[inaudible conversations] [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. Its 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 wh
Before we get started i want to recognize a motor silence for the victims of the white supremacist hate crime in buffalo new york. The committee has focused intently on that threaten post open and closed hearings. It is utterly devastating to see more victims of this violence. Buffalo, our heart breaks for you. With that, i asked my colleagues to join. Pardon me, we will not turn the business of this hearing. More than 50 years ago the u. S. Government ended a project, you put, an effort to catalog and understand the sightings of objects in the air. They cannot otherwise be explained. For more than 20 years, that project had treated unidentified anomalies in our airspace as a National Security threat to be monitored and investigated. In 2017, we learned for the first time that the department of defense had quietly restarted a Similar Organization what we call now call unidentified aerial phenomena, or uaps. Last Year Congress rewrote the charter for that organization, now called the ai