White House National Security chief says UFOs are having an ‘impact on our training ranges’ and need to be treated as a ‘legitimate issue’

UFOs are already impacting US fighter pilots’ combat training, a senior national security official warned.

“We know that some of these phenomena have already impacted our training outreach,” said John Kirby, the National Security Council’s strategic communications coordinator under President Biden.

The comments suggest a new approach from the White House, whose press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shyly dismissed questions about the F-22 stealth raptor jets that shot down three UFOs last February, saying, “I love ET the movie.”

Kirby, a retired vice admiral in the US Navy, said the unanswered questions about UFOs should now be treated as a “legitimate issue.”

Speaking at a White House briefing on Monday, he told reporters, “When pilots try to train in the air and they see these things, they’re not sure what they are, and it can impact their ability to use their skills.” perfect. skills.’

While Admiral Kirby emphasized that the Pentagon takes the UFO issue “seriously,” he declined to answer questions about “individual whistleblowers” — in particular, retired senior intelligence officer David Grusch, whose explosive UFO claims have led to public oversight hearings by the Congress scheduled for July 26 next. week.

Last month, Grusch came forward alleging that US military and defense contractors are hiding evidence of UFO crashes, recovered “creatures” and UFO-related deaths.

“I’m not going to talk about individual whistleblowers,” Admiral Kirby respondedwhen asked if he believed the claims of former Pentagon insiders such as Grusch.

According to comments made by Senator Marco Rubio last month, Grusch’s testimony has notably been corroborated in secret hearings by other defense industry witnesses, some of whom may appear before the House Oversight hearing on UFOs scheduled for next Wednesday.

Admiral Kirby dismissed comment on the ridicule that has historically surrounded the UFO topic, insisting the Pentagon wants to “better understand” what is going on in the country’s restricted airspace, where pilots are trained.

‘TThe Pentagon has set up an entire organization to help collect and coordinate the reporting and analysis of UAP sightings across the military,” Kirby said, using the preferred terminology for these airborne conundrums: Unidentified Aerial of Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). ).

“We wouldn’t have created an organization at the Pentagon to analyze and try to collect and coordinate the way these sightings are reported if we hadn’t taken it seriously,” he noted. “Of course we do.”

The comments add further weight to the US Navy’s so-called GIMBAL UFO video from 2015, taken with an F/A-18’s infrared aiming pod and showing a mysterious object flying in restricted airspace off the Atlantic coast.

That airspace, or “warning area,” was cordoned off for naval pilot training exercises.

The US Navy’s 2015 so-called GIMBAL UFO video (above), taken with an F/A-18’s infrared targeting pod, infamously depicted a mysterious object flying in restricted airspace off the Atlantic coast. The airspace was cordoned off for use by naval pilots during training

Kirby also said the current U.S. military effort is the first “coordinated, integrated effort” — an apparent rejection of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency’s now public, but once top-secret, UFO research programs: the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems. Application Program. (AAWSAP) and the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP).

Kirby was quick to add that neither he, the White House, nor the Pentagon have reached any definitive conclusions about the phenomenon, despite shooting down multiple UAPs over Canada and Alaska last February.

“We don’t say what they are or what they aren’t,” Kirby noted.

“We’re saying there’s something our pilots are seeing. We say it has had an effect on some of our training operations. And so we want to get to the bottom of it. We want to understand it better.’

“It has already had an effect,” he repeated.

The questions to Admiral Kirby were posed by Blake Burman, chief Washington correspondent for Nexstar Media’s new cable news network NewsNation, which has made a name for itself for groundbreaking UFO reporting since its launch two years ago.