The US government has officially confirmed 21 unexplained UFO sightings as part of a new report.

Both Congress and the Pentagon received a report this week detailing 700 new sightings of UAPs- the US government’s official term for UFOs.

The report is compiled by the the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), a branch of government set up to investigate UAP reports.

AARO received over 700 eyewitness accounts of UAPs over the past year, and were tasked with investigating which of the sightings were unexplained or credible.

Many cases were attributed to known objects including balloons, birds, unmanned aircraft system (UAS), satellites, and aircraft.

AARO also reported that it increasingly receives cases it is able to resolve to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite constellation.

However, around 21 sightings were considered unexplainable, and includedaccounts of a green fire ball, a flashing, multicoloured jelly-fish and a 6ft silver rocket being seen in the sky.

However, AARO states that other cases remain unresolved and they are continuing to collect and analyse on that body of cases.

Unresolved sightings include the so-called ‘GOFAST’ video of a U.S. Navy F/A-18 jet crew’s encounter with an UAP, and a fast-moving silver ball captured on camera by a U.S. drone in the Middle East.

AARO said: ‘It is important to underscore that, to date, AARO has discovered no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity, or technology.’

They added: ‘None of these resolved cases substantiated advanced foreign adversarial capabilities or breakthrough aerospace technologies.’

Regarding the unresolved cases, they added: ‘AARO is working closely with its IC (Intelligence Community) and S&T (Science and Technology) partners to understand and attribute the 21 cases received this reporting period that merit further analysis based on reported anomalous characteristics and/or behaviors.

‘AARO will provide immediate notification to Congress should AARO identify that any cases indicate or involve a breakthrough foreign adversarial aerospace capability.’

Covering the period from 1 May, 2023, to 1June, 2024, the AARO said they received 757 UAP reports during this period; 485 of these reports featured UAP incidents that occurred during the reporting period.

This brought the total cases that AARO has been reviewing to over 1,600 as of 1 June, 2024.

The U.S. Department of Defense said Thursday (14 Nov): ‘The safety of our service personnel, our bases and installations, and the protection of U.S. operations security on land, in the skies, seas, and space are paramount. We take reports of incursions into our designated space, land, sea, or airspaces seriously and examine each one.’

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