MickWest This month the Pentagon will release its much-awaited UFO report. Extraterrestrial buffs think theyâll be vindicated - but theyâve gotten a bit ahead of themselves An image from an unclassified video taken by US Navy pilots depicting âunidentified aerial phenomenaâ. Photograph: DoD/AFP/Getty Images An image from an unclassified video taken by US Navy pilots depicting âunidentified aerial phenomenaâ. Photograph: DoD/AFP/Getty Images Fri 11 Jun 2021 06.10 EDT There is a tidal wave of interest building up around an imminent Pentagon report on the subject of UFOs, or, as they are often referred to now, UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). A sense of heady enthusiasm has swept over the UFO community, whose members, after suffering years being marginalized as harmless eccentrics, finally feel a sense of vindication and excitement for the coming disclosure.