Against the still unreleased ODNI/DoD UAP report publication anticipated on Halloween, the Fiscal Year 2023 NDAA seems to be churning forward on time. Douglas Dean Johnson does a “first-pass” at the UFO/UAP-related text in the bill as reconciled by delegates from House and Senate. First up, the Pentagon’s new creation already-running under the title “All-domain Anomalies Resolution Office” would keep that branding. This beats out the Congressionally-proposed “Unidentified Aerospace-Undersea Phenomena Joint Program Office.” It will be observed that whatever the Congressional acronym would have been, “AARO” flows off the tongue far better. Perhaps the most far-reaching protection to “whistleblowers,” a “private cause of action” against the government, has been removed. Some will wince at the dropping of “a proposed definitional change to exclude from the scope of the phenomena being investigated ‘temporary nonattributed objects of those that are positive identified as man-made.'” They may also become uneasy at the transfer of the mandated historical study from Congress’ Government Accountability Office (GAO) to the AARO. Look to Douglas for further analysis. (WM)
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