In an image from video footage from 2015, an unexplained object is seen at center as it soars among the clouds, traveling against the wind. “There’s a whole fleet of them,” a naval aviator tells another, though only one indistinct object is shown. Department of Defense via AP
This could have been the day that finally answered the burning question: Are there aliens out there? Sadly, we’ll still have to wait.
A U.S. government report on UFOs says it found no evidence of aliens but acknowledged 143 reports of “unidentified aerial phenomena” since 2004 that could not be explained.
The report was released Friday by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence with substantial input from the military. The study is part of the most significant public effort so far to deal with decades of speculation, rumor and unhinged conspiracy theories about UFOs.
Some of the most intriguing cases come from Navy pilots who reported seeing UFOs — and filming some of them — off the East Coast of the U.S. over a period of months in 2014 and 2015.
The pilots, including some who have spoken publicly, say the mystery objects moved with exceptional speed, agility and acceleration that they had never seen before. And in some incidents, the pilots said the objects went underwater.
The report was mandated by Congress and points to an increased willingness of government officials to discuss UFOs without fear of open ridicule.
Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, pushed for the study and said in a statement, “This report is an important first step in cataloguing these incidents, but it is just a first step. The Defense Department and intelligence community have a lot of work to do before we can actually understand whether these aerial threats present a serious national security concern.”
A recent rise in sightings
Many of the unexplained sightings come from the past couple years as the Air Force and the Navy have put in place formal procedures for reporting such incidents.
For starters, the government is using the term “unusual aerial phenomena” to avoid referring to UFOs and the stigma that has often gone with talking about them.
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