Bray showed lawmakers what appeared to be a new UFO video not previously released to the public. It was taken with a camera through a night-vision lens by the Navy crew.īray said the Pentagon found a second night-vision video shot elsewhere under similar circumstances and was then able to confirm the objects were drones that only appeared triangular due to the camera aperture, a common effect called bokeh.Įxplanations can still be hard to come by when video evidence is available. The nighttime video of the triangle-shaped objects flying over the USS Russell was shot in 2019 in the Pacific and was leaked by UFO researchers last year who claimed it was among the best military UFO footage ever released. That makes the job of investigation more difficult, he said. Many of the new cases are actually older incidents that are just now being reported by military witnesses as the stigma of UFO sightings in the military eases, Bray said.īut that also means those older witness accounts can lack additional evidence such as sensor data - information collected by the array of hardware used by the military to track and identify objects.
that would suggest it's anything non-terrestrial in origin," said Scott Bray, deputy director of Naval Intelligence, who headed the task force that preceded the Pentagon's new UFO office. During the hearing, lawmakers asked whether any of the objects was sending out unusual signals or apparent communications. Still, the Pentagon says there so far is scant evidence backing any extraordinary explanations. That report arrived at a similar conclusion about the lack of data. The group was created last year as Congress passed a law requiring a formal body in the Defense Department dedicated to probing what it calls unidentified aerial phenomenon and releasing regular reports.Ĭases have ballooned from the 144 incidents from 2004 to 2021 cited in an initial public report last summer on the objects - also ordered up by Congress - by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Witness accounts are pouring in, officials testified.Ī total of 400 reported incidents are being investigated by the Pentagon's Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group, or AOIMSG. Andre Carson, D-Ind., who is the chairman of the House panel, said the military needs to convince the public that it is now accepting of reported UFO sightings and that troops will be "treated as witnesses, not as kooks." UFO advocates backed by a bombshell New York Times story in 2017 have pointed to accounts from some Navy fighter pilots and a few grainy infrared military videos depicting unknown objects as evidence the Pentagon faces an intelligence failure on the scale of the Pearl Harbor or 9/11 attacks.Ĭongress is now turning up the heat on the department and its investigations as interest grows.
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