The unclassified report was demanded by Congress after numerous reports from the US military of vehicles seen moving erratically in the sky. It also follows a cultural shift that saw the US military and US political leadership go from extra-terrestrial-sceptic to ET-curious. But with little conclusive evidence to confirm or deny any intergalactic visitations, it remains to be seen whether any earthling minds will change.
Military leaders warn that the technology, if not alien, may belong to US adversaries such as Russia or China. The UAP task force's unclassified report found "no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation" for the aircrafts, but also did not rule it out. Possible explanations included common aerial objects like birds and drones, atmospheric phenomena such as ice crystals, new developments by US government or private entities, and technologies deployed by foreign adversaries.
The report also includes a catch-all "other" category. Officials examined incidents from the past two decades, including three videos that the Pentagon declassified last year and described as showing "unexplained aerial phenomena". Although no earth-shattering revelations emerged, the existence of a government report on a much-ridiculed issue shows how UFOs have beamed out of the realm of purely science fiction pop culture and into the world of US national security.
The Pentagon established the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force last August to look into observations of unknown flying aircrafts. The group's job was to "detect, analyse and catalogue" these events, as well as to "gain insight" into the "nature and origins" of UFOs, the Pentagon said.
A classified version of its report was provided to lawmakers earlier this month. Public pressure on the US to release what it knows about aliens has been building for decades as civilian groups of so-called ufologists argue that evidence of their existence has been suppressed by the government.
The Pentagon has been quietly gathering data since as part of the military's little-known Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Money for the programme came at the request of Nevada Senator Harry Reid, a Democrat who represented the region that encompasses Area 51 - the military site where conspiracy theorists believe remains collected from an alien crash in the town of Roswell have been studied since Former top officials and even US presidents have recently weighed in on whether the truth truly is out there.
Alien-abduction stories are more complicated, as they tend to involve more psychological components. But some research suggests that at least some such reports may be explained by lucid dreaming , an odd sleep state in which people can control their dreams.
Project Blue Book got to the bottom of the vast majority of the 12, sightings it investigated, ascribing most of them to natural phenomena such as clouds, stars and bright planets. The Air Force researchers could not explain of the encounters, but they concluded that none displayed evidence of otherworldly technology or posed a threat to national security. That lone demystified object was a large, deflating balloon. The investigators stressed that more data are needed to understand UAP, which likely have multiple explanations.
For example, strange and seemingly inexplicable movement patterns "could be the result of sensor errors, spoofing or observer misperception and require additional rigorous analysis," the report states. Advanced technology developed by foreign adversaries is another potential cause. If foreign tech is indeed behind some of these sightings, UAP would "represent a national security challenge," the report adds.
This possibility has spurred the U. In , for example, the Navy formalized its UFO-reporting guidelines, a revision that could remove much of the stigma that has long been associated with sightings, as Politico noted.
The DNI assessment does not explicitly mention the alien hypothesis; it's implicitly lumped into a catch-all "other" category of possible explanations. And there are good reasons not to leap to the E. For example, the Navy pilots' sightings in , and occurred in coastal waters, which is where you might expect to find advanced reconnaissance craft operated by rival nations, pointed out Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the SETI Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute in Mountain View, California.
Flights over the U. And some of the encounters apparently occurred shortly after the Navy jets' radar systems were upgraded, suggesting a glitch of some kind might be responsible.
Indeed, it may be telling that imagery of UFOs, no matter what era it was captured in, tends to depict the objects as fuzzy blobs. Common sense also argues for relatively mundane, terrestrial explanations, and not just because of Occam's Razor the simplest explanation is usually the best one. For example, if some UFOs are indeed alien spacecraft, what exactly are they up to? They don't address climate change; they don't steal our molybdenum.
Related: The search for alien life reference. Still, the E. It's not very scientific to eliminate a hypothesis out of hand, after all, and some UAP encounters are very difficult to explain. For example, the November Navy sightings off the California coast were made by four pilots in two different jets, and they saw the bizarre, fast-moving object with their own eyes, two of the aviators told the CBS news program "60 Minutes" in That rules out the possibility that an instrument glitch was responsible in that case.
And the same UAP was also documented by radar. There's a growing willingness to entertain all possible explanations, including the alien hypothesis, for such encounters.
