Many of us may consider UFOs and potential contact from outside our world the stuff of science fiction creators or overheated imaginations.
But U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is convinced that there have been enough of these unexplained phenomena that Americans need answers to these sightings.
In an interview on Wednesday with MysteryWire.com, the Florida Republican suggested there may be implications for national security that we must explore.
Rubio was responding to recent reports that the Pentagon had confirmed as authentic photographs taken by a Navy F-18 crew of objects above a Navy base in Virginia and of a Navy crew’s infrared footage of weird green “pyramids” over ships in California.
All of the images were captured in 2019, according to MysteryWire.com.
“The bottom line is that we’ve had now consistent reports of objects flying over military installations and military training areas, and it’s not the U.S. government. And so anytime I see things flying over installations that are not ours, we need to know who they are. We need to know why they’re there,” Rubio told MysterWire.com.
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“Other people want to speculate about other things that are more exciting – UFOs, aliens, and all that sort of thing. … We just don’t know what it is. I think at a very basic level, there are things flying over our military installations, there are things flying over the skies of the United States, and we don’t know what they are, or where they came from. We need to have answers to it. And we need to be working on getting an answer to it.”
The government is expected to produce a report on some of these sightings by June 1. The intelligence community began looking into such reports last fall, and its findings were mandated in a bill former President Donald Trump signed in December.
In a recent interview with Fox News, John Ratcliffe, Trump’s former intel director, said there were many more sightings than have been made public.
“When we talk about sightings, we are talking about objects that have seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been picked up by satellite imagery that, frankly, engage in actions that are difficult to explain — movements that are hard to replicate that we don’t have the technology for or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom,” said Ratcliffe.
In his interview, Rubio predicted the report would be late because the government routinely misses deadlines, and because a lot of the groundwork had not been done prior to the demand for a report.
Still, Rubio said, “I do think we’re going to have answers. I do think there’s going to be a report and we will make judgments based on what they do report and what they do show us.”
He added, “It’s one of those things that because of what it implies, there’s a stigma associated with it. A lot of times we look the other way. People say, ‘Well, let’s not talk about that because they’re gonna think you’re weird.’”
“I’m not telling you I know what it is,” he concluded. “It’s a problem. We don’t know what they are, and we need to know what they are.”
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