Senior military officers reported that despite the Pentagon’s renewed efforts, there is still no proof that aliens have visited Earth or crashed here.
US defense officials said on Friday that the Pentagon’s efforts to look into anomalous, unidentified objects, whether they are in space, the sky, or underwater, have generated hundreds of fresh reports that are currently being looked into.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence revealed in June 2021 that there had been 144 UFO encounters between 2004 and 2021, 80 of which had been recorded by multiple sensors.
Pentagon: There Has Been A Lot More Reporting
According to Ronald Moultrie, undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security, “we have not seen anything, and we’re still very early on, that would lead us to conclude that any of the objects that we have seen are of alien origin.”
Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s newly established All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which is looking into the sightings, said he was using a scientific approach to the investigation and did not completely rule out the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
“Let me simply say that our analysis is being structured to be very thorough and rigorous. Speaking at the first news conference since AARO was founded in July in response to more than a year of emphasis on UFOs that US military pilots had spotted but were occasionally hesitant to disclose out of fear of stigma, Kirkpatrick stated, “We will go over it all.
Kirkpatrick responded, “Several hundred,” when asked to estimate the number of fresh reports on possible UFO encounters.
Amateur observers and sleuths have long claimed sightings of aircraft that do not seem to match known technology or that seem to defy the laws of physics as proof of extraterrestrial life, with many assuming that the US government possesses more evidence of UFOs than it has published.
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