RUSSIAN and Chinese military drones could explain the mysterious alleged UFO sightings, an expert warns.
Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the British Government, said the issue of unidentified aerial phenomena has “gone dark” since Pentagon’s report was published in June.
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It concluded that the 143 alleged sightings by US military pilots since 2004 remain unexplained.
Pope told The Sun: “The UFO community boils the debate down as you must either believe it’s aliens or drones.
“I think the real world is more nuanced than that. It’s not a binary situation and it’s perfectly possible to imagine a scenario where the sightings could be both Chinese and Russian drones and aliens. It’s not as if these are mutually exclusive.”
The former Ministry of Defence official said the UFO debate gets “simplified” because of “human nature”.
Pope warned that the US may be behind its rivals in trying to explain the mysterious sightings.
Last year, researchers in China used artificial intelligence to analyze mysterious objects in the country’s airspace, the South China Morning Post reported.
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In a 2019 report, Li Chen, of the Air Force Early Warning Academy warned: “The frequent occurrence of unidentified air conditions in recent years… brings severe challenges to air defense security of our country.”
He believed AI could “think outside the box” as researchers tried to establish a source behind alleged sightings – whether that be hostile government or nature.
Researchers think artificial intelligence can establish an object’s purpose. Orbs are more likely to be man-made if they are deployed during major military drills or political exercises according to the SCMP.
China has apparently only recorded one UFO sighting which happened over an airbase in Cangzhou, Hebei on October 19, 1998.
Two jets were instructed to intercept a low-flying object that mysteriously appeared above the airbase, according to the Hebei Daily newspaper.
The strange-looking orb was compared to a “short-legged mushroom” as two shining beams of light projected down from its belly.
STRANGE SIGHTINGS
And, it climbed to an altitude of 20,000 meters before disappearing from radar systems when the planes tried to intercept it.
While, in March 2012, locals in Siberia were left puzzled after a metal object, dubbed a “UFO fragment” was discovered.
Residents speculated that it fell from the Earth but officials at Russia’s space agency confirmed the object “wasn’t related to space technology”, the Telegraph reported.
And, in 1989, kids in Voronezh, formerly part of the Soviet Union, claimed they saw a pink glow and a red ball hover in the sky.
They claimed to have seen a three-eyed alien that was wearing bronze boots and had a disk on its chest exit the spacecraft, according to the state-run TASS news agency.
The kids sensationally claimed that the alien used a laser gun to make a 16-year-old boy disappear.
‘ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL’
Pope said: “The closed and secret nature of China and Russia means that they could’ve been investigating UFOs for much longer, but the US has seemingly only woken up to this natural security issue.
“The US has been asleep at the wheel. I think it’s just like the old saying ‘the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist’. I think bureaucrats have been looking the other way.”
The Pentagon’s landmark report that investigated unidentified aerial phenomena examined 144 alleged sightings, but could only establish one with “high confidence”.
The object was identified as a “large, deflating balloon” and was put down to “airborne clutter”.
Former NASA astronaut Bill Nelson believes humans are not alone in the universe.
While GOP congressman Tim Burchett speculated that Russian strongman Putin would send a UAP to show superiority amid national security fears.
Experts believe that this year could be a crucial year in attempting to uncover the UFO mystery.
Pope believes 2022 will be critical for the ufology movement as he said: “You can either just sit back and let things happen, in which case, you’ll lose initiative, or you can really take what happened last year.
“Having moved from fringe to mainstream, we need to keep asking hard questions holding government to account, and pushing for more initiatives and disclosures.”
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