William Timmons

“I am running out of time. The last thing is that we need authorities. Law enforcement, military do not have authorities to actually engage, and we need to—Congress needs to act to give those authorities to local law enforcement and the military so they have clear guidelines on how to assess these issues going forward.”

“To the rest of the panel, was the Wall Street Journal article the first time that y'all were made aware of what was essentially an over–2-week UAP frenzy over Langley Air Force Base? Were y'all aware of this prior to the Wall Street Journal article? Anybody. A show of hands.”

“Law enforcement, military do not have authorities to actually engage, and we need to—Congress needs to act to give those authorities to local law enforcement and the military so they have clear guidelines on how to assess these issues going forward.”

“If it is China, it is scary because they have a lot of technology that we cannot explain. And if it is nonhuman, that is scary because we do not know the intent.”

“And it is my understanding that there has been an ever-increasing-in-number and—I am trying to think how to say this, because I wear two different hats. I am still in the Air Force. So, I mean, it seems that they are becoming increasingly brash. And the question that we really have to figure out is, is it China or is it nonhuman? And I think that is the biggest question the American people want to know.”

“Mr. Shellenberger, you are particularly familiar with the Langley Air Force Base incident a year ago? Are you familiar?”

“Are y'all aware of any task force at the Pentagon or in the national security apparatus that is trying to assess the answer to that question?”

“I would imagine a large percentage of the American population became aware of that with the Wall Street Journal article. Would you agree with that?”

“It seems that a lot of these sightings occur near military installations. Do you think that these UAPs are intentionally targeting military installations, or do you think that we have increased abilities to monitor surrounding military installations?”

“And, you know, we have been hearing about these for years, but they have generally been isolated and not as consistent and over critical military installations. Would you say that's fair? Is this becoming increasingly—is it happening more and more?”