The Pentagon's long-awaited declassified report on Unidentified Aerial
Phenomenon Sightings (UAPs) was recently released, and despite the enthusiasm
its announcement sparked, the responses in the document will disappoint many.
Indeed, although they admit the existence of phenomena currently impossible to
identify, the authorities remained evasive and unclear, ultimately providing
no conclusive information.
In the 9-page document , the best and brightest Pentagon analysts
essentially admitted that they cannot explain the vast majority of apparent
UFO sightings. The report sparked immense speculation ahead of its release
due to the low possibility that it would reveal anything concrete about
alien life, but that did not happen.
“We have no clear indication that there is a non-terrestrial explanation for
these phenomena - but we will go where the data takes us. We have no data
indicating that any of these unidentified aerial phenomena are part of a
foreign collection program and we have no data indicating a major
technological advance by a potential adversary,” said an anonymous
government official. American to NBC News shortly before the report's
release.
The report itself is sometimes almost ironically vague. “There are probably
several types of PAN that require different explanations depending on the
range of appearances and behaviors described in the reports available. Our
data analysis supports the idea that if and when individual PAN incidents are
resolved, they will fall into one of five potential explanatory categories:
air traffic congestion, natural atmospheric phenomena, USG or industry
development programs. American, foreign adversary systems and general
category”.
Some potentially interesting information
In total, the report examined 144 incidents, including 143 that were not
able to be explained by investigators. But it contains some interesting
references. "In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems have
processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with PAN observations."
“The UAPTF contains a small amount of data that appears to show UAPs with
acceleration or some degree of voluntary steering. But additional rigorous
analyzes are needed by several teams or groups of technical experts to
determine the nature and validity of these data”.
Most of the more interesting information came from anonymous sources
associated with the report, rather than from the document itself. “We
absolutely believe that what we see are not just artifacts. These are things
that exist physically,” a government source told CNN . But overall, the
answers are scarce. And to be fair, the investigation was by definition
extremely difficult from the start.