WASHINGTON: Two top US defense intelligence officials said on Tuesday the Pentagon is committed to determining the origins of what the government calls “unidentified aerial phenomena” in the first public congressional hearing in more than 50 years concerning phenomena commonly known as UFOs.
The two officials, Ronald Moultrie and Scott Bray, appeared before a US House of Representatives intelligence subcommittee 11 months after a report documenting more than 140 cases of unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, that US military pilots have reported observing since 2004.
Bray, deputy director of naval intelligence, acknowledged that there have been some sightings that US officials “can’t explain.” Some of those involved instances in which there was too little data to create a reasonable explanation, Bray said.
But Bray added: “There are a small handful of cases in which we have more data that our analysis simply hasn’t been able to fully pull together a picture of what happened.” These, Bray said, have involved unexpected “flight characteristics” or “signature management.”
“When it comes to material that we have, we have no material, we have detected no emanations, within the UAB task force that would suggest it is anything non-terrestrial in origin,” Bray added.
The term UFO, for unidentified flying object, has long been widely associated with the notion of extraterrestrial spacecraft.
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