US intelligence says UFO encounters have ‘increased’

The United States military’s encounters with unidentified objects or atmospheric phenomena have increased since 2021According to an intelligence report from this country published today, Thursday.

In just under two years, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has become The US military has received 247 reports of encounters with unidentified aerial objects or phenomena. According to the document.

At the same time, ODNI also found another 119 such encounters, prior to 2021, that were not reported. in time.

This means that in total, August 2022, the US government is aware of 510 UFO sightings, Note the report.

Half of these objects or phenomena have “normal” characteristics, as classified by the Pentagon.

Moreover, it mentions that 26 of these encounters or objects reported by the military are attributed to drones, 163 to balloons, and 6 to garbage.

In a statement about the report, Pentagon press secretary Pat Ryder stressed the “security” of personnel and the “protection of US operations.” It is “essential” to the government.

He stressed, “We deal seriously with reports of incursions into space, land, sea, or the airspace assigned to us, and we examine every one of them.”

This new report comes less than a month later The Pentagon will announce that it has not detected any signs of alien life in the military’s encounters with unidentified objects or atmospheric phenomena.

In July last year, the Pentagon set up an office to supervise the collection, processing and analysis of any situation with flying objects or phenomena of this kind.