Eric Mack CNET
The US Pentagon report on UFOs finally landed on Friday, and it reveals that all those sightings of bizarre flying things over the years fall into several categories, require more study and remain largely unexplained and unidentified.
The US Pentagon report on UFOs finally landed on Friday, and it reveals that all those sightings of bizarre flying things over the years fall into several categories, require more study and remain largely unexplained and unidentified.
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"The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP," reads the summary of a report posted online by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence shortly before 2 p.m. PT.
"There are probably multiple types of UAP requiring different explanations based on the range of appearances and behaviors described in the available reporting ... UAP clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to US national security," the summary says.
According to the nine-page document, each report of an UAP would "probably... fall into one of five potential explanatory categories: airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, USG or US industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and a catchall 'other' bin."
A few of those categories lead the report authors to highlight potential concerns:
"Safety concerns primarily center on aviators contending with an increasingly cluttered air domain. UAP would also represent a national security challenge if they are foreign adversary collection platforms or provide evidence a potential adversary has developed either a breakthrough or disruptive technology."
"The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP," reads the summary of a report posted online by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence shortly before 2 p.m. PT.
"There are probably multiple types of UAP requiring different explanations based on the range of appearances and behaviors described in the available reporting ... UAP clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to US national security," the summary says.
According to the nine-page document, each report of an UAP would "probably... fall into one of five potential explanatory categories: airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, USG or US industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and a catchall 'other' bin."
A few of those categories lead the report authors to highlight potential concerns:
"Safety concerns primarily center on aviators contending with an increasingly cluttered air domain. UAP would also represent a national security challenge if they are foreign adversary collection platforms or provide evidence a potential adversary has developed either a breakthrough or disruptive technology."
Notably, the Department of Defense UAP Task Force reported 11 "documented instances in which pilots reported near misses with a UAP."
Video: U.S. report finds no evidence UFOs were alien spacecraft (CBS News)
The report goes on to say there isn't enough data to determine whether any UAP belong to a potential adversary.
Some hoped the report would include reality-altering revelations, or at least a watershed moment for the UFO truth movement on par with the Roswell crash incident of 1947 (which was a secret military reconnaissance mission rather than an alien craft). This remains to be seen, however.
"I (am) pleasantly surprised with the report," said blogger Mick West, who has been a prominent debunker of alien spacecraft explanations for UAP, on Twitter. "It seems like a generally accurate assessment of the situation."
For years, pilots and other military personnel have encountered strange things in the sky that have come to be called "unidentified aerial phenomena." The change from "UFO" to "UAP" is, in part, a nod to the likelihood that some of the incidents may be explained by technical glitches or environmental phenomena rather than actual tangible objects.
The report begins by acknowledging some UAP may simply be bugs in the system.
"Various forms of sensors that register UAP generally operate correctly and capture enough real data to allow initial assessments, but some UAP may be attributable to sensor anomalies."
But it goes on to conclude that "most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects."
As for the Navy videos (known by equipment acronyms like Flir, Gofast and Gimbal) that have been seen millions of times in the media and appear to show some sort of craft moving at high speeds and even seeming to perform physics-defying maneuvers, there's this nod:
"In a limited number of incidents, UAP reportedly appeared to exhibit unusual flight characteristics. These observations could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing, or observer misperception and require additional rigorous analysis."
The report was mandated by a funding bill passed last year. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio added a passage requiring the director of national intelligence to produce a report "on unidentified aerial phenomena (also known as "anomalous aerial vehicles"), including observed airborne objects that have not been identified."
The report is required to be public and also includes a classified annex. Officials previously told The New York Times this addendum doesn't contain any evidence of alien visitation.
The report doesn't resolve humanity's long-standing question about whether we've been visited by aliens, but it doesn't mention E.T. at all, either.
This is a developing story that will be updated...
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© U.S. Navy The highly-anticipated Pentagon report will shed more light on some of the incidents recorded by the military over the years.
The report was demanded by Congress after numerous sightings from the U.S. military of vehicles moving through the sky.
UFOs, long dismissed and relegated to movies and science fiction, have begun to shed the farce label in recent years after the release of footage of high-profile U.S. military encounters with aircraft of unknown origin. Although widely anticipated, the Pentagon report isn't likely to yield much conclusive evidence about whether UFOs exist.
The report features 120 incidents involving UFOs examined by Pentagon officials over the last two decades, including three declassified videos that were previously released last April showing "unexplained aerial phenomena."
