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The Pentagon has received hundreds of new UFO sighting reports, including “some particularly interesting cases,” but has found no evidence of alien activity, according to the director of the agency that investigates these reports. I repeated that there was no.
The Department of Defense, in collaboration with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and other government agencies, has received a total of 1,652 reports, including It also includes 757 new reports from May 2023 to June 2024. The increase in the number of new sightings, especially since many of the sightings occur near military bases and national security facilities, is helping to catalog, track and investigate what are officially called unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs). This represents the expansion of the U.S. government’s efforts to do so.
“Reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, especially near national security facilities, must be treated seriously by the U.S. government and investigated with scientific rigor,” said John, director of the All Area Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).・Mr. Kosloski stated.
The topic of UAPs has received a lot of attention due to their association with UFO sightings and conspiracy theories that the U.S. government is hiding evidence of aliens.
“It is also important to emphasize that, to date, AARO has found no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial life, activity, or technology,” Kosloski said. “None of the cases AARO has solved have pointed to advanced capabilities or groundbreaking technology.”
Of the new reports AARO has received, nearly 50 have already been closed for everyday items such as balloons, birds and drones, and another 243 apparently for common items, according to the annual report. The case is awaiting final review. A total of 444 new reports were submitted to the active case archive due to a lack of data or evidence that would allow investigators to determine their origin.
AARO said in the report that none of these solved cases were due to foreign adversaries or advanced technology breakthroughs.
However, the remaining 21 cases do not yet have a convincing explanation and require additional data and analysis. Kosloski said some of these are “interesting cases that I, who come from a background in physics and engineering and worked in the (intelligence) community, can’t understand, and I don’t know anyone else who can understand them.” “Hmm,” he said.
Kosloski said these cases primarily occurred in the past 18 months and were comprised of a variety of shapes, including “spherical, cylindrical, (and) triangular.” One of the incidents occurred “over an extended period of time” and “multiple things could have happened,” including the drone being confused with UAP activity.
