Pentagon UFO Division Receives ‘Hundreds’ of Sighting Reports

The new Pentagon office tasked with tracking UFO reports has received “hundreds” of new reports, but the agency’s leadership told reporters on Friday that there has been no evidence of extraterrestrial life so far.

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was formed in July to track unidentified objects not just in the sky, but underwater or in space — or perhaps objects capable of moving from one domain to another Next.

The office was formed after more than a year of focus on UFOs that military pilots have observed but sometimes hesitated to report for fear of stigma.

In June 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported 144 such encounters between 2004 and 2021, 80 of which were captured by multiple sensors.

Since then, “we’ve had more reports,” said Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Office of Anomalies. When asked to quantify the amount, Mr Kirkpatrick said “hundreds”.

An update from the director of national intelligence will provide specific numbers for new reports received since 2021 and is expected to be released before the end of the year, officials said.

The office was established not only to study the existence of extraterrestrial life, but also because of the security risks posed by military installations or military aircraft repeatedly encountering UFOs.

In May, Congress held its first hearing on the topic in more than half a century, with several lawmakers expressing concern whether the objects were aliens or potentially new, unknown technology being flown by China, Russia or other potential adversaries, causing unknown causes. Security Risk.

So far, “we haven’t seen anything, and we’re at a very early stage that would lead us to believe that any objects we see are of alien origin,” said Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Rohner De Moultrie (Ronald Moultrie) said and safe.

“We consider any unauthorized system in our airspace to be a threat to security,” he added.

The office is also looking at ways to improve its ability to identify unknown objects, Mr. Moultrie said, such as by recalibrating sensors that might only focus on signatures of known enemy aircraft or drones.

One of the reasons for the hundreds of additional reports may be the department’s outreach efforts to de-stigmatize reporting potential encounters. Each service had also established its own reporting process, Mr Kirkpatrick said.

In addition to unidentifiable objects, there are many new technologies: such as future stealth bombers and stealth fighters, drones and hypersonic missiles deployed by the United States and China – which can all be mistaken for UFOs.

Kirkpatrick said the new office has been coordinating with the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence community to obtain a signature on U.S. technology to rule out those planes or drones.