Pentagon Releases New UFO Report; See Latest Reported Sightings In PA

PENNSYLVANIA — The government on Friday again dismissed the notion that U.S. authorities covered up extraterrestrial life aboard unidentified flying objects, a perhaps disappointing conclusion for Pennsylvania residents seeking explanations for lights and other things they’ve seen in the sky.

In its 63-page report, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office offered numerous other explanations for the strange sightings in the sky. “Investigative efforts determined that most sightings were the result of misidentification of ordinary objects and phenomena,” according to the report of “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” or UAP.

More than 40 percent of Americans think UFOs are alien spacecraft from other planets or galaxies. The report from AARO, as the bureau investigating unidentified aerial phenomena is known, acknowledged that many people “sincerely hold versions of these beliefs” as truth.

The report noted a consistent theme in popular culture is that the U.S. government, or a secretive organization within it, “recovered several off-world spacecraft and extraterrestrial biological remains, that it operates a program or programs to reverse engineer the recovered technology, and that it has conspired since the 1940s to keep this effort hidden from the United States Congress and the American public.”

So, what is the explanation for sightings Pennsylvania residents have reported to the crowdsourced National UFO Reporting Center about strange sightings over Keystone State skies? Here’s a glimpse into what they’ve seen:

• Seen at 7:30 p.m. in Monroeville on Feb. 14, 2024: "Observed a bright large spherical object tracked and merged with a smaller sphere."
• Seen at 9:45 p.m. in Philadelphia on Jan. 5, 2024: "Large, linear flying object traveling at low level that disappeared suddenly."
• Seen at 3:30 p.m. in Reading on Dec. 16, 2023: "Definitely caught my attention never seen something like that and flying in that matter plus as metallic glowing some think I’m crazy."
• Seen at 8 p.m. in Pittsburgh on Dec. 8, 2023: "My husband and I saw and took a video of a very large, chevron shaped craft with a straight row of lights across the back center."
• Seen at 7:30 p.m. in Drexel Hill on Sept. 1, 2023: "Saw bright objects in the sky did not look like planes slowly in a pattern."
• Seen at 4 p.m. in Yardley on July 25, 2023: "There are alien bird noises played by an alien speaker in our backyard; real birds are not there, these are electronic noises."

Although many UFO reports remain unsolved, “most of these cases could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena” if additional, reliable data were available, the AARO report said.

For example, the unidentified object may be a satellite or other data-gathering craft developed in secret by the government or private industry, the report noted.