“Our ballistic missile defense people were very concerned.”

A careful study of the NDAA’s most recent definition for UAP, as Guthrie noted in his new article, indicates that “data of any unidentified, spaceborne-only objects may be exempt.”

“Under that current statutory definition, there are three kinds of unidentified anomalous phenomena,” Guthrie told Mashable. “The first are airborne objects, or phenomena, that are not immediately identifiable. The second are submerged objects [or phenomena] that are not immediately identifiable — so, these would be unidentified objects in the ‘sea domain,’ or underwater.”

“And then there’s this third category of UAP, which are ‘transmedium objects,’” he continued, “those that are observed to transition between, on the one hand, space and the atmosphere, and, on the other hand, between the atmosphere and bodies of water.”

“Just under that strict reading of the definition,” Guthrie said, “there is no spaceborne-only UAP.”