DOD report says no evidence that UFOs are adversaries, aliens

The Pentagon on Thursday released a report discussing more than 750 UFO sightings that occurred and were reported between May 2023 through June 2024 and were reported to the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO. The report also analyzed hundreds of additional sightings that actually occurred in 2021 and 2022, but were not reported until later.

However, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office had only completely closed about 7% of the sightings discussed in the report by June 2024. Roughly 34% additional cases were awaiting final review. The office was unable to effectively analyze roughly 60% of the incidents, the Pentagon said.

What did the DOD have to say about the incidents it analyzed? The Pentagon had no reason to believe that either extraterrestrial beings or foreign adversaries were behind any of the sightings it completely analyzed. Roughly 700 of the incidents occurred inside the atmosphere while the remaining 50 occurred in space, the Pentagon said.

What were most of these incidents, if not aliens or adversaries? Most of the UFO sighting incidents Pentagon officials analyzed ended up just being observers failing to identify everyday objects such as birds, balloons, airplanes, or drones. Only very few of the sightings were genuinely anomalous, AARO Director Jon Kosloski said.

Dig deeper: Read Carolina Lumetta’s report in the WORLD archives about how UFOs highlight the public’s trust issues with the Pentagon.