Just over a year ago, Dylan Borland—a former Air Force geospatial intelligence specialist—told a House Oversight task force that he'd watched a roughly 100-foot triangular craft lift silently off the flight line at Langley Air Force Base in 2012. But there were some questions he couldn’t answer.
\n\nNearly half a dozen times during the hearing, he told members of Congress he could only answer their questions, such as whether a private company he worked for was reverse engineering nonhuman technology, inside a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF. He said he was concerned whether he was “legally even allowed to answer” some questions and at one point cited a fear of being charged under the Espionage Act.
\n\nA year later, on September 14, the Defense Department announced it had lowered that risk, though it falls short of what some in the unidentified anomalous phenomena research community say is needed to achieve broad transparency.
\n\nThe Pentagon said on Monday that it had issued a "targeted legal waiver" allowing all current and former “service members, civilian personnel, and contractors" holding UAP-related national defense information to disclose it to the White House–directed effort that has been dumping UFO files on war.gov since May.
Original source: https://www.wired.com/