Stories about UFO have long been classified as mystery and fantasy. There are still many people skeptical about the existence and appearance of these objects. Recently, scientists have been publicly promoting serious research on them. The US Navy has also issued new guidelines to encourage pilots to report locations or the appearance of strange objects in the sky.
Mysterious meetings
According to Space.com, UFO (undetected flying object) was first recorded during World War II, when Allied military pilots stationed in military zones in Europe and the Pacific said they had seen strange lights or flying objects in the sky. They initially called these objects foo fighters.
Then, in June 1967, the American businessman and pilot Donald Donald Donald reported seeing a pair of shiny, mysterious objects flying over the sky near Rainier Mountain in Washington. Some newspapers at that time described these UFO's as "flying places", a term that quickly went deep into public awareness.
Reports about UFO have skyrocketed after Arnold's crop, with some even being reported by The New York Times. One of the famous cases that the newspaper collected was the discovery of strange piles of rubble at a farm in Lincoln County, New Mexico in black and white00.
In July that year, a public information officer at a nearby Roswell military airport described the found debris as a piece of "landfall" and caused a stir in public opinion. Military officials quickly withdrew their statements, explaining that the material was the remains of a fallen weather hot air balloon. The Roswell incident was endorsed at that time but was brought up after 3 decades by fans learning about the UFO. These people believe that the US government has found an Earth-based crew in New Mexico and covered up the entire incident.
Research projects of the US military
The US military has expressed concern that some UFO sightings could pose a threat to national security and has begun investigating systematically the cases. The Air Force established the Sign project that operated until late 1947, followed by a similar Grudge project in 1948. The famous Blue Book project began in 1952 and was active until 1969, and has inspected more than 12,600 reports on UFO during its operation.
One of the famous events that the Blue Book project has investigated is the case of the couple Betty and Barcelona Hill. They claimed to have been captured by returning from Earth and conduct experiments in rural New Hampshire in September 2021. The couple was later highly sought after by the press and became famous. After the Blue Book project ended, a series of UFO sightings continued to be recorded and encouraged many people to study them seriously.
Some of the most famous events of the past half century include the case of Travis Walton - a Arizona man who claimed to have been kidnapped by aliens in 1975, which was later made into the movie "Fire in the Sky" in 1993. In addition, there is the Rendlesham Forest incident, a series of mysterious events observed near the British Royal Air Force's Woodbridge station in December 1980 and Phoenix Lights in March 1997.
The US Navy also recorded many cases of UFO sightings. Some pilots flying off the coast of San Diego reported seeing a strange ship launching into the sky with a seemingly unprecedented range of motion. A series of eye-catching incidents were also reported by US Navy pilots from June 2014 to March 2015.
Some witnessed cases were even filmed by the infrared camera mounted on the plane. Three of these videos were published by The New York Times in December 2017 as part of a story about the military's investigation efforts into the UFO. This project is called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, abbreviated as AATIP.
Politico and The Washington Post also published an in-depth study of Aatip, sponsored at the request of the American Senator at that time, Harry Reid (D-NEV.). The program was carried out from 2007 until it was stopped sponsoring in 2012. After that, in the summer of 2020, the Pentagon announced the establishment of an unknown phenomenon forces (UPTF), with the task of "detecting, analyzing and making a list of unknown flying objects that could cause threats to US national security".
