1/11) JUST RELEASED: The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) has released its explanatory report (No. 117-132) on S. 4503, the Intelligence Authorization Act. As I reported July 14 (see my pinned tweet), S. 4503 contains 31 pages of proposed new UAP-related provisions.
2/11) In the report, SSCI rebukes the DoD for slow response. "At a time when cross-domain transmedium threats to U.S. national security are expanding exponentially, the Committee is disappointed with the slow pace of DoD-led efforts to establish" the UAP office/mission set in the
3/11) NDAA enacted Dec. 2021. The three new UAP provisions proposed in S. 4503 are meant "to accelerate progress." (Note: SSCI adopted this report just before the Pentagon issued July 20 release announcing the selection of Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick as director for the office, etc.)
4/11) SSCI says it wants "focus on addressing technology surprise and 'unknown unknowns'..." "[Objects] that are positively identified as man-made after analysis...should not be considered under the definition as [UAP]." ("Man-made" as opposed to...?)
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5/11) DNI role upgrade: "Identification, classification, and scientific study of unidentified aerospace-undersea phenomena is an inherently challenging cross-agency, cross-domain problem requiring an integrated or joint Intelligence Community and Department of Defense approach."
6/11) The report indicates "secure system" for reporting sensitive UAP information (Sec. 704) was in the base bill submitted by SSCI Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) and ranking Republican Marco Rubio (R-FL). (The House passed this on its NDAA, H.R. 7900, as Gallagher-Gallego Amendment.)
7/11) The content of Section 703, renaming and somewhat restructuring the Pentagon UAP office, was offered as an amendment (no. 2) in committee by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO), co-sponsored by Sens. Rubio, Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM).
8/11) Amendment (now Sec. 705) to require GAO to conduct historical review of Intelligence Community activity on UAP to 1947, was also offered by Blunt, same cosponsors. (IAA approved by the House Intelligence committee on July 20 also contains this provision, in enhanced form.)
9/11) S. 4503 would name the Pentagon office the "Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office" (UAP JPO). If enacted, this would replace the name adopted by Pentagon in its July 20 release, "All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office" (AARO).
10/11) SSCI approved S. 4503 as amended, 16-0, on June 22, 2022. SSCI approved this committee report unanimously on July 20, 2022; it was posted on the congressional website on July 26, 2022. Here is the link to the complete committee report, no. 117-132):
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11/11) For a detailed examination of the 31 pages of UAP-related S. 4503 text, see my July 12, 2022 article on Mirador, now updated to include the later actions of the two intelligence panels and the Pentagon announcement. Subscribe for free.
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