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Pentagon Interest Piqued by 21 'UFO Sightings' Last Year

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The Facts

  • The Pentagon's All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office's (AARO) report was released Thursday amid rising public interest that has reportedly led the government to clear the air.

  • In the report, the US Defense Department says that between May 2023 and June 2024 it received 757 new reports of "unidentified anomalous phenomena" (UAP) — a number of them near strategic installations. Of these, 21 remain unexplained.

  • AARO Director Jon Kosloski said the 21 incidents being probed involved shapes like orbs, triangles, and cylinders. He said that some cases had stumped his "physics and engineering background and time in the IC (Intelligence Community)."

The Spin

The government's lack of transparency related to UFOs is symbolic of a wider reluctance to be more open with the public on other matters. When the government keeps documents classified and leaves citizens in the dark, it fuels speculation and mistrust. It's time for the government to come clean on several subjects.

There are no Pentagon cover-ups related to UFOs. These are baseless fables spread by conspiracy theorists in and outside of the government. The existence of UFOs has been diligently studied, but no one has found any evidence that they're real. Mostly, sightings are actually misidentified advanced technology, secret military projects, or civilian drones.

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