Linda Looney wipes her face outside the Alien Research Center, a gift shop on the Extraterrestrial Highway, in Crystal Springs, Nev., in 2019. The report will go to the Intelligence and Armed Services committees in each chamber of Congress. 27, he also triggered the start of a 180-day deadline for the director of national intelligence to send the report to Congress. When former President Donald Trump signed the bill on Dec. In a section titled Advanced Aerial Threats, the spending bill calls for federal agencies to submit a report on "unidentified aerial phenomena (also known as 'anomalous aerial vehicles'), including observed airborne objects that have not been identified." intelligence agencies and the Defense Department are required to report on what they know about unusual aerial phenomena because of a stipulation in the massive COVID-19 relief and government funding bill that Congress approved last year. The new report on UFOs is poised to be released to Congress this month by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. adults agreed with the idea that "some UFOs have been alien spacecraft visiting Earth from other planets or galaxies." Why the government report is coming out now A 2019 Gallup Poll found that a third of U.S. "The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as 'unidentified,' " the Defense Department said.Īmericans, it seems, are ready to believe. The department said it was releasing the videos to clear up misconceptions about whether footage that had already been circulating is real. In April 2020, the Department of Defense officially released footage from the Navy fighter pilots' on-board cameras. But the Defense Department halted it in 2012. Congress then funded it, and Elizondo took it over in 2010. The Pentagon reportedly began its Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program in an early form in 2007. It also brought new legitimacy and definition to an area of research that for decades was defined by speculation - and stereotypes of UFO enthusiasts running around in tinfoil hats. In 2017, news of the existence of a secretive Pentagon program that was established to examine sightings of unexplained aircraft and phenomena ignited public interest. Interest in the idea that alien beings might be visiting Earth from off-planet has skyrocketed in recent years, particularly after the Pentagon verified that several videos showing what look to be objects moving at incredible speeds and with remarkable agility had indeed come from official U.S.
One of the report's only substantial conclusions is that the craft encountered by the military - objects that showed unusual flight capabilities - were not created by classified programs run by the U.S. Intelligence officials: The airborne vehicles weren't made by the U.S.
official confirmed to NPR that details in the newspaper's story are accurate. The report's release is still pending after The New York Times first reported news of its findings Thursday night, a senior U.S. Navy planes and other records say the evidence doesn't point to alien technology - but they also say they can't explain the unusual phenomena. officials and analysts who examined video footage from U.S.
So far, it looks like the answers in the report will leave UFO spotters and conspiracy theorists unsatisfied. government's new report on unexplained aerial phenomena - its preferred term for what many of us call unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. "There's a whole fleet of them," a naval aviator tells another, though only one indistinct object is shown.Īre we alone? Have alien spacecraft been buzzing across Earth's skies? Those are the questions being asked in the U.S. 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.
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