10/19/23, 7:53 PM Pentagon UFO Report Describes Radiation Burns, Other Bizarre Claims

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Pentagon UFO Report Describes

Radiation Burns, Other Bizarre
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What the hell did we just read?
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Four years after filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the US Defense
Intelligence Agency, British tabloid The Sun was handed a stunning piece of

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information: over 1,500 pages of bizarre, previously classified documentation about

reports of contact with UFOs.

The material is surprisingly full of outrageous claims, from alleged injuries to

"human observers by anomalous advanced aerospace systems," to an "apparent
abduction" and "unaccounted for pregnancy."

But that doesn't mean should we take all of this information at face value. The Sun is
a pretty dubious tabloid, so it's likely that it's framing the documents in as
sensational a way as possible.

The cache comes from a shadowy Pentagon program called the Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program (AATIP) which secretly ran from 2007 to 2012. The
program came to light in 2017 when the New York Times obtained military
footage, later confirmed to be authentic, seemingly showing unidentified aircraft
moving in highly unusual ways.

According to the Sun, the report includes 42 cases from medical files and 300 similar
cases in which people claim to have been injured following "anomalous" encounters.
Some of these injuries appeared to be the result of electromagnetic radiation or
inflicted by "energy related propulsion systems."

In case you're taking any of this too seriously, the report also contains reports of
"poltergeists, crop circles, spontaneous human combustion, alien abductions and
other paranormal events," according to the tabloid.

Other eyebrow-raising encounters apparently described in the documentation

include "ghosts, yetis, spirits, elves and other mythical/legendary entities," according
to the Sun.

There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical. For one, the outlet has yet to publicize the
documents it received. We also don't know what kind of vetting process the AATIP
used in its investigations, as Live Science points out. In other words, it's possible that
the documents represent nothing more than a bunch of cranks who contacted the
government.

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But considering that the US government is taking investigations into what it refers to
as "unidentified aerial phenomena" more seriously than ever before, it's at the very
least a notable release, and we'll be intrigued to learn more.

Whether anybody else outside of the Sun's editorial department will ever be able to
comb through these documents is still unclear. So for now, we'll have to take the
news with a hefty grain of salt.

READ MORE: UFOs left 'radiation burns' and 'unaccounted for pregnancies,' new
Pentagon report claims [Live Science]

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