US’s UFO-Hunting Aerial Surveillance System Detailed In Report

The GREMLIN sensor suite contains several sensing modalities to detect, track, characterize and identify UAP in areas of interest. (Credit: US AARO)

Formerly known as Unidentified Flying Objects, Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) is a category of observations that are exactly what the UAP label suggests. This topic concerns the US military very much, as a big part of national security involves knowing everything that appears in the skies. This is the reason for the development of a new sensor suite by the Pentagon called GREMLIN. Recently, a new report has provided more details about what this system actually does.

Managed by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) within the DoD, GREMLIN blends many different sensors, ranging from radar to ADS-B and RF monitors, together to establish a baseline and capture any anomalies within the 90-day monitoring period to characterize them.

UAPs were a popular topic even before the 1950s when people began to see them everywhere. Usually taking the form of lights or fast-moving objects in the sky, most UAP reports can be readily classified as weather balloons, satellites like Starlink, airplanes, the Northern Lights, the ISS, or planets like Mars and Venus. There are also curious phenomena such as the Hessdalen lights, which appear to be a geological, piezoelectric phenomenon, though our understanding of such natural lighting phenomena remains limited.

But it is never aliens, that’s one thing we know for sure. Not that UFO’s don’t exist. Really.

16 thoughts on “US’s UFO-Hunting Aerial Surveillance System Detailed In Report

  1. After an hour on the Google, lots of articles and scientific papers – very few pictures. Lot’s of people, even in groups claim to see it fairly often — yet few pictures. Typical UFO stuff. :-(

      1. But none of these cameras take pictures of objects flying at 13km/h.
        I am not aware of pictures of satellites taken with a cellphone if no light falls on them. You have fat thousands of them overhead and what, and no one takes pictures of them? It must be a scam

  2. All the attempts to re-brand the UFO with different boring acronyms are just absolutely terrible. You’re not going to escape the connotation, they need to stop being annoying and name it the thing that everyone knows is what it is so you don’t have to specify and reference the old acronym anyway every single time you mention it

    1. Agreed – Boring and confusing. May I suggest the WWII term “Foo Fighters”? Then we could have a Dept. of Foo Fighters and mess with people’s heads about conferences and it could be self supporting because they could sell the reports (but call them “Albums”).

  3. With the number of smartphone cameras in pockets : global population ratio continuing to trend towards 1:1, I want to know why we haven’t seen a corresponding increase in UFO, sorry UAP, sightings.

    Also, Big Foot seems to be as camera shy as ever, somehow he knows where all the hidden game cameras are too…..

    1. “somehow he knows where all the hidden game cameras are too”

      LOL, never thought of that.

      This guy busts all of the US DOD “UFO” hype – explainable and NOT ET:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_B1WdWhFrQ

      Don’t know if he covered it in that particular video, but the small, spherical UFOs (balloons) with “cubes” inside seen by F-18s were most likely floating radar retroreflectors (there’s a patent for those with a drawing that looks exactly like what the pilots described) that can be released from subs and used to get electronic intel on, for instance, a carrier battle group’s response to such targets.

  4. “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” are mighty important in the current tornadic evolution of drones/missiles/etc. in Ukraine, with many of the innovations, threats, and responses coming out of garages and bunkers rather than years-long procurement and engineering systems that are much easier to analyze. If there was an example of “Hacking as if your life depended on it.” this would be a good candidate.

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