Pentagon says there's ‘no verifiable evidence’ of extraterrestrial technology, beings or activity

The Pentagon said Thursday it has not discovered immoderate verifiable grounds of extraterrestrial beings, enactment oregon exertion contempt a erstwhile Pentagon authoritative telling Congress Wednesday that grounds exists that "we are not unsocial successful the cosmos."

Deputy Pentagon property caput Sabrina Singh told reporters during a property briefing the Department of Defense delivered its fiscal twelvemonth 2024 yearly study connected unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) — aka UFOs — to Congress, which shows the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) received implicit 1,600 UAP reports since the section was established successful July 2022.

Of the 1,600 reports, 757 came to AARO implicit the past year, and the bureau has resolved hundreds of cases, identifying the UAPs arsenic objects similar balloons, birds, drones, satellites and aircraft.

Singh besides said implicit 900 of the reports lacked capable information for analysis, though those cases stay successful an progressive archive and tin beryllium reopened if further accusation emerges to enactment its analysis.

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"I privation to stress that lone a precise tiny percent of reports to AARO are perchance anomalous, but these are the cases that necessitate important time, resources and focus," Singh said. "It is besides important to underscore that, to date, the section has discovered nary verifiable grounds of extraterrestrial beings, enactment oregon technology. None of the cases resolved by AARO person pointed to precocious capabilities oregon breakthrough technologies, either."

Fox News main nationalist information analogous Jennifer Griffin asked Singh to elaborate astir UAPs and an accusation that the section has the remains of aliens successful retention oregon signs of beingness from different places.

"I’m not alert of immoderate remains that the section has, or, you know, immoderate signs of extraterrestrial beings oregon enactment oregon technology," Singh said.

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Singh reiterated that "the section has not discovered immoderate verified grounds of extraterrestrial beings, enactment oregon technology."

Luiz Elizondo, the erstwhile caput of the Defense Department’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) was tasked with investigating UAPs. On Wednesday, helium and different witnesses testified earlier the House Oversight Committee.

"Excessive secrecy has led to sedate misdeeds against loyal civilian servants, subject unit and the public, each to fell the information that we are not unsocial successful the cosmos," said Elizondo, who aboriginal called the radical a "cabal." "A tiny cadre wrong our ain authorities involving the UAP taxable has created a civilization of suppression and intimidation that I person personally been unfortunate to, on with galore of my erstwhile colleagues."

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He urged Congress to enact authorities protecting whistleblowers acrophobic to travel guardant astir authorities operations.

Still, the proceeding was portion of a larger effort by lawmakers to investigate UAPs and find if elements wrong the authorities are unlawfully withholding grounds from Congress.

Dr. Tim Gallaudet, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, besides testified astatine Wednesday's hearing. He recounted an incidental successful which unit aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt craft bearer had a run-in with UAPs during a subject exercise.

"During this exercise, I received an email connected the Navy’s unafraid web from the operations serviceman of Fleet Forces Command. The email was addressed to each subordinate commanders, and the taxable enactment work successful each superior letters: URGENT SAFETY OF FLIGHT ISSUE. The substance of the email was little but alarming, with words to the effect, ‘If immoderate of you cognize what these are, archer maine ASAP. We are having aggregate near-midair collisions, and if we bash not resoluteness it soon, we volition person to unopen down the exercise,'" Gallaudet said.

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"Attached to the email was what is present known arsenic the "Go Fast" video, captured connected the forward-looking infrared sensor onboard 1 of the Navy F/A-18 craft participating successful the exercise," helium added.

"The precise adjacent day, the email disappeared from my relationship and those of the different recipients without explanation. Moreover, the commandant of Fleet Forces and his operations serviceman ne'er discussed the incidental again."

Fox News Digital’s Anders Hagstrom contributed to this report.