Pentagon Has Received 'Several Hundreds' of New UFO Reports 53
A new Pentagon office set up to track reports of unidentified flying objects has received "several hundreds" of new reports, but no evidence so far of alien life, the agency's leadership told reporters Friday. The Associated Press reports: The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was set up in July and is responsible for not only tracking unidentified objects in the sky, but also underwater or in space -- or potentially an object that has the ability to move from one domain to the next. The office was established following more than a year of attention on unidentified flying objects that military pilots have observed but have sometimes been reluctant to report due to fear of stigma.
In June 2021 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported that between 2004 and 2021, there were 144 such encounters, 80 of which were captured on multiple sensors. Since then, "we've had lots more reporting," said anomaly office director Sean Kirkpatrick. When asked to quantify the amount, Kirkpatrick said "several hundreds." An updated report from the Director of National Intelligence that will provide specific figures on new reports received since 2021 is expected by the end of the year, the officials said.
In June 2021 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported that between 2004 and 2021, there were 144 such encounters, 80 of which were captured on multiple sensors. Since then, "we've had lots more reporting," said anomaly office director Sean Kirkpatrick. When asked to quantify the amount, Kirkpatrick said "several hundreds." An updated report from the Director of National Intelligence that will provide specific figures on new reports received since 2021 is expected by the end of the year, the officials said.
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Amusingly enough, you're 100% right this time. He does have ties to the aliens. Also the Russian mafia, and Satanists. They're all working together to destroy America. I shit you not.
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(Also the FBI is in on it too, but he's at odds with the FBI because they fired him after he background checked my fake parents, who were members of the Russian mafia as well as the FBI.)
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And let me set one thing straight: the FBI is going to fail the background check for anyone deranged enough to have a reverse drive-thru installed without first checking with the landlord.
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No it's the queers [youtube.com]. They're in it with the aliens, building landing strips for gay Martians. You know what, Stuart? I like you. You're not like the other people. Here in the trailer park.
Make that PUBMTATMTBAOITS (Score:2)
Phenomenon Unidentified (By Me) That Appears (To Me) To Be An Object In The Sky
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I'm only surprised that it's "hundreds" and not "thousands".
(shrug)
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That's why they changed it from "Unidentified Flying Object" to "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena". The one I saw a half century ago was certainly not a space ship, unless Douglas Adams was right about scale, because it was smaller than a basketball. It was bright and fuzzy, rode next to my car for a couple of miles until I crossed a stream, when it zigged at 45 MPH at a right angle and followed the stream.
I wondered what it was for years before I learned about ball lightning, which is what it had to have been
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As a teenager my wife and her family were driving one night in a California desert, and they saw a UFO fly near and perhaps tail their Vista Cruiser for a bit. I thought "interesting" and thought nothing more about it. One day while visiting her uncle the subject came up and he said he had a sketch of it. He brought it out and showed me an outline sketch of a pentagon shaped thing and again I thought "interesting".
It was a very good likeness of the eventual F-117 stealth fighter.
Now that consumer drones are ubiquitous... (Score:2)
UFO sightings are guaranteed to only go up and any intentional hoaxes will become increasingly elaborate. Soon actual aliens could just fly around pretending to be a fleet of drones and nobody will notice.
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It's a lot easier to pretend to be a bunch of drones than to be swamp gas or ball lightning.
That's why the aliens gave us drone technology.
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They did that to buy time while they perfected their chess cheating technology.
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The first stage of an actual alien invasion would likely be indistinguishable from a garden variety, Internet-mediated wave of mass hysteria.
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Did it turn them blue?
The aliens obviously only speak English (Score:3)
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They are looking for white Jesus.
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Maybe other places they're using the olden-style descriptions: angels, spirits, djinns, etc.
Not again (Score:1)
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Re: Not again (Score:1)
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy there was an invisibility system that turned the ship into a large sombrero. No one would dare claim to have seen a large flying sombrero, making the ship effectively invisible.
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Right, then it becomes Someone Else's Problem
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Even the "unknown technology being flown by China, Russia " make no sense.
But this is exactly the scenario that the Pentagon is most interested in. We can see clearly from satellites, but only in line of sight when the weather is good. Drones can fly below leaden European winter weather, can see under structures that satellites can't, and can take real-time response actions like dropping a grenade at a crucial moment.
Satellites tell us where to send the drones.
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But this is exactly the scenario that the Pentagon is most interested in.
A nation sending aircraft in the middle of the airspace of another nation in peace time, I don't believe it. Sure, it's common to send some military aircraft near borders of nations you don't like, but no more. And according to article we are talking of hundred of aircraft here, no way. All these things are just ballons, sensor artefacts, birds... The Russia and even more so the China aircraft explanation is just fear mongering until USA is at war.
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I doubt they care about little green men. More likely the real reason is checking for potentially new military devices from china, russia or elsewhere.
Who 12 months ago would have thought Iran would become a majors arms manufacturer and would help Russia prosecute its illegal war? Things can change fast if you don't have good intelligence.
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Iran? Major arms supplier?
Anyone who has followed the news because that's what Iran has been doing since the 80s.
Drones (Score:2)
I'm giving my Daughter one for Christmas.
Little Green Men Not Included,
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Damn it, now you made me check drones for sale, again...
Shame on you!
What better way (Score:3)
Probably just starlink (Score:3)
satellites, they're low orbit and visible with the naked eye.
Light shines on them from the sun at the right angle, and you're in for a treat.
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Unidentified "FLYING" object. These things move around and are tracked by multiple high tech radars. Whatever it is, it's not "light reflection".
And you don't think that air force and it's highly trained pilots cannot figure out something is a satellite?
I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords (Score:1)
probably drones (Score:2)
Several, huh? (Score:2)
When asked to quantify the amount, Kirkpatrick said "several hundreds."
Sheesh, at least copy the Navy, "deeper than 800 feet" or something.
Hundreds of reports ?!? (Score:2)
The Day The Smart Phones Stood Still (Score:2)
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If I were wealthy, I'd buy/hire hundreds of those lighted drones to draw out a standard, 1950s-era flying saucer, move it around a bit just to see what comes of it.
Now *this* idea is worthy of /.!
That Many Reports Would Seem Normal (Score:2)
Important (Score:2)
It's important for government public relations to humor people's delusions. This applies to the gender and climate worlds, too.
Ya, no. (Score:2)
If aliens are smart/advanced enough to travel the distances required to get here, they're (a) smart enough to go undetected and (b) smart enough to *not* want to interact with us. Seriously, have you seen us?
Told you so. (Score:2)
As I have long said (Score:1)
As I have long said, this is not a Military project it is a science project, hand over that funding to a scientific research organisation, and if it turns out there are Aliens and they are threating us then call in the Military. But for now the military does not need to be involved they most certainly are not the right organisation to conduct this type of research.
Is there any correlation... (Score:1)