A forthcoming government report will detail a series of UFO sightings “difficult to explain”, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said in a recent interview.
Ratcliffe, the former intelligence officer of former President Donald Trump, was asked about incidents involving unidentified flying objects on Fox News Friday.
“There are many more sightings than the ones released,” he told presenter Maria Bartiromo. “Some of them have been disqualified.”
“And when we talk about sightings,” continued Ratcliffe, “we are talking about objects that have been seen by Navy or Air Force pilots, or have been captured by satellite images that frankly engage in actions that are difficult to explain.”
“Movements that are difficult to replicate and for which we have no technology. Or traveling at speeds that exceed the sound barrier without a sonic boom. “
His comments came several months after the Pentagon released three videos of well-known UFOs, recognizing that the footage was shot by pilots from the United States Navy.
In the interview, Ratcliffe said the sightings, which have been reported around the world, go beyond “just a pilot or just a satellite, or some intelligence collection”.
“Usually, we have several sensors that capture these things … some of them are unexplained phenomena and, in fact, there is much more than the ones that have been released,” he said.
The Pentagon’s new report is expected to be released by June 1, Bartiromo said during the interview.
That was after then President Trump in December signed the $ 2.3 trillion COVID-19 government relief and financing bill, which started a 180-day countdown to the Pentagon and spy agencies to say what they know about UFOs.
Ratcliffe said he hoped to release the information before the government leaves the White House in January, but “we were unable to put it in an unclassified format that we could talk to quickly”.