The increase in cases is due to more engagement reporting rather than a surge in UAP activity, according to AARO.
AARO has 1,652 UAP cases to comb through and has only a small amount of them, which were attributed to birds, balloons or drones.
Still, AARO continues to claim there is no extra-terrestrial technology in the U.S. government.
“There are definitely anomalies, but we have not been able to draw the link to extra-terrestrial,” said Jon Kosloski, director of AARO.
The report follows a House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing, which included claims the U.S. government is hiding information about alien tech.
Luis Elizondo, the former head of the now-defunct Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program that investigated UAPs, told the subcommittee that the U.S. was "seeking to hide the fact that we are not alone in the cosmos.”
“Advanced technologies not made by our government — or any other government — are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe,” he said. “Furthermore, the U.S. is in possession of UAP technologies, as are some of our adversaries.”
Another witness, a journalist, claimed that Pentagon sources have told him about a secretive program that has high-quality images of UAPs.
And last year, retired Maj. David Grusch, who was formerly part of the Pentagon’s UAP task force, alleged the U.S. had run a secret program to reverse-engineer nonhuman material from crash sites of UAP vessels.
But Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters on Thursday that she was "not aware of any remains."
"To date, the department has not discovered any verifiable evidence of extra-terrestrial beings, activity or technology," she said.
AARO said there have been 18 UAP sightings near U.S. nuclear weapons sites, but so far there is no indication of foreign adversary involvement.
"We have not been able to correlate any UAP activity to adversarial collection activities or advanced technologies,” said Kosloski.
But he did explain there are a small number of UAPs with mysterious technology. “We don’t fully understand the phenomenon enough to say whether or not it’s breakthrough technology."
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