US Tracking More Than 650 Possible UFO Cases: Pentagon Official

There may be no aliens or extraterrestrial life to worry about, but there are at least 650 possible cases of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), according to the head of the Pentagon’s office that monitors and reports on unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP).

“Of those over 650, we’ve prioritized about half of them to be of anomalous interesting value,” Sean Kirkpatrick, the director of All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), told the Senate Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities on April 19. “And now we have to go through those and go ‘How much of those do I have actual data for?’”

Kirkpatrick noted that “the majority of unidentified objects reported to AARO demonstrated mundane characteristics of balloons, clutter, natural phenomena, or other readily explainable sources.”

In a slideshow presentation to the committee during his opening testimony, Kirkpatrick pointed out that AARO has sighted 72.2 percent of UAPs in the 15,000 to 30,000-foot range, “where a lot of our aircraft are.”

Kirkpatrick played a video of a UAP in the Middle East last year that, by his office’s analysis, did not look like a threat. This case is still under investigation. Kirkpatrick did not say where in the Middle East the UAP, which appeared to be a round silvery object, was seen. He said it will be “virtually impossible to fully identify” what the object was, based only on the video.

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