Ronald Moultrie, who oversees the new group as US undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security, is one of two officials called to testify during Tuesday’s hearing. The other is Scott Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence.
Both were to testify behind closed doors after the public hearing.
Although not conclusive, last year’s report said the FANI sightings likely lacked a single explanation.
According to the report, more data and analysis is needed to determine whether they represent some exotic air system developed by a secret US government or commercial entity, or by a foreign power such as China or Russia.
Defense and intelligence analysts have also not yet ruled out an extraterrestrial origin for any FANI cases, senior US officials told reporters ahead of the report’s release last year, though the document itself avoided any explicit reference to such possibilities.
A turning point for the US
However, the report marked a turning point for the US government after decades of deflecting, discrediting and discrediting sightings of unidentified flying objects and “flying saucers” dating back to the 1940s.
The session will mark the first open congressional hearing on the issue since the US Air Force ended an inconclusive UFO program codenamed Project Blue Book in 1969.