For example, in July , Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and colleagues announced a venture called the Galileo Project , which will look for evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations ETCs using a network of new telescope systems around the world. Among other aims, the Galileo Project will attempt to determine the true nature of UAP and odd bodies such as 'Oumuamua , the first interstellar object ever observed in our own solar system. It places wholly fictitious magic numbers called money above truth, justice or life itself.
You frame questions about intelligences which primarily exist beyond spacetime, with a worldview hardly advanced over that of George Custer. Donald Hoffman, conscious realism, and the implications this has about looking for aliens from within our four dimensional species specific interface. Obvious this debate is a joke.
There is so much more info pertaining to the UFO and the alien story here. The Grays are here piloting the ships.
Bob Lazar talked about decades ago. Element Antimater and the ability to creat and amplify gravity. Ascending and descending thousands of feet in seconds? The people that have had encounters with the Grays throuout history have all stated. Their stories never deviate details.
Always the same. Large black eyes. Short with big heads. And are capable of complete control over us and our governments have covered it up because they are helpless. They are not from this planet. They have been visiting here for thousands of years.
They have their agenda. Mark, I absolutely agree with your comments. December 11, — at dusk. I shall never forget it. Hey Mark, well said. There is a slight possibility that the creation of these machines have been discovered by a terrestrial nation -s ; however, considering the number of different shapes, sizes, and movements, not probable. As long as it has been since just the Roswell Incident, it could be within the realm of possibility that some nation of the earth might—might—have retro-created a workable flying device but I point out the word, slight.
After all the above being said, I believe there is more chance of my jumping from the ledge of a story building while flapping my arms frantically and landing safely several miles away onto the roof of another tall building. I believe that we will be approached we meaning the entire globe and a new age of information and invention will transpire. Time will tell eventually. This article is flat out wrong. It is likely to not rule out non-human intelligence.
How right u r, Dan, well said. Read my comments about my fellow scientists having such a groundless bias! If you believe in God then you also believe that he does nothing without a purpose so why would he create all of that if this was the only planet that he was going to put life on? Just food for thought.
But we have NO idea, how other Intelligence life forms might Think or logic! If its Russia or China….. If its another earth based nation, it would be safe to say we are already under attack. My favorite line is they would have landed on White House lawn and said hello.
I was an infant at the time. Kenny…best reply by far. Our govt tells us nothing to little about anything.. In the 60s it was a discussion as my grandfather worked for Grumman Aerospace.
I myself lived in a rural L. NY suburb, where circle of grass were in our property…like an indentation of a circular object that had landed. Many sighting of unexplained objects in the sky were reported.
People are afraid of the unknown. The only way to explain is to discredit belief of other life forms than earthlings. We know so little about the vast space and only have ventured out minimally, mars, the moon and yet, there are galaxies we still have yet to discover.
I personally am Not a sci-fi fan and being in the medical profession, tend to believe in science and fact, yet, even my field, we are learning more each year.
One day, we will admit that for a very long time, we have suspected we are not the only life in the universe, one small 0lanet in a vast space we barely have traveled. I personally have seen a UFO long ago mid 80s it was a triangular one and the flying behaviour was something out of this world… if some people keep thinking is a foreign country technology well.. Please stop talking on something you have not seen!!! UFO does not equal alien, but also does not rule it out. Poorly written article.
Admiral Baird warned of this decades ago, we need to be ready to fight ships that can fly from pole to pole in minutes. Mostly everyone is guessing, very few already have the answers. Will those in the know ever share? There will likely be many more gesture reports to counter leaked intelligence and to pacify the masses. We have been weighed measured and deemed unfit to process this information by the ruling classes Little more than mushrooms kept in the dark and fed crap.
Trillions of Tax dollars spent on Dark gov projects home grown or external finally coming to fruition , aliens scouts, Ancient inner earth race, Atlantans coming back up for air , remnants of a resurgent Nazi party take your pick which is easier for you to process, which will help you sleep better tonight take your pick because I believe the truth will only ever be known when a government crumbles and breaks rank in a bid to buy back the trust of its subordinates!
Author should do some fact checking here. A lot of people have speculated, that more Advanced Extraterrestrial life forms, would view us like we view Animals here on Earth; as less Advanced life forms, to VIEW and monitor our behavior and Habits; like the way we Montinor and Track Animals behavior in the wild.
