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Daily Mail — “Pentagon says UFO nearly crashed into commercial airliner above New York — as bombshell report is released” (November 2024)

Source: Daily Mail Sciencetech Date: November 14, 2024 (per Reddit propagation timestamp) Primary URL: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14084477/Pentagon-UFO-crash-commercial-airliner-New-York-bombshell-report-released.html Reddit propagation: https://old.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1grft9q (5,238 score, Nov 14 2024) Sourced: 2026-05-19 via direct requests + readability extract

Daily Mail coverage of the Pentagon’s November 2024 AARO Annual Report (Fiscal Year 2024) — the most-substantial AARO institutional artifact released between the AARO Historical Review Volume I (March 2024) and the present. The report covers 757 cases of UAP encounters primarily reported May 1, 2023 – June 1, 2024, plus 272 retroactive incidents.

Load-bearing report findings (per Daily Mail coverage)

  • 757 documented UAP cases in the reporting window May 2023–June 2024 (plus 272 retroactive)
  • No evidence of extraterrestrial origin — but “some defy explanation”
  • 49 cases at altitudes ≥62 miles (technically space)
  • 81 reports originated from US military operating areas
  • Three cases of military aircrews being followed or shadowed by unidentified aircraft — investigators found “no evidence linking the activity to a foreign power”

The named-load-bearing case: commercial airliner near-miss

The single most-circulated specific case in the report:

A commercial flight crew reported one near miss with a ‘cylindrical object’ while flying over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of New York. That incident is still under investigation.

This is the “bombshell” anchor of the report headline. The near-miss is documented in AARO’s case file. Daily Mail does not provide the AARO case number or the aircraft details.

Why this primary matters

  1. The 757-case figure is the most-cited AARO Annual Report statistic. It has propagated through downstream coverage as the institutional anchor for “AARO is collecting many cases.”

  2. The “three cases of being followed or shadowed” is the most-substantive 2024 institutional-source-of-record for the encounter-by-unknown-craft register. Three Pentagon-confirmed cases, ruled out as foreign-power, is a specific data point that constrains the broader “what are they” question.

  3. The “no evidence of extraterrestrial origin but some defy explanation” framing is the canonical AARO institutional position. This matches Kirkpatrick’s “unidentified is unacceptable” register from his Scientific American op-ed (scientific-american-kirkpatrick-op-ed-2024) — AARO continues the position into Kosloski’s tenure.

What this report does NOT establish

  • No identified extraterrestrial cases. AARO explicitly: “no evidence to suggest these UAPs are of extraterrestrial origin.”
  • No identification of the cylindrical-object near-miss off NY. Still under investigation.
  • No specific naming of the “followed/shadowed” cases. Aggregate categorization only.

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