Senator, and UFO Disclosurist, Marco Rubio spoke to Newsweek ahead of his 60 Minutes interview involving UFOs, airing this Weekend.

“Dozens of men and women we have entrusted with the defense of our country are telling us about encounters with unidentified aircraft with capabilities we do not fully understand,” Rubio told Newsweek.

“We Cannot allow the stigma of UFO’s to keep us from seriously investigating these encounters.”

The interview is in response to the Defense Department's confirmation of the leaked photos and video from 2019 recorded by U.S. Navy personnel.

In 2019 photos and video was leaked to the public claiming to be from navy sailors and pilots (Tic Tac Video). The evidence was brought to light through the work of former Blink-182 member Tom Delonge.

Rubio, in June 2020, added language into the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act requesting the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense to a report with detailed analysis and UFO/UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) data and intelligence reporting.

Two months after the language was added the Pentagon created a task force to investigate the encounters by U.S. military aircraft.