Close-up view of AARO’s world map of UAP/UFO sightings by US intelligence and military sensors. The enlarged box shows Poland as the only European UFO-hotspot.
Copyright: AARO/Dept. of Defense/US Gov.
On April 19 and May 31, 2023, the head of AARO, the “All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office“ that runs the Pentagon’s investigation into UAP (better known as UFOs) showed a world map with “UAP Hotspots” marked on it. A minor of these hotspots sits above Poland and there is a good reason for it.
In his reporting to the „Senate Armed Services Committee“ (SASC) on April 19, 2023, AARO director Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick explained the “UAP hotspots” marked in the shown map as follows: „What you will notice is that there is a heavy what we call collection bias both in altitude and in geographic location. That is where all of our sensors exist. That is where our training ranges are. That is where our operational ranges are. That is where all of our platforms are.”
This map in particular is also interesting from a European point of view, as it shows one of the UAP hotspots over Central and Eastern Europe. While the map is very small, with a low spatial resolution it was hard to pinpoint this area based on the material available from the April 19, the SASC-hearing. This changed with a PDF version provided together with a presentation Dr. Kirkpatrick gave at the public meeting of the members of NASA’s UAPIST (UAP Independent Study) on May 31, 2023 (LINK: https://science.nasa.gov/uap). Now it became clear that the European UAP hotspot is almost congruent with Poland.
Detailed view of the section enlargement of the world map over „UAP Hotspots“ of the AARO.
Copyright: AARO/Dept. of Defense/US Gov.
However, if the UAP hotspots shown on the map, as explained by Kirkpatrick, cannot be explained per se by a higher UAP occurrence in those regions general, but rather by the concentration of US sensor technology and activity at these locations, the question arises as to why the map doesn’t also show UAP hotspots around other places with large and prominent US presence for example at bases at Ramstein or Spangdahlem in Germany?
While the latter question remains unanswered for the time being, at least the UAP hotspot over Poland can be explained quite well due to the military activities there in recent years.
As an expert explained to Andreas Müller, editor of www.Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell.de (GreWi), this hotspot is almost certainly due to the increase in so-called ISR activities over Poland in recent years, not at last of course and especially as a result of Russia’s war of aggression against the Ukraine (since February 2022).
The abbreviation „ISR“ stands for „Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance“. According to NATO, “Joint Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JISR) is vital for all military operations. It provides decision-makers and action-takers with a better situational awareness of the conditions on the ground, in the air, at sea, in space and in the cyber domain. Allies work together to collect, analyze and share information to maximum effect. This makes Joint ISR a unique example of cooperation and burden-sharing across the Alliance.“
In fact, since 2019 both the United States European Command (EUCOM) and NATO have reinforced the ISR inventory and assets with additional aircraft and drones, especially in Eastern Europe and here specifically over Poland and Romania. As reported by “Air&Space Forces Magazine” in December 2019, the increase in inventory, for example with new remote-controlled aircraft (unmanned aerial vehicles, UAV/drones) and the repositioning of aircraft already stationed in the region, was meant to “improve our indications and warnings, improve command and control, and improve mission command.”
A RQ-4 drone (here Block 20) of the US Air Force in action.
Copyright: U.S. Air Force / Bobbi Zapka / Public domain
As the magazine goes on to explain, this ramp-up included the deployment of additional RQ-4 Global Hawk Block 40 (RQ-4B Block 40) reconnaissance drones, which are equipped with AESA side-scan MP-RTIP (Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program) AN /ZPY-2, which can also be used to create high-resolution radar maps.
In addition, the „Air & Space Forces Magazine“-article reported on the relocation of a unit of „MQ-9“ drones previously stationed in Poland to the Romanian Air Base Campia Turzii. It were US drones of this type that, among other things, filmed a spherical flying object over an undisclosed location in the Middle East in 2022, which Dr. Kirkpatrick showed as a (albeit relatively unspectacular) example for the “majority of UAP/UFOs reported to AARO”.
In his presentation to the members of the NASA UAP study on May 31, 2023, Kirkpatrick explained about this image: „This is a spherical orb, metallic, in the Middle East [recorded] by an MQ-9. This is a typical example of the things we see most of. We see these [spheres] all over the word and we see these making very interesting apparent maneuvers. This one in particular however, I would point out demonstrated no enigmatic technological capabilities and no threat to airborne safety.”
A „Reaper-Drone“ (MQ-9) with its camera-system at its lower front.
Copyright/Quelle: U.S. Air Force photo by Paul Ridgeway
In June 2022 a detailed article by the aviation portal „Key.aero“ explained that and how ISR systems and activities play an important role in Russia’s current war against the Ukraine, illustrated by a map that shows the area of operation of ISR -NATO assets on May 20, 2022 as an example for such operations.
Interestingly, the marked geographic center (blue/purple) of this activity matches with that of the AARO designated „UAP hotspot“ over Poland almost identical.
The operational area of the ISR assets of NATO on 05/20/2022.
Source: Key.aero / Amelia Smith
UFO-Spheres“ also above Poland?
As noted by Kirkpatrick, most of the UAP/UFOs reported to AARO are „metallic spheres/orbs“. While UFO skeptics suspect that those UFO-Spheres are likely nothing else than ordinary foil- or mylar balloons, the AARO director has already emphasized several times that “some of these metallic orbs do perform unusual and very interesting manoeuvers”. It can therefore be assumed that these are flight movements that do not correspond to the drifting of a balloon with the wind. And since a sphere itself does not have any aerodynamic properties and should therefore not be able to fly without any type of drive and stabilization, the question remains unanswered as to what these spherical flying objects are.
So far, however, AARO has only published videos showing such objects without the „interesting maneuvers“ described. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the „orb“ on the MQ-9 footage from the Middle East from 2022 or a UFO sphere shown by AARO predecessor agency headed then by Deputy Director of Navy Intelligence, ODNI, Scott Bray, on May 23, 2022 in an Open C3 Subcommittee Hearing on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena at the US Congress might have been indeed foil balloons.
In fact, some spectacular sightings of such “metallic balls” from Poland are known from UFO literature and research history. Perhaps the best known (and, as one might expect in such cases, most controversial) is an incident that occurred near the village of Zdany in eastern Poland in 2008.
A photo series shows a metallic spherical object in the sky over Zdany, Poland.
Source: Nautilus Foundation, PolandFurther shots of metallic-looking spherical flying objects over Poland have already been shared via various online portals and are used below as examples of such sightings. Note: The showing of the following clips does not imply their authenticity, nor were those clips used by AARO.)
Again, the question remains unanswered as to why no other areas show up in the AARO statistics as “UAP Hotspots” like Poland does?
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