Transcript: Briefing to the Senate Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities - Open Hearing: April 19, 2023

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1 normalize that into DOD policy and guidance.
2 We are bringing in all of our interagency partners. So
3 NASA is providing a liaison for us. I have FBI liaison. I
4 have OSI liaison. I have service liaisons. Half of my
5 staff come from the IC. Half of my staff come from other
6 scientific and technical backgrounds. I have DOE.
7 And so what we are trying to do is ensure, again, as I
8 make UAP into SEP they get handed off to the people that
9 that is their mission to go do so that we are not
10 duplicating that.
11 I am not going to go chase the Chinese high-altitude
12 balloon, for example. That is not my job. It is not an
13 unknown and it is not anomalous anymore. Now it goes over
14 to them.
15 Senator Ernst: Very good. Thank you, Madam Chair.
16 Senator Gillibrand: Thank you.
17 I want to just follow up on the filters for
18 surveillance. Outside observers have speculated that DOD
19 sets filters on certain sensors to eliminate objects that
20 are moving really fast or slow because what we are looking
21 for militarily are conventional aircraft and missiles. UAP
22 that does not fit into these programs would thereby be
23 weeded out and never noticed.
24 This speculation was proven to be true during the UAP
25 incidents over North America where DOD publicly acknowledged