You wish there had been aliens but so far there are none A total of 163 were determined to be balloons or “balloon-like entities”, 26 were found to be drones and six were aerial objects were attributed to clutter – a term comprising plastic bags, weather phenomena and, however callous it may sound, birds. The explanation for 366 of the sightings was, alas, very down to earth. government’s efforts “to destigmatize the topic of UAP and instead recognize the potential risks” the phenomenon poses, both as an aviation hazard and 'potential adversarial activity,” such as surveillance efforts by foreign powers. Officials credit the cosmic spike in UAP reports to the U.S. At the end of August 2022, AARO had 510 UAP reports in its files. To draw a comparison with previous reports, one of this nature dated June 2021 listed just 144 reports, covering a 17-year period. In essence, the reports indicate that the number of UAP sightings has been soaring. While over half of the reported sightings were deemed “unremarkable” and attributed to human origins, according to the report, some 171 cases in which objects “appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities” are earmarked for, as the ODNI and the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) put it, “further analysis.”įor its part, the AARO has received 366 reports of UAPs, with the total reflecting 247 new UAP reports and another 119 that occurred before March 2021 but hadn't been included in an earlier preliminary report. The annual report results from a law that also requires the ODNI to send Congress a classified version of the report each year.

As many as 510 reports of UFOs, now known as the UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon), reached the Pentagon in 2022, its Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said on Thursday when it released an unclassified version of the US government's new annual report on UFOs.

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