The exact figure will be disclosed soon, but a senior Navy official said in May the total number of reported cases had already reached 400.Ĭongress focused on the new Pentagon push in its annual defense policy bill, which it passed this week. Kirkpatrick said several hundred more cases have been documented since then. The 2021 report included some UAPs revealed in previously released Pentagon video of enigmatic objects exhibiting speed and maneuverability exceeding known aviation technology and lacking any visible means of propulsion or flight-control surfaces. government or commercial entity, or by a foreign power such as China or Russia. military officially calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," or UAPs, observed since 2004.Īll but one of the listed sightings - an instance attributed to a large, deflating balloon - remain unexplained, subject to further analysis, the report said.įor the other 143 cases, the report found that too little data exists to conclude whether they represent some exotic aerial system developed either by a U.S. military operations and to national security.Ī government report last year documented more than 140 cases of what the U.S.
"And as a physicist, I have to adhere to the scientific method, and I will follow that data and science wherever it goes."ĪARO's mission focuses on unexplained activity around military installations, restricted airspace and "other areas of interest" and is aimed at helping identify possible threats to the safety of U.S. We will go through it all," Kirkpatrick said, speaking at the first news conference since AARO was established in July. "I would just say that we are structuring our analysis to be very thorough and rigorous.
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