NYT managed to find out the contents of the US intelligence report on the UFO: what is in it

US intelligence officials have found no evidence that the aerial phenomena that Navy pilots have witnessed in recent years are alien spaceships. But they still cannot explain the unusual movements that misled scientists and the military. This follows from a recent government report on UFOs. Writes about it The New York Times.

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The report indicates that the vast majority of more than 120 incidents in the past two decades were not triggered by any US military or other advanced US government technology, officials said. This eliminates the possibility that naval pilots who saw unexplained flying objects could come across programs that the government intends to keep secret.

And while the forthcoming unclassified version, which is expected to be presented to Congress on June 25, will present several other firm conclusions, senior officials briefed on intelligence admitted that the very ambiguity of the findings means the government cannot definitively rule out theories about that this phenomenon could be an alien spacecraft.

The long-standing American fascination with UFOs has intensified in recent weeks in anticipation of the release of a government report. At the time, President Barack Obama piqued interest when asked about these incidents.

“There are indeed images and recordings of objects in the sky that we don’t know exactly what they are,” he replied.

The report says much about the observed phenomena remains difficult to explain, including their acceleration and ability to change direction and submerge. One possible explanation is that it could be weather balloons or other research balloons, officials said.

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A classified annex will be included in the final report, officials said. While it will not contain any evidence that the phenomenon is related to alien spaceships, officials admitted that it will remain closed to the public and will likely continue to fuel rumors that the government has classified data on Earth visits. aliens.

Many of the more than 120 incidents covered in the report were from the navy, officials said. The report also examines cases involving foreign military personnel over the past two decades. Intelligence officials believe some of the aerial phenomena may have been experimental technology from a rival power, most likely Russia or China.

One senior intelligence official said without hesitation that US officials knew this was not American technology. He said there are concerns among intelligence officials and the military that China or Russia will be able to experiment with hypersonic technology.

The informants spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly release classified findings in the report.

Russia is investing heavily in hypersonic research, believing this technology will enable it to evade US missile defense technology. China has also developed hypersonic weapons and included them in military parades. If they were Chinese or Russian planes, officials said, it would mean that the two powers' hypersonic research was far ahead of US military developments.

These observations were often of concern to naval pilots. During one of the collisions, strange objects (one of them, like a top moving against the wind) appeared almost daily from the summer of 2014 to March 2015 high in the sky over the East Coast. The naval pilots reported to their superiors that the objects did not have visible engines or infrared exhaust gases, but they could fly at 30 feet (000 km), and they had hypersonic speeds.

Lt. Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who served in the Navy for 10 years, said, “Those things were there all day.” Given the speed he and the other pilots were seeing, he said, “12 hours in the air is 11 hours more than we expected.”

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At the end of 2014, the Super Hornet pilot nearly collided with one of the objects, after which an official incident report was filed. Several of the incidents were recorded on video, including on an aircraft camera in early 2015, which shows the object approaching the ocean waves, and the pilots are puzzled by what they see in front of them.

The Department of Defense has been collecting such reports for over 13 years as part of the hidden, little-known Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program at the Pentagon. The program analyzed radar data, video recordings, reports from pilots and officers of the Navy.

This program began in 2007 and was largely funded at the behest of Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat who was the Senate Majority Leader at the time. The program was officially closed in 2012 when the money ran out, the Pentagon said.

But Luis Elizondo, who was running the program at the time, said he continued it until 2017. Following an article in the New York Times that same year about the program and criticism from program officials for the government's failure to report these events, the Pentagon relaunched the program last summer as the Task Force on Unidentified Air Events.

The Task Force's mission was to "detect, analyze and catalog" observations of strange objects in the sky that could pose a threat to national security. But government officials have said they want to remove the stigma from military personnel who report UFOs in the hope that others will also come forward if they see something. The goal, officials said, was to give authorities a better idea of ​​what might be happening there.

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Last year, lawmakers included a provision in the Exploration Permit Act requiring the government to submit an unclassified report on what it knows about UFOs. This report will be published this month.

Officials who brought up the report said they also studied a video showing a whitish-oval object, described as a giant Tic Tac, the size of a commercial plane, collided by two Navy fighters off the coast of San Diego in 2004.

In this incident, pilots reported interactions with the aircraft that lasted several minutes. At some point the object disappeared. This was later stated by David Fravor in an interview with The Times. “It accelerated like I’ve ever seen before,” he said.

The report investigates this incident, including video accompanying the interaction. The origin of the object is not yet known, officials said.

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