The conclusion of a classified US intelligence report on the existence of alien UFOs is inconclusive, US media reported on Friday.
US military and intelligence found no evidence that seemingly highly advanced unidentified flying objects sighted by military pilots were alien spacecraft, the report concludes, according to the New York Times and other media briefed on it.
However, it also could not explain dozens of phenomena and incidents, some filmed by the pilots, and so could not rule out the existence of aliens.
According to the New York Times, citing unnamed senior administration officials, the report determined that most of about 120 incidents over the past 20 years had nothing to do with unknown or secret US military or government technology.
Nor were they related to objects like research balloons, which some postulated were behind the reports.
However, it then could not explain what, for example, US Navy pilots saw when they recorded objects traveling at seeming hypersonic speeds, spinning and mysteriously disappearing.
While speculation over alien life has long been a cottage industry for conspiracy theorists, the sheer number of what the Pentagon terms unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) has made it a serious issue, amid worries that US adversaries like China and Russia might be using unknown, highly advanced military and surveillance technologies.
“We take all incursions into our operating spaces seriously,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Friday.
“It could potentially involve safety and or national security concerns,” he said, referring to the UAP reports the US Department of Defense has logged.
The report, ordered last year, is to be submitted to the US Congress by the end of this month by the director of national intelligence.
The main report is to be unclassified and can be made public, but there would also be a classified annex, the Times said, that is to remain secret.
The report “will offer no firm conclusions about what the objects ... might be,” the Washington Post said.
Interest was piqued in the possibility of highly intelligent extraterrestrial life after the Pentagon released videos last year, in which navy pilots express amazement at the fast-moving objects they see.
Added to that were comments by top officials with access to intelligence, including former US president Barack Obama, and a CBS 60 Minutes report in which pilots were interviewed about what they saw.
“What is true — and I’m actually being serious here — is that there’s footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are,” Obama told The Late Late Show on May 17.
“There are a lot more sightings than have been made public,” John Ratcliffe, who was director of national intelligence for the last eight months of former US president Donald Trump’s administration, said on Fox News in March. “There are instances where we don’t have good explanations for some of the things that we’ve seen.”
Luis Elizondo, who worked on the Pentagon’s UAP investigation and has urged it to reveal what it knows, said some of the sightings suggest extremely advanced technology unknown to humans.
“If the New York Times reporting is accurate, the objects being witnessed by pilots around the world are far more advanced than any earthly technologies known to our intelligence services,” he wrote on Twitter on Friday. “It’s time to release the full report, videos & data that we’ve seen in the Pentagon.”
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