{"id":43374,"date":"2026-03-05T19:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/space-command-chief-throws-cold-water-on-the-question-of-uaps-in-space\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:42:14","slug":"space-command-chief-throws-cold-water-on-the-question-of-uaps-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/space-command-chief-throws-cold-water-on-the-question-of-uaps-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space"},"content":{"rendered":"

DENVER\u2014Last month, President Donald Trump took to social media with an announcement that he would direct the Pentagon and other federal agencies to \u201cbegin the process\u201d of disclosing government files related to alien life and UAPs (unidentified anomalous phenomena). It was the latest chapter in a yearslong slow burn of sensational claims, congressional hearings, and yes, the military\u2019s release in 2020 of intriguing videos that do, indeed, appear to show things that defy simple explanations.<\/p>\n

Subsequent reports from NASA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) did not find any link between the unexplained phenomena and aliens, but that didn\u2019t stop enthusiasts from wanting to know more.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo date, in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, there is no conclusive evidence suggesting an extraterrestrial origin for UAP,\u201d a NASA blue-ribbon panel wrote in a 2023 report. \u201cThe limited amount of high-quality reporting on unidentified aerial phenomena hampers our ability to draw firm conclusions about the nature or intent of UAP,\u201d the DNI report stated in 2021.<\/p>\n

Government officials have said little about Trump\u2019s most recent social media post on the matter. The president cited \u201ctremendous interest\u201d in the files, whatever they might contain. Perhaps the most famous UAP videos released by the Pentagon to date were captured by cameras on Navy fighter planes operating over the sea.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo personal experience\u201d<\/h2>\n

If these things are coming from distant worlds, shouldn\u2019t we be seeing them in space? The military has a network of exquisite radars and optical sensors, both on the ground and in space, monitoring the ever-growing amount of traffic whizzing around the Earth. So far, defense officials have not released any UAP-related imagery from the most sophisticated of these sensors.<\/p>\n

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Judging from recent comments from Gen. Stephen Whiting, head of US Space Command, we shouldn\u2019t expect anything like that in whatever the government might release in response to Trump\u2019s pending order.<\/p>\n

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Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of US Space Command.<\/p>\n

Credit:
\n US Air Force\/Eric Dietrich<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cI can say, I, personally, was very interested in the president\u2019s announcement,\u201d Whiting told reporters last week at the Air and Space Forces Association\u2019s Warfare Symposium in Colorado. \u201cI look forward to seeing what data does come out. I can also tell you, as a space operator now of 36 years, having spent a lot of time with space domain awareness sensors, tracking things in space, I\u2019ve never seen anything in space other than manmade objects, so I am not aware of anything that is extraterrestrial, other than comets and things like that.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I\u2019m fascinated in the topic,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd if something\u2019s revealed, I\u2019ll be interested as an American citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Space Command\u2019s charge includes an area of responsibility (AOR) that extends from the top of Earth\u2019s atmosphere to the Moon and beyond. One of its missions is to track, monitor, and catalog objects in space. Whiting suggested that everything he\u2019s seen in orbit is attributable to a human-made or natural origin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will respond to any presidential direction to go look at our files, but I think the term of art now is UAP, and the A is aerial, so these are things that are below the K\u00e1rm\u00e1n line (100 kilometers), that are in the atmosphere,\u201d Whiting said. \u201cI\u2019ve seen some of the same videos and radar data that all of you have, and my guess is those relevant services and combatant commands will turn that data over. I\u2019m very interested in the topic, but I have no personal experience with any of those phenomena.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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