Washington, USA (CNN) — Since March 2021, the US government has received more than 350 new reports of what the US government calls “unidentified atmospheric phenomena”, known as “Unidentified Flying Objects” or “UFOs” for short. Almost unexplained so far, according to a report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released Thursday.
According to the report, the Pentagon office responsible for tracking and studying the sightings initially identified 163 of the reports as “blimp entities,” and a few others were attributed to drones, birds, weather events, or airborne debris such as plastic bags.
The report found that “some of these unknown or identified UFOs appear to exhibit unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities and require further analysis.”
“The initial characterization does not imply a positive or negative finding,” the report warned, as the remaining 171 reported sightings of UFOs remain unexplained by the US government.
As a result, the intelligence community and the Pentagon seem to have no explanation for at least some of the series of UFOs that have been seen moving through restricted military airspace over the past several decades. The majority of the new reports came from US Navy and Air Force pilots and operators “who sighted the UFO during their operational missions and reported the events,” according to the report.
