'UFOs exist, but where do they come from?' The Pentagon report, explained

'UFOs exist, but where do they come from?' The Pentagon report, explained

In essence, UFOs are real, but the big question remains: Where do they come from?

A long-awaited Pentagon report on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), also known as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) in the US security establishment, was unveiled on Saturday. The report, reviewing 144 sightings of aircraft or other devices apparently flying at mysterious speeds or trajectories, was vague in the conclusions that it drew—there were no positive links to extraterrestrial phenomena, but it did not rule out the possibility either.

"Most of the UAP reported probably do represent physical objects given that a majority of UAP were registered across multiple sensors, to include radar, infrared, electro-optical, weapon seekers, and visual observation," the report stated.

'UFOs exist, but where do they come from?' The Pentagon report, explained
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There were 18 cases in which witnesses saw unusual patterns of movement or flight characteristics, the report said, adding that more analysis was needed to determine if those sightings represented breakthrough technology. The report highlighted the national security threat posed by the phenomena—it could possibly be adversaries like Russia or China flaunting technologies far beyond what the United States possessed.

In essence, UFOs are real, but the big question remains: Where do they come from?

A breakdown of the report, step-by-step:

How did the UFO report come into being?

Long the domain of science fiction and so-called ufologists, the subject of UFOs has in recent years drawn serious study from the Pentagon and intelligence agencies. The first prominent sighting was made in 1947, when a pilot named Kenneth Arnold in the United States discovered what he described as "nine flying discs in the sky". UFOs have been reported across the world, including in India (in 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's security detail had even claimed that one such object was found hovering the skies above Lok Kalyan Marg).

The sightings reached a tipping point during the Cold War, with incidents like Roswell frenzy in the United States, when the wreckage of an unidentified craft and "strange, child-like corpses" near New Mexico sparked mass hysteria. The US feared a Soviet hand in the incident, reaching a conclusion that the USSR was trying to overwhelm their air defence systems by sparking unrest among the US public. Some even claimed Joseph Stalin’s direct involvement in the incident. Pulitzer Prize finalist Annie Jacobsen, in her book Area 51, hinted from sources that the child-sized deformed bodies could be the products of gruesome eugenics experiments by USSR and Stalin, in association with Nazi scientist Josef Mengele; this was psychological warfare by the Soviets, planning to spread panic and overwhelm the US civilians with UFO and alien fears, she claimed.

The US then introduced Project Blue Book in 1952, through which they aggressively debunked all questions on UFOs and completely stigmatised the topic out of public conversation. Most of the sightings were explained away as cosmic phenomena or even "radar waves bouncing off temperature inversions".

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