Dozens of “UFO sightings” are being reported to the US Government every month, the director of the office established to investigate the incident has said.
The office is anticipating that “hundreds, if not thousands” more reports will come its way as Sean Kirkpatrick, who heads the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office at the Pentagon, warns that this is a “concern”.
Speaking to CNN, Mr Kirkpatrick said: “There are some indicators that are concerning that may be attributed to foreign activity, and we are investigating those very hard.”
An annual report into the phenomena, released this week, has warned that the mysterious objects spotted across the US could pose a risk to flight safety.
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About half of the reported sightings can be ruled out as “mundane things”, the report adds.
It also says that only “a very small percentage” of observations have “interesting” signatures, such as high-speed travel or “unknown morphologies.”
Mr Kirkpatrick has warned that some of the sightings could be foreign states spying on the US, similar to the Chinese spy balloon shot down off the coast of South Carolina in February.
Asked if the Pentagon can say for certain that unidentified objects belong to foreign adversaries, Mr Kirkpatrick said his team is “looking at some very interesting indicators of things, and that’s about all I can tell you.”
He added: “There are ways to hide in our noise that always concern me,” Kirkpatrick said, referring to the extraneous readings picked up by US radars and other sensors.
“I am worried from a national security perspective.
“If it’s a foreign adversary and I got 100,000 people with cell phones who can collect it, well now it makes it really hard for the foreign adversary to do anything.”
Last month, the Defense Department launched a website to serve as a clearinghouse for declassified information regarding UFO sightings.
Pentagon press secretary, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, said at the time: “The posting of the website is the next step in this process, in terms of ensuring that the public has information and insight into UAPs.
“And so what you see today is what has been declassified to date.”
