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When will the UFO report be released by the Pentagon?

THE Pentagon says there's no evidence that UFOs reported by spooked US military personnel are alien.

But, the controversial theory can't be completely ruled out, a major new report on said.

A task force has been investigating UFO sightings in the US
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A task force has been investigating UFO sightings in the USCredit: Alamy

When was the UFO report released by the Pentagon?

The on was released on June 25.

Lawmakers demanded the findings be released after some 120 incidents over the past 20 years were .

US Navy pilots, for example, recorded objects , spinning and mysteriously disappearing.

The sheer number of what the Pentagon terms .

Mystery UFO spotted by US Navy submarine traveling at 'unprecedented speed'
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Mystery UFO spotted by US Navy submarine traveling at 'unprecedented speed'Credit: Fox

It like and may be using unknown, highly advanced military and surveillance technologies.

Pentagon Spokesperson John Kirby said: "We take all incursions into our operating spaces seriously.

"It could potentially involve safety and or national security concerns," he added, referring to the UAP reports the Defense Department has logged.

The report, ordered in 2020, was submitted to Congress on June 25 by the director of national intelligence.

The main report is unclassified and was made public, but there is also a that was not released.

described it as an "unprecedented act of transparency" from the Pentagon.

Unclassified video taken by Navy pilots showing interactions with 'unidentified aerial phenomena' - or UAPs
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Unclassified video taken by Navy pilots showing interactions with 'unidentified aerial phenomena' - or UAPsCredit: AFP

What was announced?

The nine-page report that was released on Friday, June 25, 2021, was essentially a UFO-lite substitute compared to the classified version sent to Congress.

In the released public documents it states the military counted 144 UFO sightings, predominantly occurring in 2019, that could not be verified by any terrestrial explanation.

Only one of these Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAP) was identified - as .

US military and intelligence have apparently found no evidence that seemingly highly advanced sighted by military pilots were alien spacecraft.

US Navy footage showing pyramid-shaped UFO flying off the coast of California
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US Navy footage showing pyramid-shaped UFO flying off the coast of California

The report said it didn't find any evidence that UAPs resulted from alien visitors or foreign countries - despite not knowing what they were.

But there was nothing in the report that concluded the flying aircraft aren’t alien. 

Possible links to highly intelligent extraterrestrial life were suggested after the Pentagon released videos in 2020, in which at the .

But the report appeared to acknowledge that the military’s capability both in the realms of defense and intelligence .

The Pentagon has been delving in to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP)
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The Pentagon has been delving in to unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP)Credit: AFP

Luis Elizondo, who worked on the Pentagon's UAP investigation and has urged it to reveal what it knows, said some of the sightings suggest extremely advanced technology unknown to humans.

He said: "If the New York Times reporting is accurate, the objects being witnessed by pilots around the world are far more advanced than any earthly technologies known to our intelligence services.

"It's time to release the full report, videos, and data that we've seen in the Pentagon."

After the report was made public Elizondo told : "This is a historic moment for us, in our country and our military.

“The government has formally and officially come out and informed Congress that these things are – A, they’re real – and two, that they’re not ours and that they seem to be performing, at least some of them … in remarkable ways.”

He added that there was a "lot more than just 144 incidents involving the Navy".

Following the release of the report, several people near the Area 51 base in Nevada blasted the Pentagon's ".

Misty Ingram, 40, of the Alien Research Centre located near the base, told the : "They know full well what is out there, but they refuse to tell us the truth.

"It’s a complete whitewash. They want to feed us information bit by bit, to walk us into the water gradually, so as not to spark hysteria."

Conspiracy theorists believe the Pentagon's report is 'complete whitewash'
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Conspiracy theorists believe the Pentagon's report is 'complete whitewash'

The Mirror spoke to other conspiracy theorists in the nearby town of Rachel about the recent Pentagon report.

Noel Garrison, 51, from Idaho, who was visiting the area for a third time, says the report shows there is a cover-up.

He said: "Clearly they have something to hide – why else would they be so shady?

"We had hoped the report would at least validate what many of us believe – that aliens do exist – but either they are too damned afraid to let us know or they want to keep us in the dark."

A Navy veteran who reportedly has demanded a public apology from the Department of Defense after claiming he was mocked and ridiculed by officials.

Kevin Day said he was “laughed at, mocked and talked about” as he tried to recall what he saw in November 2004, the  reports.

Day, who is co-founder of the UAP Expedition Group, demanded a formal public apology from US Defense officials.

On August 4, 2020, the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) Task Force was approved.

Its mission is to detect, analyze and catalog UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to US national security.

Navy pilots witnessed an 'unsettling' UFO off San Diego that 'looked like a Tic-Tac'
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Navy pilots witnessed an 'unsettling' UFO off San Diego that 'looked like a Tic-Tac'Credit: CNN

How can I read the Pentagon report?

The Pentagon report was released in a and was titled: Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.

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It is available for anybody to read.

However a portion, as mentioned before, will remain classified.

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