Who?
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) — Member, Armed Services Committee
LISTEN: Laslo & Kaine
Ask a Pol asks:
Have you gotten any update on the UAP — or “drone swarms,” as most policymakers say — that shut Langley Air Force Base down in 2023?
Key Kaine:
“No, no,” Sen. Tim Kaine exclusively tells Ask a Pol. ”Bottom line is the radar — we’ve discovered some things in the last couple of years. Radar does a better job at picking up fast things than slow things and large things than small things.”
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ICYMI — Kaine’s pressed for Langley answers for years
Caught our ear:
Were you able to address that in this year’s NDAA — or National Defense Authorization Act?
“There were a couple, yes,” Kaine tells us. “The COUNTER Act that Sen. [Kirsten] Gillibrand and [Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom] Cotton put in, I think would help them address it.”
PSA: “Drone” means “UAP” on Capitol Hill
But that’ll give clarity to the Pentagon for bases like Langley?
“Yes,” Kaine says.
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Tim Kaine (10-21-2025)
SCENE: Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo hops an elevator in the US Capitol basement with Sen. Tim Kaine.
Matt Laslo: “Hey how are you, sir.”
Tim Kaine: “Good.”
M.L.: “Mind if I hop up with ya?”
T.K.: “Yeah.”
Kaine motions for Laslo to join him on the Senators Only elevator.
M.L.: “Anything fun in the SCIF?”
Kaine had just left a classified SCIF briefing with other Senators on the Armed Services Committee.
T.K.: “Not really.”
M.L.: “Have you gotten any update on Langley?”
T.K.: “Which?”
M.L.: “What shut Langley down in 2023?”
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T.K.: “They — no, no.”
M.L.: “Yeah?”
T.K.: “I mean, bottom line is the radar — we’ve discovered some things in the last couple of years. Radar does a better job at picking up fast things than slow things and large things than small things.”
M.L.: “Yeah? Were you able to address that in this year’s NDAA?”
T.K.: “There were a couple, yes. The COUNTER Act that Sen. [Kirsten] Gillibrand and [Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom] Cotton put in, I think would help them address it. This was a hearing just about this new structure.”
ICYMI — details on their effort in the NDAA
M.L.: “But that’ll give clarity to the Pentagon, to bases like Langley?”
T.K.: “Yes.”
M.L.: “Yeah?”
Kaine nods affirmativey.
