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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionThe videos have been made public to “clear up any misconceptions” The US Department of Defense has released three declassified videos of “unexplained aerial phenomena”. The Pentagon said it wanted to “clear ...

The Pentagon on Monday released three declassified videos that show US navy pilots encountering what appear to be unidentified flying objects. The grainy videos, which the Pentagon says depict “unexplained aerial phenomena”, were previously leaked, with some believing they show ...

TOPLINE The Pentagon formally released three unclassified videos Monday taken by Navy pilots of “unidentified aerial phenomena,” a step that comes after years of progress towards government transparency surrounding unidentified flying objects. The Pentagon formally released three unclassified videos taken ...

When David Halperin was 13 and struggling with the very earthly reality that his mother was dying of heart failure, he became obsessed with the out-of-this-world phenomenon of UFOs. The retired professor of religious studies at the University of North ...

UFO sightings happen in clusters. The same is true of books about UFOs. While clusters of UFO sightings are called “flaps,” there is no similar term for clusters of UFO books. I propose calling them a “Sagan” (despite the risk ...

Back when supposed UFO sightings were becoming common, two people in an Air Force control tower reported seeing an object resembling “a lighted upended automobile” that the Air Force later said it determined was an aircraft. But J. Allen Hynek, ...

Long before “Ancient Aliens” became a cult classic of cable TV, the idea of extraterrestrial visitors caught the interest and imagination of the nation. For decades, countless Americans (and people all over the world) kept their eyes on the skies, ...

By Steven Gimbel, They Are Already Here UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers By Sarah Scoles Pegasus. 248 pp. $27.95 Intimate Alien The Hidden Story of the UFO By David J. Halperin Stanford. 292 pp. $26 The Contact Paradox ...

Since early childhood, David J. Halperin has been interested in—or maybe obsessed with—stories about UFO sightings and alien abductions. But Halperin doesn’t match the typical pop-culture depiction of the crazy flying-saucer guy. A retired professor of religious studies at UNC-Chapel ...

When a massive international war-games exercise known as Operation Mainbrace convened in the North Sea in 1952, it brought together 80,000 military personnel, 1,000 planes and 200 ships from nine countries. There were also some unexpected attendees: UFOs. Multiple sightings ...

After the US Navy confirmed a spate of unusual sightings by its pilots last year, candidates in the 2020 election have been asked what they think of the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Some candidates have dodged the question, others have ...

In her new book “They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers” (Pegasus Books, 2020), journalist Sarah Scoles explores the culture and history of people who believe in UFOs. The book begins here, with her own experience ...

The first time my dad ever heard someone talk about aliens and objetos volador no identificados, or UFOs, was when he was 13. One day in high school, an older student described a sighting to my dad. “The first thing ...

In 1947, Kenneth Arnold was flying his CallAir A-2 between Chehalis and Yakima, Washington, when he took a detour to search for a downed Marine Corps aircraft. There was a reward for anyone who could find the plane, and who ...

From the early 1950s until 2009, a department in the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) documented and investigated reports of UFOs. Now, more than a decade after the program ended, many of those formerly classified files about UFO sightings ...

Unidentified flying objects (UFOs) have captured the public’s attention over the decades. As exoplanet detection is on the rise, why not consider that star-hopping visitors from afar might be buzzing through our friendly skies by taking an interstellar off-ramp to ...

UFOs are back. Or perhaps better put, interest in UFOs is again on the rise. For most of a generation—from 1987 to 2015—media coverage of unidentified flying objects measurably declined. In the past couple of years, though, television, newspapers, and ...

The Navy says it has material about UFOs that, if released, “would cause exceptionally grave damage to the National Security of the United States.” The Navy said it “discovered certain briefing slides that are classified TOP SECRET” in response to ...

In late September 1952, only months after a rash of “flying saucer” sightings over Washington, D.C. made headlines around the world, dozens of military officers participating in NATO exercises in the North Atlantic were struck by their own UFO fever ...

In January 1953, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency had a thorny situation on its hands. Reports of UFO sightings were mushrooming around the country. Press accounts were fanning public fascination—and concern. So the CIA convened a group of scientists to ...