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Pentagon releases its long-awaited 2022 UFO report
space.com ^ | 1/12/2023 | brett tingley

Posted on 01/12/2023 7:30:28 PM PST by bitt

The report suggests that the U.S. government appears to be taking UFOs seriously.

The Pentagon's long-awaited 2022 report on unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP, is finally here.

The unclassified "2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" was published by the Pentagon's Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on Thursday (Jan. 12) after a months-long delay. The report was mandated by the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act and was created by ODNI's National Intelligence Manager for Aviation and the newly-established All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). Input was gathered from various intelligence community agencies and military intelligence offices, the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Department of Energy (DoE), and NASA.

In all, the report (opens in new tab) covers some 510 cataloged UAP reports gathered from agencies involved in the report and the branches of the United States military. The document notes that the majority of these were gathered from U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force personnel who reported them through official channels. Ultimately, the unclassified report concludes that, while UAP "continue to represent a hazard to flight safety and pose a possible adversary collection threat," many of the reports "lack enough detailed data to enable attribution of UAP with high certainty."

Out of these 510 total UAP reports, ODNI assessed 366 that had been newly identified since AARO's creation. Of these, 26 were characterized as uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), or drones, 163 were attributed to balloons or "balloon-like entities," and six were found to be airborne "clutter" such as birds or airborne plastic shopping bags.

That leaves 171 reported UAP sightings that remain "uncharacterized and unattributed," according to ODNI's report. "Some of these uncharacterized UAP appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities, and require further analysis," the report adds.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: edited; forthemasses; lyingeyes; nothing2seehere; uap; ufo; uforeport
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1 posted on 01/12/2023 7:30:28 PM PST by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 01/12/2023 7:30:39 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

Nothing to see here, move along children!

Even though Eisenhower made a treaty with them ?


3 posted on 01/12/2023 7:35:31 PM PST by Candor7 ( ( Ask not for whom Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!))
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4 posted on 01/12/2023 7:36:32 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: bitt

$10 million later: “Some of these uncharacterized UAP appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities, and require further analysis because we just don’t know what the hell they are.”


5 posted on 01/12/2023 7:37:06 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: bitt

How close to a nothing burger can they slither along?


6 posted on 01/12/2023 7:39:59 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: bitt

It’s a blank sheet of paper with words.


7 posted on 01/12/2023 7:40:16 PM PST by Jonty30 (THE URGE TO SAVE THE WORLD IS ALMOST ALWAYS AN URGE TO RULE IT)
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To: bitt

I will never forget my first sasquatch encounter.


8 posted on 01/12/2023 7:40:48 PM PST by algore
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Congratulations to dot gov for making ufos boring.😴


9 posted on 01/12/2023 7:42:23 PM PST by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: bitt

Oh there are space aliens all right but there is absolutely no way they will make contact. Even a cursory observation would determine the human race is one crazy bunch.


10 posted on 01/12/2023 7:42:48 PM PST by The Sentient Sheep
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To: bitt

Guess they want us talking about something other than Biden’s multiple stashes of classified documents he broke the law mishandling.


11 posted on 01/12/2023 7:48:51 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
"require further analysis because we just don’t know what the hell they are.”

Nothing has changed in over 50 years. They've just got a new name for all this stuff that they 'don't understand'.

(I grew up with 'UFO', and I'm sticking to it, dammit...)
12 posted on 01/12/2023 7:54:45 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: bitt

Must be at least a couple of billion cell phones in use, and the cameras in them are pretty high quality. Long gone are the days of blurry black and white pics of pie plates sailing in front of an antiquated camera.

Someone, somewhere would have snapped a clear pic of an alien spacecraft, or an alien being, if they existed. But honestly, it’s a lot more fun to pretend UFOs are alien spacecraft.


13 posted on 01/12/2023 7:54:58 PM PST by Roadrunner383
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To: algore

What did he say to you?


14 posted on 01/12/2023 8:02:07 PM PST by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: Roadrunner383

Not sure that’s correct. I know for a fact that when you see something that makes no sense at all, the last thing many people might think of is taking a picture of it.

I saw something years ago (not a UFO, but something very weird), and there was a camera within a few feet of me; I didn’t even think of taking a picture, I was just mesmerized.

(And not everyone has their phone, and phone ON, at the moment the thing appears...we all don’t live to record everything we see.)

I think it used to be said that there were 5 or 10 per cent of sightings that couldn’t be explained. According to what I heard tonight, that number seems to be going up...


15 posted on 01/12/2023 8:03:12 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: bitt

We come in peace. And we have come to return some of Biden's classified documents we had stored on Mars.

16 posted on 01/12/2023 8:07:34 PM PST by Enterprise
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To: Lockbar

imagine a huge furry hand picking you up like a kitten.

then looking at you.

there were no words


17 posted on 01/12/2023 8:10:09 PM PST by algore
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To: bitt

Bump for later.


18 posted on 01/12/2023 8:10:09 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Or, we don’t want to reveal classified research programs just yet.


19 posted on 01/12/2023 8:10:55 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: algore

Be happy it was a sasquatch and not a dogman. You’d be dead


20 posted on 01/12/2023 8:18:48 PM PST by Fai Mao (Stop feeding the beast, and steal its food!)
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