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NARRATOR: Washington DC, June 25, 2021.
The Pentagon's UAP Task Force, along with the Office
of the Director of National Intelligence,
submits to Congress its long-awaited report entitled
"Preliminary Assessment--
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena."
The simple nine-page report represents
the most direct and substantive US government account
of UAPs ever made public.
The headline is that, out of 144 reported encounters,
only one UAP was identified as a large, deflating balloon.
The other reported UAPs remain unexplained.
GEORGE KNAPP: I thought that report was tremendous,
a tremendously important step forward.
To me, it says two things.
UFOs are real, and two, they're not ours.
I thought it was an astonishing report, and it spoke volumes.
We got 144 cases.
We can't figure out 143 of them.
ANDRE CARSON: It's monumental.
I mean, it is a watershed moment.
We're giving cover and relief for folks
who are in the intelligence community now
and work for our government, and folks who have served,
and pilots who can now talk about this thing.
NICK POPE: It's only a preliminary assessment.
Some people in the UFO community were a bit disappointed,
because it wasn't disclosure.
But what it did say was, I think, very encouraging,
important.
It essentially said that whatever UFOs are,
some of these sightings demonstrate
advanced technology.
And this, in one sense, is a form of disclosure.
It's certainly taking this further than it's ever been
taken before within government.
It's quite an admission.
NARRATOR: Of the 144 reports that the UAP Task Force
reviewed, the bulk of the sightings
had occurred between 2019 and 2021
after the Navy reporting protocol was put into effect.
But, perhaps, what is most compelling
is the revelation that, out of the 144 reported UAP sightings,
only one sighting has been explained.
MICHIO KAKU: Only one out of them
has been shown to be spurious.
That indicates to me that we're sitting on a gold mine,
a gold mine of incidences that cannot be explained
using the normal metrics.
We're talking about incidences that are beyond the stretch
of our imagination, that indicate new laws of physics
opening up, and we physicists are
just dying to get access to it.
NARRATOR: The report established five
potential explanatory categories--
airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomena,
US government or American industry
developmental programs, foreign adversary systems,
and a category for UAP reports that
require additional analysis, simply called "Other."
"Other" simply means beyond the known technologies
of today, which could be extraterrestrial, or who knows?
But I think the military is now admitting "other"
could mean extraterrestrial.
NARRATOR: Although the word "extraterrestrial" never
appears in the report, many observers believe it contains
one very profound statement.
There's a bombshell quote in the report that a lot of people
have missed.
And it says, essentially, that we may have to fundamentally
change our understanding of the laws of physics
to figure out what's going on here.
STEVEN GREENSTREET: "We may require
additional scientific knowledge to successfully collect
on, analyze, and characterize some of them,
pending scientific advances that allowed
us to better understand them."
This is not a sci-fi novel.
This is a government report.
That was the thing that most stuck
out to me as jaw dropping.
Our current science, our current tech
can't understand some of these.
The government said that, wow.
"Additional scientific knowledge"
could mean knowledge beyond the known laws of physics.
In other words, the technology thousands of years
more advanced than ours.