No explanation for those UFO sightings: Obama

As US awaits declassified report by the Pentagon, Barack Obama says there’s no explanation for some recent UFO sightings.

Former US President Barack Obama has been asked about videos released by the US Navy showing unidentified flying objects that sparked a resurgence in UFO research and speculation. Pictures: AFP/US Navy

Barack Obama has said there is no explanation for some recent UFO sightings as America waits for the release of a declassified report on the matter by the Pentagon.

The former president, 59, said officials were still trying to “figure out” the movements of unidentified aircraft captured on film by the US military. Referred to as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, several videos have been made public by the military. It has been given until June 25 by the Senate intelligence committee to publish a report on the phenomenon.

“When it comes to aliens, there are some things I just can’t tell you on air,” Obama joked when asked on The Late Late Showwith James Corden, on CBS, if he had a theory about UFOs. “But what is true — and I’m actually being serious here — is that there’s footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are. We can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory. They did not have an easily explainable pattern.

“So I think that people still take seriously trying to investigate and figure out what that is. But I have nothing to report to you today.”

There were 7263 UFO sightings reported in the US last year, up from 5796 the year before, according to the National UFO Reporting Centre.

Instructions for the declassified report were included in the $US2.3 trillion coronavirus relief and government funding bill signed into law in December by President Trump.

A recently leaked US navy video shows a UFO off the coast of San Diego moving across the sky before suddenly disappearing into the water.

The Times