to say whether or not there s anything actually unusual here, and whether there s anything that even goes beyond human physics. within the last year, congress has held two hearings on ufos and separate from nasa, the pentagon has created an apartment, all domain anomaly resolution office to study unexplained sightings. this is a newly released video. you ll notice there are two dots moving back and forth. reporter: and even with a growing focus on the unknown, nasa cautions. there s no guarantee that all sightings will be explained. reporter: gadi schwartz, nbc news. that does it for us this hour. katy tur reports starts right now. good to be with you, i m katy tur. there s new reporting that could be a big help to the special counsel in its investigation into donald trump. a source directly familiar tells
Months after the DoD shot down three UFOs believed to be harmless, the Senate Intelligence Committee wants to know why the Pentagon hasn't made more progress, The Post exclusively learned.
places and the military is more than ready. more than ready to defend. we have to bring and ensure america s presence in these contested areas and get back to what is making america strong. we can t give up strategic strongholds because it makes america weak and it makes the world an unstable and decrease please. china has gained influence in the region and we must get back to the fundamentals of military strategy and have places in these contested areas. or this is going to continue on. trace: you talk about military strategy. i want to show this again because this is an unidentified aerial phenomenon and we showed the video earlier. nobody knows what this thing is. it screams down to the bottom of the screen. it was picked up by a drone. and we show this and then i want to play this soundbite. this is from the director of all domain anomaly resolution office
the all domain anomaly resolution office, which is tasked to look at you a ps unidentified aerial phenomena. what normal people call ufos says that they re now up to looking at 650 different cases of these ufos to try to figure out what they are. that is a dramatic increase from one year ago, when the head of this office sean kirkpatrick, said they were looking at about three 150 cases. so part of the question is what s behind this? is it simply noticing more or are there more of these ufos or you? a. p s out there, the head of the office, sean kirkpatrick said. about half of these are of anomalous interesting values, so they re trying to get more data about it and try to figure out what these are. but for those looking for some revelation that the pentagon was in touch with extraterrestrials, patrick shot that one down at the senate hearing. and our research arrow has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity off world technology or
to be forming at these altitudes . we want to expect them to be able to flip up vertically and change directions in an instant. and we wouldn t expect them to have the fuel to be able to hang out in that operation area. um and so as you can hear from the air crew, this was clearly an anomalous event. they had no idea what they were looking at. and these are seasoned pilots with, um, eventually thousands of hours that have been just returning home from an air to air combat mission using these very tools they re using to identify these objects alien in origin. it s not about conclusions right now. we just don t know we don t have enough data. an f 18 isn t the proper scientific tool to be able to investigate this, so we need to figure out the best tool to be able to gather more data, and i think what s going on now with senator kristen gillibrand of the senate armed service, emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee with this hearing that s coming up today. we re going to be able to