[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order and without objection the chair can declare recess. a moment of silence for the victims of white supremist hate crime in buffalo, new york. the subcommittee has focused intently on that threat in open and closed hearings. it s utterly devastating to see more victims of this violence. buffalo, our heart breaks for you. [moment of silence] with that, i ask my colleagues to join pardon me, we will now turn to the business of this hearing. more than 50 years ago the u.s. government ended 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 in our air space as a national security threat to be on monitored and investigated. in 2017 we learned for the first time the department of defense had quietly restarted a similar organization tracking what we now c
[inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order and without objection the chair can declare recess. a moment of silence for the victims of white supremist hate crime in buffalo, new york. the subcommittee has focused intently on that threat in open and closed hearings. it s utterly devastating to see more victims of this violence. buffalo, our heart breaks for you. [moment of silence] with that, i ask my colleagues to join pardon me, we will now turn to the business of this hearing. more than 50 years ago the u.s. government ended 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 in our air space as a national security threat to be on monitored and investigated. in 2017 we learned for the first time the department of defense had quietly restarted a similar organization tracking what we now call unidentified aerial ph
the subcommittee will come to order. without objection, the chair may declare a recess at any time. before we get started, i want to recognize a moment of silence for the victims of the white supremacist hate crime in buffalo, new york. the subcommittee has focused intently on that threat in both open and closed hearings. this is utterly devastating, to see more victims of this violence. buffalo, our heart breaks for you. with that, i ask my colleagues to join pardon me, we will now turn to the business of this hearing. more than 50 years ago the u.s. government ended 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 and identified anomalies in our airspace as a national security threat to be monitored and investigated. in 2017, we learn for the first time that the department of defense had quietly restarted a similar organization, tracking what we now
yeah, i could give you something a little stronger. this meeting will come to order. let me first of all welcome all our guests, we are just so delighted to have you all and i want to thank you again for the gracious hospitality that was shown to me as i visited with you all. i really enjoyed it and the weather was all canadian. and i enjoyed that also. we ll get started today, i want to welcome our friends from the north. from canada, to continue the committee is very important conversation about how we pursuit to critical levels. addressing energy security and climate change. these two goals arm ritual exclusive and it s imperative that we address. both we all agree that putin has used energy resources as a weapon to inflict pain on europe. we all agree that putin has used russia s oil and gas resources and a weapon to inflict terrible pain on the ukrainian people and on your up. other energy rich autocracies are taking note. we will be folds to think they wouldn t use sim
the subcommittee will come to order and without objection the chair may declare recess at any time. before we get started, i want to recognize a moment of silence for the victims of white supremicist hate crime in buffalo, new york. the subcommittee has focused intently on that threat in open and closed hearings. ntly on that threat in open and closed hearings. it s utterly devastating to see more victims of this violence. buffalo, our heart breaks for you. [moment of silence] with that, i ask my colleagues to join pardon me, we will now turn to the business of this hearing. more than 50 years ago the u.s. government ended 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 in our air space as a national security threat to be on monitored and investigated. in 2017 we learned for the first time the department of defense had quietly r