The nine-page report released Friday did not discuss any specific incidents. The only one of the 144 incidents in the years covered by the report that was explained turned out to be a large deflating balloon. It stressed that pilots and their aircraft are ill-equipped to identify out-of-the-ordinary objects floating around the skies. The report was ordered after more UFO sightings by military pilots became public and pilot and radar videos leaked out showing flying objects behaving strangely with no explanation.
Some could be US rivals' intelligence collection operations or represent other technology so advanced that the United States military has nothing similar.
"UAP clearly pose a safety of flight issue and may pose a challenge to US national security," the report said. The military and intelligence community have conducted research on them as a potential threat. The report made no mention of the possibility of-or rule out-that some of the objects sighted could represent extra-terrestrial life. "We currently lack sufficient information in our dataset to attribute incidents to specific explanations." The sightings of what the report calls unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) "probably lack a single explanation," said the report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Yet others appeared to require more advanced technologies to determine what they are, it said. Others could be secret US defense tests, or unknown advanced technologies created by Russia or China, it said. Some of the 144 might be explained by natural or human made objects like birds or drones cluttering a pilot's radar, or natural atmospheric phenomena, the report said. The unclassified report said researchers could explain only one of 144 UFO sightings by US government personnel and sources between 20, sightings that often were made during military training activities.Įighteen of those, some observed from multiple angles, appeared to display unusual movements or flight characteristics that surprised those who saw them, like holding stationary in high winds at high altitude, and moving with extreme speed with no discernable means of propulsion, the report said.
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