In a stunning departure from nearly eight decades of official denial and evasion, the Pentagon's UFO analysis office has recently acknowledged the existence of unexplained aerial phenomena.
Jon Kosloski, the director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, made this groundbreaking admission during a press briefing last month.
"There are interesting [UFO] cases that I, with my physics and engineering background and time in the [intelligence community], I do not understand. And I dont know anybody else who understands them either," Kosloski confessed, as reported by The Hill. This admission of bafflement by the U.S. government over several "true anomalies" marks a significant shift in the official stance on UFOs.
The Department of Defense and intelligence agencies are so confounded by some UFO incidents that they are seeking external assistance. "Were going to need the help of academia and the public to address some of these," Kosloski stated, indicating a departure from the Pentagon's previous dismissive attitude towards UFO phenomena.
This shift in tone is not entirely surprising, given the consistent, credible, multi-witness reports of objects exhibiting extreme performance characteristics. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin echoed Kosloski's sentiments, stating, "there are things that happen, that have happened and probably will continue to happen that are difficult to explain."
This unprecedented commentary from sitting Defense Department officials follows a series of startling statements on UFOs from former presidents and ex-national security officials. A decade ago, it would have been unthinkable for a former CIA director to suggest that a "different form of life" may be behind recent military UFO incidents, or for an ex-director of national intelligence to admit that UFOs exhibit technologies "that we dont have and, frankly, that we are not capable of defending against."
In a remarkable development, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) proposed legislation alleging that government "legacy programs" have secretly retrieved and are attempting to reverse-engineer UFOs of "unknown" and "non-human" origin. The Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act, a bipartisan bill, formally defines "non-human intelligence" and requires the government to take possession of "any and all" recovered objects and "biological evidence of non-human intelligence" that had been transferred to private defense contractors.
During a joint hearing by two House Oversight and Accountability subcommittees on November 13, former Department of Defense official Luis Elizondo testified to the existence of the unreported programs outlined in the Schumer-Rounds legislation. Air Force veteran and former intelligence official David Grusch testified to the existence of a "multi-decade [UFO] crash retrieval and reverse engineering program" during a July 2023 congressional hearing.
The internal watchdog overseeing Americas spy agencies deemed Gruschs allegations "credible and urgent," triggering mandatory notifications to Congress. The intelligence communitys first inspector general serves as Gruschs attorney, adding significant weight to the underlying assertions.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has stated that highly credible, senior government officials approached Congress with "firsthand" knowledge of UFO retrieval and reverse-engineering programs. Former Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.), who sat on the House Intelligence Committee, echoed Rubios comments.
However, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Offices handling of the "GoFast" UFO video incident revealed clear and lingering deficiencies. Kosloski presented a flawed analysis of the video, failing to interview the aircrew that recorded the footage a major analytic oversight. The office appears unaware that the "GoFast" UFO was one of several unknown objects flying in formation, which is what drew pilots attention to it in the first place. The object lacked wings or discernible means of propulsion, casting doubt on the institutions "high confidence" assessment that the object "did not demonstrate any anomalous flight characteristics."
The office also failed to account for the fact that the video was recorded 300 miles off the coast of Florida just minutes before the well-known and scientifically intriguing "Gimbal" encounter. These incidents caused major flight safety concerns among top Navy leadership and occurred amid daily incursions by enigmatic spherical objects like the "GoFast" UFO that exhibited highly anomalous flight characteristics.
While the first public comments by the new director of the Pentagons UFO analysis office reflect a striking and encouraging shift, the offices analytic failures on the "GoFast" incident along with several other shockingly flawed reports and assessments indicate that the office has much work to do to regain the publics trust. The government's newfound openness about the UFO phenomenon is a welcome change, but it must be accompanied by rigorous, transparent, and credible investigations to truly address this enduring mystery.
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