Defense Department officials on Tuesday confirmed that unidentified flying objects are real and pose a potential serious threat to the country.

However, they aren’t panicking about aliens invading America anytime soon.

That’s because military officials believe that nearly all of the unexplained events could be explained with more research and observation. To do that, they need military members to be more open to reporting the mystery objects without fear of being laughed off as science fiction conspiracy theorists.

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