(NewsNation) — The Pentagon’s office for UFO investigations is shedding some light on bizarre sightings in classified briefings to Congress.
Members of the House Oversight Committee are hearing from a group from the Pentagon’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) inside a secure room at the Capitol.
AARO was set up in 2022 and has now reached full operational capacity. AARO’s new director, Jon Kosloski, will be speaking to lawmakers who have vowed to get to the truth of unexplained sightings.
A Defense Department spokesperson told NewsNation that AARO can now fully carry out its mission to investigate those sightings, which include various types of unknown objects.
The briefing comes after last month’s House and Senate hearings on Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs), which the public often refers to as UFOs.
The hearings revealed that between May of 2023 to June of 2024, the office reviewed more than 750 new reports of UAP and identified 12 of them as needing more analysis.
The Pentagon has been pushing back on whistleblower allegations that it is operating a secret UFO-retrieval program and that UAPs are extraterrestrial in nature. The agency has repeatedly said there are no such programs and no evidence that UAPs come from anywhere other than our planet.
AARO’s findings resolved a number of cases as common objects like balloons or drones. But the admission that some cases can’t be so easily wrapped up caught the attention of both lawmakers and UFO believers.
“There are interesting cases that I, with my physics and engineering background and time in the intelligence community, do not understand and I don’t know anybody else who understands,” Kosloski said at one hearing.
AARO stressed that there is no evidence of alien technology but did admit that more analysis needs to happen to figure out what people have seen in the sky.
Those include jellyfish UAPs, which appear as blobs with trailing tendrils on video, radar and other equipment.
No cameras are allowed in the meeting but what House members hear could help shape the agenda when it comes to future Congressional investigations into UAPs.
