In what appears to be an incoming paradigm shift in US military policy, as well as scientific thinking within the aerospace and defense industry, UFOlogy as a field has suddenly taken a chilling turn, one of the importance of national security as opposed to imagination and attempts to observe consistently fleeting anomalies in the sky. The report tries to logically examine all possibilities of the origins of UFO, which have been reported to have been buzzing US aircraft and naval ships on an increasingly alarming basis, often getting close in bold ways that previously did not occur.
As part of this logical combing of possibilities, the report concluded that the technology witnessed is not of an American government origin, that no advanced weapons or vehicle program was being tested.
So far the UFO report is set to reveal an interesting fact – for over 10 years that US military has been cataloguing and categorizing UFO related incidents in a silent manner, where US military aircraft as well as ships have been tailgated or come face to face with unidentified flying objects, also known as UFO’s. The first of the released videos date back to 2017, when some of them were leaked into the public from military personnel, causing public hysteria and calls for Congress to order the military to be more transparent about it’s collection of sightings and encounters. The alternative terminology typically used by government agencies that takes the stigmatization out of the more colloquially known, Hollywood-esque version, is called “unidentified aerial phenomena”, with the abbreviation “UAP”.
While much of the original report is rumored to be classified, an unclassified version is set to release sometime this month, hopefully within the next week or so. The group that vetted the report is called the UAP Task Force. When the task force was established, the Pentagon cited safety concerns for the well being of personnel as well as the security of it’s vehicles and equipment. Therefore any incursion by any type of aircraft into the airspace of Department of Defense facilities is taken very seriously. As a result of this seriousness, each report is examined thoroughly. These examinations also incorporate those incursions dubbed UAP’s when the controller of an aircraft cannot identify what they are.
But the big question that has most people anxiously wondering is whether that these UAP’s are actually extraterrestrial vehicles operated by aliens. There has been a lot of speculation in the mass media as well as the academic community and within military circles, but there is no empirical evidence as of yet to suggest that this is the explanation for this phenomena. The idea in mainstream belief in UFO’s is the alien hypothesis, which suggests that these vehicles come from other intelligent civilizations in outer space. These believers also claim that these vehicles have been visiting and studying us for quite some time, observing us as humans do with lab rats. The report states that there is a lack of evidence attributing them to alien visitations, after examining over 120 incidents within the last 20 years. The highlight of the report is the emphasis on the fact that they are not the result of any advanced technology programs run by the US government.
Yet the most juicy details are contained within the “classified” section of the report, that the DOD does not want to release to the public. This fuels the whimsical imagination of UFO pundits who insist it has to be aliens.
For Andrew Fraknoi, an astronomer working at the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning at the University of San Francisco, elaborates on the fact that the media has largely ballyhooed the UFO phenomena as having an outerworldly source, when the majority of cases can be attributed to some terrestrial phenomena like optical illusions or falling space debris.
Robert Shaeffer, the killjoy of many UFO enthusiasts, and the main skeptic of the phenomena, simply states “There are no aliens here on Earth, and so the government cannot ‘disclose’ what it does not have. It is clear that the government knows less than some of our best UFO investigators, if not the same information. Many people think the government knows things we don’t and is hiding them from us.”
The UAP Task Force had been increasingly running into embarrassing bouts of inability to have their top of the line photographers sent from the DOD to assist them in analyzing photographs captured of the mysterious phenomena.
On the other hand, another skeptic and bane of hopefuls and dreamers, science writer Mick West has undertaken the task of thoroughly analyzing and debunking UFO footage that have been disclosed by the US military, and has been quickly jumping to conclusions regarding the possibility of how a portion of the incidents shown in the videos might be mirages due to flaws in newly rolled out radar systems, as well as a garden variety of visual phenomena that can easily be distinguished by experts nowadays in photography that was a mystery in the past.
