Report pdf:
Preliminary Assessment:
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
From OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Key takeaways (copied from reddit)
-“UAP would also represent a national security challenge if they are foreign adversary collection platforms or provide evidence a potential adversary has developed either a breakthrough or disruptive technology”
-discussion of UAP is a taboo topic, especially among the senior members of scientific/policy/military etc (“reputational risk”)
-the sensors on US military platforms are “not generally suited for identifying UAP”
-“UAP sightings also tended to cluster around US training and testing grounds, but we assess that this may result from a collection bias as a result of focused attention…”
-“in a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency energy associated with UAP sightings”
-“the UAPTF holds a small amount of data that appears to show UAP demonstrating acceleration or a degree of signature management…We are conducting further analysis to determine if breakthrough technologies were demonstrated.”
-“we were able to identify one reported UAP with high confidence. In that case, we identified the object as a large, deflating balloon”
-“Some UAP observations could be attributable to developments and classified programs by U.S. entities. We are unable to confirm, however, that these systems accounted for any of the UAP reports we collected.”
-“Some UAP may be technologies deployed by China, Russia, another nation, or a non-governmental entity.”
-“The UAPTF intends to focus additional analysis on the small number of cases where a UAP appeared to display unusual flight characteristics or signature management.”
-“The UAPTF has 11 reports of documented instances in which pilots reported near misses with a UAP.”
-lack data to indicate that UAP are part of a “foreign collection program or indicative of a major technological advancement by a potential adversary” … “some UAP have been detected near military facilities or by aircraft carrying the USG’s most advanced sensor systems”
-they will use AI to “cluster and recognise similarities and patterns in features of the data points"//
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