Sen. Rubio Confirms UFO Sightings On Military Bases, Pentagon UFO Report Could Be Delayed

U.S. intelligence agencies might not be able to deliver the report on UFO sightings by the deadline, which is set for June 1, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has suggested.

With less than three months left before the deadline, the pressure is mounting for the Pentagon as well other intelligence agencies to submit an unclassified report about "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP) to Congress. However, Rubio said in an interview with Fox Business that he is “not sure they’re gonna come in on time.”

The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF), the Pentagon task force preparing the detailed report on UFO sightings, has been experiencing challenges that may prevent it from meeting the deadline, with Rubio citing the "stigma" associated with reporting strange phenomena.

"Well, first, I’m not sure they’re gonna come in on time to be honest with you, because they miss a lot of deadlines and government on these sorts of things," Rubio told Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo. "But we’ll get a report at some point."

"Second is I don’t know if we’re going to know what I mean, I’m not sure that by June 1, they’ll have reached a hard conclusion about what they’re dealing with. And there may be more questions or new questions than full answers after the fact," he continued.

In a recent interview with former National Intelligence director John Ratcliffe, he said the highly anticipated report will feature “a lot more sightings than have been made public.”

“Some of those have been declassified,” Ratcliffe said.

Rubio echoed this, saying, "There are a lot more sightings then have been made public. Sometimes we wonder whether or not our adversaries have technologies that are a little bit further down the road than we thought or that we realized."

As for what the report may contain, the senator described "things flying over military installations, over military exercises and other places."

"And we don’t know what it is. It isn’t ours. It isn’t anything that’s registered with the FAA, and in many cases, exhibits attributes of things. We’ve never seen technology, the kinds of technology we haven’t seen before," he explained.

Acknowledging that there may be a logical explanation for these sightings, Rubio emphasized the need to find out what exactly these UAPs are.

"Maybe it’s a, you know, something that can be explained away. Maybe it’s a foreign adversary who’s made a technological leap, as you’ve heard the former DNI said, whatever it is, we need to know the answer to it," Rubio said.

"Oh, does this mean UFOs and aliens and extraterrestrials? We don’t have to go so far, it’s very simple," he continued. "There are things flying over national security installations. We don’t know who they are. I don’t know what it is it isn’t ours, we need to find out."

A spokesperson for current director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told Politico that “we are aware of the requirement and will respond accordingly.”