{"id":30426,"date":"2023-03-09T15:41:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2023\/03\/09\/pentagon-ufo-chief-says-alien-mothership-in-our-solar-system-possible\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:45:08","slug":"pentagon-ufo-chief-says-alien-mothership-in-our-solar-system-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/space\/2023\/03\/09\/pentagon-ufo-chief-says-alien-mothership-in-our-solar-system-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon UFO chief says alien mothership in our solar system possible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a possibility that extraterrestrial motherships and smaller probes may be visiting planets in our solar system, the head of the Pentagon\u2019s unidentified aerial phenomena research office noted in a report draft shared Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c[A]n artificial interstellar object could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth, an operational construct not too dissimilar from NASA missions,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2022\/12\/16\/pentagon-has-received-several-hundreds-of-new-ufo-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Kirkpatrick<\/a>, director of the Pentagon\u2019s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/lweb.cfa.harvard.edu\/~loeb\/LK1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">research report<\/a> co-authored by Abraham Loeb, chairman of Harvard University\u2019s astronomy department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kirkpatrick, who was appointed as director of the AARO when it was founded in July 2022, previously served as the chief scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency\u2019s Missile and Space Intelligence Center. The AARO was established to investigate unidentified \u201cobjects of interest\u201d around military installations, according to a Pentagon press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Loeb, on the other hand, gained notoriety when he proposed our solar system had been traversed by its first extrasolar visitor in October 2017. At that time, the PanSTARRS telescope in Hawaii detected an object moving at a speed that caused some scientists to suggest that it originated outside our system. The object\u2019s orbit also hinted at other forces besides the sun\u2019s gravitational pull influencing its movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientists dubbed the object \u201cOumuamua,\u201d the Hawaiian term for \u201cscout,\u201d which Kirkpatrick and Loeb offer in their research paper as an example of a possible mothership with probe capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith proper design, these tiny probes would reach the Earth or other solar system planets for exploration, as the parent craft passes by within a fraction of the Earth-Sun separation \u2014 just like \u2018Oumuamua\u2019 did,\u201d the authors explained. \u201cAstronomers would not be able to notice the spray of mini-probes because they do not reflect enough sunlight for existing survey telescopes to notice them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The research paper \u2014 titled \u201cPhysical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena\u201d \u2014 comes following a month of intense scrutiny of unidentified flying objects, a stirring trend ignited when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/video\/2023\/02\/10\/object-shot-down-us-fighter-over-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese spy balloon<\/a> captivated the nation by drifting across U.S. airspace. Three additional unidentified objects were subsequently found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Feb. 16, Sens. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/veterans\/2016\/04\/03\/marco-rubio-has-a-new-plan-to-purge-the-va-of-corrupt-and-incompetent-employees\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marco Rubio<\/a>, R-Fla., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/11\/30\/reforms-to-military-justice-system-endangered-by-slow-pace-of-defense-authorization-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kirsten Gillibrand<\/a>, D-N.Y., and 12 other senators sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/chrome-extension\/\/bdfcnmeidppjeaggnmidamkiddifkdib\/viewer.html?file=https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/49770daa-f05a-4aa2-84c4-846d2a2a36ff\/E9082DFA53DC5EFE67C74A693EEC1436.sen.-gillibrand-rubio-aaro-funding-request-letter-final-2.17.23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">letter<\/a> to Deputy Secretary of Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/video\/2021\/09\/08\/deputy-secretary-of-defense-kathleen-hicks-defense-news-conference-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kathleen Hicks<\/a> and Deputy Director of National Intelligence Stacey Dixon calling for full funding for the AARO. 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