Not even.
The Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense have just under six months to provide Congressional intelligence and armed forces committees with a non-confidential report on “unidentified aerial phenomena”.
It should also describe in detail “an interagency process to ensure the timely collection of data and centralized analysis of all unidentified aerial phenomena reported to the Federal Government” and designate an official responsible for this process.
Finally, the report must identify any potential national security threats posed by UFOs and assess whether any of the nation’s opponents may be behind such activity, the committee said.
The report sent should not be classified, the committee said, although it may contain a classified attachment.
Congress has long been interested in UFOs
The videos, one from 2004 and the other two from 2015, show what appear to be unidentified flying objects moving quickly while being recorded by infrared cameras. Two of the videos contain members of the service who react with admiration at how quickly objects move. A voice speculates that it could be a drone.
It is not yet clear what the objects are and there is no consensus on their origin. Some believe that they may be drones potentially operated by ground-based adversaries who seek to gather intelligence, rather than the extraterrestrials that we normally equate with UFOs.
Members of Congress and Pentagon officials have long been concerned about the appearance of unidentified aircraft that flew over American military bases. The Senate Intelligence Committee voted last June to have the Pentagon and the intelligence community provide a public analysis of the meetings.
This program was launched in 2007 and ended in 2012, according to the Pentagon, because it assessed that there were higher priorities that needed funding.
Ryan Browne of CNN contributed to this report.