The United States is tracking more than 800 cases of so-called "unidentified aerial phenomena," commonly known as UFOs, according to a senior Defense Department official who studies these phenomena.
"We receive approximately 50 to 100 new reports a month," stated Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, Director of the Defense Department's Office of All Anomaly Resolution in All Areas, the new office dedicated to the study of UFOs.
The United States is tracking more than 800 cases of so-called "unidentified aerial phenomena."
This was confirmed by Kirkpatrick at a public meeting of NASA's independent study team on the classification and evaluation of UFO data.
Kirkpatrick said the number had increased since he testified before Congress that there were 650 cases last month, "because I finally got to integrate the FAA data."
The official also warned that the number of those cases that are "possibly really anomalous" was "two to five and something percent."
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Kirkpatrick defined "anomalous" as "anything that is not easily understood by the operator or sensor."
"So, 'he's doing something weird?'" he said, giving as an example an object "maneuvering upwind at mach two with no apparent propulsion."
At his presentation in April, Kirkpatrick showed two revealing videos.
At his presentation in April, Kirkpatrick showed two revealing videos.
The first showed a small sphere flying across the camera screen of an MQ-9 drone in the Middle East in 2022. The drone's camera followed the object as it moved across the sky, entering and exiting the screen.
Kirkpatrick explained that this case was not solved because there was no other evidence beyond the video. "It's going to be virtually impossible to fully identify it, based on that video alone," he said, adding that the hope was that as more data on these episodes gathered, patterns could emerge to help explain the unsolved cases.
UFO filmed from a US warplane (AFP).
In the second video, captured in South Asia earlier this year, an object flew alongside MQ-9 drones, in a "truly anomalous" case, the expert said.
While much of the public attention is focused on the possibility of UFOs, Kirkpatrick reiterated once again that there is no evidence of extraterrestrial life represented in the sightings.
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