Pentagon Official, Harvard Professor Co-Author Academic Paper Suggesting "Parent Craft" Responsible for UFO Sightings

The head of a classified Pentagon investigation into mysterious aircraft has co-authored a study proposing an extraterrestrial explanation. UFOs seen recently may be alien probes dispatched from a mothership to investigate our planet.

The Pentagon's chief of all-domain anomaly resolution, Sean Kirkpatrick, and Harvard professor Avi Loeb wrote in a March 7 draft paper that the objects, which violate all known laws of physics, maybe "probes" from an alien "parent craft."

The authors suggest that the unidentified objects being studied by the Department of Defense (DoD) might be "probes" from a mothership, which is discussed in detail throughout the paper's five pages, as per a report from Politico.

There is also a section in the study named "The Extraterrestrial Possibility" and another called "Propulsion Methods."

Alien Ships Studying Earth

Despite their apparent incompatibility with the laws of physics, the study suggests that these objects may be "probes" sent by an alien "parent craft."It suggests that interstellar objects "could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes" throughout its near transit to Earth.

The report goes on to say that the probes are analogous to "dandelion seeds" that might get detached from the parent vessel due to the sun's gravitational pull.

The research investigates the scientific feasibility of the smaller craft's flight through Earth's atmosphere to the surface, where it may be noticed by humans. It's also said that the "probes" might utilize the sun's rays to "charge their batteries" and Earth's water as fuel. The authors admit they don't know whether there are any working alien spaceships near Earth.

According to the publication, Avi Loeb's privately sponsored scholarly endeavor to search for UFOs, known as the Galileo Project, plans to explore this possibility.

Prof. Loeb became famous for his studies of 'Oumuamua, a space rock that seemed to have come from outside our solar system, according to LiveScience. The cigar-shaped object was first recognized as a comet by astronomers in 2017. Its elongated form, lack of a coma (the cloud of gases that surround a comet), and speeding away from the sun cast doubt on the comet theory. Loeb proposed the possibility that 'Oumuamua was indeed an extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Top agency officials don't rule out alien life, but government officials, particularly those engaged in the developmental effort to gather information on recent encounters, seldom talk about it.

US Senators Call For Budget Increase For UFO Studies

After the Biden administration's budget proposal was made public, US senators last month urged a budget increase for the Pentagon's unit that studies unexplained aerial occurrences, The Military Times reported.

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who chairs the Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, questioned top Pentagon officials, including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, specifically about the underfunding of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office in the budget request for the second year in a row.

After occurrences involving a Chinese high-altitude balloon and three unexplained objects highlighted the need to better knowledge of unmanned aerial vehicles over US airspace, Gillibrand queried why the office had been underfunded.

The Pentagon has requested $11 million for research in the office's budget for the fiscal year 2024, and Austin has promised to fund the entirety of operations in the future.