

In the second video, a Reaper drone recorded an object that appeared to zig-zag in the sky. In the first video, recorded on an MQ-9 Reaper drone’s forward-looking infrared sensor, another MQ-9 Reaper drone appears to fly past an indistinct object flying in the opposite direction. Kilpatrick played three video clips for the committee, two showing a UAP sighting that was later resolved and one showing a sighting that remains unresolved. The object was later determined to be a video artifact and not a real object. In this screenshot from a Department of Defense video, a MQ-9 Reaper flies by an object passing in the opposite direction. However, he stated, only a handful display true anomalous behavior, with the rest having the “mundane characteristics of balloons, unmanned aerial systems, clutter, natural phenomena, or other readily explainable sources.” Kilpatrick testified that his office has reviewed hundreds of cases of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs. A closed session, on the other hand, typically involves discussion of confidential or secret information that is unavailable to the public. In an open session, a congressional committee hearing involves unclassified information, and testimony is available to the public. Kilpatrick testified at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 19 in both open and closed sessions. The office, set up in 2022, was established in the wake of several high-profile UFO sightings by U.S.

Kilpatrick, stated that although there is no clear sign of alien visitors, his office is tracking 650 cases it believes warrant further study. The director of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, Sean M. Kilpatrick, said that though many UFO cases have been resolved, a few remain unexplainable.Ī government office responsible for investigating so-called UFOs says there is no evidence Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials.

The increase in sightings is also due to a better understanding of the potential threats UAPs pose as a hazard to flight safety or a possible adversary collection threat. Based on additional information and data from other UAP sightings, the UAP in this image were subsequently reclassified as unmanned aerial systems.

The image was captured through night vision goggles and a single lens reflex camera. FILE: Navy image of a UAP captured during Naval Exercises off the East Coast of the United States in early 2022. Air Force aviators and operators who saw a UAP and reported it through official channels. The majority of the new reporting is from U.S. The latest assessment suggests the uptick in reported sightings is partially due to reduced stigma surrounding UAP sightings. That leaves 171 unexplained, some of which exhibited "unusual flight characteristics or performance, and require further analysis." Of the additional sightings, 26 have initially been characterized as drones, 163 as balloon-like objects, and 6 as aerial clutter. An office within the Department of Defense has determined that about half of the additional sightings displayed "unremarkable characteristics." The 366 additional sightings were either new or discovered in the files. This image is a screen capture of the UAP observed in a video of the flyby captured by the pilot in the cockpit of a Navy fighter jet. Naval aviator encounter with an unknown object in a fleeting pass. This is significantly up from the 144 sightings included in the initial report in 2021. The assessment revealed that the office tracking UAPs has had a total of 510 sightings since 2004. On Thursday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an unclassified version of its annual report on UFOs, or what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The office tracking reports of UFOs has added nearly 400 additional sightings to its catalog over the last year, either because of new sightings or older sightings discovered in existing files, bringing the total number of UFO sightings to over 500.
