Germany’s federal government says it has no findings on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and no dedicated reporting channel, while assigning airspace and near-Earth surveillance responsibilities to several ministries.
The position appears in its reply, Bundestag document 21/8662, dated Oct. 16. The government says pilots, air-traffic controllers and other personnel lack a separate channel for reporting observations they cannot identify. The reply distinguishes ministries’ surveillance duties from a dedicated process for reporting UAP.
The Interior, Transport and Defense ministries handle surveillance of German airspace. Responsibility for recording and assessing objects in near-Earth space rests with the ministries responsible for research, technology and space, together with Defense. The response identifies these assignments but does not describe a single agency managing all reports.
The AfD parliamentary group’s inquiry, Bundestag document 21/8323, is dated Oct. 2. It asked which authorities take responsibility when sightings are reported, what terms the federal government uses for the phenomena and whether it has guidance for handling those reports. The questions covered both the government’s division of responsibilities and the language it applies to unexplained observations.
The lawmakers framed the request around reliable monitoring and standardized reporting, followed by evaluation for aviation and security purposes. The filing focused on how observations are collected and assessed, rather than asking the government to explain the possible causes of the phenomena.
To explain its interest, the filing cited U.S. reports and congressional hearings, NASA research and France’s GEIPAN, a study group for information on unidentified aerospace phenomena. It also cited Bundestag document 16/9554, an earlier government response, as a prior parliamentary reference on the issue. The current reply sets out ministry assignments and says there is no dedicated reporting channel for personnel.
