government after the military spent decades deflecting, debunking and discrediting observations of unidentified flying objects and "flying saucers" dating back to the 1940s. The report marked a turning point for the U.S. national security," the report stated, adding that the phenomena "probably lack a single explanation." "UAP clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to U.S. Labeled a preliminary assessment, it was compiled by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in conjunction with a Navy-led task force created by the Pentagon last year. Navy personnel - of what the government officially calls "unidentified aerial phenomenon," or UAP, dating back to 2004. The unclassified nine-page report, released to Congress and the public, encompasses 144 observations - mostly from U.S. government report on UFOs issued on Friday said defense and intelligence analysts lack sufficient data to determine the nature of mysterious flying objects observed by American military pilots including whether they are advanced earthly technologies, atmospherics or of an extraterrestrial origin. The former Senator of Nevada Harry Reid also issued a statement on the report, saying officials needed to take “a serious, scientific look” and any “potential national security implications.June 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. “There is stuff flying in our airspace,” Rubio told Fox News on June 1. “This includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported as UAP when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing.”įlorida Senator Marco Rubio has been outspoken about the report and its interest in national security. “The DOD and the military departments take any incursions by unauthorized aircraft into our training ranges or designated airspace very seriously and examine each report,” Pentagon officials said in a news release. The list of videos compiled by the DOD remains characterized as “unidentified.” “After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena.”ĭOD officials said that they were “releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos.” Navy previously acknowledged that these videos circulating in the public domain were indeed Navy videos,” DOD officials said in a news release.
On April 27, DOD officials released three unclassified Navy videos, one taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015, which have been circulating in the public domain after unauthorized releases in 20. The DOD said it would utilize the information developed by the task force to “improve its understanding of, and gain insight into, the nature and origins of UAPs.” Norquist.Īccording to the Pentagon, “the mission of the task force is to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. 4 by Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. One stipulation of Congress’ $2.3 billion relief package in December was that the Department of Defense and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence needed to deliver a report of UAP events and explain to the country what government officials knew about them. However, the AP report continues, “the report won’t rule out a link to another country, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss it.” Pentagon officials are using the acronym UAP, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, to describe instances of strange and oftentimes unexplainable lights, patterns, and flying objects in the sky.Īccording to an Associated Press report, two officials briefed on the report said they have found “no extraterrestrial link to the sightings reported and captured on video.” However, you probably won’t see the acronym “UFO” in a report by the Pentagon’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force expected later this month. Pentagon officials have admitted to seeing Unidentified Flying Objects for years. Well, it’s official - your uncle and Joe Rogan no longer need to take off their tinfoil hats.
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