No 'Verifiable Evidence' Of Aliens Say Director Of Pentagon's UAP Office
November 21, 2024 1:00 AM ‐ UFOs
Jon Kosloski, the head of the All-Domain Anomaly Research Office (AARO), a department tasked with improving transparency and understanding of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), spoke to a group of US senators about their findings this weel. He made it clear that there is no solid evidence of aliens or their technology.
AARO was set up in 2022 after the US Congress passed a law requiring the government to take a closer look at reports of UFOs, or as the government calls them, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). The office's goal is to collect information from across different government agencies, study these reports, and share its findings with the public. AARO has released several reports, all of which have come to the same conclusion: nothing observed so far points to aliens.
On Tuesday, while speaking to the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, a group that oversees potential security risks, Kosloski confirmed, "We have not found any proof of extraterrestrial life, activity, or technology."
He explained that most UFO sightings the office has reviewed have turned out to have straightforward explanations. For example, 75% of the cases that could be explained were identified as balloons, while another 16% were unmanned aircraft systems (commonly referred to as drones). Birds accounted for 6% of the sightings, satellites for 1%, and conventional aircraft for 1%.
These figures come from AARO's most recent report, published last week. The report shows that the office reviewed 757 reports of UAP sightings between May 2023 and June 2024. While some sightings are unusual, Kosloski said they haven't found anything that connects these events to extraterrestrial life.
Kosloski also presented data on UAP "morphology," or the shape of UFOs. The data showed that almost three-quarters of sightings consist of lights, orbs, or spheres. The remaining sightings include cylinders, discs, triangles, "Tic Tacs," and other shapes.
He went on to give some compelling explanations for some of the more intriguing videos showing UAPs that have made headlines in recent years. These are videos captured by pilots of military aircraft, which seem to show UAPs exhibiting strange behaviour. In three examples, Kosloski explained how and why the cameras appear to show this behaviour, while offering more down-to-earth explanations for what's being seen.
In the first example, "The Puerto Rico Object," a UAP is seen on video seemingly moving from the air into the water without making as much as a splash or ripple on the surface. Kosloski explained, "This video was taken with infrared, and what appears to be the trans-medium part, where it goes into the water, is actually where the temperature of the water is equal to the temperature of the object, and the camera can no longer distinguish between the two. It's not that the object actually goes into the water." He added, "We assessed that the object is likely a pair of balloons or sky lanterns floating at about seven knots."
The next example is the famous "Go Fast" clip, recorded by a US Navy jet in 2015. The footage garnered widespread press attention when it was made public in 2017. In the video, an object appears to move rapidly over the ocean's surface. However, Kosloski suggested the apparent velocity is nothing more than an optical illusion caused by the jet's own movement and the angle of observation. Kosloski explained, "Through a very careful geospatial intelligence analysis using trigonometry, we assess with high confidence that the object is not actually close to the water, but is rather closer to 13,000 feet."
AARO was also able to debunk footage of a UAP captured on video over Mount Etna during an eruption in 2018. The clip appears to show the object flying through the plume of superheated gas and ash, something a terrestrial vehicle could not do. Kosloski told the hearing, "Through very detailed 3D modelling and pixel-by-pixel analysis of the object as it's traversing across the clouds, they assess that the object was actually 170 kilometres away from the plume and not flying through it."
Having debunked these clips, Kosloski reassured the hearing, "To be clear, AARO does not believe every object is a bird, a balloon, or a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). We do have some very anomalous objects; it's just the nature of resolution. We can only resolve things that we understand."
Kosloski went on to talk about some of the cases that AARO can't currently explain, including a large orange orb accompanied by a fast-moving black object that was witnessed by a law enforcement officer. He also described how two government contractors saw a large metallic cylinder stationary in the sky before it vanished in front of their eyes, and another case of a small object captured on video passing between two aircraft flying parallel to each other.
The latest subcommittee hearing comes on the heels of the high-profile US Congress hearing on UAPs held on November 13 and led by the House Oversight Committee. This session marked the second formal meeting on UAP transparency.
Giving evidence at the hearing were retired Navy admiral Tim Gallaudet; Michael Gold, a former NASA official; and Michael Shellenberger, who reportedly uncovered a possible secret UAP data collection programme within the Pentagon, codenamed 'Immaculate Constellation.'
Also giving evidence was Luis Elizondo, formerly of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), which ran from 2007 to 2012 and looked into UFO sightings reported by military personnel. As the head of this programme, Luis was well placed to have access to these investigations, making his testimony under oath even more convincing.
Contrary to AARO's findings, Luis is adamant that the government has in its possession alien technologies. When asked by the committee's chair, Representative Nancy Mace, "Has the government conducted secret UAP crash retrieval programmes?" Luis Elizondo replied with a definitive "yes." Nancy followed this up by asking, "Were they designed to identify and reverse engineer alien craft?" And again, Luis answered, "Yes."
Luis told the hearing, "Let me be clear: UAP are real. Advanced technologies not made by our Government - or any other government - are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe. Furthermore, the U.S. is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries."
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