Pentagon UFO report says sightings could be secret aircraft from China or Russia – or even ‘non-government’ terror group
THE Pentagon UFO report released Friday afternoon said that unexplained aerial sightings could be secret aircraft from China or Russia — or a "non-government" terror group.
The Preliminary Assessment: , which was released from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, detailed what the government understands about a number of mysterious flying objects that have been observed in military airspaces.
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According to the report, unidentified aerial phenomena (referred to as UAP) documented in the report "demonstrate an array of aerial behaviors, reinforcing the possibility there are multiple types of UAP requiring different explanations."
In total, the data analysis explains UAP incidents fall into five potential explanatory categories.
The categories listed are: "Airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena, USG or industry developmental programs, foreign adversary systems, and a catchall 'other' bin."
Foreign adversary systems, described in the nine-page report, means "some UAP may be technologies deployed by China, Russia, another nation, or a non-governmental entity."
"China has well-documented issues with basic jet engines, they rely on espionage to develop their most advanced weapons systems. So, I struggle with China having developed this," said Marik Von Rennenkampff, who served at the Pentagon, according to . "Russia has a defense budget that is a fraction of the United States, and much of its military infrastructure is crumbling so I struggle with that too."
Von Rennenkampff added: "So if it is China or Russia, then that’s extraordinary. I don’t know how they did it, and it would be a monumental failure of intelligence collection on the part of the United States, orders of magnitude worse than 9/11."
The report, released on the website of the Office of the Director for National Intelligence, examined 144 reports of encounters with what the government deemed "unidentified aerial phenomenon."
Only one of those encounters could be explained by investigators by the end of the study. That case was put down to "airborne clutter."
Investigators also found no evidence to suggest the sightings represented either extraterrestrial life or a major technological advancement by a foreign foe, such as China or Russia.
"Of the 144 reports we are dealing with here, we have no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation for them — but we will go wherever the data takes us," a senior US official said.
"We don’t have any clear indications that any of these unidentified aerial phenomena are part of a foreign [intelligence] collection program, and we don’t have any clear data that is indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary.
“We continue to put a lot of effort and energy into tracking those types of developments, and we watch that very carefully. Nothing in this data set clearly points us in that direction," the official continued.
Investigators were, however, convinced that the majority of the "unidentified aerial phenomenon" were physical objects, the official said.
"We absolutely do believe what we're seeing are not simply sensor artifacts. These are things that physically exist," they said, adding that 80 percent of the incidents included data from more than one sensor.
Eleven of the cases involved a "near miss" with US personnel, investigators said.
A second senior official said that 21 of the reports show UAPs "that appear to have some sort of advanced propulsion or advanced technology."
In recent years, the government has adopted UAP as its preferred term for what is otherwise known as “unidentified flying objects,” or UFOs, which have long associated with the notion of alien spacecraft.
Additionally, the Pentagon report also revealed a mystery aircraft "clustered around the United States military bases and testing grounds."
According to the UFO , which was tipped to reveal the "truth about aliens" and US military sightings, some potential patterns did emerge.
"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."
In addition to the patterns, a number of UAP appeared to show advanced technology.
"In 18 incidents, described in 21 reports, observers reported unusual UAP movement patterns or flight characteristics," the report continues.
"Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion."
And in only a select number of cases, the report said "military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings."
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Dave Partridge of UAP Media UK said: "The U.S. Government has recognised 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.
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"The UAPTF are recommending funding be made available for training and technological advancement so that when U.S. military personnel encounter UAP, they are sufficiently trained in order to provide high-quality and consistent data for scientific and strategic analysis.
"We hope that with the release of this report from the United States ODNI, the higher ranks of the UK Armed Forces will be inclined to provide a similar evaluation to HM Government."