Over the past 20 years, there has been a “growing number” of unidentified objects in the sky, a Pentagon spokesman said today, noting that none of these phenomena suggest extraterrestrial origin.
For the first time in over 50 years, the US Congress held public hearings on “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”. “Since the early 2000s, we have seen an increase in the number of unauthorized or unidentified objects,” said Scott Bray, deputy director of US naval intelligence, quoted by French news agency AFP.
The official attributed the increase to “significant efforts” by the US military to “de-stigmatize the act of reporting sightings” and technological advances.
He emphasized, however, that nothing had been found “that could be indicative of an extraterrestrial origin” for these phenomena, but he also did not definitively rule out such a possibility.
In June 2021, US intelligence already stated in a long-awaited report that there was no evidence for the existence of aliens, although it admitted that dozens of phenomena observed by military pilots were inexplicable.
Some of these can be attributed to the presence of drones or birds wreaking havoc on US military radar systems. Others may be the result of testing of military hardware or technology by other powers such as China or Russia.
The US military and intelligence agencies are focused on determining whether these “unidentified aerial phenomena” could be linked to threats against the United States.
“Unidentified aerial phenomena pose a potential threat to national security” and “should be treated as such,” warned Democratic Congressman Andre Carson, head of the parliamentary committee that organized the hearings.
