There's no evidence UFO's are alien space ships, according to the Department of Defense. But the Sightings Keep Coming In

You never hear about most UFO sightings. Among the most credible are reports from airline pilots.

On October 2, 2024, at 9:40 PM Eastern time, the crew of a Canadair passenger jet reported seeing an unidentified flying object. 

They were flying northwest of Akron, Ohio inbound for Milwaukee, when the pilot saw bright white lights hovering at a very high altitude -- they estimated 60,000 feet, way beyond what any drone could reach. And it was much higher than the 38,000 feet they were cruising at. Because of the generous distance between them and the UFO, the crew took no evasive action. But they did report it to the FAA.

You probably heard nothing about it. But more disturbing than this sighting is the fact it's one of many. These reports come into the FAA constantly.

There was another incident on July 5th, 2024. This time it was in broad daylight - 3:35pm. American Airlines Flight 1913 was traveling from Chicago to Phoenix. They were 40 miles north of Topeka, Kansas, flying at 26,000 feet. At that moment, the pilot heard something no pilot ever wants to hear: the collision avoidance alert sounded. They scanned the skies to see what could possibly be in their way so suddenly. They saw two slow-moving, light grey UFOs moving together, followed by a third, traveling in the opposite direction.

At that same moment, United Flight 1687 flying in the same general area was also getting collision alerts. Her crew could see nothing visually. And air traffic control showed no radar contacts for the UFOs.

Just another report for the FAA filed away.

Between February 20, 2007 to October 26, 2024, the FAA received a staggering 575 reports like these. 

You wouldn't know about them, except the National Archives and Records Administration was ordered to release records on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena on a regular basis, mandated by the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In fact, that law requires all federal agencies to do the same.

All these sightings are collected by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), created in July 2022 to centralize efforts across the Department of Defense and other federal departments to collect information on UAPs, figure out what they are, and most importantly, determine if they pose any threat.

Three years into their mission, AARO has analyzed 1,600 reports of UAP sightings. These aren't from random folks in the fields of Kansas. These are all "credible" reports from FAA pilots and U.S. military and Department of Defense personnel.

So what do they think, after analyzing all this data? According to AARO, there is no credible evidence UAPs are of alien or "foreign adversary" origin. They insist none of the reports they investigated represent extraterrestrial or off world technology. The Department of Defense wants you to know two things: 1) they are analyzing every sighting now, transparently letting the public know about every one. And 2) there are no aliens.

That's fine. Except more and more, people with direct knowledge of what goes on in government UAP work have been saying otherwise. 

The rumblings began in 2017, with a New York Times exposé revealing a declassified Navy video showing UAPs pulling off physics-defying maneuvers. Following that report, two major internal sources backed up the disclosure: Luis Elizondo, the intelligence officer who said he ran UAP investigations for the Department of Defense said he resigned in protest of "excessive secrecy and internal opposition." More than that, Elizondo says the government knows UAPs are alien in origin, even possessing "materials related to non-human entities". And Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, revealed he'd helped leak the videos. Together, they reframed UAPs as a legitimate national security concern.

Then came 60 Minutes in 2021, where Commander David Fravor and Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich went public about their 2004 encounter with the "Tic Tac," a smooth, white, wingless craft capable of dropping from the stratosphere to sea level in an instant. Another pilot, Ryan Graves, noted that UAPs were showing up "every day for at least a couple of years."

Of course, saying something on 60 Minutes is one thing. Saying it under oath to Congress puts you at risk for a perjury charge. David Grusch was not afraid -- because he wasn't lying. The former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer testified before Congress in 2023. He claimed the U.S. had recovered crashed UAPs and "non-human biologics."

The cracks in the secrecy kept coming. In November 2024, Rear Admiral Timothy Gallaudet testified to a House hearing he'd received video footage captured by a Navy F/A-18 jet that depicted an unidentified object exhibiting flight and structural characteristics unlike any known U.S. military assets.

At the same hearing, journalist Michael Shellenberger presented a 12-page report from a whistleblower, which detailed an unacknowledged special access program (USAP) named "Immaculate Constellation." This program purportedly collects and sequesters UAP-related data from military and intelligence sources, effectively keeping it from congressional oversight.

The whistleblowers are showing up as often as the UAP sightings. So what, exactly, is the truth?

For now, we at least have access to the raw reports of unexplained sightings.

For example: On May 29, 2023, a Cessna Citation was flying from Savannah, Georgia to Poughkeepsie, New York. As the pilot neared the airspace ten miles outside of JFK Airport, he witnessed a crazy looking UAP at 19,000 feet. The object was white, cylindrical in shape, and about the size of three bowling balls. It flew by the right side of his aircraft. The pilot took no evasive action, he just notified the FAA.

Was this an alien ship, surveying our planet? If it was, our government may never admit it.

For now, it's just National Archive document 499915814.