{"id":791187,"date":"2024-11-14T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T00:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791187"},"modified":"2024-11-14T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T00:07:00","slug":"pentagons-latest-ufo-report-identifies-hotspots-for-sightings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791187","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon&#8217;s Latest UFO Report Identifies Hotspots for Sightings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Pentagon office in charge of fielding UFO reports says that it has resolved 118 cases over the past year, with most of those anomalous objects turning out to be balloons. But it also says many other cases remain unresolved.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s legally mandated report from the Department of Defense\u2019s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, also identifies areas of the world that seem to be hotspots for sightings of unidentified flying objects. Such objects have been re-branded as unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s report come just one day after a House subcommittee hearing about UAPs, during which witnesses \u2014 and some lawmakers \u2014 voiced concerns about potential alien visitations and undisclosed efforts to gather evidence. In contrast, the Pentagon\u2019s report for the 2023-2024 time period states that, \u201cto date, AARO has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-169326\"\/><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The truth is out there: Experts testify at UFO congressional hearing\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RjpAG8QO8Z8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAARO has successfully resolved hundreds of cases in its holdings to commonplace objects such as balloons, birds, drones, satellites and aircraft,\u201d the office\u2019s director, Jon Kosloski, said in a news release.\u00a0\u201cOnly a very small percentage of reports to AARO are potentially anomalous, but these are the cases that require significant time, resources and a focused scientific inquiry by AARO and its partners.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the past, U.S. military and intelligence officials have suggested that some UAP sightings may be attributable to intrusions by rival powers such as Russia or China. The Chinese spy balloon that was intercepted and destroyed by Air Force fighter jets last year after crossing over the U.S. serves as a prime example.<\/p>\n<p>AARO\u2019s latest report says that U.S. military aircrews provided two reports over the past year that identified flight safety concerns, and three reports described pilots being trailed or shadowed by anomalous objects. \u201cTo date, AARO has no indication or confirmation that these activities are attributable to foreign adversaries,\u201d the report says, but the office is continuing to work with the U.S. intelligence community to investigate the cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of the reports AARO received during the reporting period indicated that observers suffered any adverse health effects,\u201d the report says.<\/p>\n<p>AARO\u2019s reporting system was established to encourage members of the U.S. military to let the Pentagon know about UAP sightings and take the stigma out of the process. Based on the latest numbers, the strategy seems to be working. Between May 2023 and June 2024, AARO received 757 UAP reports, compared with 291 reports for the period between August 2022 and April 2023. <\/p>\n<p>Here are more statistics from today\u2019s report:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Of the 757 reports received over the past year, 485 relate to incidents during the yearlong reporting period, and the remaining 272 reports relate to incidents occurring in the 2021-2022 time frame.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to the 118 resolved cases, another 174 cases have been queued up for closure, pending a final review and approval by AARO\u2019s director. All those cases were attributed to prosaic objects.<\/li>\n<li>Seventy percent of the closed cases in 2023-2024 were attributed to balloons. Sixteen percent were attributed to drones, 8% to birds, 4% to satellites and 2% to birds.<\/li>\n<li>AARO determined that 21 cases merited further analysis, based on reported anomalous characteristics or behaviors. Those cases are being studied by AARO\u2019s experts as well as the office\u2019s partners in the intelligence community and the science and tech community. \u201cAARO will provide immediate notification to Congress should AARO identify that any cases indicate or involve a breakthrough foreign adversarial aerospace capability,\u201d the report says.<\/li>\n<li>The remaining 444 cases received over the past year lacked sufficient data for further analysis. They\u2019ve been placed in an archive and will be revisited if additional data comes to light. AARO says it has 1,652 UAP reports in all.<\/li>\n<li>In addition to reports from the U.S. military, AARO is receiving reports of sightings by civil and commercial pilots via the Federal Aviation Administration. AARO says 392 of the 757 reports received over the past year came from the FAA.<\/li>\n<li>AARO says unidentified lights or orb-shaped objects were mentioned most frequently in the subset of UAP reports that included references to visual characteristics. Other reports mentioned cylinders, disks, triangles, squares or exotic objects such as a \u201cgreen fireball\u201d or \u201ca jellyfish with flashing lights.\u201d <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AARO\u2019s global map of UAP reporting hotspots highlights four broad areas: the southeastern U.S. and Gulf of Mexico; the West Coast and Pacific Northwest; the Middle East; and northeastern Asia in the vicinity of Japan and the Korean peninsula. This doesn\u2019t mean the aliens favor those regions. Instead, AARO says the distribution favors a \u201ccontinued geographic collection bias based on locations near U.S. military assets and sensors operating globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AARO says it\u2019s getting an increasing number of cases that can be traced to sightings of SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellites. \u201cFor example, a commercial pilot reported white flashing lights in the night sky,\u201d the report says. \u201cThe pilot did not report an altitude or speed, and no data or imagery was recorded. AARO assessed that this sighting of flashing lights correlated with a Starlink satellite launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the same evening about one hour prior to the sighting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the reports received via the FAA mentioned a possible flight safety issue. \u201cIn this instance, a commercial aircrew reported a near miss with a \u2018cylindrical object\u2019 while over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New York,\u201d the report says. \u201cAARO continues its research into, and analysis of, this case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AARO received 18 reports from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that related to UAP incidents near U.S. nuclear infrastructure, weapons and launch sites. NRC officials attributed all those sightings to drones. One of the incidents, in August 2023, involved the recovery of a crashed drone in the vicinity of the D.C. Cook Nuclear Power Plant in Michigan \u2014 but AARO provided no further information about the drone. <\/p>\n<p>What more can be done? In today\u2019s report, AARO says its ability to resolve cases has been constrained due to \u201ca lack of timely and actionable sensor data.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAARO continues to address this challenge by working with military and technical partners to optimize sensor requirements, information-sharing processes, and the content of UAP reporting,\u201d the report says. \u201cAARO is also expanding engagement with foreign partners to share information and collaborate on best practices for resolving UAP cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-24000880-169326-67368d229461c\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=14.0#blog_id=24000880&amp;post_id=169326&amp;origin=www.universetoday.com&amp;obj_id=24000880-169326-67368d229461c&amp;n=1\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-24000880-169326-67368d229461c\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/169326\/pentagon-ufo-hotspots\/?rand=772204\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon office in charge of fielding UFO reports says that it has resolved 118 cases over the past year, with most of those anomalous objects turning out to be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=791187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}