五角大楼不明飞行物调查办公室的前负责人对一起据称由联邦调查局人员目击的神秘黑色三角形物体事件泼冷水，他告诉福克斯新闻数字版，新公布的叙述缺乏确定目击者实际所见所需的证据。
The former head of the Pentagon's UFO investigation office is pouring cold water on a mysterious black triangular object reportedly spotted by FBI personnel, telling Fox News Digital that the newly released account lacks the evidence needed to determine what the witnesses actually saw.
五角大楼全域异常解决办公室（AARO）前主任肖恩·柯克帕特里克表示，最近解密的政府记录中详述的奇怪目击事件，应当通过基于证据的视角来审视，而不应将其视为外星存在的证据。
Sean Kirkpatrick, the former director of the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), said strange sightings detailed in recently declassified government records should be viewed through an evidence-based lens rather than as proof of something extraterrestrial.
这些记录包括一起2026年涉及联邦调查局人员的目击事件，他们报告称看到一个深色、不反光的三角形物体，没有可见发动机、排气或常规推进系统，升上一条山脊后迅速消失在峡谷中。
The records include a 2026 sighting involving FBI personnel who reported seeing a dark, nonreflective triangular object with no visible engines, exhaust or conventional propulsion system rise above a mountain ridge before rapidly disappearing into a canyon.
另一份AARO报告描述了一个哑光黑色三角形物体，它升至山脊线上方约200至300英尺，悬停了大约20秒，然后似乎几乎瞬间加速。
A separate AARO report described a matte-black triangular object that climbed about 200 to 300 feet above the ridgeline, hovered for roughly 20 seconds and then appeared to accelerate almost instantly.
柯克帕特里克在国防部和情报界工作了近30年，他说，目击者仅仅拥有联邦调查局的背景，不足以验证他们声称所见的内容。
Kirkpatrick, who spent nearly 30 years in the Department of Defense and intelligence community, said the witnesses' FBI backgrounds alone are not enough to validate what they reported seeing.
“很多人喜欢指出某些人是可信的目击者，因此他们的证词必须被当真，”柯克帕特里克告诉福克斯新闻数字版。“这是典型的权威偏见。”柯克帕特里克说，缺乏照片或其他支持性证据，使得很难确定目击者遇到了什么，如果遇到了什么的话。
"There's a lot of people that like to point to folks as being credible witnesses and therefore their testimony must be taken at face value," Kirkpatrick told Fox News Digital. "And that is a classic case of authority bias." Kirkpatrick said the lack of photographs or other supporting evidence makes it difficult to determine what, if anything, the witnesses encountered.
“其中一些只是，‘嘿，我看到什么东西，我不知道那是什么，’”柯克帕特里克说。“人们有时倾向于用非常极端的信念来填补这一空白，而这些信念一次又一次被证明是不准确且不可靠的。”他指出，先进的航空航天技术可能是某些三角形目击事件的一种解释，并将其与F-117隐形飞机技术广为人知之前的相关报告进行了比较。
"Some of this is just, ‘hey, I saw something, I don't know what it is,’" Kirkpatrick said. "People sometimes have a tendency to fill that gap with very extreme beliefs that have time and again proven to be inaccurate and fallible." He pointed to advanced aerospace technology as one possible explanation for some triangular sightings, comparing them to reports involving the F-117 stealth aircraft before the technology became widely known.
五角大楼文件披露了特工们在敏感美国安全设施附近报告的“球体发射球体”事件。柯克帕特里克表示，AARO在审视不明异常现象报告时，考察了三种广泛的可能性：外国对手使用的先进技术、被误解的普通物体或传感器效应，或者外星解释。“你有三个非常明确的类别，”柯克帕特里克说。
PENTAGON FILES REVEAL AGENTS' REPORTS OF 'ORBS LAUNCHING ORBS' NEAR SENSITIVE US SECURITY SITE AARO approached UAP reports by examining three broad possibilities, Kirkpatrick said: advanced technology used by a foreign adversary, ordinary objects or sensor effects that are misunderstood, or an extraterrestrial explanation. "You've got 3 very distinct buckets," Kirkpatrick said.
他解释说，每种可能性都有特定的特征，调查人员可以将目击事件中收集的数据与这些特征进行比较。
Each possibility has specific signatures that investigators can compare against data collected from a sighting, he explained.
“当你从观察中获得数据，实际数据，而不仅仅是一个故事时，你会将这些数据与这些特征进行比较，”柯克帕特里克说。
"When you get data from an observation, actual data, not just a story, you compare that data to those signatures," Kirkpatrick said.
“我们所看到、审查和分析的数据中，没有任何数据符合外星假说理论，”他补充道。
"None of the data that we saw and reviewed and analyzed matches an alien hypothesis theory," he added.
他办公室审查的大多数案件涉及传感器并非设计用来识别的普通物体或现象。少数案件显示出可能涉及外国对手的迹象，并已转交国家安全官员进行进一步调查。
Most of the cases his office examined involved ordinary objects or phenomena that sensors were not designed to recognize. A small number showed signs of possible foreign adversary involvement and were referred to national security officials for further investigation.
但柯克帕特里克警告说，政府不明异常现象记录中出现的“未解决”一词，并不一定意味着调查人员遇到了无法解释的事物。
But the word "unresolved," which appears in government UAP records, does not necessarily mean investigators encountered something inexplicable, Kirkpatrick cautioned.
