Has There Been an Increase in the Number of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Over the U.S.?

There were more reports in the last 2 years than the previous 17 combined.

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00:00Have there been aliens that have visited our planet?

00:07How about our country?

00:08While the existence of extraterrestrials is still up for discussion, one thing is clear.

00:13The USA has been visited by an increasing number of unidentified aerial phenomena, or

00:18UAPs, in recent years.

00:20The Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently released a report detailing the number

00:24of UAPs, formerly UFOs, that have been processed recently.

00:28Outlining how between 2014 and 2021, they cited 144 such aerial encounters.

00:35But since then, that number has exploded, with the agency adding that since 2021, 366

00:41new UAPs have been encountered, bringing the total number to 510, since they started tracking

00:46and reporting these unidentified phenomena.

00:49So what are they?

00:50According to the report, 26 were drones or drone-like devices, while 163 were shrugged

00:55as weather balloons, or something like weather balloons.

00:58And while 6 ended up being trash, birds, or other debris swept skyward, 171 of them

01:04are still unidentified, often featuring unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities.

01:09And the military sees these anomalies as very real security risks, with the Pentagon's

01:14press secretary saying in a statement, quote, We take reports of incursions into our designated

01:19space, land, sea, or airspaces seriously, and examine each one.

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