According to the United States Defense Administration, UFO sightings can be explained by natural causes, and there is no evidence of an alien civilization.
Released by the US Department of Defense on Friday the report according to the United States, there has also never been any extraterrestrial technology that was tried to be hidden from the public.
The 63-page UFO report is the most thorough that the US authorities have published on the subject in more than half a century.
The report was said to be based to scientific for research and uncompromising intelligence analysis, but some independent researchers from the defense administration disagree.
asked for an assessment of the report from two academic researchers and From Luis Elizondowho has investigated UFO sightings as an intelligence specialist for the US Department of Defense in the 2010s.
Elizondo criticizes the Defense Ministry’s UFO report the most. In his opinion, the report is deliberately dishonest and misleading.
Elizondo has been performing since 2017 as a leakerwho wanted to bring to the public UFO secrets allegedly covered up by the Pentagon.
– The Pentagon is clearly trying to obscure information related to UFOs. We have been dealing with this phenomenon for seven decades, Elizondo says about the recent report in a telephone interview with .
In Elizondo’s opinion, the report is complete nonsense, because according to him, the UFO cover-up is well known in the inner circle of the defense administration, to which he once belonged.
In Elizondo’s opinion, the report is perhaps aimed at drawing attention away from UFO sightings, which have also interested members of Congress.
– It is completely irresponsible for the Pentagon to try to minimize the control that both Congress and American citizens have on the Pentagon in this way, says Elizondo.
Physicists have measured unexplained properties
On the other hand, the Italian astrophysicist who studied UFO sightings from a physics point of view is bitter about the superficiality of the report.
– They probably want to hide their inability to understand what it is all about, says the astrophysicist Massimo Teodoraniwhom interviewed via video link.
In his opinion, the problem is not that the US authorities are hiding some secret they have already discovered, but that the report’s conclusions do not meet any scientific criteria.
– Individual cases have not been analyzed in depth, not a single table or calculation. It doesn’t convince me. Nothing is said about previous studies and calculations, says Teodorani.
Teodorani has worked as a researcher at, for example, the Italian Institute of Astrophysics and in several private research programs where UFO sightings have been analyzed scientifically.
According to Teodoran, researchers have already conducted peer reviews in different parts of the world measurements and analyzes of atmospheric phenomena that cannot be explained so far.
– We don’t know if they are caused by extraterrestrial intelligence or some natural phenomenon that is unknown for now, says Teodorani.
For example, the light balls observed in the air have been estimated by physicists to have reached up to 5,000 G to accelerationto very large to light output and 20 times the speed of sound, Teodorani says.
Man-made technology wouldn’t be able to do anywhere near the same. There is no conventional explanation for such measurement results, such as balloons or the weapons development of other great powers, which the US Department of Defense has offered.
Teodorani has participated in the measurement of light phenomena in Norway in Hessdalenwhere an extraordinary number of UFO sightings have been made for decades.
– Totally useless, Teodorani sums up his understanding of the Pentagon report and plans to continue the investigations in Hessdalen next fall.
UFO sightings of nuclear bases remained open
A US researcher by Jensine Andresen the view of the success of the Pentagon’s UFO report is brighter.
– I was positively surprised that they took the task seriously, Andresen says in ‘s video interview.
Andresen paid special attention to the fact that the report left room for interpretation regarding UFO sightings made at US nuclear weapons bases, which Andresen also studied. According to Andresen, the cases were neither belittled nor embellished.
– The cases of nuclear weapons bases and facilities can rightly be considered the most important, and the report honestly concluded that many of them have remained unresolved, says Andresen.
Andresen is an independent researcher specializing in the science of religion and arms control, who has written several books about UFOs. He has previously worked in universities, business and federal offices.
The problem with the report, Andresen sees, is that unexplained UFO sightings provide the Pentagon with a linguistic loophole that can be used to avoid resorting to an extraterrestrial explanation.
– It can be said that it has not been proven that something originates from outside the Earth, because there have not even been defined criteria that could be used to prove an extraterrestrial origin, says Andresen.
The same elements in Earth and elsewhere
The difficulty of proving an extraterrestrial origin can be seen in the report, among other things, in how concrete discoveries made in connection with UFO sightings are handled.
For example, in 1977, in the state of Iowa in the USA, the police collected molten metal that had fallen to the ground after a UFO sighting, which has been studied by, among others, a professor of pathology at Stanford University Garry Nolan’s led by a group of researchers.
Their according to his research samples of metal alloys showed that the molten substance was industrially produced, but no natural explanation was found for its presence at this location. However, proving extraterrestrial origin is a different matter.
At a foundation seminar he led at Stanford University last November, Nolan told also from other samples where an exceptional distribution of elements or isotopes has been measured. However, the observations do not conclusively prove an exotic origin.
The Pentagon report refers to one metal sample that the Pentagon determined came from Earth. Nolan did not want to comment on the UFO report’s conclusions to .