Navy pilots were often unsettled by the sightings. If the phenomena were Chinese or Russian aircraft, officials said, that would suggest the two powers’ hypersonic research had far outpaced American military development. China has also developed hypersonic weaponry, and included it in military parades. Russia has been investing heavily in hypersonics, believing the technology offers it the ability to evade American missile-defense technology. Intelligence officials believe at least some of the aerial phenomena could have been experimental technology from a rival power, most likely Russia or China. The report also examined incidents involving foreign militaries over the last two decades. Many of the more than 120 incidents examined in the report are from Navy personnel, officials said. While the annex will not contain any evidence concluding that the phenomena are alien spacecraft, the officials acknowledged that the fact that it would remain off limits to the public was likely to continue to fuel speculation that the government had secret data about alien visitations to Earth. The final report will also include a classified annex, the officials said. One possible explanation - that the phenomena could be weather balloons or other research balloons - does not hold up in all cases, the officials said, because of changes in wind speed at the times of some of the interactions. The report concedes that much about the observed phenomena remains difficult to explain, including their acceleration, as well as ability to change direction and submerge. Obama said, “is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are.’’ “What is true, and I’m actually being serious here,” Mr.

And while a forthcoming unclassified version, expected to be released to Congress by June 25, will present few other firm conclusions, senior officials briefed on the intelligence conceded that the very ambiguity of the findings meant the government could not definitively rule out theories that the phenomena observed by military pilots might be alien spacecraft. That determination would appear to eliminate the possibility that Navy pilots who reported seeing unexplained aircraft might have encountered programs the government meant to keep secret.īut that is about the only conclusive finding in the classified intelligence report, the officials said. government technology, the officials said.

The report determines that a vast majority of more than 120 incidents over the past two decades did not originate from any American military or other advanced U.S. WASHINGTON - American intelligence officials have found no evidence that aerial phenomena witnessed by Navy pilots in recent years are alien spacecraft, but they still cannot explain the unusual movements that have mystified scientists and the military, according to senior administration officials briefed on the findings of a highly anticipated government report.

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