United States military encounters unidentified aerial objects or events increased since 2021according to an Intelligence report from this country released this Thursday.
According to the document, in less than two years, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) received 247 reports from the US military of encounters with unidentified objects or weather events.
In contrast, ODNI also found 119 more matches of this typeBefore 2021, not reported at the time.
According to the report, this means that as of August 2022, the US government was aware of a total of 510 UFO sightings.
Half of these objects or phenomena with “ordinary” featuresAccording to the Pentagon classification.
Of those encounters or objects reported by the military, 26 were attributed to drones, 163 to balloons, and six to landfill, the document said.
Pentagon press secretary Pat Ryeder stressed the need for the “safety” of personnel and the “protection of US operations” on the report. they are “primary” to the government.
“We take reports of attacks on the designated area, land, sea or airspace seriously and we examine each one,” he said. stressful.
This new report comes less than a month after the Pentagon reported that the military found no signs of alien life in its encounter with unidentified objects or weather events.
In July of last year, The Pentagon has set up an office to oversee the collection, processing, and analysis of any encounters with UFOs or phenomena of this nature..