The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s 2022 Annual Report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena dropped Thursday, two and a half months after its originally required publication date, examining 366 newly-identified UAP reports collected since March 2021, judging that “more than half” of the objects reported mostly by Air Force and Navy personnel as “exhibiting unremarkable characteristics, 26 characterized as Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) or UAS-like entities; 163 characterized as balloon or balloon-like entities; and 6 attributed to clutter. Initial characterization does not mean positively resolved or unidentified. This initial characterization better enables AARO and ODNI to efficiently and effectively leverage resources against the remaining 171 uncharacterized and unattributed UAP reports. Some of these uncharacterized UAP appear to have demonstrated unusual flight characteristics or performance capabilities, and require further analysis.”
But you know just because the intelligence apparatus of the most powerful military in human history can’t come up with a conventional explanation for the sighting by highly trained personnel doesn’t mean they’re anything extraordinary. They could be some new type of Russian-made weather balloon that flies at hypersonic speeds and goes underwater without slowing down.