The incidents come as the Pentagon has undertaken a new push in recent years to investigate military sightings of UFOs – rebranded in official government parlance as “unidentified aerial phenomena”, or UAPs.
The government’s effort to investigate anomalous, unidentified objects – whether they are in space, the skies or even underwater – has led to hundreds of documented reports that are being investigated, senior military leaders have said.
But the Pentagon says it has not found evidence to indicate Earthly visits from intelligent alien life.
Analysis of military sightings are conducted by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in conjunction with a newly created Pentagon bureau known as AARO, short for the cryptically named All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office.
Their first report to Congress in June 2021 examined 144 sightings by US military aviators dating to 2004.
That study attributed one incident to a large, deflating balloon but found the rest were beyond the government’s ability to explain without further analysis.
A report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued last month cited 366 additional sightings, mostly things like balloons, drones, birds or airborne clutter. But 171 remained officially unexplained.
“Some of these uncharacterised UAP appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities, and require further analysis,” the office said in the report.
Sill, Ronald Moultrie, undersecretary of defence for intelligence and security, told reporters in December that he had not seen anything in the files to indicate intelligent alien life.
“I have not seen anything in those holdings to date that would suggest that there has been an alien visitation, an alien crash or anything like that,” Moultrie said.
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