The Pentagon received hundreds of reports of new UFO sightings

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The Pentagon has received hundreds of reports of new UFO sightings, including “several particularly interesting cases,” according to the director of the office that investigates those reports, but reiterated that it found no evidence of alien activity.

The Pentagon, working with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and other government agencies, has received a total of 1,652 reports to date, according to newly published annual reportincluding 757 new reports between May 2023 and June 2024. The growing number of new sightings represents a growing effort by the US government to catalog, track and investigate what are officially called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAPs, especially since a number of the sightings is close to military bases and national security facilities.

“Reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, especially near national security sites, must be taken seriously and investigated with scientific rigor by the US government,” said Jon Kosloski, the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).

The topic of UAPs has received enormous public attention, fueled in part by its inextricable connection to UFO sightings and conspiracy theories that the US government is hiding evidence of extraterrestrials.

“It is also important to emphasize that to date AARO has not discovered any verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology,” Kosloski said. “None of the cases that AARO has resolved have pointed to advanced capabilities or cutting-edge technologies.”

Of the new reports AARO has received, nearly 50 have already been closed as everyday objects, such as balloons, birds or drones, according to the annual report, while another 243 cases of seemingly ordinary objects await final review. A total of 444 new reports were filed in an active case file due to a lack of data or evidence that would allow investigators to determine their origin.

None of these closed cases were the result of foreign adversaries or a breakthrough in advanced technologies, AARO said in their report.

But the remaining 21 cases have yet to be plausibly explained, requiring further data and analysis. Kosloski said some of these were “interesting cases that I — my physics and engineering background, and my time in the (intelligence community) — I don’t understand, and I don’t know anyone else who does.”

Kosloski said the cases, which mostly occurred over the past 18 months, consisted of various shapes, including “spheres, cylinders (and) triangles.” One of those cases occurred “over an extended period of time” with the potential for “multiple things to happen,” such as drones being mistaken for UAP activity.