Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon's Office of Anomalies, told the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Armed Services on Wednesday that the number of UFO sightings tracked has increased from 350 to 650.
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Kirkpatrick told lawmakers how his office is helping the Pentagon and the intelligence community identify emerging foreign technologies. He also reiterated that there is no evidence of extraterrestrial life on record.
“Of the 650-plus cases, we prioritized about half of them as having unusually interesting value, and now we have to go through those,” Kirkpatrick said.
He played video from two of the cases that had been declassified, one that had been solved, and one that had not been solved.
The first video shows a small sphere flying across the camera screen of an MQ-9 drone in the Middle East in 2022. The drone's camera tracks the object as it moves across the sky, in and out of the screen.
Kirkpatrick explained that the case remains unsolved because there is no evidence other than the video.
In a second video from South Asia earlier this year, an object flew past two MQ-9 drones, with one video showing what appeared to be a tailfin, which Kirkpatrick said was initially thought to be “really anomalous.”
But he said after they took the video apart frame by frame, his office determined that: “This is infrared, this is heat signature from the engine of an aircraft that happened to be flying near where the two MQ9s were,” he explained.
Mai Van (according to CNN)
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