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Senators want to give the Pentagon\u2019s unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, office a major funding boost to scan the skies and near space for threats from China and beyond \u2013 part of the fallout from the Chinese spy balloon that U.S. jets shot down after it drifted across the U.S. continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand<\/a>, D-N.Y., announced a funding boost for the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office<\/a>, tasked with researching and analyzing UAPs, in the Senate Armed Services Committee\u2019s version of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. House lawmakers have not made their funding request for the office public. The final spending bills will be debated later this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith aggression from adversaries on the rise and with incidents like the Chinese spy balloon, it\u2019s critical to our national security that we have strong air domain awareness over our homeland and around U.S. forces operating overseas,\u201d Gillibrand said in a statement. The Senate bill covers more than just the office\u2019s basic operating expenses, as the 2022 defense budget did last year. It also includes measures to reveal more of what they are finding, <\/b>which will \u201creduce the stigma around this issue of high public interest,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funding push comes after the Chinese spy balloon served as a reminder that U.S. adversaries are increasingly operating in Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere \u2014 and as the public\u2019s fascination with unidentified phenomena grow. In a 2021 Gallup poll, more than 40% of respondents blamed alien spacecraft<\/a> for <\/b>at least some of the unidentified incidents in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gillibrand\u2019s office would not say what how much more funding the anomaly office would receive, if the measure is passed, as it falls under a classified part of the budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the Senate\u2019s text is passed, current or former government contractors would have 60 days to turn over any unidentified-object data they\u2019ve come across to the Pentagon office. Contractors would also be required to provide a \u201ccomprehensive list of all non-earth origin or exotic unidentified anomalous phenomena material,\u201d according to the Senate\u2019s intelligence authorization bill text<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Intelligence Authorization Act also gave Pentagon UAP office director Sean Kirkpatrick<\/a> a greater role in coordinating the government\u2019s response to unidentified anomalous phenomena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Defense Scoop first reported<\/a> on the changes in the <\/b>intelligence bill regarding the anomaly office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lawmakers have been campaigning to fully fund the office for months. In a March hearing, <\/b>Gilibrand grilled Defense Secretary Lloyd <\/a>Austin over the administration\u2019s budget request for 2024 that left the unidentified anomaly office underfunded for the second year in a row<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin pledged to fully support the office in the future \u2014 and told lawmakers the administration initially requested $11 million for the office. The Pentagon would not confirm the figure that Austin mentioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey just put a placeholder number on it,\u201d Sen. Marco Rubio<\/a>, R-Fla., told Military Times the week after the hearing. \u201cLuckily, we\u2019re not going to pay attention to [the Biden administration\u2019s] budget numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Feb. 16, Rubio, Gillibrand and 12 other senators sent a letter<\/a> to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks <\/a>and Deputy Director of National Intelligence Stacey Dixon<\/a> calling for full funding for the anomaly office. <\/b>The Biden administration\u2019s previous funding request for 2023 failed to fund anything beyond the office\u2019s basic operating expenses, the lawmakers argued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lawmakers wrote that the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office \u201cprovides the opportunity to integrate and resolve threats and hazards to the U.S., while also offering increased transparency to the American people and reducing the stigma,\u201d of such sightings. The creation and work of the office has linked its work to popular culture on \u201cArea 51\u2033 conspiracy theories<\/a> and more recent encounters released by the Pentagon that show U.S. military pilots observing unidentified objects<\/a> flying in the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Democrat has focused on anomaly research funding and coordination since the office\u2019s inception. In 2021, she introduced an amendment to the 2022 defense authorization act that replaced the Office of Naval Intelligence\u2019s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force<\/a> and created the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office<\/a>. Gillibrand said the goal of the restructuring was to increase intelligence sharing between the Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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