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During the UAP hearing yesterday from the US House Oversight Committee, Michael Gold, a witness who is a former NASA official involved with NASA’s UAP study team, gave the Vulcan Salute while being sworn in. His smile is like “Yeah I’m doin it”.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's been an incredibly slow churn to progress.

The most noteworthy thing at yesterday's hearing was a report on a Unclassified secret access program - Immaculate constellations which outlines types of UAPs and their behavior. The problem is it's brought in via an unverified source, either current or former member of the DoD. Also it's improperly formatted for a DoD doc. But that can possibly be explained via them editing it for public use. Otherwise it was mostly just what's already been known just told under oath in an official context. It also has a much greater emphasis on USOs(underwater UAPs).

The most interesting and ironclad to come from everything so far has been Schumer's Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act of 2024 (UAPDA) which is attempting to get passed with the NDAA (Annual defense act). In the act it lays out the groundwork for UAPs existence and that the government is in charge of both reconnaissance and recovery of them, and most of the secrets are held behind the Department of Energy.

A lot of Chuck Schumer's comments and amendments play relatively safe though saying "if this exists" then here's a law. But there was also a lot of work put into a 2023 UAPDA with that NDAA and actually got shot down by Republican military industrial complex lackeys so take from that as you will.

The 2023 amendment was fought over heavily because it required a return of all classified uap biological materials and non biologics to be returned to the US government from private contractors. Which is another big bullet point.

I think the most news we'll get soon is whether the 2024 version of the UAPDA is included in the NDAA this year.