The Pentagon will have a new group to study UFOs (Photo: Getty Images)
hey US Department of Defense announced late Tuesday that it would form a new group to investigate information about the presence of unidentified flying objects (UFO) in restricted airspace.
The formation of the new group comes after the US government released a report in June citing 144 observations that lack sufficient data to determine the nature of registered UFOs.
The new group will be called the Flying Object Identification and Synchronized Management Group and will be overseen by US military and intelligence representatives.
Under Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said in a separate statement that the presence of unidentified airborne incidents in restricted airspace poses a potential flight safety risk and raises concerns about US national security.
The new group, which will replace the US Navy’s Unknown Air Incident Task Force, will work to detect, identify, describe and mitigate any associated threats, the Pentagon said.
The US military has been reducing UFO sightings for decades, even though such records date back to the 1940s.
(Por Radhika Anilkumar)
