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Some UFOs may be hidden from our national leaders

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Lawmakers redefined "unidentified flying objects" as "unidentifiable aerial phenomena" in the National Defense Authorization Act in 2021 .

The new definition of UAP offers a more broad and empirically conservative bucket for some of these still as-yet-unexplained events.

"Data of any unidentified, spaceborne-only objects may be exempt," an expert says.

GEODSS can track objects as small as a basketball sailing 20,000 miles or more above Earth 's surface.

The full suite of America 's space monitoring, missile defense and early warning platforms could easily be recording critical, perhaps world-changing evidence about UAP .

Guthrie chalks the crux of this problem up to "an absence of overarching political oversight".

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90

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English

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