U.S. military pilots and satellites have recorded “far more” sightings of unknown flying objects, or UFOs, than have been announced, said Donald Trump’s former intelligence director John Ratcliffe.
Asked on Fox News about an upcoming government report on “unidentified aerial phenomena”, Ratcliffe said the report would document previously unknown observations from “around the world”.
“Honestly, there are a lot more observations than have been made public,” he said.
‘Some of them have been declassified. And when we talk about observations, we’re talking about objects that have been seen by pilots or air force pilots, or that have been picked up by satellite imagery, that act honestly that are difficult to explain, movements that are difficult to repeat, for which we do not have the technology do not have.
“Or at a speed that exceeds the sound limit, without a sonic surge.”
The UFO report is due to be published in early June, following a clause in a Covid enlightenment and spending package signed by Trump before he left office.
Ratcliffe served as director of national intelligence for about eight months at the end of Trump’s term. Earlier, Trump withdrew to nominate Ratcliffe for the role, but Ratcliffe withdrew from the concerns he exaggerated and provoked about his experience as a prosecutor in Texas.
“I actually wanted to get this information out and declassify it before I left office,” Ratcliffe said, “but we could not get it in an unclassified format that we could talk about quickly enough.”
The forthcoming report is to be issued by the Department of Defense and Intelligence Agencies. When an unidentified air phenomenon is identified, Ratcliffe said, analysts try to explain it as a possible weather disturbance or some other routine.
Wow. Maria Bartiromo gets former DNI John Ratcliffe to talk about UFOs before a deadline for the government to reveal what he knows about them …
“Usually we have several sensors that pick up these things … there is actually a lot more than has been made public” pic.twitter.com/qu4VlzrZw1
– Daniel Chaitin (@ danielchaitin7) 19 March 2021
“We are always looking for an acceptable application,” he said. “Sometimes we wonder if our opponents have technologies that are slightly but further down than we thought or realized.
‘But there are cases where we do not have good explanations.
“In short, things we observe are difficult to explain – and there are actually quite a few of them, and I think the information has been gathered and will be exhausted in a way that the American people can see.”
Asked by Bartiromo where the unidentified phenomena were seen, Ratcliffe replied: “There have actually been worldwide observations all over the world.
‘Several sensors that pick up these things. It’s an inexplicable phenomenon, and there’s actually a lot more to it than meets the eye. ‘