The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is “actively working” on a report about UFOs, an effort backed by President Joe Biden, the White House said Tuesday.
“We take reports of incursions into our air base by any aircraft, identified or unidentified, very seriously,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters when asked about reports of aerial phenomena in the United States’s airspace. “Certainly the president supports ODNI putting together a report.”
Asked whether the White House would commit to disclosing the report’s findings in full, Psaki pointed to the intelligence department leading the investigation.
“In terms of disclosure, that would be up to them,” she said.
The report legislation signed by former President Donald Trump last year calling on the country’s intelligence agencies to provide a report on UFOs within 180 days.
In March, John Ratcliffe, the former director of national intelligence during the Trump administration, told Fox News that the report would detail new sightings.
The approaching deadline has stoked renewed interest in the issue.
In an interview with CBS’s The Late Late Show with James Corden last week, former President Barack Obama said U.S. military pilots and satellites had captured unrecognized objects in U.S. airspace.
“What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are,” Obama said.
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“We can’t explain how they move, their trajectory,” he continued. “They did not have an easily explainable pattern. And so I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is.”
Asked to respond to the former president’s remarks during a joint press conference with South Korea President Moon Jae-in last week, Biden said, “I would ask him again.”
