The US Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence reported 144 encounters with UFOs between 2004 and 2021.
The Pentagon’s new push to analyze reviews of UFOs has to date not yielded any proof to recommend that aliens have visited Earth or crash-landed right here, senior army leaders stated.
Nonetheless, the Pentagon’s effort to analyze anomalous, unidentified objects – whether or not they’re in house, the skies, or underwater – has led to lots of of recent reviews that are actually being investigated, US defence officers stated on Friday.
In June 2021 the Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence reported that between 2004 and 2021, there have been 144 encounters with UFOs, 80 of which have been captured on a number of sensors.
Thus far, “we have now not seen something, and we’re nonetheless very early on, that may lead us to imagine that any of the objects that we have now seen are of alien origin”, Ronald Moultrie, undersecretary of defence for intelligence and safety, advised reporters.
Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s newly fashioned All-domain Anomaly Decision Workplace (AARO) – which is investigating the sightings – didn’t rule out the potential for extraterrestrial life and stated he was taking a scientific method to the analysis.
“I’d simply say that we’re structuring our evaluation to be very thorough and rigorous. We’ll undergo all of it,” Kirkpatrick stated, talking on the first information convention since AARO was established in July following greater than a yr of consideration on UFOs that US army pilots had noticed however have been typically reluctant to report attributable to concern of stigma.
“We’ve had heaps extra reporting,” Kirkpatrick stated.
When requested to quantify the variety of new reviews on potential UFO sightings, Kirkpatrick stated “a number of hundred”.
Sightings of plane that don’t seem to match identified expertise or that seem to defy the legal guidelines of physics have lengthy been cited by newbie observers and sleuths as proof of extraterrestrial life, with many speculating the US authorities has extra proof of UFOs than it has revealed.
An up to date report from the Director of Nationwide Intelligence that may present particular figures on new UFO reviews obtained since 2021 is anticipated by the tip of the yr, officers stated.
In Could, the US Congress held its first listening to in additional than half a century on the subject of UFOs, with a number of members expressing concern that whether or not the objects are alien or probably new, unknown expertise being flown by China, Russia or one other potential adversary, the unknown creates a safety danger.
Past unidentifiable objects, there may be loads of new expertise – reminiscent of future stealth bombers and stealth fighters, drones and hypersonic missiles being fielded by each the US and China – that might be mistaken for a UFO.
Kirkpatrick stated his workplace has been coordinating with the Pentagon and the US intelligence group to get the signatures of recent US expertise in an effort to rule out these plane or drones as doable UFOs.
He stated that “very clear mechanisms” can be established with the Division of Defence and the US intelligence group to make sure that his workplace might establish and rule out US expertise from potential UFO sightings.