A large unidentified flying object was recently observed over a missile base in Montana.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is planning to hold a hearing to increase the credibility of the Pentagon’s office responsible for investigating unidentified aerial phenomena, according to a senior lawmaker.
The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was established in July 2022 with the help of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York. She told the Daily Mail on Monday that she is working to schedule a hearing within a few weeks.
“It’s a priority for me because I think it’s very important we continue to make things publicly available,” Gillibrand said.
The Armed Services Committee plans to present “a progress report on how many unidentified aerial phenomena [UAP] we’ve assessed and analyzed, give examples of what we have identified and give examples of what we haven’t identified,” she told the outlet.
According to Gillibrand, the hearing should rebuild public trust in AARO, following several claims by military whistleblowers that the government is covering up potential alien encounters.
“We also want to try to continue to build credibility within this office [AARO] so more of the public can feed in sightings and have a place and a platform to send information and inquiries,” she added, “because that’s eventually what this office is supposed to do.”
The hearing announcement comes just two weeks after a video of a “huge UFO” with “tons of blinking and spinning lights” was posted on Reddit. The sighting was recorded in Choteau, Montana, less than 100 kilometers from the Malmstrom Air Force Base, a major nuclear missile facility.
“The photos aren’t scary, but seeing what you truly believe to be a massive object in the silent night sky going over YOUR head and home carries a lot more emotional weight in person,” said the anonymous witness.
When some users suggested the phenomenon may have been a constellation of Elon Musk’s Starlink communication satellites, the witness disagreed.
“I’m familiar with Starlink videos,” he wrote. “’While we were watching the object it was very apparent that the lights were around the silhouette of a large craft. You could not ‘see between the lights’, it was solid dark behind them. Our take is that we were seeing a disc shape from the side.”
The encounter happened around 10 pm local time on August 31, the man said, adding that his wife was “shaking and crying from the experience” afterwards.