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These incidents and investigations mostly went unreported to the broader public-until December 2017, when the New York Times reported the existence of the Pentagon’s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. One possibility? Surveillance craft from another country. You have propulsion, right? I don't know. “You have rotation, you have high altitudes. Another later told 60 Minutes that the craft were hard to explain. One pilot reported a near-collision in 2014.

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In a series of incidents during this time, Navy pilots reported-and made video recordings-of a series of encounters with unidentified craft near Florida and Virginia that could reach high altitudes and hypersonic speeds.

The program was run by a military intelligence official, Luis Elizondo, and worked hand-in-hand with an aerospace research company run by Bigelow. “What was considered science fiction is now science fact,” the agency said in briefing papers. Senate’s majority leader-the Pentagon launched the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program to investigate the latest round of sightings. “It had no plumes, wings or rotors and outran our F-18s.” 2007: A new Pentagon investigation “I have no idea what I saw,” said one of the pilots, Cmdr. It streaked away before the pilots could get near. They saw-and captured on video-an unusual oval-shaped craft, about 40 feet long, hovering over the Pacific Ocean about a hundred miles off San Diego. In November 2004, two Navy pilots on a training mission were ordered to intercept a mysterious craft. That didn’t quite happen: Reid would eventually become a key figure in driving the U.S. “A lot of people said it would ruin my career,” Reid later said. Participants included two former astronauts, Ed Mitchell and Harrison Schmitt, and one sitting U.S. In 1995, businessman Robert Bigelow convened a small group in Las Vegas to discuss the possibility of alien life: He called the group the National Institute for Discovery Science. ( The legend of Area 51-and why it still fascinates us.) So-called “UFOlogists” spent the next few decades filing open records requests with federal agencies to uncover what was known about the sightings. The Condon report didn’t put an end to interest in UFOs. The Air Force announced in a 1985 fact sheet that “there are not now nor ever have been, any extraterrestrial visitors or equipment on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,” where the investigation was headquartered. Still, rumors and sightings persisted-sometimes to the annoyance of the original investigators. Further investigation, he said, “cannot be justified.” “Our general conclusion is that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge,” said the study leader, Edward U. The project came to an end in 1969 after a study by the University of Colorado concluded there was no evidence that UFOs came from other worlds, and that most sightings could be explained by natural phenomena, or even hoaxes. These include lights, objects, and unexplained radar readings reported by military and civilian pilots, weather observers, astronomers and other sources. Air Force cataloged 12,618 sightings of UFOs as part of what is now known as Project Blue Book. ( For our subscribers: Something in our galaxy is flashing every 20 minutes-but what? ) 1947-1969: Project Blue Book

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How to keep track of it all? Here’s a timeline of our ongoing fascination with UFOs.

Aliens never invaded, although new sightings happen all the time-as do investigations into those reports. officials didn’t necessarily dream of meeting extraterrestrials in their investigations: As the Cold War with the Soviet Union got underway, American leaders worried that UFOs represented a threat from a rival nation. ( How the Pentagon learned to start worrying and investigate UFOs.) The modern era of UFO sightings and investigations started after World War II with a sudden surge of unexplained reports. Such reports have been surfacing for decades. “In addition to recent claims by a whistleblower,” a committee spokesperson said, “reports continue to surface regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena.” government calls them, “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” (UAPs). Congress remained interested-and, in June, the House Oversight Committee announced it will hold a hearing on UFOS-or as the U.S. The Pentagon denied the report, but the U.S. Unidentified flying objects are much in the news lately after a whistleblower claimed that the United States had discovered the remains of a crashed alien spacecraft. There’s something strange going on in the sky, but what?

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