Bill Chappell
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The Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, says it plans to announce the first two to three airports in its new Gold Plus program later this year.
The voluntary program expands on a system that currently lets around 20 airports use private contractors rather than federal officers.
They include San Francisco and Kansas City.
TSA would maintain oversight at airports that join the Gold Plus program, but private companies would gain more control over the equipment.
TSA wants to move toward a future where AI improves screening imagery and gives travelers accurate wait times for checkpoints.
But a union representing federal workers says privatizing security would take thousands of jobs away from officers who've been keeping air passengers safe.
The documents range from Cold War reports of mysterious flying disks to recent sightings of elliptical objects floating in the air.
Those and other records of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAPs, the new term for UFOs, are now being shared with the public.
In one file, a woman who says she's familiar with U.S.
military aircraft and drones describes seeing a strange metallic ovaloid floating above a tree line in 2023.
She also said that if other people with her hadn't seen the same thing, she wouldn't have spoken up.
President Trump has promised unprecedented transparency for such records.
He posted on social media that the release will allow the public to decide, quote, what the hell is going on.
The documents range from Cold War reports of mysterious flying disks to recent sightings of elliptical objects floating in the air.
Those and other records of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAPs, the new term for UFOs, are now being shared with the public.
In one file, a woman who says she's familiar with U.S.
military aircraft and drones describes seeing a strange metallic ovaloid floating above a tree line in 2023.
She also said that if other people with her hadn't seen the same thing, she wouldn't have spoken up.