New Pentagon Report on UFOs: Hundreds of New Incidents, No Evidence of Aliens (apnews.com) 66
"The Pentagon's latest report on UFOs has revealed hundreds of new reports of unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena," reports the Associated Press, "but no indications suggesting an extraterrestrial origin.
"The review includes hundreds of cases of misidentified balloons, birds and satellites as well as some that defy easy explanation, such as a near-miss between a commercial airliner and a mysterious object off the coast of New York." Federal efforts to study and identify UAPs have focused on potential threats to national security or air safety and not their science fiction aspects. Officials at the Pentagon office created in 2022 to track UAPs, known as the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, have said there's no indication any of the cases they looked into have unearthly origins. "It is important to underscore that, to date, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology," the authors of the report wrote... Reporting witnesses included commercial and military pilots as well as ground-based observers. Investigators found explanations for nearly 300 of the incidents. In many cases, the unknown objects were found to be balloons, birds, aircraft, drones or satellites. According to the report, Elon Musk's Starlink satellite system is one increasingly common source as people mistake chains of satellites for UFOs. Hundreds of other cases remain unexplained, though the report's authors stressed that is often because there isn't enough information to draw firm conclusions.
No injuries or crashes were reported in any of the incidents, though a commercial flight crew reported one near miss with a "cylindrical object" while flying over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New York. That incident remains under investigation. In three other cases, military air crews reported being followed or shadowed by unidentified aircraft, though investigators could find no evidence to link the activity to a foreign power.
The article points out that the report's publication comes "a day after House lawmakers called for greater government transparency during a hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena." And it concludes with this quote from Republican Represenative Andy Ogles of Tennessee. "There is something out there. The question is: Is it ours, is it someone else's, or is it otherworldly?"
"The review includes hundreds of cases of misidentified balloons, birds and satellites as well as some that defy easy explanation, such as a near-miss between a commercial airliner and a mysterious object off the coast of New York." Federal efforts to study and identify UAPs have focused on potential threats to national security or air safety and not their science fiction aspects. Officials at the Pentagon office created in 2022 to track UAPs, known as the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, have said there's no indication any of the cases they looked into have unearthly origins. "It is important to underscore that, to date, the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology," the authors of the report wrote... Reporting witnesses included commercial and military pilots as well as ground-based observers. Investigators found explanations for nearly 300 of the incidents. In many cases, the unknown objects were found to be balloons, birds, aircraft, drones or satellites. According to the report, Elon Musk's Starlink satellite system is one increasingly common source as people mistake chains of satellites for UFOs. Hundreds of other cases remain unexplained, though the report's authors stressed that is often because there isn't enough information to draw firm conclusions.
No injuries or crashes were reported in any of the incidents, though a commercial flight crew reported one near miss with a "cylindrical object" while flying over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New York. That incident remains under investigation. In three other cases, military air crews reported being followed or shadowed by unidentified aircraft, though investigators could find no evidence to link the activity to a foreign power.
The article points out that the report's publication comes "a day after House lawmakers called for greater government transparency during a hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena." And it concludes with this quote from Republican Represenative Andy Ogles of Tennessee. "There is something out there. The question is: Is it ours, is it someone else's, or is it otherworldly?"
Well it's great (Score:1, Offtopic)
So glad the GOP house has so much time to do this meaningless grandstanding yet again instead of passing helpful legislation.
Re: Well it's great (Score:3, Funny)
If you believe this is the stupidest thing congress could be doing now, have I got a bridge to sell you.
Re: Well it's great (Score:5, Informative)
Your in luck! The problem has been studied!
https://www.psychologytoday.co... [psychologytoday.com]
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Since that is the level of crying people are willing to accept as a society.
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Look, your girl lost. It wasn't racism or men intimidated by strong women (lol, as if)
And you are so easily triggered by this that you keep endlessly bringing it up in response to the kind of AC posts that most people here learned to ignore long ago (I didn't even bother to read the post). I think the slashdotter doth protest too much.
Re: Well it's great (Score:2)
It brings an ounce of pleasure into the drudgery that is other people's lives. ;-)
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He believes all republicans are stupid and evil and all democrats are educated and enlightened.
Ask him to name a stupid democrat in high office.
As a bystander, I've a nit to pick with your comment:While I won't pretend to know what opinions our friend ZipNada holds, the existence of Kristen Sinema and Joe Manchin make me blithely assume that your unqualified statement that he believes that "and all democrats are ... enlightened" is almost certainly false.
I would also point out that, regarding Mr. or Ms. Nutjob's comment to which you were directly responding, nothing in ZipNada's comment indicated that he thought that this was the stupidest thing co
Re: Well it's great (Score:2)
I'm ready to buy that bridge.
Re: Well it's great (Score:2)
We take buttcoin, send one BTC to 0xdeadqueef as earnest money and a government representative will contact you on Monday with details.
