[imagesource: US Department of Defense]

It’s not exactly breaking news that UFO culture is huge in America, with numerous reports from the US Navy revealing some of what they see ‘out there’.

And it was only recently that the Pentagon confirmed the authenticity of some Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs).

(UAP is just a better way of referring to UFOs, specifically because many incidents may be explained by technical glitches or environmental phenomena rather than tangible objects.)

Specifically, the former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), Luis Elizondo, leaked three now-famous videos of military encounters with UAP to the media in 2017, and in 2020 the US Navy confirmed the authenticity of these clips, reports CNET.

The US government has been battling with the Pentagon over the issue of UAP for years, considering it only a fringe issue despite the intelligence community warning otherwise.

Finally, though, the US government seems to be taking the matter seriously.

Via CNN, the US intelligence community is scheduled to deliver an unclassified report about UFOs for Congress in late June, which will lead to members of the House Intelligence Committee receiving a classified briefing conducted by the Navy and FBI on the matter, too.

It has taken some time for the US military and intelligence community to remove the issue from the world of science fiction and consider its actual national security implications:

“Everyone who’s paid enough attention to it understands they need to take it seriously,” said former deputy defence secretary David Norquist, who set up a task force in 2020 to investigate UAPs.

“But once you go beyond that circle, you get people who are understandably resistant because of the tinfoil hat stigma.”

This video can explain why these UAP sightings are cause for concern:

Woe be it for UFO-ologists out there, but the Pentagon is less interested in proving that these unidentified sightings are aliens, and is rather concerned with explaining what the sightings mean for US airspace, particularly if they are next-gen technology deployed by China or Russia.

For counterintelligence reasons (among other reasons), that means that the report probably won’t provide much more clarity on the matter.

Nor will it contain anything that fundamentally alters our view of the universe.

But it will provide something that can help us better understand the mystery of UFOs:

The report is expected to say that there’s no evidence the UAP seen by military personnel are secret advanced American technology or alien spacecraft, but a possible alien explanation can’t be definitively ruled out.

That means the intelligence community seems to think that UAP have causes that are some combination of unknown, mundane or originating with foreign or private entities.

The report will almost certainly raise more questions than it answers, but perhaps it is wise to keep an eye on the sky, anyway.

[sources:cnet&cnn]