Former National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe said in a recent interview that an upcoming government report would set out a number of “difficult-to-explain” UFO sightings.
Ratcliffe, the top intelligence official under former President Donald Trump, has been questioned about incidents involving unknown flying objects on Fox News Friday.
“There are many more observations than have been announced,” he told host Maria Bartiromo. “Some of them have been declassified.”
“And when we talk about observations,” Ratcliffe continued, “we are talking here about objects seen by pilots of the navy or air force, or picked up by satellite images, acting honestly that are difficult to explain.”
‘It’s hard to repeat movements for which we do not have the technology. Or at a speed that exceeds the sound limit without a sonic surge. ”
His remarks come months after the Pentagon classified three known UFO videos, acknowledging that the footage was shot by U.S. Navy pilots.
In the interview, Ratcliffe said the observations, which were reported around the world, extend beyond “just a pilot or just a satellite or an intelligence collection.”
“Usually we have several sensors that pick up these things … some of which are an unexplained phenomenon, and there’s actually a lot more than has been made public,” he said.
The new Pentagon report is expected to be released by June 1, Bartiromo said during the interview.
This is after then-President Trump signed the $ 2.3 billion COVID-$ 19 billion in aid and government funding bill in December, which began a 180-day countdown for the Pentagon and spy agencies to say what they UFOs know.
Ratcliffe said he had hoped to release the information before the government left the White House in January, but “we could not get it in an unclassified format that we could talk about quickly enough.”