US government confirms 21 'unexplained' UFO sightings

An official new US government report has confirmed investigators are looking into 21 unexplained UFO sightings.

The All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) was set up to probe incidents of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) - as UFOs are officially known - and has passed its annual report to Congress - the legislative branch of the US government. The report reveals investigators were tasked with assessing eyewitness accounts of sightings that included a green fire ball, a flashing, multicoloured jelly-fish and a 6ft silver rocket.

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

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However, AARO states that 21 other cases remain unresolved and they are continuing to analyse those. 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 1 June, 2024, AARO said they received 757 UAP reports. Almost 500 of these reports featured UAP incidents that occurred during that reporting period.

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

The US Department of Defense said: "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."