We have things flying over our military bases and places where we’re conducting military exercises and we don't know what it is and it isn't ours...— Marco Rubio
US Senator (R)
7/16/2020 | Fox News
I think some of the phenomena we’re seeing continues to be unexplained and might... constitute a different form of life.— John Brennan
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
12/16/2020 | Podcast
Usually we have multiple sensors picking up these things... There are a lot more sightings than have been made public... Objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or in satellite imagery, that engage in actions that... we don't have the technology for, or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom... Technologies that we don’t have and, frankly, that we are not capable of defending against.— John Ratcliffe
Director National Intelligence
3/22/2021 | Fox News
So it's not us, that's one thing we know. I could say that with very high degree of confidence in part because of the positions I held in the department...— Christopher Mellon
Dep. Asst. Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
5/16/2021 | 60 Minutes
There is footage and records of objects in the skies. We don't know exactly what they are. We can't explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern.— Barack Obama
US President (D)
5/19/2021 | Late Late Show with James Corden
I don’t know what it is, but any time you have legitimate pilots describing something that doesn’t seem to conform to the laws of physics that govern aviation and is in US airspace, I think It’s something we need to get to the bottom of... If there is a foreign government that had these kinds of capabilities, I think we would see other indications of advanced technology. I can't imagine that what has been described or shown in some of the videos belongs to any government that I'm aware of... I have no idea what it is but I think we should figure it out.— Martin Heinrich
US Senator (D)
5/21/21 | TMZ
There are things flying around out there that we haven’t fully identified yet.— Bill Clinton
US President (D)
6/8/2021 | Live with Kelly and Mark
That leaves aliens, which we presume it probably is. Although I don't wanna go too far here.— Ben Rhodes
Deputy National Security Adviser
6/30/2021 | Podcast
We were able to identify one reported UAP with high confidence. In that case, we identified the object as a large, deflating balloon. The other [143] remain unexplained... Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers, and visual observation.— Office of the Director of National Intelligence
We currently lack data to indicate any UAP are part of a foreign collection program or indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary... Some UAP observations could be attributable to developments and classified programs by U.S. entities. We were unable to confirm, however, that these systems accounted for any of the [144] UAP reports we collected.
Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena 2021
6/25/2021 | Report to Congress
Well I don't believe they are coming from foreign adversaries. Why if there were that would suggest they have a technology that is in a whole different sphere than anything we understand, and frankly China and Russia just aren't there, and neither are we by the way...— Mitt Romney
US Senator (R)
Former Presidential Nominee
6/27/2021 | CNN
We hope it’s not an adversary here on Earth that has that kind of technology. But it’s something.— Bill Nelson
NASA Administrator
10/19/2021 | UVA Center for Politics
There’s always the question of ‘is there something else that we simply do not understand, that might come extraterrestrially?’— Avril Haines
Director of National Intelligence
11/16/2021 | Washington Post
It's clear that the majority, that many of the observations that we have are physical objects from the sensor data... We haven't had a collision. We have had at least 11 near misses.— Scott Bray
Deputy Director Navy Intelligence
5/17/2022 | Congressional hearings
There are so many of us now on the intel committee and armed services that we're going to stand by the service members who documented this stuff. They have video. They have radar. They have heat sensors. They have everything.— Kirsten Gillibrand
US Senator (D)
Committee on Armed Services
8/26/2022 | Twitter
UAP continue to represent a hazard to flight safety and pose a possible adversary collection threat. Since the publication of the ODNI preliminary assessment in June 2021, UAP reporting has increased, partially due to a concentrated effort to destigmatize the topic of UAP and instead recognize the potential risks that it poses as both a safety of flight hazard and potential adversarial activity. Whereas there were previously 144 UAP reports covered during the 17 years of UAP reporting included in the ODNI preliminary assessment on UAP, there have been 247 more UAP reports during the 17 months since.— Office of the Director of National Intelligence
2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
1/12/2023 | Report to Congress
Advanced objects demonstrating advanced technology are routinely flying over our restricted or sensitive airspace posing a risk to both flight safety & national security.— Marco Rubio
US Senator (R)
2/28/2023 | Twitter
In the coming days, I will launch Americans for Safe Aerospace (ASA), a new advocacy organization for aerospace safety and national security. ASA will support pilots and other aerospace professionals who are reporting UAP. Our goal is to demand more disclosure from our public officials about this significant safety and national security problem... If the phenomena I witnessed with my own eyes turns out to be foreign drones, they pose an urgent threat to national security and airspace safety. If they are something else, it must be a scientific priority to find out.— Ryan Graves
Founder, Americans for Safe Aerospace
Former F/A-18 pilot
2/28/2023 | Politico
We see these [‘metallic orbs’] all over the world, and we see these making very interesting apparent maneuvers.— Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick
Director, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
5/31/2023 | NASA IST Briefing
The [UAP Disclosure Act of 2023] introduced as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that will be on the Senate floor next week, would direct the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to create a collection of records to be known as the UAP Records Collection and direct every government office to identify which records would fall into the collection. The UAP Records Collection would carry the presumption of immediate disclosure, which means that a review board would have to provide a reasoning for the documents to stay classified...— U.S. Senate
Former Majority Leader Harry Reid sponsored a project to investigate incidents surrounding UAPs. After that project became public, Senators, Congressmen, committees, and staff began to pursue this issue and uncovered a vast web of individuals and groups with ideas and stories to share. While these stories have varying levels of credibility, the sheer number and variety has led some in Congress to believe that the Executive Branch was concealing important information regarding UAPs over broad periods of time. Congress recognizes that these records – if they exist – were likely concealed under the good faith goal of protecting national security. However, hiding that information from both Congress and the public at large is simply unacceptable. Our goal is to work cooperatively with the executive branch to responsibly disclose these documents and bring the topic into the public sphere in a process that the American people can trust.