The videos, released by the Air Force and Navy, show unexplained objects on radar traveling at ultra-fast speeds and performing aerial maneuvres that defy logic and appear to defy physics too.
One shows a small disc-like object speeding across the radar while the other two show a saucer-like object appear to turn over in front of the military aircraft.
However, military leaders have warned that if the technology isn't extra-terrestrial, it may belong to U.S. rivals, such as China or Russia.
A classified version of the report was shared with lawmakers earlier this month. The report is not expected to reveal any groundbreaking revelations about UFOs. The New York Times reported on June 3 that American intelligence officials found no evidence that aerial phenomena witnessed by Navy officials in recent years are alien spacecraft, but the report still cannot explain the odd sightings. Citing anonymous officials, the paper reported that the majority of the report did not originate from any American military or other U.S. government technology, but officials said that the investigation will not likely reach any other firm conclusions on UFOs.
Video: New video raises more UFO questions ahead of Pentagon report release (TODAY)
The Defense Department has been quietly gathering data since 2007 as part of the military's little-known Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. More recently, in June 2020, tucked into the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) added language requesting that the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense create a report with "a detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence reporting." Two months later, the Pentagon became more serious about UFOs, and created a task force to investigate the encounters by U.S. military aircraft.
The task force's job is to "detect, analyze and catalog" alien events, and "gain insight" into the "nature and origins" of UFOs, according to the Pentagon.
In May, former Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves told CBS that his F/A-18F squadron began seeing UFOs hovering over restricted airspace southeast of Virginia Beach in 2014.
He said his pilots see them off the Atlantic Coast all the time. "Every day. Every day for at least a couple years," he said.
The government has mainly ignored UFOs since 1969, when it closed its Project Blue Book investigation. It logged 12,618 UFO sightings between 1947 and 1969.
The report was demanded by Congress after numerous sightings from the U.S. military of vehicles moving through the sky.
UFOs, long dismissed and relegated to movies and science fiction, have begun to shed the farce label in recent years after the release of footage of high-profile U.S. military encounters with aircraft of unknown origin. Although widely anticipated, the Pentagon report isn't likely to yield much conclusive evidence about whether UFOs exist.
The report features 120 incidents involving UFOs examined by Pentagon officials over the last two decades, including three declassified videos that were previously released last April showing "unexplained aerial phenomena."
The videos, released by the Air Force and Navy, show unexplained objects on radar traveling at ultra-fast speeds and performing aerial maneuvres that defy logic and appear to defy physics too.
One shows a small disc-like object speeding across the radar while the other two show a saucer-like object appear to turn over in front of the military aircraft.
However, military leaders have warned that if the technology isn't extra-terrestrial, it may belong to U.S. rivals, such as China or Russia.
A classified version of the report was shared with lawmakers earlier this month. The report is not expected to reveal any groundbreaking revelations about UFOs. The New York Times reported on June 3 that American intelligence officials found no evidence that aerial phenomena witnessed by Navy officials in recent years are alien spacecraft, but the report still cannot explain the odd sightings. Citing anonymous officials, the paper reported that the majority of the report did not originate from any American military or other U.S. government technology, but officials said that the investigation will not likely reach any other firm conclusions on UFOs.
Video: New video raises more UFO questions ahead of Pentagon report release (TODAY)
The Defense Department has been quietly gathering data since 2007 as part of the military's little-known Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. More recently, in June 2020, tucked into the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) added language requesting that the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense create a report with "a detailed analysis of unidentified aerial phenomena data and intelligence reporting." Two months later, the Pentagon became more serious about UFOs, and created a task force to investigate the encounters by U.S. military aircraft.
The task force's job is to "detect, analyze and catalog" alien events, and "gain insight" into the "nature and origins" of UFOs, according to the Pentagon.
In May, former Navy pilot Lieutenant Ryan Graves told CBS that his F/A-18F squadron began seeing UFOs hovering over restricted airspace southeast of Virginia Beach in 2014.
He said his pilots see them off the Atlantic Coast all the time. "Every day. Every day for at least a couple years," he said.
The government has mainly ignored UFOs since 1969, when it closed its Project Blue Book investigation. It logged 12,618 UFO sightings between 1947 and 1969.
A new survey published on Tuesday by market research company Piplsay has found that nearly half of Americans say they are more interested in UFOs and aliens in the wake of new footage that was recently released by the Pentagon, and the promise of more to be released soon. This is a stick image of an artist's rendering of a UFO. ursatii iStock/Getty
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