More than 20 unexplained UFO sightings in one year, Pentagon's anomaly division says

The Pentagon's department responsible for investigating Unidentified Flying Objects, officially known as unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), has said that more than 20 such incidents reported in the past year have no explanation. The Defense Department's “all-domain anomaly resolution office” (AARO) released its annual report,which said that these citings “merit further analysis".

The UAP report states that between May 1, 2023, and June 1, AARO received 757 reports of sightings. Of these, 485 were new sightings in that period while the rest were from 2021 and 2022. Most of the incidents were seen in the skies and 49 were reported to have happened in space.

AARO director Jon Kosloski said that some of them remain unsolved and are "true anomalies" and 21 warrant additional investigation.

“AARO is working closely with its [intelligence community] and [science and technology] partners to understand and attribute the 21 cases received this reporting period that merit further analysis based on reported anomalous characteristics and/or behaviours," the report says.

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“AARO will provide immediate notification to Congress should AARO identify that any cases indicate or involve a breakthrough foreign adversarial aerospace capability.”

No evidence ofextraterrestrial beings

Meanwhile, Kosloski told reporters Thursday, that “AARO has discovered no verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology.” The reports analysed in this period show no signs of the existence of breakthrough aerospace technologies.

AARO received 757 reports of UFO sightings but only managed to "resolve" 118 cases. Most of these sightings were attributed to “various types of balloons, birds” and drones.

The report also talked about what prevented AARO from solving the cases.

“AARO’s ability to resolve cases remains constrained by a lack of timely and actionable sensor data,” the report said. “AARO continues to address this challenge by working with military and technical partners to optimize sensor requirements, information-sharing processes, and the content of UAP reporting.”