Congress Pressed the Navy on UAP: Inside a 2019 Oversight Letter

On July S. Navy, that treated a subject long relegated to the fringe as a matter of congressional oversight. The document, addressed to the Navy Pentagon, opens by noting that Members of Congress and the public had in recent days seen press reports describing unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP) engaging with or encountering Naval aviators — encounters said to have occurred both domestically and abroad during various missions and trainings.

Walker did not present these accounts as settled fact. He framed them as reports requiring scrutiny, and he used that framing to press the Navy for answers. The letter's central move is to cast UAP encounters as simultaneously a security problem and a scientific opening.

Walker writes that, based on pilot accounts, the encounters often involved complex flight patterns and advanced maneuvering demanding extreme advances in quantum mechanics, nuclear science, electromagnetics, and thermodynamics. If the accounts are true, he states, the…