Joint bipartisan statement from Senators Schumer, Rounds, Rubio, Gillibrand, Young and Heinrich
7/14/2023 | Press Release
For decades, many Americans have been fascinated by objects mysterious and unexplained and it’s long past time they get some answers. The American public has a right to learn about technologies of unknown origins, non-human intelligence, and unexplainable phenomena. We are not only working to declassify what the government has previously learned about these phenomena but to create a pipeline for future research to be made public. I am honored to carry on the legacy of my mentor and dear friend, Harry Reid and fight for the transparency that the public has long demanded surround these unexplained phenomena.— Chuck Schumer
US Senator (D)
Senate Majority Leader
7/14/2023 | Press Release
A number of these [whistleblowers] believe and have stated — and we believe them now — that they have seen something. And we are investigating.— Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick
Director, All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
7/20/2023 | ABC News
I can tell you that advanced UAP are a national security and an aviation safety problem. It has been more than a decade since my squadron began witnessing advanced UAP demonstrating complex maneuvers on a regular basis, and we still don’t have answers. I founded Americans for Safe Aerospace to create a center of support, research, and public education for aircrew impacted by UAP encounters... Today, I would like to center our discussion around three critical issues that demand our immediate attention and concerted action... As we convene here, UAP are in our airspace, but they are grossly underreported... The stigma attached to UAP is real and powerful and challenges national security... The government knows more about UAP than shared publicly, and excessive classification practices keep crucial information hidden.— Ryan Graves
Founder, Americans for Safe Aerospace
Former F/A-18 pilot
7/26/23 | Testimony to Congress
In 2019, the UAPTF director tasked me to identify all Special Access Programs & Controlled Access Programs (SAPs/CAPs) we needed to satisfy our congressionally mandated mission. At the time, due to my extensive executive-level intelligence support duties, I was cleared to literally all relevant compartments and in a position of extreme trust in both my military and civilian capacities. I was informed, in the course of my official duties, of a multi decade UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program to which I was denied access to those additional read-on’s. I made the decision based on the data I collected, to report this information to my superiors and multiple Inspectors General, and in effect become a whistleblower.— David Grusch
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Officer
7/26/23 | Testimony to Congress
There is a lot of unidentified aerial phenomena out there. That’s true. And they’ve got pilot reports, there’s various other sensors out there, and some of it is difficult to explain… some [UAP are] really kind of weird and unexplainable— Gen. Mark Milley
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff
8/6/2023 | Washington Times
We’ve also been notified by multiple credible sources that information on UAPs has also been withheld from Congress, which if true, is a violation of laws requiring full notification to the legislative branch... It is an outrage the House didn’t work with us on our UAP proposal for a review board. This means declassification of UAP records will be up to the same entities that have blocked and obfuscated their disclosure for decades. We will keep working to change the status quo.— Chuck Schumer
US Senator (D)
Senate Majority Leader
12/13/2023 | Senate floor speech
I have met with pilots...they are not conspiratorial, they are not crazy, and they tell me stories that they've seen things that you wouldn't believe. Am I a believer? No, I can't say I am. But I have met with people, serious people, that say there are some really strange things flying around out there.— Donald Trump
US President (R)
6/14/2024 | Podcast
There are things that cannot be explained... I don't know what the explanation is for those unexplainable things, but I will say there are phenomena that have been witnessed by multiple people that are just inexplicable by any kind of science, the science available to us.— Gen. H.R. McMaster
National Security Advisor, Lt. General
9/6/2024 | Bill Maher