New Federal Spending Bill Requires 180-Day UAP Briefing to Congress on Knowledge, Data Methods, and Threat Assessment

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A new federal spending bill requires U.S. intelligence to brief Congress in 180 days on what they know about unidentified aerial phenomena, how they collect and analyze data, and whether there is a national security threat, a move SETI Institute astronomer Seth Shostak says would standardize reporting after decades of UFO work, while the discussion notes the 2020 declassification of Navy videos that could show alien craft or camera artifacts, mentions that about one in three Americans believes aliens have visited Earth, and says the forthcoming assessment will clarify data collection, analysis methods, and threat evaluation, with Julia Corcoran producing the broadcast interview with Tinku Ray and Allison Hagan adapting it for the web, which aired January 12, 2021.