
Minor controversy ensued following the DOD’s announcement, including pushback from some individuals in Washington-no less among these Senator Gillibrand-who argued that the scope of the AOIMSG’s interest in relation to controlled military airspace was too limited, and would not provide the comprehensive level of investigative clout that the proposed ASRO would be capable of. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks (Public Domain). The new DOD group appeared to be in response to details that appeared in a June 2021 memo authored by Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks. Before the Senate could pass its version of the NDAA however, the DOD announced the establishment of a new, memorably-titled investigative entity of its own: the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG). Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York outlined plans for the establishment of a new UAP investigative component in the Department of Defense, with the Anomaly Surveillance and Resolution Office (ASRO) as the proposed name. Air Force’s introduction of the term for unrecognized aerial objects in the early 1950s.Ī proposed amendment to the FY 2022 National Defense Authorization Act put forward by U.S. Late last year, a string of developments in Washington appeared to be setting the stage for renewed engagement by the United States government involving unidentified aerial phenomena, traditionally known as UFOs since the U.S. Washington’s Ongoing Issues Unidentified Aerial Phenomena With that out of the way, it’s time to take a look at recent developments in Washington that have some elected officials concerned about the Pentagon’s attitudes toward the ever-controversial subject of UAP.

You can keep up with all our latest interviews over on The Debrief’s YouTube page, and you’ll find all of our latest stories from The Debrief via the links at the bottom of this newsletter. Meanwhile in video news, our very own Chrissy Newton talks to MIT astrophysicist, planetary scientist, and exoplanet specialist Sara Seager. Elsewhere, new research is slowly unraveling the mechanisms involved in creating suppressed memories in the human mind… what could possibly go wrong? Also, future NASA astronauts may be able to map the Moon, Mars, and other worlds using a portable, lidar-equipped backpack. “I think some of the phenomena we’re going to be seeing continues to be unexplained and might, in fact, be some type of phenomenon that is the result of something that we don’t yet understand.” -Ex-CIA Director John Brennanīefore we get into our analysis, a few stories we’re covering this week over at The Debrief include how a group of Russian soldiers reportedly found their way into a shootout… with each other. Welcome to this week’s installment of The Intelligence Brief… this week in our analysis, we’ll be looking at 1) the ongoing problems lawmakers and others in Washington have had in recent days with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), 2) what some elected officials have recently said about the government’s slow pace in taking action on the issue, and 3) what the Pentagon’s track record with UAP says about its level of transparency, and what must change going forward. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York (Credit: Flickr/Wikimedia Commons/CC 2.0).
