( March 20, 2021; The Blaze )
Ratcliffe added that government officials have attempted to find a "plausible solution" for the UFOs — but admitted "there are instances where we don't have good explanations for some of the things we've seen."
"There have been sightings all over the world," Ratcliffe explained. "When we talk about sightings, the other thing I will tell you is, it's not just a pilot or just a satellite, or some intelligence collection. Usually we have multiple sensors that are picking up these things, and some of these are unexplained phenomenon, and there is actually quite a few more than have been made public."
The preferred term is no longer UFO (unidentified flying object). Now they're called UAPs (unexplained aerial phenomena).
Difficult to explain phenomenon include:
- Objects moving in ways that are hard to replicate with known technologies; and
- Objects moving faster than the speed of sound without a sonic boom
President Trump signed an order in December that required the release of information on the topic within 180 days, it was funded under the recent omnibus legislation, and - according to Maria Bartiroma in this interview - a report is due out by June 1.
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