U.S. Navy pilots and sailors won’t be considered crazy for reporting unidentified flying objects, under new rules meant to encourage them to keep track of what they see. Yet just a few years ago, the Pentagon reportedly shut down another official program that investigated UFO sightings. What has changed? Is the U.S. military finally coming around to the idea that alien spacecraft are visiting our planet?
A YouTuber shared a video last week in which he claimed that a shape-shifting UFO has been spotted in the Colombian sky. Later the same video was shared by a prominent conspiracy theorist Scott C Waring.
When the US Department of Defense released three declassified videos of “unexplained aerial phenomena” at the end of April, the Pentagon said it wanted to “clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real”.
US Navy pilots have had some bizarre and at times alarming encounters with unidentified aircraft in recent years, as evidenced by eight recently-released hazard reports.
The mysterious lights were seen by thousands of people, there’s video evidence, and people are saying posts disappeared from social media. What happened?
In a puzzling scene from a Spanish newscast, a curious UFO can be seen zipping through the night sky behind a reporter stationed in Rome.
Reid says the Pentagon must continue investigating UFOs with “no boundaries on what we look for.”
Although the UFO news is currently talking up the latest Pentagon admission of the validity of those pesky videos that were released over two years ago, they are still in the “we don’t know what these are” phase of public discourse.
Thanks to Monday’s Tom DeLonge-spurred official publishing of UAP footage by the Department of Defense, a planet still grappling with how to move forward in the COVID-19 era has taken to pondering how the news relates to the topic of extraterrestrial life.
About 5% of the reported unidentified anomalous phenomena — or so-called UFOs — can’t be explained and should be thoroughly investigated by mainstream scientists according to Etienne Caron (Canada). Together with Massimo Teodorani, astrophysicist at the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), he tells us why, how and where mainstream scientists can play an active role in understanding the anomaly. In essence, they are not saying that UFOs are carrying intelligent beings from outer space, but do recognise the importance of monitoring the events in a more rigorous and deterministic way.
