Pentagon says it’s received 291 UFO sightings over past year: Warns some craft appeared to display ‘unusual maneuverability’ and ‘high-speed travel’
The Pentagon‘s dedicated UFO investigations office has fielded at least 291 UFO cases within the past year, according to a report made public late Wednesday night.
The report caps off a summer hot with extraterrestrial intrigue in Washington, where multiple government UFO whistleblowers have come forward, some publicly, some behind closed doors, with allegations of an illegal UFO crash retrieval program.
In fact, the Pentagon UFO head said ‘a lot’ of these UFO cases have been referred to law enforcement and, in some serious cases, US counterintelligence investigators.
While that new report concludes that none of 2023’s airborne mysteries were the result of classified US programs, the Pentagon’s UFO chief told reporters that a few UFOs displayed ‘concerning’ signs of being made by America’s foreign adversaries
‘A lot’ of UFO cases were referred to law enforcement last year, Dr. Kirkpatrick told reporters, and, in some serious cases, to US counterintelligence investigators. Above a heat map of the UAP or UFO hot spots that have emerged from the past year of reports to the Pentagon
The glossary defined ‘UAP Threat’ as any UAP that demonstrate a national security risk to military ‘persons, materiel, or information,’ in an indication of the priority AARO has given to intelligence and espionage risks posed by the phenomenon.
Despite Kirkpatrick’s statement that his office is actively chasing down possible foreign espionage cases, AARO’s annual UAP report drew a more measured conclusion: ‘None of these UAP reports have been positively attributed to foreign activities’
US Customs and Border Protection recently confirmed the authenticity of the April 25, 2013 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico UFO video (above) in a release of ten govt. UFO videos
US Air Force F-22 Raptors and F-16s were dispatched by the Biden White House to shoot down the sedan-sized UFO and others spotted over Canada’s Yukon territory and the Great Lakes north of Michigan.
Despite Dr. Kirkpatrick’s statement that his office is actively chasing down potentially similar cases, AARO’s annual report Wednesday drew a more measured conclusion.
Kirkpatrick’s UFO office plans to work with the US Navy and the National Intelligence Manager for Military Integration (NIM-MIL) to improve the speed and quality of reporting on undersea UAP or sea-to-air transmedium UAP.
‘Collaboration with Space Force, US Space Command, NRO [the National Reconnaissance Office, which oversees US spy satellites] and NASA is well underway,’ AARO said in the report.
At least one longtime UFO researcher, government open records advocate John Greenewald, Jr., described the Pentagon’s new policies as ‘a weird mixture’ of ‘increased excessive secrecy surrounding UAP’ and ‘preaching about ‘transparency.”
Greenewald has noted new difficulties in obtaining government records on UFOs via the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in the years since the creation of dedicated UAP investigative mandates internally within the Pentagon.
‘They concluded the majority were explainable; they convened a panel of scientists to independently look at the findings; and it all ended with the military halting interest and stopping all funding for more than 40 years,’ Greenewald said.