The Pentagon is back hunting for UFOs

The Pentagon and America’s top spying agency are to begin an investigation to decide once and for all whether UFOs pose a threat to the United States. After decades of failing to explain the unexplainable presence of mysterious brightly-lit, rapidly accelerating and oddly-shaped phenomena in the skies, especially over US military installations, the Pentagon has set up yet another organisation to try and find answers. Only five months ago, a special US government task force concluded following an examination into more than 140 UFO sightings over two decades that there was no evidence of anything non-terrestrial involved in the incidents. However, the possibility of an alien presence could not be ruled out. In 18 cases there appeared to be a demonstration of technological know-how unfamiliar to the US – or, it was believed, to China and Russia. With both intelligence officials and UFO conspiracy theorists dissatisfied with the result, the Pentagon decided to have one more go at tracking and identifying any future suspected mystery objects in the sky. “Incursions by any airborne object into our ‘special-use airspace’ pose safety of flight and operations security concerns and may pose national security challenges,” the Pentagon said in a statement. Special-use airspace is defined as areas over military bases, training ranges and national security locations, such as the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade in Maryland. “The DoD [department of defence] takes reports of incursions – by any airborne object identified or unidentified - very seriously and investigates each one,” the Pentagon said. Now the UFO issue, or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) as the Pentagon calls it, has been handed over to a new organisation consisting of senior defence officials and representatives from the office of the director of national intelligence which oversees America’s 18 spying agencies. The 18th spy service belongs to the recently formed US Space Force which is expected to play an important role in deciding whether or not strange aerial phenomena might have begun their journey from beyond the Earth’s atmosphere. The new organisation has the acronym AOIMSG (airborne object identification and management synchronisation group).