The three canonical UFO videos behind the current wave of interest Here’s a closer look at what these videos actually depict (and what they do not), how they came to light, and whether the resurgence of interest in UFOs should make us reassess what we think we know about UFOs and life beyond Earth. But it’s hard to overstate just how much these videos have changed the way the public, the government, and the mainstream press (most notably the New York Times) think and talk about UFOs - to the point where people may have misconceptions about what exactly we know given the available evidence. We still don’t fully know what these videos depict, and at the risk of disappointing some readers, there’s no evidence that they depict alien aircraft. In a somewhat surprising development that helped kick-start the current round of UFO fascination, the government confirmed the authenticity of two videos featured in a 2017 New York Times story and a third one leaked a few months later, each of which depicts US Navy fighter pilots observing a strange object whose nature appears baffling to them. That may reflect the fact that the government has confirmed the reality of some of the most prominent UFO videos. Interestingly, the share of Americans saying the government “knows more about UFOs than it’s telling us” fell very slightly from 1996 to 2019. The truth, and I cannot stress this enough, is out there. In 2019, when Gallup polled again, a majority, 56 percent, thought UFO observers were seeing something real.

In 1996, Gallup found that only 47 percent of Americans thought people reporting UFO sightings were seeing something real, and not imagining it. That stigma appears to be fading somewhat. They had a roughly similar level of respectability to theories that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job, or that the CIA killed John F. When I was growing up, UFOs were the province of late-night talk radio and The X-Files. The highest levels of the American government are very, very interested in what’s up there in the sky. The Pentagon Office of the Inspector General is also evaluating the government’s approach to UAPs with an eye to strengthening its monitoring and response. Many in Congress are curious, too, and this month the body is set to receive a report originating from a Pentagon task force detailing its investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs), the preferred term for UFOs among specialists. “There’s footage and records of objects in the skies that - we don’t know exactly what they are, we can’t explain how they moved, their trajectory,” former President Barack Obama told CBS’s James Corden. US intelligence services officially closed the book on the UFO phenomena in 1969 at the conclusion Project Blue Book - which stated there was nothing to see.All of a sudden, serious people are starting to take UFOs - unidentified flying objects - seriously. The five month deadline elapses on in June, with some UFO lobbyists claiming it could be the “most profound moment in human history'. No outside the secretive wings of the US government currently knows for sure.Īnd as a tacked on addendum to a 5,500 page Covid relief bill passed in December, the the Director of National Intelligence’s office was ordered to compile a report on UFOs within 180 days.įormer intelligence director John Ratcliffe has hinted the report will be a big deal – and we now just over a month away from its release. However, it was replaced by the UAP Task Force in June 2020 after a vote by the US Senate Intelligence Committee.ĭefence chiefs have since confirmed a number of leaked UFO videos and photos which were submitted to the Task Force for investigation. The US also confirmed the existence of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) – a Pentagon programme set up to study UFOs before being disbanded in 2017. Perhaps the most striking was a video known as the “Tic Tac” – which showed an unidentified object being pursued by fighter planes.

The debate is still open as to what the phenomena caught on film were – but it made clear to everyone, something is in the skies. Pentagon officials last year took the unprecedented step to confirm a trio of remarkable videos which showed US encounters with UFOs.

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