The director of National Intelligence and the secretary of defense have a little less than 3 months now to provide the congressional intelligence and armed services committees with an unclassified report about "unidentified aerial phenomena."
President Donald Trump signed the $2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill into law in December.
This stipulation that was tucked into the "committee comment" section of the intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, which was contained in the massive spending bill.
"The Committee further directs the report to include:
A detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence reporting collected or held by the Office of Naval Intelligence, including data and intelligence reporting held by the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force
A detailed analysis of unidentified phenomena data collected by: a. geo-spatial intelligence; b. signals intelligence; c. human intelligence; and d. measurement and signals intelligence
A detailed analysis of data of the FBI, which was derived from investigations of intrusions of unidentified aerial phenomena data over restricted United States airspace
A detailed description of an inter-agency process for ensuring timely data collection and centralized analysis of all unidentified aerial phenomena reporting for the Federal Government, regardless of which service or agency acquired the information
Identification of an official accountable for the process described in paragraph 4
Identification of potential aerospace or other threats posed by the unidentified aerial phenomena to national security, and an assessment of whether this unidentified aerial phenomena activity may be attributed to one or more foreign adversaries
Identification of any incidents or patterns that indicate a potential adversary may have achieved breakthrough aerospace capabilities that could put United States strategic or conventional forces at risk
Recommendations regarding increased collection of data, enhanced research and development, and additional funding and other resources."