by Nicholas Ballasy at Just the News
U.S. pilots were “discouraged” for years from reporting suspicious flying objects, according to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Mark Warner.
“Pilots were frankly discouraged from reporting things because it might then hurt your career,” the Virginia Democrat told Just the News. “The military made a very smart decision four or five years ago because things are showing up on radar, visual sightings went up, and they said, ‘No, report.’ Now, in the last two and a half years, under a project called [All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office], there is now a group that’s funded”
AARO is designed to discover and clarify what these objects might be for the federal government’s knowledge, Warner explained. The Pentagon currently refers to unidentified flying objects as “unidentified aerial phenomena,” he noted.
Warner lamented the Biden administration’s handling of the China spy balloon, which drifted across U.S. airspace earlier this month before eventually being shot down off the coast of South Carolina.
The U.S. later downed three other unidentified flying objects over a 3-day period.
“I think there was some damage done by allowing it to float across the whole country,”…
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