“当我们说一个案件未解决时，通常意味着没有数据，或者没有足够的数据来实际进行分析，”柯克帕特里克说。“因此，你无法得出任何结论。”他说，调查人员可能根据类似案件对物体可能是什么有所了解，但如果没有足够的原始数据，他们无法得出确定的结论。
"When we say a case is unresolved, it generally means there is no data or there is insufficient data to actually analyze it," Kirkpatrick said. "And so you can't conclude one way or the other." Investigators may have an idea of what an object likely was based on similar cases, he said, but without sufficient raw data, they cannot reach a definitive conclusion.
柯克帕特里克表示，一些公开列为未解决的案件，此前已被AARO解决。
Kirkpatrick said some cases released publicly as unresolved had previously been resolved by AARO.
“其中许多案件，我们确实解决了，我甚至曾向国会简报过其中几起，提供了答案、案件内容以及可能的情况，”柯克帕特里克说。
"Many of these cases, we did resolve, and I even briefed several of them to Congress with the answers and what they were and what they were likely to be," Kirkpatrick said.
他说，五角大楼领导层指示AARO删除调查人员已得出结论的相关表述，然后才将部分案件公开列为未解决。
He said Pentagon leadership directed AARO to remove language explaining what investigators had determined before some cases were released publicly as unresolved.
“五角大楼领导层曾指示AARO删除所有解决案件的表述，并将这些案件列为未解决公开，”柯克帕特里克说。“让，我引用，‘人们自行判断’，这是你能做的最糟糕的事情，因为你所做的不过是继续用一大堆胡言乱语给阴谋论添柴火。”柯克帕特里克未说明该指令下达的时间，也未提及涉及哪些五角大楼领导人。
"Pentagon leadership had told AARO to remove all of the resolution language and put these cases out as unresolved," Kirkpatrick said. "Letting, and I quote, ‘the people make up their own mind,’ which is the absolute worst thing that you could do because all you've done is continue to just feed the flames of conspiracy with a whole bunch of nonsense." Kirkpatrick did not specify when the directive was issued or which Pentagon leaders were involved.
国防部另行向福克斯新闻数字版表示，它不对新公开的文件提供评估，允许公众自行得出结论。
The War Department separately told Fox News Digital that it is not providing assessments of the newly released files, allowing the public to reach its own conclusions.
“我们不对文件整体或任何具体文件发表任何评论或评估，以便美国人民能够就文件自行做出判断，”一名国防部官员在不具名条件下表示。
"We are not providing any comment or assessment on the files overall or on any specific file, so that the American people can make up their own minds regarding the files," a War Department official said on background.
该部门还确认，随FBI三角形物体报告附带的图片是插图，而非物体本身的照片。柯克帕特里克表示，“未识别”与“未解决”含义不同，尽管这两个词有时被混用。阅读报告请点击此处：“未识别通常意味着我们能够看到并描述一个物体，并有数据支持这种描述，但不知道它是什么，”他说。
The department also confirmed that images accompanying the FBI triangular-object report were illustrations rather than photographs of the object itself. Kirkpatrick said "unidentified" carries a different meaning than "unresolved," though the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. Read the report here: "Unidentified generally means we can see and characterize an object and we have data to support that characterization, but we don't know what it is," he said.
他指出，2023年发现中国监控气球后，在北美上空被击落的物体是最初未被识别，随后调查人员确定其为气球的例子。政府公布的其他记录可追溯数十年，包括20世纪50年代加利福尼亚州圣卡塔利娜岛附近出现奇怪物体的报告。柯克帕特里克表示，历史目击事件也必须与当时存在的技术一并考虑，他将早期高空气球计划作为天空中明亮物体报告的一种可能解释。
He pointed to objects shot down over North America following the discovery of a Chinese surveillance balloon in 2023 as examples of objects that were initially unidentified before investigators determined they were balloons. Other records released by the government stretch back decades, including reports of strange objects near California's Santa Catalina Island in the 1950s. Kirkpatrick said historical sightings must also be considered alongside the technology that existed at the time, pointing to early high-altitude balloon programs as a possible explanation for some reports of bright objects in the sky.
阅读圣卡塔利娜岛报告：“这些报告有成千上万份，”柯克帕特里克说。“所以即使地球曾有外星人来访，也不可能有成千上万次。”柯克帕特里克表示，不应将宇宙中其他地方存在智慧生命的可能性，与外星生物曾来访地球的证据混为一谈。
Read the Catalina Island report here: "There are thousands of these reports," Kirkpatrick said. "And so even if there were alien visitations to Earth, there are not thousands of them." The possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe should not be confused with evidence that extraterrestrial beings have visited Earth, Kirkpatrick said.
“认为不会发生这种情况在统计上是不成立的，但它们在这里的可能性在统计上同样不现实，”他说。
"It's statistically invalid to believe that's not going to be the case, but the probability of them being here is just as statistically unrealistic," he said.
广泛审视最新记录，柯克帕特里克表示，他几乎没有看到改变其评估的内容。“我是说，没有什么新东西，”柯克帕特里克说。福克斯新闻数字版已联系联邦调查局寻求评论。
Looking broadly at the latest records, Kirkpatrick said he saw little that changed his assessment. "I mean, there's nothing new," Kirkpatrick said. Fox News Digital reached out to the FBI for comment.