A new bombshell document has revealed 21 unexplained UFO sightings - sparking warnings for experts.
The US government confirmed the shock findings after congress received the document from the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), with the new paper detailing eyewitness accounts that had been investigated. Claims of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), also known as UFOs, ranged from a green fireball and a flashing. Other concerns which were flagged included multicoloured jellyfish and a 6ft rocket.
While some objects were later linked back to common things such as balloons, birds and satellites, some cases remain unresolved. Unresolved sightings include the so-called 'GOFAST' video of a U.S. Navy F/A-18 jet crew’s encounter with an UAP, and a fast-moving silver ball captured on camera by a U.S. drone in the Middle East.
AARO said: "It is important to underscore that, to date, AARO has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology." They added: "None of these resolved cases substantiated advanced foreign adversarial capabilities or breakthrough aerospace technologies."
Regarding the unresolved cases, they added: "AARO is working closely with its IC (Intelligence Community) and S&T (Science and Technology) partners to understand and attribute the 21 cases received this reporting period that merit further analysis based on reported anomalous characteristics and/or behaviours. AARO will provide immediate notification to Congress should AARO identify any cases that indicate or involve a breakthrough in foreign adversarial aerospace capability."
The department said it received 757 UAP reports from May 1, 2023, to June 1, 2024. 485 of these reports featured UAP incidents during the reporting period. As of June 1, 2024, the total number of cases for review was over 1,600. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Defense said: "The safety of our service personnel, our bases and installations, and the protection of U.S. operations security on land, in the skies, seas, and space are paramount. We take reports of incursions into our designated space, land, sea, or airspaces seriously and examine each one."
Mike Gold, formerly NASA’s Associate Administrator for Space Policy, warned the House of Representatives that "the truth is out there". He called for NASA to take action and says the agency could map the flights of potential UFOs to track down their origins, reports Forbes.
He said: “NASA has a vast archive of data, much of which could be relevant to unravelling the mystery of UAP. NASA could create an artificial intelligence or machine learning algorithm that would review all agency archives to search for anomalous phenomena in the air, space, and sea. The results of such a search could then be shared with … relevant defence and intelligence agencies, and the public at large.”