Pentagon has received 'several hundreds' of new UFO reports

The Pentagon office that tracks reports of flying objects has received hundreds of new reports, but no evidence of alien life, according to the agency's leadership.

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office is responsible for not only tracking unidentified objects in the sky, but also underwater or in space, and potentially an object that has the ability to move from one domain to the next.

More than a year of attention on unidentified flying objects that military pilots have observed but have sometimes been reluctant to report due to fear of stigma has led to the establishment of the office.

Between 2004 and 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence reported that there were over 100 such encounters.

The office has had a lot of reporting since then. The amount was quantified by Kirkpatrick, who said it was several hundreds.

The updated report from the director of national intelligence is expected by the end of the year, according to officials.

The security risk posed by encounters with unknown flying objects by military installations and military aircraft is why the office was established.

In May of this year, Congress held its first hearing in more than half a century on the topic, with multiple members expressing concern that the unknown technology being flown by China, Russia or another potential adversary creates a security risk.

Ronald Moultrie, under secretary of defense for intelligence and security, said that so far they haven't seen anything, but they believe that any objects they have seen are alien. We deem unauthorized systems in our airspace to be a threat to safety.

The office is working on ways to improve its ability to identify unknown objects, such as by recalibrating sensors that may be focused just on known adversary aircraft or drones.

The department's outreach may be one reason for the hundreds of additional reports. The services have their own reporting processes.

Future stealth bombers and stealth fighters, as well as drones and hypersonic missiles being built by both the U.S. and China, could be mistaken for something else. The Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence community have been working with the new office to rule out the use of drones.

"We are setting up very clear mechanisms with our blue programs, both our DOD and IC programs, to deconflict any observations that come in with blue activities, and ensure that we weed those out and identify those fairly early on"