UFO Sightings By US Troops Surge – By Patrick Tucker (Defense One) / Jan 12, 2023
Intelligence officials cite recent efforts to reduce the stigma of reporting odd aerial phenomena. Many cases remain unexplained.
Sightings of unidentified flying objects by U.S. pilots, or as the military now calls them, “unidentified aerial phenomena,” has risen sharply since April 2020, when the military declassified three videos taken by Navy pilots that purport to show strange, even unexplainable aircraft.
In the 17 years before March 2021, the military recorded just 144 alleged UFO sightings by troops. But between March 2021 and August 2022, troops reported 366, according to a report released Thursday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, or ODNI.
The top U.S. intelligence office said that 171 of those cases involved an “uncharacterized and unattributed UAP”—meaning that neither the intelligence agencies or the Pentagon can explain them.
A big reason for the increase is that the Pentagon and the intelligence community are now paying better attention to UAPs, according to the intelligence officials. In August 2020, the Pentagon stood up the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, or UAPTF, which has since been rebranded the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office.
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