US Navy setting up guidelines for reporting UFO sightings

The US Navy is setting new guidelines for reporting "unidentified aircraft" entering US aerospace so no encounter with a UFO can be dismissed as irrelevant, a Navy spokesman told Politico.

The new Navy policy will ensure that all UFO sightings by sailors come under tight scrutiny instead of being underreported and feeding speculation of alien spaceships roaming the skies, Politico reported Tuesday. The sheer number of UFOs swarming around Navy strike groups and other military infrastructure (according to sailors) is what prompted the need for new reporting guidelines.

The Navy spokesman has not provided any details about the encounters but said that there have been "a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years."

He noted that the Navy never turns a blind eye to these sightings and "investigates each and every report" out of "safety and security concerns." Now, the reports will be formalized.

"The Navy is updating and formalizing the process by which reports of any such suspected incursions can be made to the cognizant authorities," he said. The guidelines, which are still in the works, will lay out a step-by-step procedure of reporting the UFO or UAP, or "unexplained aerial phenomena."

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