A retired Navy chief officer claims to have seen a UFO in Afghanistan but is too scared to come forward with the details.
Fox News reported that an ex-Navy senior chief petty officer, whose name is being kept anonymous, spotted a metallic orb in the Gulf country similar to the one shown in last month's US Senate hearing.
However, he's keeping his lips sealed as he fears he could be reprimanded.
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"I’m going to be honest with you. I’d love to tell everything in detail, but I’m not willing to go to jail to do it," he told the outlet.
"I'm constrained because of security agreements, so they need a way for submissions to be made."
On April 29, the US Congress's Senate Armed Services Committee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities held a new hearing on UFOs.
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This was the second congressional hearing on the issue since the last one, which took place May 2022.
The hearing was broken up into two parts - a closed session and a public one immediately following.
The head of the Pentagon office looking at UFO incidents reported by military personnel told the Senate they were reviewing almost 700 cases.
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Still, there is a lack of evidence to confirm any of these incidents were extraterrestrial forces, as per ABC News.
The office presented two new clips of unidentified objects flying in the air; however, Dr Sean Kirkpatrick, the head of the agency, said this was essentially all the data they had.
The first video, posted on the Pentagon's website, occurred in the Middle East on 12 July 2022.
The other video showed two views of an incident the Pentagon said occurred over South Asia the following year on January 15.
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Kirkpatrick added that 'it's going to be virtually impossible to fully identify that, just based off that video' and this was an 'unresolved case'.
"Without sufficient data, we are unable to reach defendable conclusions that meet the high scientific standards we set for resolution, and I will not close a case that we cannot defend the conclusions of," said Kirkpatrick, as per the outlet.
He added that his research had never confirmed the existence of 'extraterrestrial activity, off-world technology, or objects that defy the known laws of physics'.
But, despite this, Fitzpatrick enforced that he and his team are 'committed to working with our interagency partners at NASA to appropriately inform the US Government's leadership of its findings'.
Charisa Bossinakis