The US government is renewing interest in UFO sightings that have so far gone unexplained.
Particularly a case from 2004 where two US Navy pilots encountered strange crafts in the sky while flying F/A-18 Super Hornets as part of a Carrier Strike Group over the Atlantic ocean.
The pilots, which have subsequently been interviewed, filmed a bizarre fast-moving object with no wings or rotors that was able to out-run their jets.
‘It accelerated like nothing I’ve ever seen,’ one of the pilots, Cmdr. David Fravor, said in an interview.
The case is now being looked at by the Senate Armed Services Committee on the one hand and the House Armed Services Committee on the other.
The idea is that although UFO sightings have been falling in recent years, the Washington top brass wants to try and understand if there are any threats they need to be prepared for.
‘It’s now beyond dispute that the US Congress is taking an interest not just in the Pentagon’s AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program) project, but in the UFO phenomenon more generally,’ explained Nick Pope, who used to head up the Ministry of Defence’s UFO investigations here in the UK.
‘Understandably though, everyone’s bending over backwards to avoid using the phrase ‘UFO’, which has generally been replaced with ‘UAP’ (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) in government circles,’ he told Metro.co.uk.
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