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Title: New Pentagon Report on UFOs: Hundreds of New Incidents, No Evidence of
Aliens

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/11/17/00202...

"The Pentagon's latest report on UFOs has revealed hundreds of new reports of
unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena," reports the Associated Press,
"but no indications suggesting an extraterrestrial origin. "The review
includes hundreds of cases of misidentified balloons, birds and satellites as
well as some that defy easy explanation, such as a near-miss between a
commercial airliner and a mysterious object off the coast of New York."
Federal efforts to study and identify UAPs have focused on potential threats
to national security or air safety and not their science fiction aspects.
Officials at the Pentagon office created in 2022 to track UAPs, known as the
All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, have said there's no
indication any of the cases they looked into have unearthly origins. "It is
important to underscore that, to date, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution
Office has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or
technology," the authors of the report wrote... Reporting witnesses included
commercial and military pilots as well as ground-based observers.
Investigators found explanations for nearly 300 of the incidents. In many
cases, the unknown objects were found to be balloons, birds, aircraft, drones
or satellites. According to the report, Elon Musk's Starlink satellite system
is one increasingly common source as people mistake chains of satellites for
UFOs. Hundreds of other cases remain unexplained, though the report's authors
stressed that is often because there isn't enough information to draw firm
conclusions. No injuries or crashes were reported in any of the incidents,
though a commercial flight crew reported one near miss with a "cylindrical
object" while flying over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New York. That
incident remains under investigation. In three other cases, military air
crews reported being followed or shadowed by unidentified aircraft, though
investigators could find no evidence to link the activity to a foreign power.
The article points out that the report's publication comes "a day after House
lawmakers called for greater government transparency during a hearing on
unidentified anomalous phenomena." And it concludes with this quote from
Republican Represenative Andy Ogles of Tennessee. "There is something out
there. The question is: Is it ours, is it someone else's, or is it
otherworldly?"

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