Delivering a seven-page unclassified report on U.S. military recorded observations of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena [UAP] AKA UFOs today, the Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines delivered to Congress the much anticipated report covering Pentagon findings from 2004 to 2021. Nowhere in the unclassified report are the words “alien” or “extraterrestrial” used, though many of the explanations do not rule out the possibility of advanced life forms. Today’s report urges “pending scientific advances” to account for presently inexplicable events recorded largely by Air Force or navy pilots. More study is needed to ascertain the nature and substance of the UAP recorded over a seventeen years period by the Pentagon. A senior government official would not rule out that more data analysis could lead to the conclusion about non-earth-related technologies.
Unable to account for the recorded events showing inexplicable behavior of certain UFOs, unnamed government official said nothing has been ruled out. “Of the 144 reports we are dealing with here, we have no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial identification for them—but we well go wherever the data takes us,” said the unnamed official, saying no evidence exists that a foreign government, e.g., Russia, created any of the unidentified aerial phenomena. “We are open to other hypotheses that is meant to recognize that we have many things that we are currently unexplained,” the government official said. “We are open to the possibility that some things may be unexplained with our current level of understanding,” opening the door to UFO believers getting more than they bargained for. Skeptics of UFOs coming from alien worlds cite the lack of verifiable evidence.
Whatever one believes or not, the seven-page unclassified report did little to answer the UFO issue one way or another. UFO believers were given plenty of reason to keep believing, while skeptics continue to dismiss the findings. Today’s report was supposed to answer what the government knew about UFOs or UAPs, the more current abbreviations. “The limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena [UAPs] hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP,” the report said. Unable to rule out extraterrestrial explanation was fuel to what’s seen by skeptics a conspiracy theories about UFOs. But when an unclassified report reviews 144 incidents over a seventeen-year-period it opens the door to alternative explanations to simply recorded aberrations. Today’s report finds there’s not enough data to draw conclusions.
Nothing in today’s report mentioned anything about Area 51, the Air Force’s Top Secret facility in the New Mexico and Nevada desert where an alleged alien spacecraft crashed in July 1947. Government officials have never released an un-redacted report about what exactly crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, explaining the crash as a U.S. Air Force nuclear test or weather balloon. But on July 8, 1947 the U.S. Army Airfield issued a press release stating they had recovered a “flying disc” from a ranch near Roswell. Army officials promptly retracted its press release claiming a “flying disc” was recovered at the scene. “The limited amount of high quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena [UAP] hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of the UAP,” the unclassified report said. Reviewing 144 incidents, the report said 143 incidents could not be explained.
Today’s report gives a variety of alternative [to aliens] explanations to the documented reports of UFOs. Some explanations refer to UFOs as “airborne clutter,” like birds, balloons, drones, ice crystals or foreign adversary surveillance equipment. Yet all the alternative hypotheses don’t come close to explaining the numerous reports by Pentagon pilots of objects dancing or bouncing at high velocity in the sky without any evidence of propulsion systems. “Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects give that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers, and visual observation,” the report said, making it difficult to simply dismiss the observations. While not all UFOs were the same, “that not all UAP are the same, there is a wide, wide range of phenomena that were observed,” said the report.
Whatever the report said, it’s what it didn’t say that drive more speculation about alien aircraft and extraterrestrials. Eighteen incidents “that appear to demonstrate advanced technology” showing at UFOs recorded “appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, more against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion,” giving more evidence that today’s analysis can’t account for what Pentagon pilots observed or recorded. “There are 18 incidents in the database in the data that we’re working with, in which the UAP do appear to have some sort of propulsion or other technologists that’s not immediately evident, that could be advanced.” said the government official. Admitting that objects recorded had propulsion systems that could not be explained indicates that there’s much more analysis needed to come up with answers.
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