Federal efforts to investigate UAPs have prioritized potential risks to national security and air safety.
A new report from the Pentagon on UFOs this week revealed hundreds of new incidents have been reported involving unidentified aerial phenomena.
The review documents hundreds of instances where balloons, birds and satellites were mistakenly identified, along with a few cases that remain puzzling—such as a close encounter between a commercial airliner and an unidentified object off the New York coast.The Government’s UFO Report
Though unlikely to resolve debates over alien life, the report underscores growing public interest in the subject and reflects the government’s efforts to offer some clarity. Its release follows a congressional hearing in which House lawmakers urged greater transparency on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), the government’s term for UFOs.
Federal efforts to investigate UAPs have prioritized potential risks to national security and air safety rather than delving into theories. Officials at the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), established in 2022 to track UAPs, have stated there is no evidence suggesting that any cases they examined have extraterrestrial origins.
