Director of the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick released footage of a suspected unidentified flying object/aerial phenomena (UFOs/UAPs) during a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing, Wednesday.
The video, shared online, shows a strange ball flying over a landscape in the Middle East in 2022. The object, which is currently unidentified, was said to have “characteristics and behaviors consistent with other ‘metallic orb’ observations in the region,” according to a slide on the video. It also had “no demonstration of enigmatic technical capabilities,” and was not considered a threat to assets in the region.
Kirkpatrick used the video to contextualize how a significant lack of data makes it “virtually impossible to fully identify” the object. As the AARO office gathers more data, members of the organization will be able to conduct further analysis to try and determine what it is, why it appeared, and where it came from.
AARO Director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick shows UAP footage of a metallic sphere captured over the Middle East in 2022.
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The U.S. government is tracking more than 650 potential cases of UFO/UAPs, according to CNN. “Of those over 650, we’ve prioritized about half of them to be of anomalous interesting value, and now we have to go through those and go ‘How much of those do I have actual data for?’” Kirkpatrick continued.
To-date, ” AARO has found no credible evidence thus far of extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology or objects that defy the known laws of physics,” according to Kirkpatrick, despite showing a video that clearly shows something defying the laws of known physics. (RELATED: Pentagon Officials Suggest Aliens Could Send Probes To Earth)
He further noted that AARO has “concerning indicators” that emerging technologies from foreign nations like Russia and China could make up a portion of UFO/UAP reports, but those are handed off to others within the intelligence community to investigate further.