Pentagon is struggling to explain more than 170 fresh UFO reports, new document reveals

The U.S. authorities has been inundated with a whole lot of UFO encounter stories previously yr, and about half of them stay inexplicable, in line with an unclassified doc launched by the Pentagon (opens in new tab) Thursday (Jan. 12).

The 11-page report, filed by the Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence (ODNI), reveals that the Pentagon has cataloged a complete of 510 stories of alleged sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) — or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), as the federal government prefers to name them — largely filed by U.S. army personnel. Of those instances, 366 have been newly recognized in 2022, whereas the remaining 144 have been recognized in a previous ODNI report that checked out UFO knowledge compiled between 2004 and 2017.

Of the 366 newly opened instances, 195 have been initially resolved with comparatively mundane explanations; in line with the report, 26 instances have been recognized as drones, 163 have been categorised as “balloons or balloon-like entities,” and 6 have been labeled as airborne muddle, corresponding to birds or plastic luggage. These findings match with prior claims from Pentagon officers that almost all latest UAP stories have been probably the outcomes of overseas surveillance drones and muddle.

The remaining 171 instances are nonetheless “uncharacterized and unattributed,” attributable to an absence of detailed knowledge, in line with the report. A few of these instances, which concerned objects transferring in uncommon or inexplicable methods, stay underneath investigation.

The report declines to say the opportunity of alien involvement in any instances.

Nevertheless, it does state that “no encounters with UAP confirmed to contribute on to opposed health-related results to the observer” — opposite to a litany of questionable UAP stories launched in 2022 claiming that some civilians suffered radiation burns, mind injury or “unaccounted for being pregnant” because of UFO encounters. (These stories date way back to 1873 and weren’t a part of the Pentagon’s latest investigations.)

The U.S. authorities has taken a renewed curiosity in UFO investigations over the previous a number of years, ever since leaked army footage of a number of unidentified plane transferring in seemingly unimaginable methods made its option to the mainstream media.

In early 2022, the Pentagon based a brand new workplace particularly to coordinate and examine UFO stories from U.S. army personnel. The workplace, known as the All-domain Anomaly Decision Workplace, has taken cost of the 366 newly recognized stories and expects to obtain many extra as the federal government works to destigmatize UAP reporting within the curiosity of nationwide safety, company officers mentioned.

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