Politicians express concern over impact of UFOs on national security following briefing

Politicians are expressing dire concern about an emerging threat to national security: UFOs, with one lawmaker going as far as to say ‘something’s going on that we can’t handle.’

Fear was evident from the reaction of some politicians following a highly-classified briefing with the Navy and FBI on Wednesday.

The briefing was for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation. 

The Pentagon’s UAP Task Force is set to deliver its report on UFO sightings to Congress later this month, with some lawmakers pushing for the information to be made public.

The Pentagon’s Director of National Intelligence is required to turn over a report on U.S. military sightings of UFOs to Congress on June 25.

An unclassified version will be made public, while a more detailed classified one will remain secret — and anticipation has been mounting over what might be revealed. 

This week, some lawmakers received a peek at a ‘sensitive compartmented information facility,’ or SCIF, but wouldn’t say what they saw inside.

Instead, they focused on expressing their concern about how UFOs could threaten national security in the United States.

‘We take the issue of unexplained aerial phenomena seriously to the extent that we’re dealing with the safety and security of US military personnel or the national security interests of the United States, so we want to know what we’re dealing with,’ Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney said, according to the New York Post.

‘I think it’s important to understand that there are legitimate questions involving the safety and security of our personnel, and in our operations and in our sensitive activities, and we all know that there’s [a] proliferation of technologies out there,’ Maloney added.

Rep. Val Demings said, ‘You know it’s always about our safety and security — our national security is [priority] number one — and so that’s really the area where we really focused on this morning.’

‘It was an interesting briefing,’ Rep. Adam Schiff stated. ‘I did learn things that were certainly new to me. But I think I’m going to leave it at that.’

Rep. Tim Burchett may have expressed the most alarming sentiment, telling TMZ, ‘Clearly, something’s going on that we can’t handle.’

Not every politician was as concerned, however, with Rep. Peter Welch saying of the forthcoming report, ‘I’m not on the edge of my seat.’

At least one ex-pentagon official has already expressed concerns that could relate to national security, saying that UFOs have repeatedly meddled with U.S. nuclear technology, even forcing some facilities to go offline.

Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, told The Washington Post last week that UFOs or as they are officially identified UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomenon) have actually interfered with U.S. nuclear technology.

‘Now in this country we’ve had incidents where these UAPs have interfered and actually brought offline our nuclear capabilities,’ Elizondo said in an interview.

Elizondo was asked about several UFO sightings above secret nuclear weapons facilities and the fact that almost every major nuclear power across the globe has reported and declassified these sightings. 

He said that the phenomenon is a national security ‘concern,’ and added that the same observation has been made in other countries, making it a ‘global issue.’ 

Elizondo said some people have suggested that UFOs bringing U.S. nuclear capabilities offline could be interpreted as a sign that the unidentified objects are ‘peaceful’ but said in other countries the UFOs have actually turned on nuclear technology.  

‘So that is equally, for me, just as concerning,’ he said of their interference either way. ‘I think that there is certainly at this point enough data to demonstrate there is an interest in our nuclear technology, a potential to even interfere with that nuclear technology.’

Elizondo also told the Post that the Pentagon’s upcoming report will definitively state that UAPs are not U.S. technology, despite speculation. 

He said he believed the findings would conclude that they were also not Russian or Chinese technology either, saying that instead he believes it is ‘next generation’ technology, decades ahead of our own. 

‘You know, through observations we are, we are quite convinced that we’re dealing with a technology that is multigenerational, several generations ahead of what we consider next generation technology, so what we would consider beyond next generation technology,’ he said. ‘Something that could be anywhere between 50 to 1,000 years ahead of us.’  

Earlier this week, a top physicist also expressed alarm of UFOs, though physicist and science writer Mark Buchanan wrote in a recent Washington Post op-ed that he was concerned that alien contact could result in ‘the end of all life on earth.’  

‘Chances are, we should all be grateful that we don’t yet have any evidence of contact with alien civilizations,’ Buchanan writes.

‘Attempting to communicate with extraterrestrials, if they do exist, could be extremely dangerous for us.’ 

Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence astronomer Joe Gertz echoed Buchanan’s sentiments, stating that all of our attempts at communicating with extraterrestrials could ultimately cause ‘the reckless endangerment of all mankind, and be absolutely proscribed with criminal consequences, presumably as exercised at the national level, or administered through the International Court of Justice in The Hague.’ 

Buchanan compared a possible alien encounter to Christopher Columbus coming to North America, where an older civilization was vulnerable to the more technologically-advanced Europeans. 

However, astronomers and scientists from a differing school of thought believe extraterrestrial contact could only benefit humanity through the use of alien technology, which in turn could improve the planet’s sustainability.

Douglas Vakoch, an American astrobiologist, search for extraterrestrial intelligence researcher, psychologist, and president of METI International, is one of those astronomers who not only believes in contacting aliens, he’s actively doing so. 

While UFOs have been sighted by civilians for decades, their existence was brushed off as nothing more than a conspiracy theory. 

But public opinion has shifted in recent years, especially after video footage and pictures taken by U.S. Navy pilots between mid-2014 and March 2015, was leaked to the New York Times, three years ago. 

The images showed a 30 to 40ft object, shaped like a Tic Tac, with no wings or rotors, yet able to hover, turn and accelerate through the sky at hypersonic speeds. The flabbergasted Navy pilots can be heard exclaiming in awe: ‘Oh dude!’

A New York Times also reported on a shadowy organization based at the Pentagon dedicated to reports of UFO sightings, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program — AATIP.   

In April 2020 the Defense Department released several videos, one of which shows a US Navy aircraft encountering ‘unidentified aerial phenomena,’ including objects flying and moving at speeds and directions that are impossible for human-made flight.

Just a year prior, leaked Pentagon footage showed an unidentified flying object hovering over San Diego, suggesting that maybe a ‘close encounter of the third kind’ isn’t so far off from happening.