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   From: merrick.garland.nointegrity@nytimes.com   
      
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   > Let's see the FBI get warrants to arrest UFO illegal aliens - and live.   
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   Masked in turgid language deep inside next year’s Senate   
   intelligence authorization bill lies the following sentence:   
   "Cross-domain transmedium threats to United States’ national   
   security are expanding exponentially."   
      
   You may shrug.   
      
   But let me run this through the universal translator for a   
   moment. You know. Like the one they use on "Star Trek."   
      
   What if I decoded that sentence to tell you that lawmakers are   
   petrified about growing threats to the U.S. from UFOs?   
      
   Now do I have your attention?   
      
   For the first time in history, Congress is recognizing that   
   unidentified aerial phenomena — or "UAPs" as they’re now called   
   — may exist. And, if Congress approves the intelligence bill,   
   lawmakers will mandate the creation of a special government   
   office to determine what’s terrestrial — and what’s   
   extraterrestrial.   
      
   The truth may be out there. But you can’t find it without first   
   filleting the otherworldly, legislative bill text.   
      
   Unidentified Flying Objects have stumped military pilots for   
   decades. They defy physics. Perform impossible aerodynamic   
   maneuvers against the wind. They zip around at staggering speeds.   
      
   That’s why lawmakers are compelling the military to unravel what   
   we don’t understand.   
      
   "There are unexplained events out there," said former CIA   
   officer and Senate leadership intelligence adviser Ron Marks.   
   "And if you can't explain it, then, as a good intelligence   
   person, you should analyze it to know what’s there and what’s   
   not."   
      
   Lawmakers have long been skeptical of whether the military and   
   intelligence communities were fessing up about what they knew —   
   or conceding what they didn’t know — about stuff that could be   
   flying around overhead.   
      
   That’s why the House Intelligence Committee conducted the first   
   hearing on UFOs in more than 50 years back in May.   
      
   "When we spot something we don't understand or can't identify in   
   our airspace, it's the job of those we entrust with our national   
   security to investigate and to report back," said Intelligence   
   Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif.   
      
   But the hearing may have created more questions than answers.   
      
   Military officials played two videos at the hearing. One   
   depicted a UFO event that they were able to explain as a visual   
   anomaly — thanks to night-vision goggles and recording   
   equipment. The other episode remains a mystery. However, the   
   videos shown at the hearing were challenging to decipher.   
      
   "Congress is responding to classified data because the   
   unclassified data that we had all seen includes fuzzy images   
   that are not very convincing," said Avi Loeb, a theoretical   
   physicist and cosmologist at Harvard University. "And I wouldn't   
   expect such a bill to be authorized unless there was much more   
   convincing evidence, which I’m sure there is."   
      
   There’s concern the military may be hiding something.   
      
   "I've always felt that it was the military attempting to, to   
   some extent, disguise advanced programs that they were working   
   on," said Marks. "But there are some things that do need to be   
   explained."   
      
   Lawmakers also worry that if the technology isn’t emanating from   
   the U.S. or outer space it could be the Russians or Chinese. And   
   that could pose an even bigger threat.   
      
   Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., the top GOPer on the Senate   
   Intelligence Committee, suggested as much in 2020 during an   
   interview with CBS.   
      
   "Frankly, if it’s something outside this planet that might   
   actually be better than the fact that we’ve seen some sort of   
   technological leap from the Chinese or Russians or some other   
   adversary that allows them to conduct this sort of activity,"   
   said Rubio three years ago. "That to me is a national security   
   risk and one we should be looking into."   
      
   This is why lawmakers and others who study the cosmos say it’s   
   incumbent upon the defense and intelligence communities to   
   identify the unidentifiable.   
      
   "The government is the organization that monitors the sky all   
      
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