Pentagon formed a task force to investigate UFO sightings

08/14/2020 USA


Deputy Secretary of State David Norquist will help oversee the task force, which is expected to be officially unveiled in the coming days, according to officials. Earlier attempts to see what the Pentagon’s unidentified aerial phenomena were led to by the U.S. Navy, as many of the documented encounters involved its aircraft.

The Department of Defense did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Members of Congress and Pentagon officials have long expressed concern about the appearance of the unidentified planes that have flown over U.S. military bases, and pose a risk to military jets. There is no consensus on their origins, with some believing that they may be drones that could potentially be exploited by Earthly opponents trying to gather intelligence instead of foreign affairs.

The House of Representatives Committee voted in June to give the Pentagon and the intelligence community a public analysis of the meetings, following the Pentagon’s official release of three short videos showing American planes who encounter these phenomena.

“We have things flying over our military bases and places where we do military exercises, and we do not know what it is and it is not ours, so that is a legitimate question to ask,” he said. chairman of that committee, Sen. Marco Rubio told a local news system in Miami in July, WFOR-TV.

“Honestly, if it’s something from outside this planet, that may actually be better than the fact that we’ve seen some technological leap on behalf of the Chinese than the Russians or another opponent,” he added.

The Pentagon’s videos appear to show unidentified flying objects moving rapidly while being captured by infrared cameras. Two of the videos feature service providers reacting in fear to how fast the objects are moving. One voice speculates that it may be a drone.

President Donald Trump called the footage “a hell of a video” in April and told Reuters he was wondering “if it was real.”
In May, CNN received “danger reports” detailing meetings between U.S. Navy aircraft and “unidentified aerial phenomena” from the Navy Safety Center.
Trump calls newly released UFO footage 'a hell of a video'

“The unknown aircraft turned out to be small in size, about the size of a suitcase, and silver in color,” said one report describing an March 26, 2014 incident.

The reports describe the observed phenomenon as “Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)” – the official terminology of the Pentagon for drone aircraft.

The Navy videos were first released between December 2017 and March 2018 by To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences, a company co-founded by former Blink-182 musician Tom DeLonge that says it studies information on unidentified aerial phenomena.

The Pentagon had previously studied recordings of aerial encounters with unknown objects as part of a since-closing classified program launched at the request of former Nevada senior Harry Reid. That program was launched in 2007 and ended in 2012, according to the Pentagon, because they judged that there were higher priorities that needed funding.
Former program director Luis Elizondo told CNN in 2017 that he personally believes “there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone.”

CNN’s Michael Conte contributed to this report.

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