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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.
29 triangles, the hypothesis is that those are commercial drones that, because of the use of night vision goggles, appear like triangles? Is that the operating assessment? Mr. Bray. Some type of drone, some type of unmanned aerial system, and it is simply that that light source resolves itself through the night vision goggles onto the SLR camera as a triangle. Mr. Schiff. And have we, in order to prove that hypothesis, flown a drone and observed it with that same technology to see whether we can reproduce the effect? Mr. Bray. The UAP Task Force is aware of studies that have done that. Mr. Schiff. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back. Chairman Carson. The gentleman yields back. Dr. Wenstrup. Dr. Wenstrup. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you all for being here. My first question is through this process where there has been sightings, have the sightings been stationary? Or have they always been sighted from a moving object, from a plane or a ship that may be moving? Have these reports ever come from a stationary object being observed in the sky? Mr. Bray. The UAP Task Force does have reports from stationary, from -- reports from a stationary observer. Dr. Wenstrup. There is a difference observing something when you are moving -- Mr. Bray. Right. Dr. Wenstrup. -- as well as it is physics, right? Mr. Bray. Right.
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