The Pentagon and the Director of National Intelligence released their annual report on UFO sightings, and while they still haven’t found any extraterrestrial origins for the more than 700 new reports that came in last year, there are about two dozen that have them genuinely curious.

UAP is the term the Pentagon and the intelligence community use to describe UFOs, which stands for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena. The agency that reviews all new incidents reported by military personnel and now additional federal agencies is the All Domains Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO).

From May 2023 to June 2024, AARO received 757 new incident reports, 485 of which occurred during that time period, and another 272 reports from 2021 and 2022 that were not previously submitted to the agency. That’s a considerable increase from previous reports, for example last year’s report cited 281 new reports during its review period, which Pentagon officials said Thursday was due to greater awareness of reporting UAP incidents. not that they have increased in frequency.

In total, the total number of cases that have been reviewed by AARO since its inception now stands at 1,652.

According to this year’s report, AARO “found no evidence of extraterrestrial beings, activity or technology.” A small number of reports this year have had terrestrial explanations, and a significant number will be left for further review, but one thing they haven’t found is that some of the reports are attributed to a “breakthrough” technology.

However, at a press briefing on Thursday, the head of the AARO admitted that there are 21 reports over the past year and a half that he cannot really explain.

“There are interesting cases that, with my background in physics and engineering and time in IC, I don’t understand and I don’t know that anyone else does,” said Dr. Jon Kosloski, AARO’s new director. Kosloski said the 21 incidents occurred near national security sites and were captured on video, had multiple eyewitnesses or were captured by other sensors.

So what do these unexplained UAPs look like? “Spheres, cylinders, triangles, in one of the cases, it happened over a long period of time, and it’s possible there’s more going on,” Kosloski said, adding that the incidents could include drone activity that is combined with a UAP.