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US intelligence officials can't explain what dozens of mysterious recent UFO sightings are - but they do not show evidence of alien spacecraft, a bombshell Pentagon report will allegedly say.
Officials who have worked closely with the report confirm the vast majority of the 120 sightings made by US Navy personnel over the past two decades were not American military or other government technology, reports.
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Those findings - due to be presented publicly to Congress later this month - eliminate the possibility that the Navy pilots may have seen some form of secret government aircraft, the Times said.
Officials believe that some of the aerial phenomena could've come from a rival power such as or amid fears that Moscow may have been experimenting with hypersonic technology.
If they proved to be Russian aircraft then it would suggest that the country's research in hypersonic technology had "far outpaced" US military development, officials say.
Sen. Marco Rubio says the government report should only be the beginning of the US effort to look into mysterious flying objects.
He said: "Men and women we have entrusted with the defense of our country are reporting encounters with unidentified aircraft with superior capabilities.
"We cannot allow the stigma of to keep us from seriously investigating this. The forthcoming report is one step in that process, but it will not be the last."
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Senior officials briefed on the findings said that because the report is inconclusive, the government could not definitively rule out the alien spacecraft theories.
An unclassified version of the findings is set to be released to Congress by June 25.
However, the final report will still , according to the Times. Officials said that the annex will not contain any evidence of alien activity, but the fact that it must remain classified will likely fuel increased speculation.
There has been a renewed interest in UFOs across the US in anticipation of the Pentagon report and since military videos were released showing unidentified flying objects.
Former President Barack Obama also added fuel to the fire when he spoke about UFOs on The Late Late Show With James Corden last month.
He said: "What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are."
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The said that "new religions would pop up" if alien life was confirmed.
Over recent months, several clips of classified Navy footage have been released that show mysterious flying objects hovering around military ships.
Most recently, footage emerged that showed a UFO buzzing around a US stealth ship near San Diego in 2004.
Commander Dave Fravor and Lt. Commander Alex Dietrich recalled the moment they saw an "unsettling" UFO that looked "like a Tic-Tac" when they were flying over the Pacific Ocean.
Fravor and Dietrich were training with a strike group approximately 100 miles southwest of San Diego.
They were each flying F/A-18F fighter aircraft when they said they saw an anomalous object flying in their vicinity.
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She told CBS at the time: "It was unidentified, and that's why it was so unsettling to us because we weren't expecting it. We couldn't classify it."
Moments later, the USS Princeton picked up the UFO on its radar - 60 miles away.
A Super Hornet pilot reportedly had a near collision with one of the objects in 2014, according to reports.
A strange object was also caught stalking the USS Omaha in July 2019.
And former Navy Lieutenant Ryan Graves recalled seeing unexplained objects flying in restricted airspace on a daily basis.
Numerous San Diego-based US warships were reportedly visited by strange vessels from above.
The USS Kidd, a Navy destroyer, was using night vision cameras and spotted several mysterious flashing objects in the skies, according to footage the Pentagon revealed to The Sun.
The report apparently acknowledges that much of the strange behavior of the unidentified phenomena -- including how fast the crafts can move and change direction -- remains inexplicable.
Many of the more than 120 incidents examined for the investigation were reported by Navy personnel.
Retired US Navy Chief Master-at-Arms, Sean Cahil, recently warned that the UFOs spotted likely possess technology that the US could not defend itself against.
He told CNN: "The technology that we witnessed with the Tic-Tac was something we would not have been able to defend our forces against at the time.
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"What we saw in the Tic-Tac [...] is the five observables. [These] indicate a technology that outstrips our arsenal by at least 100 to 1000 years at the moment."
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The now infamous "Tic-Tac" sightings were featured in one of the videos taken by Navy pilots and released by the Pentagon last year.
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