The United States government is monitoring more than 650 potential cases of so-called “unidentified aerial phenomena,” according to the director of the Pentagon’s new unidentified flying object (UFO) office, although the official also highlighted that there is yet no evidence of aliens.
There are many unsubstantiated reports of UFO sightings, but the director of the Pentagon has put a stop to the talk of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs)Â connected to reports of alien visits and extraterrestrial life.
A Senate Armed Services subcommittee heard testimony from Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, on Wednesday, who claimed that there has been “no concrete evidence of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics” up to this point.
As quoted by US-based media outlets, Kirkpatrick said, “Of those over 650, we’ve prioritized about half of them to be of anomalous interesting value, and now we have to go through those and go ‘How much of those do I have actual data for?’”.Â
Kirkpatrick noted that even so, UAP cases frequently “resolve into reasonably explainable origins” when a plethora of scientific evidence is available.
Kirkpatrick said during the hearing that “I want to underscore today that only a very small percentage of UAP reports display signatures that could reasonably be described as anomalous.”
“The majority of unidentified objects reported to AARO demonstrate mundane characteristics of balloons, [uncrewed] aerial systems, clutter, natural phenomena or other readily explainable sources,” he added.
