Pentagon Launches UFO Reporting Tool: ‘We’ve Found Something’

The Pentagon launches an online UFO reporting tool. The move signals that the US government is gradually revealing what it knows or doesn’t know about unidentified anomalous phenomena.

The US Department of Defense has launched an online reporting tool for some encounters with unidentified anomalous phenomena, formerly known as UFOs, as part of an expansion of its efforts to provide greater transparency in its research into unknown phenomena.

According to The Guardian, only current or former federal employees or those with “direct knowledge of US government programs or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) activities dating back to 1945” are so far eligible to use the protected form that was published on Tuesday on the Department of Defense website with the somewhat benign name “All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office” (AARO).

US officials say the public will be able to submit reports soon. The move means the US government is moving closer to fulfilling its promise of full transparency about what it knows or doesn’t know, about everything from strange flashes in the sky to the possibility of alien life to sightings of unusual aircraft.

The launch of the instrument follows the appointment last month of former Pentagon official Mark McInerney as NASA’s first director of UAP research and the space agency’s pledge to enlist a worldwide army of civilian sky watchers to improve their observations and analyze the unfamiliar.

The new form, according to the AARO website, “is intended to be an initial point of contact…it is not intended to convey potentially sensitive or sensitive information.”

It states that second-hand information about UAPs or meetings with them is not welcome. Sean Kirkpatrick, director of AARO, told reporters on Tuesday that first-hand information, particularly about government-involved UAP programs, is definitely out there and will be treated sensitively and confidentially.

“This reporting mechanism that is on the website is for people who think they have first-hand knowledge of the secret programs that the government is hiding,” he said. “If a pilot is flying over and he sees something in his airspace and needs to report it, it is communicated through the operational channels.”

Conspiracy theories about the level of government involvement in and awareness of the UFO and UAP research and programs have circulated for decades, ranging from rumors of a secret government facility containing alien spacecraft and life forms in Area 51 in the Mojave Desert to fictionalizations of the topic. in popular television programs such as The X-Files.

Sean Kirkpatrick said those who cling to such beliefs are likely to be disappointed.

“I have no evidence at this time that there has ever been any program to conduct any kind of reverse engineering, any kind of extraterrestrial UAP program,” he said. “We do have a requirement by law to involve informants or other interviewees who believe that this does exist and may have information relevant to it.”

Notably, he hinted at the prospect of an upcoming public release of some information that had previously been kept secret.

“We have a package with a lot of new material that we have prepared for release. We have revealed some things that we are now declassifying. Not just operational videos, but also historical documents,” he said, without going into details.

He described it as “educational material that will help inform the public.”