Following release of a vague 9-page report from the DNI the US govt has
ordered the Pentagon to expand its investigation of UFOs.

The Report was apparently the sum total of US military thinking (less
input from the USAF for some reason :) on the matter since the 1940s.
(Maybe check your old almanacs to see which outer planets were closest to
the sun back then).

<https://thedebrief.org/govt-releases-highly-anticipated-report-on-unidentified-aerial-phenomena/>

Government Releases Highly Anticipated Report on Unidentified Aerial
Phenomena

Tim McMillan and Micah Hanks�June 25, 2021
Breaking NewsUAP

The Office of the Director for National Intelligence has released a
highly anticipated report detailing the US govt's assessments
of military encounters with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).

The nine-page report, titled "Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified
Aerial Phenomena," details the results of an analysis of 144 reports
drawn from United States govt sources. "Of these, 80 reports
involved observation with multiple sensors," the report states, adding
that the majority of the incidents examined "described UAP as objects
that interrupted pre-planned training or other military activity."

"The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force (UAPTF) considered a
range of information on UAP described in US military and IC
(Intelligence Community) reporting, but because the reporting lacked
sufficient specificity, ultimately recognized that a unique, tailored
reporting process was required to provide sufficient data for analysis
of UAP events," the report's Executive Summary states.

According to the report, the UAP Task Force focused primarily on
reports from between 2004 and those occurring as recently as this
year, of which a majority were "a result of this new tailored process
to better capture UAP events through formalized reporting."

The report states that a majority of incidents that were examined
"probably do represent physical objects," noting that they were
detected by multiple sensors that included radar, infrared,
electro-optical, weapon seekers, and also visual observations by
pilots and other military personnel.

Among the report's key takeaways had been that multiple types of UAP
are likely to exist, each requiring different explanations that take
into account the variety of appearances and behaviors they appear to
demonstrate. The report also says that UAP "clearly pose a safety of
flight issue," citing 11 incidents where pilots reported near misses
with UAP. More broadly, the report states that UAP could also
represent a "challenge" to US national security.

The preliminary report also appears to convey that further studies of
unidentified aerial phenomena would be beneficial in terms of
resolving the many remaining questions about their behavior and
possible origins, noting that the UAP Task Force is "conducting
further analysis to determine if breakthrough technologies were
demonstrated."
....
While technologies developed by an adversary of the United States were
not entirely ruled out, the report also suggested that "a
non-govtal entity" might be a potential source for some UAP
observations. Notably, the report also stated that the UAP Task Force
will plan to employ artificial intelligence to aid in building a
database of information from both known aerial objects, and those
potentially representing UAP.

Leading up to the publication of the report, questions had been raised
about whether the US Air Force, which has remained largely absent
from the UAP discussion in recent years, would be contributing data.

"Although USAF data collection has been limited historically," the
report states, "the USAF began a six-month pilot program in Nov
2020 to collect in the most likely areas to encounter UAP and is
evaluating how to normalize future collection, reporting, and analysis
across the entire Air Force."

Interestingly, the report also states that the FAA has assisted in
collecting data which the UAP Task Force may find useful, noting that
the agency "continuously monitors its systems for anomalies,
generating additional information that may be of use to the UAPTF."
....

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