Most of the new phenomena were observed by US Navy and US Air Force pilots, US intelligence notes.
US intelligence is examining more than 500 reports of unidentified flying objects, the so-called UFOs, detailed a report published on Thursday, which indicates that while many turn out to be drones or balloons, the nature of a hundred of them them remains unknown.
At least 247 unidentified aerial phenomena have been reported since the last report by the Directorate of Intelligence Services (DNI) in June 2021, which indicated at the time that it was already studying 144. To this number are added 119 cases of appearances of mysterious aircraft, unearthed from ancient records accumulated over two decades, for a total of 510 incidents, according to the report.
Among these incidents, nearly 200 had a completely banal explanation. They were either due to balloons, drones or air pollution, ie birds, weather events or plastic bags floating in the wind.
“A risk to aviation safety”
But others have no explanation according to the DNI’s summary, a non-confidential version of the report presented to Congress.
The latter are under intense scrutiny by the Pentagon, US intelligence agencies and NASA, not for fear that they are extraterrestrial vehicles but for fear of the unknown spy capabilities of rival countries.
“Unidentified aerial phenomena continue to pose a risk to aviation safety and pose a potential threat of intelligence gathering” from enemy countries, the report said.
In June, NASA announced the launch of a multi-month investigation into the presence of these objects, for example moving abnormally or very quickly in our atmosphere, and which cannot be explained in the current state of our knowledge. .
