A spike in UFO sightings in the 1960s was likely caused by tests of advanced US spy planes and space technology, a Pentagon report has concluded.
The findings, submitted in a report to Congress on Friday, also said there was “no evidence” that the US government had interactions with aliens.
Most sightings of UFOs or “unidentified anomalous phenomena” (UAP) were ordinary objects, officials said.
“The proliferation of television programmes, books, movies, and the vast amount of internet and social media content centred on UAP-related topics most likely has influenced the public conversation on this topic, and reinforced these beliefs within some sections of the population,” the report said.
A Pentagon spokesperson said that officials had approached the report in an open-minded way, but had simply found no evidence of extra-terrestrial visitors.
“All investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification,” Maj Gen Pat Ryder told reporters.
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Not sure why this is news. UFOs are always human aerospace craft or nature. I remember a few years ago they showed TGP video of a bird-sized blob, moving over the sea, moving at bird speeds, than then dipped into the water, much like a bird would while hunting fish. Then everyone started talking about how this blob was clearly a multi-modal vessel that featured currently unknown flight properties.
Why is it so hard to understand that an Unidentified Flying Object is simply something flying that the observer doesn’t know what it is. We know that the aerospace industry makes new planes, and that many of these are secret designs that we don’t have clearance to know about. Thus, many, if not all, UFOs are simply classified aircraft. Simple.
My guess would be that a majority of people don’t know what UFO stands for, or even if they do, don’t think about it. Most of the time you hear about UFOs is in pop culture referencing aliens, or the conspiracy guys equating crafts they can’t identify as alien UFOs, so it’s really not that hard to see why people jump to alien when they hear it.
100% not all. Many UFOs have been positively identified as something else, like balloons, blimps, drones, frisbees, lens effects, smut, CGI or other intentional fakes, etc.
If an advanced civilization developed the technology for interstellar travel, and came all this way to earth, I suspect one of 2 things will happen. Either their tech is so advanced that we won’t even detect them, or they show up ready to communicate or destroy us.
I can’t see them clumsily flying around, getting seen and whooshing off like some dumb teenagers playing ding-dong-ditch.
They travel thousands of light years just to pick up some ding dong and toss him back. I just picture a grey little alien dropping off a hillbilly after a solid butt probin’ with a finger over his mouth uttering, “Shhhh! No one will believe you.”
I mean if you look at it like *observe and don’t interact" then it makes a lot of sense why the craft keep going into the ocean. It’s the best place on earth to hide and you can get anywhere on the planet that way.
It amuses me that they get caught on VHS flying around clumsily, but no one’s ever seen anything out in space. How did they get into the atmosphere? Not one telescope on the planet can spot ships flying towards the planet
You implied we could see everything with telescopes, we can’t even see everything with the tech nasa employs.
Maybe, maybe not, doesn’t change the fact that we’ve missed lots of stuff that’s hit or missed earth despite your asinine claim we don’t miss anything.
Also: for a civilization advanced enough for interstellar travel to want to destroy us is unlikely. The universe is filled with resources. We pose no threat and don’t really have anything special.
I’m starting to think they’re inter dimensional, not extra terrestrial. Google what would a human in 4d look like to us, and it sounds just like the descriptions of angels in the Bible. Our brain just glitching out and seeing them as a mess of eyeballs and appendages. They can pop in and out of our reality, seemingly out of nowhere.
I don’t get why everyone was always assuming ‘alien’ vs “time travelers.”
The interest in Earth, general similarity to our own tech but more advanced, coupled with non-intervention makes a lot more sense under those conditions than aliens.
Would be funny if they tried, considering all the stuff that he knows and that he is legally represented by the former Director of National Intelligence.
once you reach ‘unmanned’ craft, the capabilities can get silly. the pilot being able to function in the G forces used to be a major limiting factor. remote-control meant limiting capabilities to what a human could comprehend. now we’re well past that too.
funny how maga never seems to bring that little idea up lmao “hey everyone look over here at my left hand” while the right hand rapes and plunders our democracy
After half a decade of trying to blow the whistle, he was finally making serious progress, as Boeing’s own planes keep falling apart because of the exact same shoddy practices Barnett has been trying to tell everyone about.
Then, he inexplicably “self-inflicts” a fatal wound just as his lawsuit starts getting serious traction. This dude was straight-up murdered, and we’re all going to act like that didn’t happen, even though it obviously did.
It sure would be a shame if something were to… happen to him, capiche?
we’re all going to act like that didn’t happen
I feel the need to correct you in one matter: we (The People) are doing something about it! Why, Trump has been on the campaign trail for months now, saying how we should fix this very problem!
I am talking about allowing people to murder journalists and tattletales, ofc, what did you think I meant? We aren’t “America” if we don’t allow (checks notes) Freedom Murder of the Press, apparently. (Jon Stewart’s recent take on the matter)
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