Updated

Updated · Fox News · Jul 11

Department of War Releases 4th UAP Batch as Avi Loeb Leads 12-Scientist White House Council

Updated

Updated · Fox News · Jul 11

Department of War Releases 4th UAP Batch as Avi Loeb Leads 12-Scientist White House Council

Q: What 'unrecognized technology' is the leading hypothesis for advanced UAPs, if not foreign adversaries?

If advanced UAPs are not explained as foreign systems, the leading speculative hypothesis is non-human technology, often framed as extraterrestrial technological artifacts. That is the main idea advanced by some outside scientists, most notably Avi Loeb, who argues that at least a small number of cases could involve technology not made by humans. But that is not the U.S. government’s stated finding. In the newly released material, AARO uses the narrower phrase “unrecognized technology” only as a provisional hypothesis in some unresolved cases, including part of the 2023 Cheyenne Mountain-related orb reports. In that context, it means the observed behavior did not clearly match known aircraft, drones, balloons, flares, sensor effects, or confirmed foreign platforms based on the evidence available. Officials stress that “unrecognized technology” is not proof of alien origin. It can also mean insufficient data, unusual sensor signatures, or a system that has not yet been identified. AARO’s standing approach is to test ordinary explanations, classified U.S. programs, and foreign adversary technology before leaving a case unresolved. So the short answer is: the leading non-adversary hypothesis in public debate is extraterrestrial or otherwise non-human technology, but in the official record the term is being used much more cautiously to mean technology or phenomena not yet identified, not confirmed alien craft.

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jul 11

Avi Loeb said federal officials turned to outside scientists because they are "baffled" by decades of unidentified objects recorded by the U.S. military, after the Department of War’s fourth public UAP release.
More than a dozen researchers on Loeb’s new White House advisory council are reviewing four batches of declassified material, while he has separately asked the Pentagon and other agencies for 50 additional videos, images and documents.
National security limits remain the main obstacle: Loeb said agencies are withholding some records not because of the objects themselves, but because releasing them could expose sensitive U.S. sensor capabilities.
Loeb said the council’s task is to determine whether the objects are foreign systems such as unusual Chinese drones or non-human in origin, while warning many sightings may still prove to be space junk or broken satellites.
The review follows Trump’s February declassification order and the latest tranche’s release of military infrared footage, extending a transparency push tied to long-running incidents including Navy sightings in 2014 and 2015.