Where to see UFOs? Updated Pentagon map revealed

UFO sightings — for Unidentified Flying Object, or PAN in French for Unidentified Aerospace Phenomenon — are a real subject linked to national defense before being a theme associated with astronomy and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. The reason for this is obvious: the Earth is flown over much more often by satellites, military vehicles, drones, probe balloons, than by possible flying saucers!

Perhaps you did not know, there is in France a very official organization responsible for investigating this phenomenon: the Geipan (Study and information group on unidentified aerospace phenomena). The one in the United States is called AARO, whose acronym could be translated as Nationwide Anomaly Resolution Agency. A name that would almost recall the series X Files to the less young among us.

Her annual report 2023-2024 fell, and despite certain testimonies sometimes coming from legislators regarding “potential alien visits” or suspicion “undisclosed efforts to gather evidence” (including suspicions of secret investigations), the AARO concludes “have no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activities or technologies”. No, the crop circles don't count!

AND not come home

“The AARO project has successfully solved hundreds of cases in its possession, identifying mundane objects such as balloons, birds, drones, satellites and airplanessaid office director Jon Kosloski in a press release. Only a very small percentage of reports to AARO are potentially abnormal, but these are the cases that require significant time, resources and focused scientific investigation by AARO and its partners.”

Let us remember that in these times of very high international tensions, particularly between Asia and the West (Russia/Ukraine, China/USA, etc.), these questions relating to the surveillance and defense of airspace are not relevant. all fun. Some certainly remember probe balloons having flown over US territoryall shot down in 2023 by Uncle Sam's army.

Here are the conclusions of the official AARO document:

• 757 reports were received by the US agency. All the cases treated could be linked to “prosaic” objects (we could say in this case “terrestrial” or linked to our Earth).

• 70% of observation cases could be linked to balloons, 16% to drones, 8% to birds, 4% to satellites and another 2% to other birds.

• The AARO nevertheless recognizes that 21 cases deserve in-depth analysis, because they could be linked to foreign aerospace activity… but terrestrial.

• 444 cases were not processed because they were insufficiently documented.

The AARO clarifies that unidentified lights or orb-shaped objects sometimes mentioned are covered in the subset of UAP reports (for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), which include references to visual characteristics. Other reports mention cylinders, disks, triangles, squares or exotic objects such as a “green fireball” Or “a jellyfish with flashing lights”.

A map of observation hotspots has been produced by AARO. It shows an over-representation of reports in four large areas: the southeastern United States and the Gulf of Mexico, the West Coast and the Pacific Northwest, the Middle East and surrounding Northeast Asia. of Japan and the Korean peninsula. The Pentagon agency notes that these areas favor a “geographic collection bias based on locations close to U.S. military assets and sensors operating globally”. Clearly, the reports are close to the activities of the US armies, which indicates that it is then easier to confuse a US military vehicle with a Klingon ship or one filled with tubercle Predators…

Still, this map is interesting: if you don't mind traveling to some of the riskiest places on the planet, you might be lucky enough to observe a UAP!