Last June, the world received a snapshot of what the current attitudes within the United States Government are when it comes to unidentified aerial phenomena, or what are historically known as unidentified flying objects (UFOs).
In a report entitled “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Preliminary Assessment”, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) presented a brief summary of the findings of the Navy’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force (UAPTF). At just six pages, the report left much to the imagination, although it did provide at least some details about the government’s current UAP investigative efforts. These included 144 incidents involving the apparent detection of objects that could not be identified, most of which were observed by members of the U.S. military in controlled airspace.
In many ways, the report amounted to an inkblot test for those who read it; the scant information provided was vague enough to leave open to question what, precisely, the UAP observed by U.S. military personnel are, and what their origins might be.
That ambiguity wasn’t enough to prevent many from drawing premature conclusions about the phenomenon witnessed. Since the report’s delivery, there have been ongoing assertions that while we still aren’t sure about what UAP are, we do supposedly know what they are not.
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