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The Defense Secretary facing a deadlinefrom a lawmaker tonight who is askingfor the release of 46 videos of what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena or UFOs by tomorrow.
So you have your standard understanding of what would be able to function in this time and space continuum.
And then you have these things that are kind of just kind of operating outside of that and what they tend to call these things are interdimensional.
videos with titles like several UAP in vicinity of Columbus, Ohio Airport, UFOs information over Persian Gulf, and Syrian UAP instant acceleration.
All referenced in a letter from Republican Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Luna explaining her urgency writing, "The potential national security threat they pose is troubling."
There are many people in government that we come across that will come up to us, some in various high-level positions that have said,
"Look, we've seen these things or, you know, we we definitely think they're real, we just don't want to be labeled as crazy."
The UFO phenomenon moving from the fringe This is just the beginning. to the mainstream.
>> The technology that we faced was far superior than anything that we had and there's nothing we can do about it.
Nothing. In large part after a bombshell 2017 New York Times report titled "Glowing Orbs and Black Money, The Pentagon's Mysterious UFO Program" that detailed a secret $22 million UFO program in the Pentagon to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects.
The Navy even releasing videos of aerial phenomena spotted during military training flights including this one of an object that appears over the water.
Another seen in a mission from the USS Nimitz of some kind of object that accelerates out of view.
Experts including career officers testifying on Capitol Hill that they've seen even more baffling things they can't explain and
one former intelligence officer saying the US was in possession of a craft and beings that were not human.
Were they, I guess, human or non-human biologics?
Non-human from Hollywood and beyond, the UFO storyline has moved from the big screen That was really close. to real life.
We just had the craziest orb UFO experience.
Singer Kacey Musgraves posting images of what she says were UFOs she recently spotted
while on a flight from Texas to Tennessee.
President Obama reigniting speculation himself with these comments on a recent podcast.
Are aliens real?
Uh they're real, but I haven't seen them
and and and uh they're not being kept in
uh What is it?
>> Area 51.
>> Area 51. But then he walked it back
writing on Instagram, "I saw no evidence
during my presidency that extraterrestrials have made contact with us."
President Trump saying Obama did a quote "really bad thing" disclosing this information and then ordering the release of the UAP files back in February.
As for tomorrow's deadline, the Pentagon telling NBC News in a statement, "As with all congressional correspondence, we will reply directly to the authors of the letter." Tonight
the big question remains, if the truth is out there, will they ever release it?
Allie is joining us now.
You're ready.
You are ready to see some of these videos.
Um I know that this has been like honestly something you've been reporting on for like years.
Yeah, uh years and I'm ready to also be disappointed, Allie, because as I've been reporting this for years, we have consistently been given these deadlines, these dates, there's going to be a hearing, there's this, the president has said uh release all the files and and here we are.
We don't have much, but the thing that I'm I'm very excited about uh is whether or not we're going to see uh some of the videos because the titles are pretty wild.
This is the letter that was sent out to uh the Department of Defense, Department of War and Allie,
again, the thing that's been so frustrating is that we don't have good evidence, right? We do we have sensors, we have all these platforms, but we don't have good evidence.
A lot of this is uh even in the descriptions here, uh United States Air Force F-16C call sign Air Surfer 11 shoots down UAP over Lake uh Huron with AIM-9X Sidewinder. We know what that one is.
That one is going to be You remember that Chinese balloon spy stuff that was happening back in 2023 and how they shot something down? They labeled that a UAP.
That one looks like it's going to be some sort of company that was uh monitoring weather, but then there are other ones in here UAP UAS, underwater stuff next to submarines.
Uh we'll see if we actually see some of that video, but could be very interesting.
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