Last year, the Pentagon’s office that investigates reports of unidentified abnormal phenomena (the government term for UFOs) received 21 reports with enough information for the Intelligence Community to continue its active investigation.
Most of the reports received by the office described orbs or lights. However, about 4% of them fell under the category “other”, and included descriptions such as “green fireball,” a jellyfish with [multicolored] blinking lights,” or a “silver missile approximately six feet in length” (these weren’t necessarily among the 21 cases that the intelligence community is continuing to actively investigate).
“There are some interesting cases which, despite my physics, engineering, and intelligence community background, I have not been able to understand and I am not sure that anyone else has either,” Dr. Jon Kosloski told reporters at a press conference on the unclassified report required by Congress.
Kosloski stated that the office had found “no proof of extraterrestrial activity or technology,” and said none of the cases pointed to foreign adversaries.
In total, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office received 757 reports of UAP between May 1, 2023, and June 1, 2024. Of the 757 received, 485 occurred during that time period, while 272 occurred outside of the reporting period but were not included in previous reports.
It resolved 49 cases by identifying various types of balloons or birds and expects to solve 243 more by identifying those objects as well.
The office of Another 444 did not have enough information to continue the investigation, so it will search its archive to see if there are any other records.
Kosloski thought that 21 cases merited further investigation. These cases were interesting to him because they corresponded with typical shapes reported by the office, such as orbs and triangles. At least “one case has been occurring for a long time.”
Kosloski admitted that although investigators had not yet identified any cases as breakthrough technology, the office couldn’t exclude it.
Kosloski stated, “We are open to this as an explanation but we don’t attribute breakthrough technology to explain it. An open mind works both ways. We can’t judge a technology as a breakthrough or not if we do not understand it.”
The AARO anticipates releasing the second volume on the U.S. government’s involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena detailing the investigative efforts of the government from November 2023 until April 2024. The first volume, released earlier this summer, covered efforts between 1945 and 2023.
