Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., introduced an amendment to the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) last week that would establish an office in the Department of Defense to study air-and-space, or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
According to Section 1652 of the proposed bill, which Congress could pick up as soon as later this month, the new office would replace the present Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force program in the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence.
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If passed, the amendment would also require the new office to submit an annual report about its findings to Congress. Special attention would be paid to the potential national security threats posed by UAP, as well as an assessment of whether such phenomena could be attributed to foreign adversaries.
Gillibrand’s office did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.
Gillibrand’s amendment comes following last summer’s release of an inconclusive report by the Director of National Intelligence on unidentified aerial phenomena.
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U.S. intelligence analysts could only explain one of the sightings in the report, which was identified as a large balloon deflating.
Fox News’ Paul Best contributed to this report.
