{"id":14519,"date":"2021-06-25T20:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=14519"},"modified":"2021-06-25T20:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T20:23:14","slug":"senator-marco-rubio-issues-statement-just-prior-to-uap-report-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/senator-marco-rubio-issues-statement-just-prior-to-uap-report-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Marco Rubio Issues Statement Just Prior To UAP Report Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What may be just moments away from the release of the U.S. Intelligence Community&#8217;s UFO\/UAP report, Senator Marco Rubio has issued the following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?ID=4DB34602-86EB-4006-B2E1-0FAFECAED80B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h3>Rubio Statement on UAP Report<\/h3>\n<p><main role=\"main\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"main-inner\">\n<div class=\"subpage\">\n<div class=\"subpage-content\">\n<div class=\"subpage-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"group_9eb7397b-c22f-4fe2-9bea-437938772cd8\" class=\"pagegroup pagegroup_posttypes odd first last\">\n<div class=\"section posttypelayout_monthyear\">\n<div class=\"element element_posttypes\">\n<article class=\"post clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Miami, FL \u2014<\/strong>\u00a0Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL) released a statement on the unclassified report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cFor years, the men and women we trust to defend our country reported encounters with unidentified aircraft that had superior capabilities, and for years their concerns were often ignored and ridiculed,\u201d\u00a0<strong>Rubio said<\/strong>.\u00a0\u201cThis report is an important first step in cataloging these incidents, but it is just a first step. The Defense Department and Intelligence Community have a lot of work to do before we can actually understand whether these aerial threats present a serious national security concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In 2020, Rubio, as Acting Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, included report language in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 directing ODNI to submit a report to congressional intelligence and armed services committees on unidentified aerial phenomena.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>It was also released in Spanish:<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><strong>RUBIO SOBRE INFORME DE FEN\u00d3MENOS A\u00c9REOS NO IDENTIFICADOS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Miami, FL\u2014<\/strong>\u00a0El vicepresidente del Comit\u00e9 Selecto de Inteligencia del Senado, Marco Rubio (R-FL), emiti\u00f3 la siguiente declaraci\u00f3n sobre el informe no confidencial de los fen\u00f3menos a\u00e9reos no identificados (UAP, por sus siglas en espa\u00f1ol) emitido por la Oficina del Director Nacional de Inteligencia (ODNI, por sus siglas en espa\u00f1ol).<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cPor a\u00f1os, los hombres y mujeres en los que confiamos para defender nuestro pa\u00eds informaron de encuentros con aeronaves no identificadas que ten\u00edan capacidades superiores, y por a\u00f1os, sus preocupaciones a menudo fueron ignoradas y ridiculizadas\u201d,\u00a0<strong>Rubio dijo<\/strong>. \u201cEste informe es un primer paso importante para catalogar estos incidentes, pero es solo un primer paso. El Departamento de Defensa y la Comunidad de Inteligencia tienen mucho trabajo por hacer antes que podamos comprender realmente si estas amenazas a\u00e9reas representan un problema de seguridad nacional grave&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">###<\/p>\n<div class=\"nodecontents\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"foot clear clearfix hidden-print\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What may be just moments away from the release of the U.S. Intelligence Community&#8217;s UFO\/UAP report, Senator Marco Rubio has issued the following statement: Rubio Statement on UAP Report Miami, FL \u2014\u00a0Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-FL) released a statement on the unclassified report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) issued by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,32],"tags":[741,1588,1021],"class_list":{"0":"post-14519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-fringe","8":"category-ufo-phenomena","9":"tag-marco-rubio","10":"tag-uaps","11":"tag-ufos"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1c-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}