This is a very good Theory. Because like how we Montinor and Track animal Behavior in the wild; and even implant Tracking devices on Animals, to track their behavior patterns; a much more Advanced life form, might look at us as a Experiment, to Observe our Progress and Behavior; and Not really want to interfere with us in order to Contaminate the Experiment. That is why, there is probably very little Contact or Landing of these UFOs, from these possible Extraterrestrial life forms.
They are Monitoring us as a Species. And another point. We have No idea, how other Intelligence life forms might Think or behave, or how Advanced their Technologies could be! The whole animal metaphor to me is silly. We do track and tag animals we think we are much smarter than, but we have yet to track one that figured out how to split the atom! You now can leverage the power to blow up a planet.
If you couple that with the balls and desire we showed to get beyond our skies into the vacuum of space and land on the moon using incredibly crude and dangerous techniques that they would know-we would know could kill us in a second-yet we went and came back anyway-I have to conclude, that even an incredibly advanced civilization would have to take stock of the long term implications of where that road could eventually lead.
If they are really here and revealing themselves to us, its not to perform biology experiments which they can do anywhere, It may just be time for us to begin to understand the true nature of the wilderness, the final wilderness, that envelopes us. I like the direction your response is taking, Windell. The only rhing I would add to it would be that once we have the technology to leave the bounds of our own solar system, there will be an endless amount of realities we shall discover to equal the lack of boundaries we will discover existing to stop our discoveries.
Also Fitbit unidentified Ariel phenomenon is technology from a adversary Nation and its electronic warfare devices or delivery systems as suggested by one of the authors why did they let the planes electronics and radar and cameras observe them?
And I question the wisdom of assuming that anything that is not from Earth or biologically familiar to us has to be hostile and dangerous.
Fine Kenny, but do our animals have nuclear weapons? Plus activated Russian silos too. I feel someone is checking us out… After seeing a large silver sphere craft hovering silently above the house across the street from my house, it is obvious these varying craft or UFOs are not just watching military activities.
Why would it bother observing a normal boring suburban area? The Nimitz incident is just the first officially recognized encounter — but from reading other stories it seems there have been many more before and since this encounter.
If it is new technology then why were there incidents earlier on back in the s and earlier such as the Westall School sighting where witnesses said three craft were performing manoeuvres very similar to the Tic tac UFOs. I doubt that kind of human technology would have existed back then. Personally I think there are just too many reports to dismiss these as being just from earth… somebody is telling porkies!
Westall School in a suburb of Melbourne Australia was a very interesting situation where there were so many witnesses. Saw a UFO one afternoon about early June before dusk fly low over the trees in front of me plus other cars and across the highway about 30 kms south of Nowra NSW. Australia It had a red and green light either side but in between so many very bright while lights I could not determine the shape of the craft.
You can listen to an interview with him on lex-Fridman. This is a concerning event. I would recommend reading Dr. There is some excellent analysis out there and I wonder what the true objective of this unbiased article is. It could be inter-dimensional or time-travelers, space-travelers or simply some unknown natural occurrence such as particles observed to pop in and out of existence at the quantum level. Most scientists agree that the universe started with the big bang around 14or so billion years ago,therefore logically any sort of life would have started about the same time give or take a.
Couple of million years therefore if they evolved on a similar time scale to us their technology would not have advanced that much more than us or even less. Reason no tangible proof that you could identify as alien. No photos that you can rely on as hard evidence,and no obvious signals that would prove extra terrestrial communication.
Set I have been scanning the skies for at least forty years;nothing tangible. I would be extremely surprised if they find any life anywhere in space except contamination from earth. The evidence or lack of it bears this out. Slight correction Keith, humans have only been here, or started to evolve about 5 million years ago, and around , years in our present form. So another species could have started many millions of years before us, AND achieved that advanced technology that we see today. There is no reason alien development started similar to us, far from it.
Myself, like most scientists now believe the universe may well be teaming with life, but most possibly far different to us. There are many planets, 6 billion estimate currently that are earth like.
How about the rarity of life in the universe being a bit more interesting than some white painted shack? If some of these UFOs are actually from another planet they react to us exactly as they should, like we run away when wasps show up.
