Pentagon UFO report reveals mystery aircraft ‘clustered around US military bases and testing grounds’
A PENTAGON UFO report revealed a mystery aircraft "clustered around the United States military bases and testing grounds."
The long-awaited report — titled The Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena — was released Friday afternoon from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
"Although there was wide variability in the reports and the dataset is currently too limited to allow for detailed trend or pattern analysis, there was some clustering of UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) observations regarding shape, size, and, particularly, propulsion," the report states.
"UAP sightings also tended to cluster around U.S. training and testing grounds, but we assess that this may result from a collection bias as a result of focused attention, greater numbers of latest-generation sensors operating in those areas, unit expectations, and guidance to report anomalies."
Eleven of the cases involved a "near miss" with US personnel, investigators said.
In recent years, the government has adopted UAP as its preferred term for what are otherwise known as “unidentified flying objects,” or UFOs, which have long associated with the notion of alien spacecraft.
A second senior official said that 21 of the reports show UAPs “that appear to have some sort of advanced propulsion or advanced technology."
Each also appeared to lack any means of propulsion or acceleration and exhibited speeds beyond what the United States believes foreign adversaries are capable of.
The report was ordered by Congress as part of broader intelligence legislation signed by former President Donald Trump in December.
Dave Partridge of UAP Media UK said: "The U.S. Government has recognized that the characteristics displayed by Unidentified Aerial Phenomena require an enhancement of data collection assets in order to understand and identify any potential threat to their national sovereignty.