Pentagon shares newly declassified UFO videos, tracking over 650 potential cases
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government shared three recently-declassified UFO videos this week, part of the more than 650 potential sightings that officials are examining.
Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Defense Department's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), said of that number – about half of them appear to be especially interesting and anomalous.Kirkpatrick testified on Wednesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.
The public hearing was only the second one in the last 50 years in which lawmakers have openly discussed UFOs. The first was last May.
Most of the unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) – better known to the public as unidentified flying objects or UFOs – have been concentrated off the East Coast and West Coast of the U.S., in the Middle East and in the area of the South China Sea, Kirkpatrick said.A majority occur in the 15,000- to 25,000-foot range, he testified, noting that the reason for this is because that's where a lot of aircraft fly.Kirkpatrick gave a general overview of what his department has done, presenting several infographics about UAP reporting trends and discussing a handful of specific cases with declassified videos.
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