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This is the transcript of the open session of a hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena, held on 17 May 2022 by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation. Under Secretary Ronald Moultrie and Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray testified on the new AOIMSG office, efforts to reduce stigma in reporting, and a UAP database of about 400 reports. Bray showed videos, explained flashing triangles as drones seen through night vision goggles, and called the 2004 Nimitz incident unresolved.
22 spacecraft but about delivering dominant intelligence across the tactical, operational, and strategic spectrum. So my question is: How can AOIMSG lead to prevention of intelligence surprises? Mr. Moultrie. Sure. I will start with that. So the goal of our effort is to integrate it into what we already do on a normal basis which is look for the unknown-unknowns, Congressman, as you stated in your opening remarks, across all domains. So we have been doing this for decades. We have been looking at the space domain, looking at space objects, looking at space weather, looking at space phenomenon. We have been looking at things in the air domains. And as you know, we -- and I will talk more about this in classified session. But we have a very concerted effort to understand adversarial platforms and adversarial development programs. And we do that also on the ground domain. And, of course, we are very interested in what happens in the underwater or sea domain, if you will, subsurface domain. So, if there are objects that our aviators or air crews are encountering in this air domain and their sensors are discovering or detecting some of these objects, we want to just bring that in to the normal process that we have for identifying unknown-unknowns. We want to make sure we have the intelligence requirements that allow us not only to look at that event from the time that it occurs forward, but maybe retrospectively we want to go back and see if we can Government the left of that event to say, was there some developmental program that we, to get to your technical surprise issue, sir, that we should have known about? And, if so, how do we put that intelligence requirement in place to ensure that we are following an adversarial development or any other development that may be out there?
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