch them. So we'll know what it is, whatever it is.