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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is hard to conceive of a secret military test program that explains all of these instances. Not just here in the United States but around the world.— Bryan Bender
National Security Correspondent, Politico
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
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
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
Now that I'm here at NASA, I've turned to our scientists and I've said, 'Would you, looking at it from a scientific standpoint, see if you can determine what it is, so that we can have a better idea.— Bill Nelson
NASA Administrator
6/9/2021 | CNN
The American public can reasonably expect to get some answers to questions that have been burning in the minds of millions of Americans for many years. If nothing else, this [legislation] should either clear up something that’s been a cloud hanging over the Air Force and Department of Defense for decades or it might lead in another direction, which could be truly incredible. There’s a lot at stake.— Christopher Mellon
Dep. Asst. Secretary of Defense for Intelligence
1/13/23 | The New York Times
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
2/28/2023 | Politico