a us congressional representative announced the existence of a reel-to-reel audio recording of a 1952 air force briefing on the washington dc ufo incidents, with mit lincoln laboratory confirmed as holding and prepared to release the material. at a separate congressional forum on uap transparency, a former state department and dod analyst testified publicly that the us has no policy framework for the scenario where china or russia possesses recovered uap technology — framing it as a concrete intelligence gap rather than a hypothetical. steven spielberg released a film the same week depicting government obstruction of ufo disclosure.