DOD/AARO
The Pentagon has revealed a new incident involving a “near-miss” between a commercial plane and a UFO off the coast of New York. The revelation came, along with many others, during a Congressional hearing held on Wednesday.
The encounter off the coast of New York was just one of hundreds of new incidents mentioned in the Pentagon’s latest annual UFO report. It is currently being investigated by the Department of Defense’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).
While the AARO wouldn’t divulge when the UFO encounter occurred, nor which airline was involved, the report does state that the plane’s flight crew reported a “near miss with a ‘cylindrical object’ while over the Atlantic Ocean” to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The report also stated that the incident caused a “possible flight safety issue.”
In addition to that report, a video showing a “white orb” UFO coming out of the ocean off Kuwait was discussed at the Congressional hearing. One of the whistleblowers to speak during the hearing, journalist Michael Shellenberger, said the video was 13 minutes long and showed the orb being filmed by a helicopter 20 miles off the coast.
“Then, halfway through the video, the person said, the orb is joined by another orb that briefly comes into the frame from the left before rapidly moving again out of the frame,” Shellengerger said.
Another speaker at the hearing, Dr. Tim Gallaudet, a retired Rear Admiral of the U.S. Navy, claimed that since last year’s UFO (or UAP, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, as the government now refers to them) hearing, “elements of the government are engaged in a disinformation campaign.”
“UAP related information is being withheld from senior officials and members of Congress,” Gallaudet explained, “and just this week I learned from former DOD official Chris Mellon that satellite imagery of UAP from a few years ago still has not been shared with Congress.
“Equally concerning, last year’s UAP hearing also revealed that elements of the government are engaged in a disinformation campaign to include personal attacks designed to discredit UAP whistleblowers.
“Having never signed a non-disclosure agreement regarding UAPs, and now as a private citizen, I’ve have become an advocate for greater UAP transparency from the government. The continued over-classification surrounding UAPs has not only hindered our ability to effectively address these phenomena, but has also eroded trust in our institutions.”