Senator Marco Rubio believes the truth is out there and he wants to get past the UFO jokes to make sure the national security of the United States isn't threatened in any way, he told Newsweek.
"Dozens of men and women we have entrusted with the defense of our country are telling us about encounters with unidentified aircraft with capabilities we do not fully understand," Rubio said in exclusive comments ahead of a 60 Minutes interview that will air this weekend. "We cannot allow the stigma of UFO's to keep us from seriously investigating these encounters."
UFOs, long dismissed and relegated to movies about aliens visiting earth and breathless message board posts, have begun to shed the farce label in recent years after the release of footage of high-profile U.S. military encounters with aircraft of unknown origin.
The 2019 leaked photos and video taken by U.S. Navy personnel of one such encounter, which showed triangle shaped objects flying through the air, were confirmed as authentic by the Defense Department in April of this year. Even the name of the objects — the branding if you will — has been revamped when discussed by the U.S. government, getting away from UFOs, to unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs.
In June 2020, tucked into the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act, Rubio added language requesting that the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense create a report with "a detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence reporting." Two months later, the Pentagon followed suit with the new, more serious approach, creating a task force to investigate the encounters by U.S. military aircraft.
A recent story in The New Yorker entitled "How The Pentagon Started Taking UFOs Seriously" traced the history of UFO sightings, focusing on the sightings taken most seriously because they were by trained pilots or military personnel, while also including people who routinely debunk the sightings. One prolific debunker, Mick West, dismissed the interest by members of Congress like Reid before, and Rubio now.
"They're just UFO fans," he told The New Yorker. "They've been convinced there's something to it and so are trying to push for disclosure."
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