The House passed their version of the National Defense Authorization Act, the Defense Department’s budget. It’s big, as always, with a lot of typical items.
New to this year’s NDAA is a UFO watchlist. The Wall Street Journal reports,
“One measure added to the bill by voice vote during the amendment process on the House floor Wednesday would mandate the creation of a secure government reporting system to encourage current and former military personnel, contractors and civilian government employees to share information about “unidentified aerial phenomena,” otherwise known as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, even if they had been constrained by orders or nondisclosure agreements in the past. The provision prohibits reprisals against federal employees or contractors for reporting UFOs through the system and requires regular reports to Congress.”
Ok, I guess. I mean, if it’s needed. But is it needed? And is Congress the right place for “regular reports” on this?
Whatever the case, I’ll take this opportunity to remind everyone that Jimmy Carter saw a UFO.
Carter filed his eye-witness account with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) and International UFO Bureau, Inc. in 1973. The sighting took place in Leary, Georgia back in October of 1969 in the evening shortly after dark. The report says the object changed color and brightness.
This sighting came up during the 1976 presidential campaign and with the mess Nixon left behind any Democrat would’ve won, even one who claimed to have met Buck Rodgers. As a candidate Carter promised to open up government files on UFOs. However, once in office that campaign promise went unfulfilled with national security cited as the reason to withhold any information that the feds may or may not have on UFOs.
Here’s the link to Carter’s report. He lists his occupation as Governor.
