UFOs have long fascinated mankind. Some believe in the existence of aliens, others do not. A report on this is now to be completed in the USA.
Washington – Even during his time as US President, Barack Obama was fascinated by aliens and unidentified flying objects (UFOs) – and now he has rekindled this fascination among like-minded people around the world.
“The truth is, when I came into office, I asked,” Is there a laboratory somewhere where we keep samples from aliens and spacecraft? “The Democrat, who was president between 2009 and 2017, told the Presenter James Corden on his show on the TV channel CBS. “Then a bit of research was done and the answer is” no “.”
But then Obama continued – and made UFO fans worldwide sit up and take notice: “What is true, and I’m serious here, is that there are images and records of objects in the sky that we don’t know exactly what they are. We cannot explain how they move, their flight route. When asked about this, Obama’s former deputy and current US President Joe Biden simply quipped: “I would ask him again.”
Behind the scenes, however, government officials from the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force have been working on a report on this issue for a long time. The White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki recently said it was a paper from the Department of Defense in cooperation with secret services. The working group was set up with the aim of “discovering, analyzing and cataloging unexplained phenomena in the air that could potentially pose a threat to US national security,” as the Department of Defense said. A task force report on their work was required by law.
According to US media reports, a released version of the top secret report will be presented to the US Congress in June. However, it was initially unclear whether it would also be made available to the public and many experts questioned it.
The background is around 120 conspicuous phenomena that pilots of the US Navy, among others, claim to have observed over the past 20 years. The pilots reported objects that remained in the air for hours with no engine or exhaust visible, sometimes at supersonic speeds and at altitudes of more than 9,000 meters. In part, there are videos and photos that are supposed to prove the existence of these objects.
The “New York Times” reported, citing government officials familiar with the work on the report, that the paper concluded that the phenomena were not due to the US military or US state technology. According to officials, the findings mean the government cannot definitively rule out that the phenomena observed by the military pilots are extraterrestrial spacecraft. However, there is also no evidence that extraterrestrials have actually been observed.
The report therefore does not provide precise explanations for the apparitions. Some experts worry that it could be military experiments by China or Russia with supersonic technology.
He had “no great expectations” of the report, says Hansjürgen Köhler, who in 1976 co-founded the private Central Research Network for Extraordinary Celestial Phenomena (Cenap) in Germany. It has made it its business to examine reports of celestial phenomena. The report will probably “not bring any sensational results”, since it had already been leaked in advance that the exact background of the incidents could not at least be determined so far.
To the best of his knowledge, however, all the evidence suggests drones, balloons or something like that, says Köhler, who would like to see a similar report in Germany. “The expectations of various UFO fans who dream of crashed saucers and alien corpses will certainly be disappointed.”
In any case, ex-President Obama, who fueled the hype with his statements, would not be deterred by a possible verifiable discovery of extraterrestrial life, as he told presenter Ezra Klein in his “New York Times” podcast. “It wouldn’t change my political views at all. Because they are completely based on the fact that we are tiny organisms on a small patch in the middle of space. (…) We give the best. And the best we can do is treat each other better because we are all we have. And I would hope that knowing that there are extraterrestrials would strengthen people’s view that what we all have in common is a little more important. ”Dpa