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In a world where other countries are developing stealth and hypersonic vehicles, and even high endurance balloon surveillance platforms, UAPs are something to take very seriously.
Congress should be paying attention to that, but platforming a conspiracy theory pedaling "whistleblower" is a waste of time. He's claiming quite a widespread and elaborate coverup, but he is the *single* source of this story. There is no corroborating data at all.
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They have to pander to their flat earth base.
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Helpful legislation to the GQP means legislation designed to line their or Asshole's pockets. One yokel from some southern state stated that congress's job was to follow Asshole: if he said jump, then we jump. There's some separation of powers for you.
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I'm happy they are wasting time on this since it keeps them from doing real damage if they actually passed some extreme laws.
Hundreds of 22 year old 2nd lieutenants (Score:5, Insightful)
not knowing how to operate their equipment or understanding what it's telling them.
Out-of-focus birds, commercial airplanes, lens flares, and electronic noise are not aliens.
Heinlein wrote about this phenomenon in Starship Troopers. 'cept there it was the junior grunt mistaking aliens for sensor noise.
Re:Hundreds of 22 year old 2nd lieutenants (Score:5, Insightful)
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Actually, it turns out Starlink satellites are also a likely source of the UAP sightings. To get the low latency it has, they have to be low in the sky which means they can catch the sunlight in interesting ways
Re: Hundreds of 22 year old 2nd lieutenants (Score:2)
To be fair, if you see a starlink and claim you've seen a spacecraft, you're not wrong.
USS Russell (Score:3)
The tin foil hats all had orgasms when a couple of navy ships off california a few years back filmed some "triangle ufos" and the video was confirmed as real by the navy.
Turns out whoever was using the camera didn't know how to operate it and it was suffering from a bad case of bokeh. The "ufos" were actually aircraft taking off from LAX - proven by the timings and locations - and you can even see some of the "ufos" blinking at the exact same rate as airliner navigation lights.
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Audit (Score:1)
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The audit of the Pentagon did not fail. In some cases, it has not been completed but that is because of the sheer size and complexity of the task.
The question is: Is it ours, is it someone else's (Score:2)
or misinterpreted optics, or imagination, or bullshit.
Also "UAP" is as much a misnomer as "UFO" - in the three cases above, it isn't aerial.
I suggest Unidentified Aerial, Optical, Mental, or Social Phenomenon. (UAOMSP)
But IMO just a mass delusion, as suggested by maps [reddit.com].
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Re:The question is: Is it ours, is it someone else (Score:4)
Yep. I consider it highly likely we'll find evidence of alien life within the next century. But its not going to be space monsters zooming about in flying saucers.
What we MIGHT find is biosignatures in the spectra of exoplanets indicating microbial (or maybe ,but unlikely, more advanced) style life.
But little green men visiting us in spaceships? No. Physics is a bitch, and the same hard limit of light speed will be just as true for our species a thousand or even million years of further tech development as it is now. Relatiity doesnt care how futuristic a species is, FTL is forbiden.
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Put another way, you cannot here from there. And don't count out the space bugs just yet. The space nutters can easily devise a method whereby the space bugs can work together to get a space craft able to fly faster than the speed of light. The little critters start small, like building a pink unicorn. After that, conquering space is easy.
Drones (Score:5, Funny)
Re: Drones (Score:3)
Alien visitors are pretty stand-up guys. Expect for their anal probes.
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"everyone loses their minds!" only people like Marjorie Taylor Greene....and the Chinese could easily have done a deal with aliens for Jewish Space Lasers.
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Then stop bringing up "aliens." (Score:3)
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The Philistines might have agreed with that estimate of the Earth's age.
probably time ships, not aliens (Score:4, Interesting)
No injuries or crashes were reported in any of the incidents, though a commercial flight crew reported one near miss with a "cylindrical object" while flying over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New York. That incident remains under investigation.
To be precise: two cylindrical projections on top, one below. Purpose undetermined." [youtube.com]
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Well, damn.
All the cool aliens ... (Score:1)
... are partying at CowboyNeil's place.
Re:Ill the cool iliens ... (Score:1)
Dimn you iliens messing with my keyboard!
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Don't worry, Trump will soon deport them.
How long will it take ... (Score:1)
... for humankind to understand and accept that we are the only ones?
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Consider This Article (Score:2)
Maybe arsTechnica is taking $$ from somebody. Or maybe they have an interesting supporting viewpoint.
After all, arsTechnica is oft seen as a reference article for numerous /. articles.
https://arstechnica.com/space/... [arstechnica.com]
Just weasel wording (Score:1)
Just weasel wording " the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings". So another department of the military "discovered" it and informed AARO but as they didn't "discover" it no need to mention it.
As long as these guys are making weaselly conditioned statements - you know they are hiding something.
Make a blanket statement that is not conditional on a weasel clause - otherwise known as tell the truth.
It's a conspiracy, man! (Score:2)
They say there is no evidence of aliens. That's exactly what the aliens *told* them to say!