

There's going to be lots of different answers," he said. "I would just emphasize there's not a single answer for all of this, right. "As a physicist, I have to adhere to the scientific method and I will follow that data and science wherever it goes." We will go through it all," said Kirkpatrick. "I would just say that we are structuring our analysis to be very thorough and rigorous. Moultrie explained that by holdings he was referring to documents, witness interviews, or written recollections from witnesses.īut ARRO Director Sean Kirkpatrick said his office was taking a sober approach to the review and would not rule out any possibility. "I have not seen anything in those holdings to date that would suggest that there has been an alien visitation and alien crash or anything like that," he said. While the director of national intelligence has been tasked with providing the annual report, the Pentagon's new All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) is working with other federal agencies to review unidentified aerial phenomena incidents. He added that nothing has been found "that any of the objects that we had seen are of alien origin." "At this time, the answer's no," said Ron Moultrie, the under secretary of defense for intelligence and security. In December, senior Pentagon officials told reporters that they had not yet found any evidence that extraterrestrials may be responsible for the hundreds of UFO incidents they are reviewing or that any alien beings may have crashed on Earth.

That is significantly more than the 144 incidents reviewed in the initial report, only one of which could be explained. The report released Thursday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said that since its first June 2021 unclassified report on what are now called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), it is now aware of 510 such reports.

The increase in reporting is being partially attributed to the continuing effort to destigmatize the reporting of such incidents and focusing on the potential safety risks they could pose to U.S. Roughly half of the new incidents reported in the report had terrestrial explanations, the report said. military personnel is increasing, "enabling a greater awareness of the airspace and increased opportunity to resolve" what is actually being reported. intelligence community said Thursday that the number of UFO reports involving U.S. intelligence agencies have confirmed hundreds of additional "unidentified aerial phenomena" sightings.
