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affiliated think tank in washington. approximately 20 markings with classified markings have been found. joining me now former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york and cnn senior legal analyst. i will talk to you in just a second, but evan, what is going on with these additional pages that were found. obviously not the kind of news they want to hear over at the white house. it is not the way the white house would have liked to have disclosed all of this. this is the third disclosure we have had last week. and for the white house, they had told us just about 24 hours ago that they had found one additional document turned over to the justice department in a search at a room that was adjacent to the president s garage in his home in wilmington. and now they say that in the process of turning over those documents or that one document they found an additional five records. so now they have what you mentioned, around 20 records or so, that i have classifi
really stands out is this one. it says that some of these uncharacterized uaps appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities and require further analysis. so is it advanced u.s. technology? is it advanced technology from a foreign adversary such as china or russia? is it extra-terrestrial in origin or something else entirely? we don t know and the u.s. government says it doesn t know either, or at least it will not say so publicly. in this unclassified report. but they did give some explanations for about 163 of the sightings that have been detailed in this report. and here s how they explain those. the vast majority are either balloons or balloon entities. a handful were drones. another handful were what they call airborne clutter. things like birds, weather
events, airborne debris like plastic bags. so the bottom line here, members of congress say that this is a step in the right direction to reducing the stigma associated with reporting sightings of uaps. it s also a step in the right direction to enhancing national security, because remember, a lot of these sightings happen right around military bases or assets. but while it s a step in the right direction, members of congress say the pentagon, the office of the director of national intelligence, still have a long way to go to giving them the answers that they ultimately want. friday the 13th turned out to be a lucky one for a ticket holder in the u.s. state of maine, as the person won the second-largest mega millions jackpot in history. the identity of the winner or winners hasn t been revealed, but the state s lottery says the ticket was sold at a gas station in the town of lebanon, a small