A Pentagon study confirms hundreds of UFO sightings during 2022 and launches an inevitable alarm

For the past six months, the office has been calling Office for the resolution of anomalies in all domains (AARO)- received “several hundred” new UFO reports from US military personnelas he told the news agency Associated press the office manager, Sean Kirkpatrick.

This adds to more than 140 UFO sightings reported by the military between 2004 and 2021, which they had previously been described in a Pentagon report in June 2021.

The government’s newest UFO monitoring office United States of America It’s been open for six months, but business is already booming.

UFO reports from the Pentagon

The new reports, filed this year by U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force personnel, describe unidentified anomalous phenomena, or FANI -the government’s preferred name for UFOs- spotted in the air, underwater and in space.

none of the reports, old or new, show any indication of extraterrestrial activity, Kirkpatrick noted.

Created in July 2022, the AARO’s mission is to consolidate and investigate UFO reports filed by various branches of the U.S. military.

By definition, a UFO is “anything in space, air, land, sea, or under the sea that cannot be identified and this could pose a threat to U.S. military installations or operations,” according to a Defense Department statement released Dec. 17.

The new UFO reports from around the world

“The sudden influx of new reports may be due to recent outreach efforts by the AARO,” Kirkpatrick said, adding he wanted to “destigmatize” the reporting process for FANI or UFO sightings in the military.

“Many of the reported sightings have now been resolved,” unnamed Pentagon officials told the New York Times in November.

Some UFO sightings can be attributed to “relatively ordinary” surveillance drones from countries such as China and Russia, officials said, while others may simply be “aerial disturbances” such as weather balloons.

Kirkpatrick said the agency is working on procedures to “eliminate” common sources of FANI sightings, such as foreign or domestic aircraft that may leave distinctive technological signatures or marks that have been made using the technology.

The bureau plans to release an upcoming report with more details on its investigation this year.

Why NASA calls UFOs FANI

The Fani concept has supplanted that of the UFO. NASA announced this in mid-2022 after creating a study group for unidentified aerial phenomena (FANI) with the aim of analyzing them in detail.

This working group, which is called Independent study UAPit will work “from a scientific perspective” to interpret “observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena”.