UFO hunters have been watching the skies in growing numbers since the Roswell incident in 1947, when rumors spread that a crash site in New Mexico — reported to be that of a U.S. Army air balloon — was, in fact, that of an extraterrestrial aircraft (via History).
Force fields are the stuff of science fiction, but directed energy systems to fry drones, or stop people, already exist. Here’s what’s real about the tech—and what’s more fantastical.
UFOs have been in the news a lot lately. I am a research astronomer who has written and edited books and created a free online course about the search for life in the universe. While I think we are making progress on detecting life beyond Earth, I view UFOs from a skeptical standpoint, since the evidence that they represent aliens visiting the Earth is unconvincing.
The Pentagon has a long history of misleading reports on UFOs. The new paper on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) may be another example, according to the British scientist Roger Shawyer. Looking at their accounts, Shawyer has an explanation which is hinted at, but also concealed by the report.
Commentary: To figure out if aliens, top-secret tech or something else is to blame, we need more data. A lot more.
The U.S. Defense Department’s internal watchdog office is launching an evaluation this month to see what the U.S. military has been doing when it comes to UFOs, or in modern-day Pentagon parlance, “UAPs,” short for “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.”
The defensive system is meant to zap swarms of aggressive drones.
It’s the stuff of UFO enthusiasts’ dreams — or conspiracy theorists’ nightmares.
The latest report on military study of UFOs is just as tantalizing—and unilluminating—as all the ones before.
The Pentagon UFO-hunting mission, the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, is still partially classified.
