Before we get started, i want to recognize a moment of silence for the victims of white supremacist hate crimes in buffalo new york. The subcommittee has focused intently on that threat in both open and close hearings. This it is devastating to see victims of this violence. My heart breaks for you. We will now turn to the business of this hearing. More than 50 years ago the u. S. Government and it project blue book. An effort to catalog and understand sightings of objects in the air that could not otherwise be explained. For more than 20 years that project treated unidentified anomalies as a National Security threat to be monitored and investigated. In 2017 we learned for the first time from the department of defense they had started a Similar Organization tracking what we now call unidentified aerial phenomena, or you a piece. Last, Year Congress rewrote the charter for that organization now called the airborne object identification and management synchronization group, or aim smog fo