[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 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
[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
sighting was reported an investigation usually results in one of the following categorizations. airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomenon, us government or us industry elemental programs or an adversary systems or unexplained sightings that merit more investigations. this is just shy of 90minutes . the subcommittee will come to order. without objection the chair may declare reset at anytime. i want to recognize a moment of silence for the victims of the white supremacist hate crime in buffalo newyork. the subcommittee has focused intently on that threat in open and closed hearings . this is utterly devastating to see more victims of this violence. buffalo our heart breaks for you. with that i asked my colleagues to join. we will now turn to the business of this hearing. more than 50 years ago the us 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