Official statement issued that strongly implies some UAPs are extraterrestrial

Surprisingly, there are now official statements from the head of the UAP investigatory organization that strongly imply extraterrestrial as the most likely origin of at least one class of the objects, the metallic or translucent spheres with no visible means of propulsion. This was just covered in an excellent new article on the unfolding UFO/UAP story, at https://thehill.com/opinion/national-sec...-backyard/ .

How this relates to the burning issue of the alleged crashed UFO retrieval and reverse engineering black project(s) (that have apparently worked for many years with absolutely no Congressional oversight) is another matter. Kirkpatrick has had little to say about that. Needless to say, he doesn't even have the necessary clearances.

In any case, this at least appears to perhaps be the latest step in a long process of preparation of the public for full disclosure of some sort. Just a guess.
 

"This week, the director of the U.S. government’s UFO analysis office stated that there is “evidence” concerning unidentified flying object activity “in our backyard.” According to physicist Seán Kirkpatrick, who heads the congressionally-mandated All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), this alarming UFO activity can be attributed to one of two extraordinary sources: either a foreign power or “aliens.”

To be sure, the ramifications of either would be significant. But Kirkpatrick’s comments, which come as he is about to retire after a 27-year defense and intelligence-focused career, are more intriguing because he also says that “none” of the hundreds of military UFO reports analyzed by his office recently “have been positively attributed to foreign activities.”"
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At the same time, Kirkpatrick and senior defense officials have ruled out the possibility that secret U.S. programs or experimental aircraft explain the phenomena.

Note: If they are not from foreign powers and not experimental U.S. aircraft and not of any other Earthly causation, then what is left - somewhere off this Earth.

"While suspicious UFO cases will “continue to be investigated” for foreign links, the facts at hand appear to support Kirkpatrick’s more startling explanation for the UFO activity in America’s backyard: “aliens.”
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Kirkpatrick stated in a recent presentation that U.S. government sensors and servicemembers are observing “metallic orbs” that are “making very interesting apparent maneuvers” “all over the world.”

Speaking to the Daily Mail, an intelligence source stated that there are “dozens” of unreleased videos recorded by surveillance drones, some of which show “orbs” conducting “remarkable [maneuvers], like suddenly bolt[ing] off the screen.”

Moreover, multiple sensors have apparently observed “metallic orbs” and “translucent” spherical objects traveling at speeds ranging from “stationary to Mach 2,” or twice the speed of sound, with “no [detectable] thermal exhaust.” According to Kirkpatrick, the objects’ enigmatic flight characteristics amount to a unique UFO profile that his panel is “out hunting for.”
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There is a long history of this type of UFO/UAP.

“Metallic orbs” matching Kirkpatrick’s description have perplexed U.S. military aircrews for 80 years. During World War II, American aviators reported encounters with “large numbers of silver spheres.” The New York Times, Associated Press, Reuters, Stars and Stripes and the now-defunct International News Service all published stories in late 1944 describing military aircrews’ encounters with “mysterious silver balls which float in the air.” 

According to the reporting, the “silver colored spheres” “hang in the air either singly or in clusters” and, with noteworthy parallels to Kirkpatrick’s contemporary UFO profile, occasionally appeared “semi-translucent.”

Newsweek published a Christmas Day, 1944, article titled “The Silver Sphere Puzzle.” Echoing the enigmatic nature of the objects, the headline of a second Associated Press dispatch read: “Balls of Silver Seen Over Reich Intrigue Science.”"