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60 Minutes featured a report on regular sightings of unidentified aerial objects (UAPs) by Navy pilots flying off the coast of Virginia. According to one Navy pilot, Ryan Graves, the objects were seen almost every day for several years and exhibited otherworldly characteristics in flight.
“This is a difficult one to explain. You have rotation, you have high altitudes. You have propulsion, right? I don’t know. I don’t know what it is, frankly,” remarked Graves.
Louis Elizondo says he headed up the modern version of “Project Blue Book” at the Pentagon. The Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or “AATIP,” came into being following a 2004 encounter between Navy planes from the USS Nimitz and several objects resembling “Tic Tac” mints. It was the brainchild of former Nevada Senator Harry Reid and functioned as a clearinghouse for Navy sightings. Later, the program was tasked with investigating the phenomenon. The AATIP has since be
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It was not clear who decided to launch the probe or what investigators will specifically look for. A Pentagon watchdog is launching a probe into the actions taken by the Department of Defense after a series of UFO sightings in recent years. (Department of Defense)
The Pentagon created the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force following several unexplained incidents observed by the military. It is tasked with detecting, analyzing and cataloging UAPs that could potentially pose a threat to U.S. national security.
In an interview with the New York Post, Luis Elizondo, the former head of the Pentagon s Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, recently raised the possibility that so-called UFOs are actually adversarial foreign technology that for several decades now has managed to leapfrog us.
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Pentagon watchdog opens new probe into military s handling of UFOs
The probe comes as Congress awaits a public report, due next month, from a host of national security agencies on the issue.
The Pentagon briefing room. | DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando
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The Pentagon s inspector general is looking into the actions the military has taken to address the spate of UFO sightings in recent years involving high performance aircraft that have violated military airspace.
The probe comes as Congress awaits a public report, due next month, from a host of national security agencies on the issue, and as advocates complain that some departments and agencies are not fully cooperating by sharing data.
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