Rep. Luna Requests UAP Video, With a List of Names.

[JMartJr]

All you need is an enemy for there to be a "very real threat".

Do you even need that? If its unknown clutter of sufficient mass to cause damage if you hit it, the distinction between "hazard" and "threat" might not be as important to the hypotgetical sincerely concerned lay-person (in Congress or in UFOlogy) as that it is a potential problem.

 

[Mendel]

If its unknown clutter of sufficient mass to cause damage if you hit it,

like birds

aircraft hitting unidentified "clutter" is just not a thing
the last incident that came even close was a ballasted weather balloon, and that never showed up as a glowing "orb" on any video or infrared
in fact, I can guarantee you that no pilot will crash willingly into a glowing orb, and any such collisions that have ocurred involved that "orb" being an anti-aircraft missile (which I admit are a threat, but not unidentified, and not on US territory¹).

¹ What we have seen on US territory is US agencies shooting at stuff, e.g. https://www.metabunk.org/threads/fa...mexico-airspace-for-10-days.14740/post-363954