Pentagon officially opening UFO investigations office as US government gets serious about ‘alien-sightings’
A NEW office focused solely on investigating UFO sightings will soon be opened by the Pentagon.
On July 20, the Department of Defense (DoD) revealed that it was establishing an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), according to a statement.
The office will act as a hub for collation and management of UFO sighting reports across the DoD.
More specifically, the AARO will synchronize efforts across US federal agencies "to detect, identify and attribute objects of interest...to mitigate any associated threats to the safety of operations and national security."
This includes anomalous, unidentified space, airborne, submerged, and transmedium objects, the DoD said.
"Transmedium" refers to the ability of an object to fly across multiple environments – such as both in space and underwater.
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Why the sudden interest?
The new office results from a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2022.
In recent years, the U.S. government has taken an active interest in UFO sighting reports.
This is especially the case after three video clips surfaced in 2017 showing unidentified objects zooming past confounded U.S. Navy pilots.
In 2020, the U.S. Navy officially acknowledged the videos but has not explained what the mysterious objects were.
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“This team is going to be looking at questions like: ‘do we have sensors that can see things, you know, take another look at the evidence?’ the agency’s deputy administrator Col. Pam Melroy said during a press conference in London, according to .
“One of the big questions…is: ‘We have a ton of satellites looking down at the Earth, are any of them useful?’” Melroy explained.