He said there are “objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or in satellite imagery, that engage in actions that are difficult to explain, movements that are hard to replicate, that we don’t have the technology for, or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom.”
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in 2023, Mike Waltz, Trump’s national security adviser and a former Florida lawmaker, said that the government needs “to take this incredibly seriously.”
“It’s not our systems. It’s either our adversaries have things with capabilities that we aren’t aware of or that we can’t explain or it’s other wordly,” he said.