As a recent piece in the New Yorker suggest, the Defense Department has started to take the UFO phenomenon seriously. UFOs, or, as the Pentagon now refers to them, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs), are objects spotted in the skies that, at least at first, have no ready explanation. Several naval aviators, encouraged for the first time in decades to report such objects, have come forward. A number of videos taken by military personnel have surfaced that show objects behaving contrary to the laws of physics, some of them in restricted air space. An unclassified report on what the military knows about UAPs is due to be released as early as June,according to the Navy Times.
The UFO issue has always been contentious. The vast majority of strange objects in the sky have turned out to be mundane phenomena such as atmospheric disturbances or unidentified aircraft. But a tiny percentage of UFOs, or UAPs if one prefers, have remained unexplained.
Two theories compete with each other, regarding the tiny percentage of sightings that remain unexplained. One is that they are secret, experimental aircraft, either from the classified world of the United States military or from some foreign power, i.e., Russia and/or China. The other theory is that the UAPs are alien in origin.
The argument that the UAPs observed by military personnel and recorded on video are of alien origin stems from their behavior. At one moment some of these objects have been seen hovering in midair. Then, at another moment, they have been seen moving at supersonic speeds, moving from motionless to Mach 3 or so instantaneously. Some UAPs have been seen to disappear entirely. The objects are not behaving like aircraft created in the early 21st century. They suggest a technology that is centuries ahead of even the most advanced nation.
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