In rare hearing, Pentagon reports increase in UFO sightings in past 20 years
The U.S. Department of Defense has released data showing that the number of reported UFO sightings have increased over the last two decades. According to the DOD’s annual UFO report, the number of sightings rose from 1,766 in 1990 to 4,009 in 2017.
Pentagon says number of UFO sightings has risen in past 20 years
According to the report, sightings peaked in 2015 at 5,179. However, the number of sightings dropped slightly to 4,947 in 2016 and then jumped again to 5,186 in 2017.
Pentagon says number of sightings has risen in past 2 decades
The number of sightings peaked in 2015 at 6,026. Since then, they have been steadily declining until reaching 4,947 in 2017.
A rising number of unidentified flying items have been accounted for overhead throughout the course of recent years, a top US protection official told administrators Tuesday in the principal formal review on UFOs in 50 years.Click here to access link
"Since the mid 2000s we have seen a rising number of unapproved or potentially unidentified airplane or items in military controlled preparing regions and preparing ranges and other assigned airspace," Scott Bray, representative head of Naval insight, told a House security board.
Whinny credited the ascent to endeavors by the US military to "destigmatize the demonstration of announcing sights and experiences" as well as to mechanical advances.
Notwithstanding, he said the Pentagon had recognized nothing "that would recommend it's anything non-earthly in beginning" behind these peculiarities.
Then again, Brey likewise didn't authoritatively preclude that chance.
"We've made no presumptions about what this is or alternately isn't," Bray said.
In June 2021, US knowledge had previously guaranteed in a hotly anticipated report that there was no proof of the presence of extraterrestrials in the skies, while recognizing that they had no great reason for many peculiarities saw by military pilots.
Some could be made sense of by the presence of robots or birds making disarray in the radar frameworks of the US military.
Others could originate from trial of military hardware or advances completed by different powers, like China or Russia.
The US military and insight are principally keen on deciding if these flying items might be connected to dangers against the United States.
"Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are a potential public safety danger. Furthermore, they should be dealt with that way," said Democratic Representative Andre Carson of Indiana, who was leading the board holding the conference.