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The Pentagon has received hundreds of reports of new UFO sightings, including “a few particularly interesting cases,” according to the director of the office that investigates the reports, but reiterated that it has found no evidence of extraterrestrial activity.
The growing number of new sightings represents a growing effort by the US government to catalog, track and investigate what are officially called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAPs, particularly as many of the sightings are near military bases and national security facilities.
“Reports of an unidentified anomalous phenomenon, especially near a national security site, must be taken seriously by the US government and investigated with scientific rigor,” said Jon Kosloski, director of the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
The topic of UAP has attracted enormous public attention, fueled in part by its inextricable connection to UFO sightings and conspiracy theories about the US government hiding evidence of extraterrestrials.
“It is also important to emphasize that, to date, AARO has not discovered any evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology,” Kosloski said.
“None of the cases handled by AARO indicated advanced capabilities or breakthrough technologies.”
Of the new reports AARO has received, nearly 50 have already been closed as everyday objects, such as balloons, birds or drones, according to the annual report, while another 243 cases of seemingly common objects await final review.
A total of 444 new applications were entered into the active case archive due to the lack of data or evidence that would allow investigators to determine their origin.
None of these closed cases were the result of foreign adversaries or breakthroughs in advanced technologies, AARO said in its report.
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But the remaining 21 cases have not yet been convincingly explained, requiring additional data and analysis.
Kosloski said some of these are “interesting cases that I — my background in physics and engineering and my time in the (intelligence community) — don’t understand, and I don’t know anyone who does.”
Kosloski said the cases, which mostly occurred in the past 18 months, consisted of different shapes, including “spheres, cylinders, (and) triangles.”
One of those cases occurred “over an extended period of time” with the potential for “multiple things to happen,” such as drones being confused with UAP activity.
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