Internal oversight bodies in the Pentagon have determined that the United States lacks the necessary capabilities to defend the country against what it described as any "potential foreign invasion," according to the British newspaper "Daily Mail." A recently declassified document found that the U.S. Department of Defense lacks a comprehensive or coordinated effort to track and analyze unidentified flying objects, which have been rebranded as "unidentified anomalous phenomena" in recent years. The Office of the Inspector General reached a curious conclusion that this "blind spot in U.S. defensive capabilities" poses a threat to military forces and national security.
To address the specific issues in this report, the Office of the Inspector General provided 11 recommendations to mitigate the threat. The Inspector General concluded that "the Department of Defense has not issued a comprehensive response plan for unidentified flying objects, outlining roles, responsibilities, requirements, and coordination procedures for detecting, reporting, collecting, analyzing, and identifying incidents." Inspector General Robert B. Storch announced the declassification of the report on Thursday, noting that it was released due to "significant public interest in how the Department of Defense is handling unidentified flying objects."
Storch stated in a release: "We are issuing this non-classified summary to be as transparent as possible with the American people regarding our oversight work on this important issue." The term "unidentified flying objects" has been replaced with "unidentified anomalous phenomena" to remove the stigma associated with a topic widely speculated to involve extraterrestrial visits to our planet. NASA defines these phenomena as "observations of events in the sky that cannot be scientifically identified as aircraft or known natural phenomena."
