Last year, the Pentagon released a detailed report on UAP sightings that listed five possible explanations for UFO phenomena, including comments such as clutter in the air, natural phenomena in the atmosphere, top-secret US technology, or adversary technology. foreigners like Russia and China. The report also included a fifth explanation, covering everything they can’t explain. Those are the ones that continue to capture the public imagination and overturn everything that the world of science fiction has been showing us over so many decades and will continue to do so.
Now the US Department of Defense (DoD) has just announced the creation of an official office to track unidentified objects in space, in the air and under water.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP), or UFOs, will therefore, thanks to this Department of Defense announcement, be a priority as a result of the numerous sightings of unidentified flying objects.
The Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security established the office, known as the AARO, “All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office” . Sean Kirkpatrick, who previously held the position of chief scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Missile and Space Intelligence Center, has been appointed director of the new office.
The office will synchronize the efforts of the federal government “to detect, identify and attribute objects of interest … and, as necessary, mitigate any associated threats to the safety of operations and national security,” according to the statement. “This includes anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and transmedia objects.”
Funding for the new office has been provided by the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2022, essentially a federal law that specifies the Defense Department’s budget and priorities for the next fiscal year.
The office’s six main focus areas are governance, science and technology, intelligence operations and analysis, mitigation and defeat, surveillance, collection and reporting, and capabilities and design. of the system.
“One of the things that we tangentially hope will be part of this study, just by talking about it openly, is to help remove some of the stigma associated with it,” said Daniel Evans , NASA deputy assistant administrator for research. Scientific Mission Directorate, said during a press conference held at the time. “That will obviously produce more data access, more reports, more sightings, etc. So that’s another thing we’re trying to accomplish with this.”
Reference: AARO, United States Department of Defense
