Former Nevada Sen. That resonated with me. And then there are the videos. I parked my car in a driveway at the side of the building, the car slightly angled up. Through the windshield, I could see the University of Maine police station.
As I was gazing absently out the window, a saucer-shaped object with an array of multi-colored lights circling the bottom of the craft appeared. When I say appeared, I mean appeared. Not descended. I got to 10 and it disappeared. Not ascended, disappeared. And that was it. It did not profoundly change my life, but it certainly kicked open the doors of curiosity and a lifetime of off-and-on rumination, balancing my inherent skepticism about the paranormal with what I know I saw.
It certainly clarified my willingness to believe there are things we observe that are beyond rational explanation. The unclassified report, compiled by the director of national intelligence and the secretary of defense, aims to make public what the Pentagon knows about unidentified flying objects and data analyzed from such encounters.
While UFOs have been part of American mythology for decades, this report is different. Legitimate debates over UFO sightings have gained traction in recent years after several leaked photos and videos from the U.
Navy appeared to show mysterious flying objects in American airspace. Last year, the Pentagon declassified three such videos captured by Navy pilots, intensifying speculation over the incidents, which have been confirmed by pilots who have observed them and even presidents who have been briefed on them.
Earlier that year, the Department of Defense declassified three videos taken by Navy pilots — one from and two from — that showed mysterious objects flying at high speeds across the sky. A separate leaked Navy video, captured in July , showed a sphere-shaped unidentified object flying over water near San Diego.
The footage, obtained by a documentary filmmaker and shared with NBC News, appeared to show the mysterious object flying for a few minutes before disappearing into the water. Dave Fravor and Lt. But with little conclusive evidence to confirm or deny any intergalactic visitations, it remains to be seen whether any earthling minds will change. Military leaders warn that the technology, if not alien, may belong to US adversaries such as Russia or China. The UAP task force's unclassified report found "no clear indications that there is any non-terrestrial explanation" for the aircrafts, but also did not rule it out.
Possible explanations included common aerial objects like birds and drones, atmospheric phenomena such as ice crystals, new developments by US government or private entities, and technologies deployed by foreign adversaries.
The report also includes a catch-all "other" category. Officials examined incidents from the past two decades, including three videos that the Pentagon declassified last year and described as showing "unexplained aerial phenomena". Although no earth-shattering revelations emerged, the existence of a government report on a much-ridiculed issue shows how UFOs have beamed out of the realm of purely science fiction pop culture and into the world of US national security. The Pentagon established the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force last August to look into observations of unknown flying aircrafts.
The group's job was to "detect, analyse and catalogue" these events, as well as to "gain insight" into the "nature and origins" of UFOs, the Pentagon said. A classified version of its report was provided to lawmakers earlier this month. Public pressure on the US to release what it knows about aliens has been building for decades as civilian groups of so-called ufologists argue that evidence of their existence has been suppressed by the government.
The Pentagon has been quietly gathering data since as part of the military's little-known Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. Money for the programme came at the request of Nevada Senator Harry Reid, a Democrat who represented the region that encompasses Area 51 - the military site where conspiracy theorists believe remains collected from an alien crash in the town of Roswell have been studied since Former top officials and even US presidents have recently weighed in on whether the truth truly is out there.
Hillary Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta, long a follower of UFO theories, promised during her campaign that she would release classified government reports on aliens if she were elected. In an interview last year, then-President Donald Trump said he would not disclose - even to his family - what he had learned about aliens.
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