The Pentagon is creating a new office to investigate unexplained flying objects, amid concerns that it can't explain unexplained flying objects near highly sensitive military areas.
The Pentagon said late Tuesday that a new investigatory body was ordered by the deputy secretary of defense and the US director of national intelligence.
The order came five months after a classified US intelligence report on possible alienufos came up incomplete, and it was unable to account for other phenomena, some filmed by pilots near military testing areas.
The new office will focus on incidents in areas that are strictly controlled and blocked from general aviation due to security sensitivities.
Some of the unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) spotted by military pilots in the past may represent technologies of strategic rivals unknown to US scientists.
The Pentagon said thatcursions by any airborne object into our SUA pose safety of flight and operations security concerns.
The Defense Department takes reports of incursions by any airborne object, identified or unidentified, very seriously and investigates each one.
The new office was called the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group.
The panel of experts will be from the military and intelligence community.
Most of the 120 incidents over the past 20 years could be explained and had nothing to do with US or foreign technology, according to a classified official review of the reports.
It couldn't explain some reports and videos made by military personnel.
Last year, the Pentagon released a video of navy pilots taking pictures of objects moving at incredible speeds and spinning.
Washington was alarmed by the July test of a globe-circling hypersonic vehicle that was able to launch a separate missile while traveling more than five times the speed of sound, and that Beijing might have technologies the United States has yet to develop.
Agence France-Presse.
