Senate Intelligence Committee asks for a UAP report (2020)
🏛️ U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
In its report on the Intelligence Authorization Act for 2021 (Senate Report 116-233), the committee directed the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense to deliver an unclassified report on unidentified aerial phenomena.
Key points
- Asked for a detailed look at UAP data held by the intelligence agencies, the FBI and the military.
- Asked whether any of it pointed to a foreign adversary with breakthrough technology.
- Led directly to the ODNI’s June 2021 preliminary assessment.
Why it matters
This one paragraph started the modern run of official U.S. UAP reports.
Read it yourself
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U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. (2020). Senate Intelligence Committee asks for a UAP report (2020). https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/116th-congress/senate-report/233Related records
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