Potato and red sphere – but no UFO evidence

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Published 06.48

 

Aliens, do they exist? Archive photo from ET Highway in Nevada, USA. Photo: Laura Rauch/AP/TT

A floating “potato”, a red sphere and a rotating disc. These are three of the unidentified objects described in previously classified documents that the US government has now released.

But anyone who hoped for evidence of extraterrestrial life in the documents is in for a treat.

Since President Donald Trump promised much greater transparency in matters surrounded by secrecy and conspiracy theories, the Pentagon has released around 300 documents about unidentified objects that could possibly be from outer space.

On Friday, 72 new documents were released, and according to the AP news agency, several of them are titillating and arouse curiosity.

But most can also be explained as light phenomena and nowhere in the new release is there evidence of extraterrestrial life or that authorities have covered up evidence of such.

Officially unsolved

The aforementioned potato-like object was seen on a February morning in 2022 in Colorado Springs. Five American soldiers observed something mysteriously floating over a mountain, an object with clear edges and in the shape and color of a potato, with something that looked like fish scales.

The object remained for two minutes before it simply disappeared, according to the soldiers – who unfortunately did not have phones with them. And thus could neither film nor take still photos of the phenomenon.

According to the documents, the FBI investigators suspect that it is about heat radiation from sunlight. The case is officially unsolved.

Brilliant and beautiful

Several of the other observations follow similar patterns with suspected light phenomena that can neither be proven nor completely dismissed, writes AP.

The oldest cases that have been made public so far date back to the 1940s, with the most recent reported in July last year in a town in the northeastern United States. The exact location is classified, but what is said to have happened is that a person saw an intense light hovering near some trees on his property – a “brilliant and beautiful” red light that the person had never seen before.

However, whether it was another light phenomenon created by nature or if it was something extraterrestrial is not certain. However, the White House wants to entice us to believe the latter, and has published a short video clip of the incident on various social media.