Many unidentified flying objects, or what the government calls “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” are balloons, satellites, birds, or things otherwise explainable.
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government → fly → what
Balloons and satellites account for nearly 85% of the objects in the Pentagon’s resolved UFO investigations.
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Balloons → account → investigations
Some UFOs are also undisclosed aircraft belonging to secret military or intelligence units, Russia, or China (the Washington Examiner reported in 2023 on China’s use of drones to spy on U.S. military training areas).
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Examiner → belong → areas
Nevertheless, as I’ve argued previously, a small subset of UFOs is very likely the construct of a highly advanced non-human intelligence.
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subset → argue → intelligence
This morphology characterizes the largest subset of UFOs in the Pentagon’s unresolved case files.
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morphology → characterize → files
These UFOs have frequently been featured in the declassified videos and reports released by the Department of War over the past few months.
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UFOs → feature → months
I also understand from numerous military sources that numerous high-resolution videos of this type of UFO exist but have not been released.
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videos → understand → UFO
We’ve already seen some very interesting reports, including from last week’s Pentagon disclosure.
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We → see → disclosure
In one 2025 case, a U.S. military drone operator described six sphere UFOs moving with high agility at speeds he estimated at 480 mph.
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he → describe → mph
Could these have been birds, and the drone operator simply have been confused?
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operator → confuse → ?
That said, the drone operator’s systems would likely have enabled him to accurately estimate the spheres’ speed.
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systems → say → speed
The sheer scale of reporting on these extreme-performance-sphere UFOs makes their potential non-human origin a necessary line of inquiry.
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origin → make → inquiry
Most of my fellow journalists will laugh at this assertion.
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Most → laugh → assertion
Many readers will do the same.
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readers → do → same
This reflects the UFO subject’s enduring stigma.
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This → reflect → stigma
Similarly, too many others like to sensationalize explainable UFO events as extraterrestrial in nature.
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others → like → nature
It’s a fun way to get lucrative YouTube and Netflix shows.
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It → ’ → shows
It’s certainly far easier than engaging in the kind of intensive research offered by my friends Robert Hastings and Doug Johnson.
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It → ’ → friends
Still, the evidence to suggest that some kind of unknown intelligence is operating on Earth is significant and growing.
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kind → suggest → Earth
We now have peer-reviewed reports indicating the presence of UFOs in orbit prior to the Space Age.
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We → have → Age
We have a litany of credible eyewitness reports, supported by a further catalog of radar and other advanced sensor data, which point to UFOs in the 1940s and 1950s possessing capabilities far in advance of anything that we fly even today.
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we → have → that
We also have new scientific consideration as to how faster-than-light travel might be possible (energy requirements notwithstanding).
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requirements → have → light
That brings us back to the sphere of UFOs.
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That → bring → UFOs
For a start, some high-fidelity videos clearly show that some spheres lack flight surfaces and visible exhaust, yet can nonetheless accelerate rapidly from stationary flight to more than 1,500 mph.
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spheres → show → mph
It’s true that sensor recordings can produce poor data returns (balloons are notorious for confusing radar systems).
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balloons → ’ → systems
And while it is possible to build sphere-shaped drones, some sphere UFOs exhibit performance characteristics well beyond our conventional understanding of avionics and physics.
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UFOs → build → avionics
The U.S. has several highly classified aircraft, for example, some of which have been recorded by members of the public on multiple occasions.
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some → have → occasions
Yet, these aircraft at least have flight surfaces and jet engines.
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aircraft → have → surfaces
Even if the U.S. had developed an exotic propulsion system that negated the need for jet exhaust systems, we would expect some technical crossover into new aircraft such as the B-21 bomber and F-47 fighter jet.
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we → develop → bomber
Because that behavior suggests they may be designed as a discreet intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance platform.
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they → suggest → platform
Small and highly maneuverable, they do not attract easy attention from the ground or from aircraft that are not using infrared or other emissions sensors.
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that → attract → sensors
From a passing glance at a distance, they look like balloons.
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they → pass → balloons
But they also sometimes exhibit avoidance or countermeasure behavior in response to monitoring.
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they → exhibit → monitoring
Well, this is where we need to get theoretical.
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we → need → ?
Let’s theorize that a non-human intelligence wanted to monitor humanity while mitigating the risk of its technology (or the originators of that technology) being compromised.
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intelligence → theorize → technology
While there are many examples of truly strange UFOs taking evasive action in response to human efforts to record them, imagery from the 20th and early 21st centuries has often been of insufficient quality or credibility to generate widespread public awareness that something truly extraordinary is occurring.
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something → be → awareness
In contrast, today’s smartphone cameras allow for extremely detailed photography.
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cameras → allow → photography
The proliferation of these phones across the population has also made the skies, at least in population-proximate areas, a sensor-saturated operating environment for anything visible from the ground.
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skies → make → ground
A disk- or Tic-Tac-shaped UFO would thus risk mass disruption to human society if caught on numerous cell phone cameras doing very strange stuff.
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UFO → shape → stuff
But spheres, small things that look like balloons, would not.
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that → look → balloons
…and 13 more, not listed.
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