The White House is taking UFOs seriously.
Amid House hearings on what the military calls unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, National Security Council Coordinator John Kirby was asked about the objects and about government transparency.
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"David Grusch said on a U.S. Air Force panel on UAPs that he was informed of a UAP crash retrieval and reverse engineering program based on interviewing 40 witnesses over four years," a reporter asked during the afternoon press briefing. "Does such a program exist, and do you believe the American people deserve to know if it does?"
Kirby said he had no information to provide.
"We obviously take the issue of unidentified aerial phenomena seriously," he said. "There's a whole office at the Pentagon that is stood up to analyze the data, collect reports, collate those reports, and forward them up appropriately."
Kirby added that in some cases, UAPs have affected military training and military readiness.
Three whistleblowers who claim the Department of Defense has hidden information gathered about unidentified flying objects testified in front of a House of Representatives subcommittee on Wednesday.
But the White House promises that transparency is paramount as the U.S. military studies the issue.
"If your questions is do we think we need to be transparent with the American people, of course we need to be," Kirby said. "But the truth is we don't have hard and fast answers on these things."
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He also said he didn't have a position on whether or not the U.S. government believes there is life outside of Earth.
"What we believe is that there are unexplained aerial phenomena that have been cited and reported by pilots, Navy and Air Force, and that these phenomena have in some cases had an impact on our pilots' ability to fly, train, operate, and stay ready," Kirby said. "That alone makes it a national security issue worth looking at."