Pentagon Releases New UFO Report; See Latest Reported Sightings In MI

In its 63-page report, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office offered numerous other explanations for the strange sightings in the sky. «Investigative efforts determined that most sightings were the result of misidentification of ordinary objects and phenomena,” according to the report of “unidentified anomalous phenomena,» or UAP.

More than 40 percent of Americans think UFOs are alien spacecraft from other planets or galaxies. The report from AARO, as the commission investigating unidentified aerial phenomena is known, acknowledged that many people “sincerely hold versions of these beliefs” as truth.

The report noted a consistent theme in popular culture is that the U.S. government, or a secretive organization within it, “recovered several off-world spacecraft and extraterrestrial biological remains, that it operates a program or programs to reverse engineer the recovered technology, and that it has conspired since the 1940s to keep this effort hidden from the United States Congress and the American public.”

So, what is the explanation for sightings Michigan residents have reported to the crowdsourced National UFO Reporting Center about strange sightings over Michigan skies? Here’s a glimpse into what they’ve seen:

Feb. 4, Caledonia, at 6:47 p.m. – A resident reported seeing a rainbow orb, brighter than other aircraft in the sky, hovering in one general area for almost an hour before quickly changing directions with figure 8 patterns.

Jan. 14, Holly, at 7:15 p.m. – A resident reported seeing a gray metal disc roughly anywhere from 200 years to a mile up in the sky. The resident said the object had a large stone-pink vertical «crescent moon» outside a West-facing window, and it later moved right, then then object became horizontal and went dark.

Dec. 15, Capac, at 11:45 p.m. – A resident reported seeing a horseshoe shaped orange light with a blue center hovering roughly 500 feet in the air before it shot off at an astronomical speed and vanished in an instant without any sound or blinking lights.

Although many UFO reports remain unsolved, “most of these cases could be identified and resolved as ordinary objects or phenomena” if additional, reliable data were available, the AARO report said.