More than 500 UAP reports have been cataloged:
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has published its 2022 annual report on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), the government's new phrase for UFOs. In addition to the 144 UAP reports covered in the ODNI's preliminary assessment from June 2021, there have been an additional 247 new reports and another 119 that were either since discovered or reported outside the preliminary collection period.
As of August 30, 2022, a total of 510 UAP reports have been cataloged and even more information is supplied in the classified version of this report, the agency said.
According to an initial analysis, 26 reports where characterized as unmanned aircraft system (UAS) or UAS-like entities, 163 were characterized as balloon or balloon-like entities and six were attributed to clutter (birds, weather events, or airborne debris like plastic bags). Notably, initial characterization does not mean positively resolved or unidentified.
The ODNI and the newly established All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which will serve as the DoD's focal point for UAP, will use the initial characterization to efficiently and effectively leverage resources against the remaining 171 uncharacterized and unattributed UAP reports, some of which appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities that require further analysis.
The ODNI and AARO acknowledge that a select number of UAP incidents may be attributable to sensor irregularities or variances, such as operator or equipment error.
The report further notes that the majority of new UAP reports originate from US Navy and US Air Force aviators and operators, and that UAP pose a safety of flight and collision hazard due to their unauthorized presence in restricted airspace. To date, however, there have been no reported collisions between US aircraft and UAP.
[...] It's worth reiterating that this public release is the unclassified version of the report. Per Appendix A, the report is to include a detailed breakdown of each reported event although none of that is present here and has presumably been saved for the classified version for authorized eyes only.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday January 16, @06:59PM (1 child)
The fun part of the report: now that they've tried destigmatizing the reporting of UAPs, they're getting more reports - including reports worth investigating...
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday January 16, @09:26PM
I was going to say something similar. They have created an environment where people can freely report UAP sightings without fear of being thought of as a crackpot.
Of course, the UFO community will see this bug and fix it so that UAP is taken as wacko quack science.
How often should I have my memory checked? I used to know but...
(Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Monday January 16, @07:59PM (3 children)
The comments section of the quoted article has a few videos and some interesting links. Whether you believe in UFOs or not, it is entertaining to read.
https://www.techspot.com/news/97266-us-government-publishes-annual-unclassified-report-unidentified-aerial.html#commentsOffset [techspot.com]
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 16, @09:01PM (2 children)
There's billions of smartphones, but I only got to see what it's like for someone to die in a fiery plane crash less than 2 days ago.
(Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Tuesday January 17, @10:26AM (1 child)
That was very tragic ...
Albert Einstein - "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18, @02:24PM
So the object has to be pretty close and/or large for the phone camera video to capture the details.
[1] even if their cameras can actually do higher res videos their default is usually 1080p (or lower?) and so that default is what you get most of the time. My cheap phone can only do 4k at 30fps - so some fast moving UFO might still end up being blurry. For my normal use cases 1080p @ 60fps is preferable.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Tuesday January 17, @07:56AM (1 child)
I saw a crazy "documentary" on one of the high-numbered satellite TV channels about UFOs recently. It was a Friday night and I needed cheering up after a hard week at increasingly crazy work.
The main claim being made about these UFOs is that they started to appear in the 1940s, right about the time the first nuclear weapons were being developed, and subsequently they tended to cluster around places where nuclear weapons were stationed.
There were also some bizarre claims made about the Rendelsham Forest incident [wikipedia.org] which has previously bee thoroughly debunked.
What was very surprising was a claim apparently by Italian authorities that a UFO had, using a ray gun, shot one of the rotor blades off a helicopter in flight.
I had whisky and beer that night but I wasn't 100% convinced, even by this enlightening documentary.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17, @11:57AM
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-air-force-personnel-ufos-deactivated-nukes/ [cbsnews.com]
https://www.wired.com/2010/09/tinfoil-tuesdays-ufos-neutered-nukes-air-force-officers-claim/ [wired.com]
I think Robert Hastings popularized the claim about UFOs monitoring or even disabling nuclear sites in 2010. Big if true.