So-called UFO reports have fascinated people for decades, In the US, from 1947 until 1969, the US Air Force’s “Project Blue Book” and other programmes tracked UFO reports in an effort to explain them. By the time they were shut down, the programmes had collected more than 12,000 reports, with some 700 defying explanation.
The US government is concealing information about unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), also known as UFOs, believe an overwhelming majority of voters across various demographics, according to a new Hill-HarrisX poll.
The survey, carried out on 17-18 June, revealed that seventy percent of registered voters are convinced that the public is being denied existing information on the mystifying phenomena of UFOs.
Conducted online among 942 registered voters, the survey showed that thirty percent of the respondents thought otherwise, believing that the government was being upfront on the issue. The Hill-HarrisX poll has a margin of error of 3.19 percentage points.
Baffling Sightings
Confirmation of deep-rooted suspicions among the public that the government is holding back information on UAPs comes as a much-anticipated interim report was released Friday by a Pentagon task force on unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
It confirmed that out of the over 140 reports made since 2004, only one was identified with high confidence as “a large, deflating balloon”, with the others remaining a mystery beyond the US government’s explanation.
Titled “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena”, the nine-page report published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) suggested several possible explanations for the sightings, ranging from airborne clutter and natural atmospheric phenomena to top secret government programmes and systems launched by foreign adversaries.
The report does not rule out extraterrestrials as a potential origin of the baffling sightings.
According to the document, 18 incidents in 21 reports seem to describe baffling technological capabilities, such as objects moving without observable propulsion or accelerating and decelerating faster than any known craft can.
It was emphasised that most of the sighting happened over US military training and testing grounds.
In an effort to underscore that the effort was not so much about confirming speculations about “alien life” as about getting more data on an earthbound national security threats, the US intel report said the phenomena described in the sightings represent a “flight safety issue and possible national security concern”, particularly if they are “sophisticated collection against US military activities by a foreign government or demonstrate a breakthrough aerospace technology by a potential adversary”.
‘First Step’
The first-ever public report on unexplained sightings was assembled at the direction of lawmakers, including Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who inserted the requirement for it into last year’s intelligence authorisation bill.
The Pentagon took a significant step forward on the so-called UFO issue last year, setting up an Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force, and has since urged military pilots to report unusual sightings.
In 2020, the Pentagon published three videos already leaked to the public that had been recorded by US Navy pilots as they interacted with UFOs that moved in seemingly impossible ways.
“The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterised as ‘unidentified’,” the Defense Department noted.
Possibly, the current Congress-mandated report may work towards ending the stigma often associated with those who seek to uncover the truth behind the phenomena that have been mystifying people for decades.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
