A report summarising what the US knows about “unidentified aerial phenomena”—better known as UFOs—is expected to be made public this month.
A grab image obtained last year shows an “unidentified aerial phenomena”. Pic/AFP
The blob, captured on distant, fuzzy video by Navy pilots, seems to skitter just above the ocean waves at improbable speed, with no discernible means of propulsion or lift. “Oh my gosh, man,” one aviator says to another as they laugh at the oddity. “What ... is it?”
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Is it a bird? A plane?
Super drone? An extraterrestrial something? The US government has been taking a hard look at unidentified flying objects like this one. A report summarising what the US knows about “unidentified aerial phenomena”—better known as UFOs—is expected to be made public this month.
Two officials briefed on the report say it found no extraterrestrial link to the sightings reported and captured on video. The report won’t rule out a link to another country, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The anticipation surrounding the report shows how a topic normally confined to science fiction and a small, often dismissed group of researchers has hit the mainstream. “There is stuff flying in our airspace,” Republican Marco Rubio of Florida, one of the senators who pressed for the probe, said.
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