The topic of UFOs fascinates many people.
The Pentagon recently confirmed the existence of videos.
Now the secret service is stepping up.
Washington, DC - Speculation about unidentified flying objects has preoccupied people for decades.
In the past few weeks, however, there has been a huge boom around the topic of unknown flying objects or “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP), as they are called in the jargon of the Pentagon.
Mysterious UFO sighting - Pentagon wants to submit secret report
The US Department of Defense is planning a report on June 1 to reveal its previously secret research on unknown objects in flight. Last year, Congress ordered parts of the findings to be disclosed, as reported by the AFP news agency. A short version of the report is to be made public in the coming weeks, and the US Congress will therefore also receive a longer version with information that is still classified.
A former intelligence chief commented on the details in advance. "Frankly, there are far more sightings than has been publicly known," said John Ratcliffe on
Fox News
. "And when we talk about sightings, we are talking about things that Air Force or Navy pilots have seen or observed by satellites that show actions that are difficult to explain."
Even former US President Barack Obama fueled the rumor mill.
"There are some things about aliens that I can't say here," joked Obama on James Corden's "Late Late Show" in mid-May.
"What is true - and I'm serious - is that there are pictures and recordings of objects in the sky that we don't know exactly what they are and that we cannot explain how they move."
UFOs sighted - Pentagon releases videos
Videos of "unidentified objects in flight" caused a sensation last year.
The Pentagon released footage of US fighter pilots after the fighter pilots
spoke about their incredible encounter
in the
New York Times
.
Such phenomena, the existence of UFOs or UFO-like flying objects, have not taken the Pentagon seriously for a long time, criticize the US media.
However, the Pentagon is less interested in aliens or aliens.
Rather, the Defense Ministry experts are investigating the question of whether they may be dealing with new armaments technology from rivals such as Russia and China.
It would be a nightmare for the world power if potential opponents had technologically superior military equipment.
"The Department of Defense takes every report of the intrusion of identified or unidentified aircraft into our airspace very seriously and investigates each of them," said Pentagon spokeswoman Sue Gough.
"By collecting additional data, we want to close the gap between identified and unidentified and avoid strategic surprises with a view to opposing technology."
That is why the Pentagon is so closed in its UFO research: If a new type of object actually comes from another country, the US military does not want to disclose what they know or do not know about it.
Especially since that in turn would allow conclusions to be drawn about the US capabilities to locate and assign such objects.
Luis Elizondo, who worked on the Pentagon UFO program, recently told ABC broadcaster that some of the objects sighted "outweigh anything we have in our inventory."
“We know: whatever that is in our heaven, it is real.
The question is, what is it? ”The UFO researcher is convinced that humans are not the only form of life in the universe.
Americans are very susceptible to speculation about UFOs and aliens.
Half of US citizens believe UFOs exist and have visited Earth.
That was the result of an Ipsos survey in 2020. The new US report may answer questions - or raise even more questions.
UFO sighting in the US
A Pentagon representative said there could be a simple explanation for the mysterious sighting of the fighter jet pilots. It could be weather balloons or drones, among other things. In addition, many variables could mislead the pilot in his perception, such as the speed of his aircraft, reflections of sunlight or the weather. So an object that is actually moving slowly can appear very fast.
(AFP / ml)
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