It will focus on a Pentagon program created last year after the U.S. intelligence community published a preliminary estimate of 144 “unidentified aerial reports” since 2004 – and can only explain one.
The subcommittee of the Intelligence Committee of the House of Representatives on Counter-Terrorism, Counterintelligence and Counter-Proliferation will hold a public hearing on May 17 at 10 am ET. It will be followed by a closed, secret hearing on the Pentagon’s program, known as the Aircraft Identification and Management Synchronization Group.
The two witnesses are Deputy Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald C. Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott W. Bray.
“The American people expect and deserve their leaders in government and intelligence to seriously assess and address any potential risks to national security – especially those we do not fully understand,” said Andre Carson, chairman of the Indiana Democrats’ subcommittee. hearing, in a statement.
House Democrat Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, added that the hearing “will allow the public to hear directly from experts and leaders in the intelligence community about one of the greatest mysteries of our time and to break the cycle of excessive secrecy and speculation with truth and transparency. “
The New York Times was the first to report on the hearing.
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