Indeed, the title is completely wrong. The gov. Your headline is incorrect. Similarly they have no evidence that the technology is terrestrial. Why bother writing anything if you have no interesting in learning even the basic information required for discourse? Instead, we need to start refining our framework of the world based on the raw data, rather than what currently makes sense to us.
The reality is that multiple highly credible witnesses, both civilian and military, corroborated by the latest in radar, surveillance and tracking technologies, have observed craft making 90 degree turns on a dime, at speeds approaching 13, MPH.
Who cares what our insignificant governments think, we are not alone and recent history confirms that fact. I think if extraterrestrials had the technologies to travel light years in through space they would have no reason to fear our technology because compared to theres it would be simple in comparison.
Humans have massive egos and think we are the best.. The government has lied to the public for so long its more likely that they would lie than be truthful.. I strongly believe in the probability of extraterrestrials because all you need to do is look at the massive amount of money the government spent trying to convince us its impossible when in reality its very likely humans are not the only species and for that matter we kill our own kind for pointle reasons and i hope they may be here to teach us a better way of living.
We are the only species that intentionally kill eachother on a massive scale over money. I call that a not so intelligent species.
These are scientists? They are making conclusions that these are not alien vehicles, yet they have no evidence to rule that out, and no evidence to support that it is man-made technology either. Every possibility should be on the table and studied without bias. There are dozens of Airforce pilots who are trained to observe and identify threats who have made made observations of these craft which are confirmed with radar data.
The craft are reported to have no observable propulsion systems, no wings or rotors, and instant acceleration beyond anything currently possible. To diminish the observations of trained Airforce pilots and claim that these are just glitches in our radar is not only an insult to the pilots but leaving out half the equation.
The only nefarious explanation would be that this is a psyops operation by the US military and the pilots are part of a plan feed disinformation to an adversary, or an attempt to secure government funding for another black budget project.
Seems unlikely, but that should be on the table too. This article is embarrassing. From the headline through the body, it extrapolates false conclusions from the forthcoming pentagon report. Exceptionally misleading title and commentary. This is rudimentary science here, folks. Like a rogue family member nobody wants to talk about! Luis Elizondo recently revealed reports of Tic-Tac shaped objects being observed by pilots over many decades ago so clearly this rules out Chinese or Russian tech.
Quantum leaps in paradigm changes are difficult. Why not embrace what is on display here — discover new technology, extend physics, see ourselves as one species in some kind of extended culture in the universe? The headline to this is misleading. Click bait story that is not factual or accurate at all.
No one has ruled out extraterrestrials yet. This article give the exact opposite impression of what has been said by the Pentagon. The preliminary look at the government report stated, there was no direct evidence to say one way or another.
This itself is a spin; then you guys distorted the message even further. Debating another more intelligent point: it could be electronic warfare, but not in cases where multiple fighter jets from multiple angles had direct visuals on a ufo and can describe it as metalic and solid.
That is NOT electronic warfare. Read the conclusion from the French GEPAN report of stating this is a very real phenomenon that is very likely not man made.
Listen to our military pilots and astronaut reports, the TRUE professionally trained and experienced folks making these reports. The machine fighting to keep the status quo narrative is wobbling and its embarrassing. This headline is wrong. The government said no such thing.
It has no evidence one way or the other. Please fix your misleading headline and practice journalistic integrity. Of the many articles that I read about the upcoming UAP report, this article is for sure one of the worst I have read.
Both the writer and the people that he interviews have not done their homework and as a result make stupid comments. Ask yourself this question? The fighters could have easily armed their weapons and fired. Fear of retaliation by who? If it were Russian or Chinese blow it out of the sky and ask questions later. We believed it to be a hostile threat. They know this? We now have a Space Force? They fear what is out there. Objects making similar impossible maneuvers…well, the sightings on those goes back to the days when we used vacuum tubes in radios.
But with more pressure from the public to explain them rationally, and a huge uptick in interest in gathering the information necessary to do that…an explanation is going to show itself sooner or later. Misleading article, the title is false. Try again. I came from a little Island call Barbados, and I was about 7years old. Me and my sister were out in our yard taking clothing off the line from washing we heard a sharp hissing coming towards us it came from above ,we look up and saw two round disc looking dark shapes flying behind each other,we never saw anything moving so fast in our lives.
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