Pentagon says it’s received 291 UFO sightings over past year – Daily Mail

The Pentagon’s UFO investigations office has reported 291 cases in the past year, some of which exhibited advanced and concerning performance characteristics. These characteristics included high-speed travel and unusual maneuverability. The summer has been filled with extraterrestrial intrigue as multiple government UFO whistleblowers have come forward with allegations of an illegal UFO crash retrieval program.

These allegations, which include intact and partially intact vehicles, exotic weapons programs, charges of witness intimidation, and recovered ‘non-human’ bodies, are currently under investigation by federal and congressional oversight authorities. The Pentagon’s UFO chief has expressed concern that some of these UFOs may have been created by America’s foreign adversaries. A significant number of these cases have been referred to law enforcement and, in some serious cases, US counterintelligence investigators.

Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the US Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, has expressed concern from a national security perspective. He fears that foreign nations may be designing espionage drones specifically to evade US radar and other detection hardware. The annual report published by Dr. Kirkpatrick and his team included a glossary for the standardization of UFOs, now known professionally as UAP, for ‘Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon’.

Despite the active pursuit of possible foreign espionage cases, the annual UAP report concluded that none of the UAP reports have been positively attributed to foreign activities. In addition to statistics on the typical elevations and locations at which UAP have been reported, the report also noted the issue of ‘collection bias’. It outlined future plans to better collect space-based and undersea data on UAP.

While the report promises increased transparency on the topic, some longtime civilian UFO researchers have expressed concern about a decrease in transparency. John Greenewald Jr., a government open records advocate, has noted new difficulties in obtaining government records on UFOs since the creation of dedicated UAP investigative mandates within the Pentagon. He has expressed concern about the belief stated in the new AARO report that ‘most UAP will likely resolve to ordinary phenomena’.

The Pentagon has also released information on the characteristics of a typical UFO. Based on reported sightings, the typical UFO has a round shape, usually described as spherical or an orb, with a white or silver color, often translucent. It is usually between 3 and 13 feet in size and travels at a height just below commercial passenger planes. The Pentagon has also released a hotspot map that reveals the location of reported UFO sightings.