The Pentagon will devote a new office to studying UFO encounters

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According to a statement released by the U.S. Department of Defense, the Pentagon will soon open an office dedicated to investigating unexplained phenomena.

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office will serve as a central hub that collects, investigates and manages reports of unexplained phenomena across the DOD.

According to the statement, the office will work with the federal government to detect, identify and attribute objects of interest. Anomaly, unidentified space, airborne, submerged and trans medium objects are included.

A transmedium object is one that is capable of moving between land, air and sea and was captured by the U.S. Navy.

Pentagon officials showed footage of a strange metallic alien.

The U.S. government has taken a renewed interest in unexplained flying objects over the past several years, following the leak of three now-infamous video clips showing mysterious, wingless aircraft soaring past some dumbfounded U.S. Navy pilots. The videos were declassified by the U.S. Navy in April 2020.

In 2020, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence called for an inquiry into unexplained flying objects, or UAP, as the government prefers to call them. In June of 2021, the Pentagon released a report on more than 140 instances of unexplained flying objects by navy pilots.

A number of Freedom of Information Act requests resulted in the release of more than 1,500 pages of material related to the unexplained.

The DOD's budget and priorities for the next fiscal year have been specified by the National Defense Authorization Act, which provides funding for the new office. The chief scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency's Missile and Space Intelligence Center will be running the office.

It was originally published on Live Science