WASHINGTON DC – A new bill that hopes to protect civil aviators from reprisal for reporting unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) will “close the gap” between reports of UFOs and national security channels, a whistleblower who testified to Congress last year has said.
Speaking to Fox News on Monday, Ryan Graves, a former U.S. Navy fighter pilot, said commercial pilots were “sometimes our best sensors that we have available to us in the sky,” but faced a stigma for reporting sightings.
He added that the Safe Airspace for Americans Act, introduced in the House on Thursday, would create a channel through which pilots could make reports about objects they had seen in the sky, to “make sure that we’re listening to what they say, both for national security reasons and for whatever UAP turn out to be.”
The bill, introduced by California Rep. Robert Garcia, a Democrat, would require the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to establish procedures for reporting UAP sightings and evaluate any threat they might present to American airspace.
Pilots who make reports are specifically protected within the draft legislation from those reports being taken into account for medical and airmen certificates. Nor will they be allowed to face reprisals from employers or the federal government.
“It’s important that folks have an ability to report any sort of UAPs without any fear of retaliation,” Garcia said.
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