Pentagon says UFO nearly crashed into commercial airliner above New York - as bombshell report is released

The Pentagon has released a caller study connected UFOs that revealed hundreds of documented incidents of unidentified and unexplained aerial phenomena (UAPs).

While determination is nary grounds to suggest that these UAPs - the government's word for UFOs - are of extraterrestrial origin, immoderate defy explanation, including a near-miss betwixt a commercialized airliner and a mysterious entity disconnected the seashore of New York.

The study comes arsenic nationalist involvement successful UAPs has skyrocketed, prompting the US authorities to enactment to supply immoderate answers astir these unusual objects.

It was published 1 time aft House lawmakers called for greater authorities transparency during a hearing connected UAPs. 

The Pentagon's reappraisal elaborate 757 cases of UAP encounters that were reported to US authorities chiefly betwixt May 1, 2023 and June 1, 2024. That full includes 272 incidents that occurred earlier that clip play but were not antecedently reported.

Reporting witnesses included commercialized and subject pilots arsenic good arsenic ground-based observers.  

The bulk of these incidents occurred successful airspace, but 49 took spot astatine altitudes estimated to beryllium astatine slightest 62 miles supra Earth's surface, which is considered space.

No injuries oregon crashes were reported successful immoderate of the incidents. But a commercialized formation unit reported 1 adjacent miss with a 'cylindrical object' portion flying implicit the Atlantic Ocean disconnected the seashore of New York. That incidental is inactive nether investigation. 

In 3 different cases, subject aerial crews reported being followed oregon shadowed by unidentified aircraft, but investigators recovered nary grounds linking the enactment to a overseas power. 

Witnesses who provided ocular descriptions reported unidentified lights oregon round, spherical oregon orb-shaped objects. 

Other reports included a witnesser who reported a 'jellyfish' UAP with flashing lights.  

Investigators were capable to explicate astir 300 of the incidents, and successful galore cases, the chartless objects were identified arsenic balloons, birds, aircraft, drones oregon satellites.

The study stated that Elon Musk's Starlink outer strategy is an progressively communal root of UAP reports, arsenic radical mistake chains of satellites for UFOs.

But hundreds of different cases stay unexplained. 

The report's authors stated that this is often due to the fact that determination isn't capable accusation to gully steadfast conclusions.

'It is important to underscore that, to date, AARO has discovered nary grounds of extraterrestrial beings, activity, oregon technology,' they wrote. 

During Wednesday's hearing, lawmakers heard grounds from respective adept witnesses who person studied the phenomena, including 2 erstwhile subject officers. 

The treatment included questions astir alien quality and subject probe utilizing alien technology, arsenic good arsenic concerns that overseas powers whitethorn beryllium utilizing concealed craft to spy connected US subject installations. 

Lawmakers said the galore questions astir UAPs amusement the request for the authorities to intimately survey the contented and stock their findings with the American public. 

'There is thing retired there,' said Republican Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee. 'The question is: Is it ours, is it idiosyncratic else's, oregon is it otherworldly?'