On one of his last trips to Asia as Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin expressed regret that China chose not to meet with Southeast Asian defense ministers this week in Laos. At the same press conference, he also talked briefly in praise of women’s contributions in the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Pentagon office investigating UFO sightings attributes most reports of unusual aerial phenomena to birds, balloons or drones but acknowledges some cases are unexplainable — at least for now.
The head of the Defense Department’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office said of the report that there is no evidence of extraterrestrials or that foreign enemies are collecting information on the U.S.
The House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Wednesday pushed its probe into UFOs and the secrecy surrounding them with a hearing aimed at forcing more transparency from the government, particularly the Pentagon.
Claims about secret government programs reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology are based on “circular reporting” and hearsay, Pentagon investigators found.
Collection and analysis of the reports have occurred largely without the input of regional military commands, which are responsible for detecting and deterring threats against the country, the inspector general said.
Service members, veterans and civilian defense workers can now report unidentified anomalous phenomena, better known as UFOs, on the Defense Department website, the Pentagon announced Tuesday.
A growing number of commercial pilots are contributing sightings of so-called unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, to the federal government’s annual report that tracks such objects, according to the latest unclassified version released Tuesday.
