The US has recorded an increase in the number of UFO sightings over the past 20 years in a rare hearing.
“Unidentified aerial phenomena pose a threat to national security.” At the first public hearing on UFOs in 50 years, a top US defense official told senators that a rising number of mysterious flying objects had been seen in the sky over the past 20 years.
“Since the early 1990s, we’ve noticed an increase in the number of illegal and/or unexplained aircraft or objects in military-controlled training zones and ranges, as well as other designated airspace.” The 2000s,” Scott Bray, deputy director of Naval Intelligence, told a House security subcommittee.
The surge in US military activities, according to Bray, is due to “destruction reporting locations and the act of confrontations,” as well as technology advancements.
He did add, though, that the Pentagon “had uncovered nothing that would suggest it is of extraterrestrial origin.”
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Bray, on the other hand, certainly didn’t rule out that possibility either. “We haven’t assumed anything about what it is or isn’t,” Bray explained.
In a long-awaited study released in June 2021, US intelligence reported that there was no evidence of extraterrestrials in the skies while admitting that they had no explanation for dozens of occurrences observed by military aircraft. was not.
Some of these could be explained by the presence of illusion-causing drones or birds in the radar systems of the US military. Others may be the consequence of foreign countries’ military equipment or technology testing, such as China or Russia.
The military and intelligence services of the United States are especially concerned in establishing whether these airborne items are linked to threats to the country.
“Unidentified airborne phenomena represent a national security danger,” Democratic Representative Andre Carson of Indiana, who chaired the hearing panel, said.