For decades, especially in the post-World War II years, unidentified flying objects (UFOs) fueled conspiracy theories and were considered by many to be fantasy. cottages who has watched too many sci-fi movies and TV series. But this reality has been changing lately. UFOs have become serious business and have taken over even the most unexpected media, from the newspaper “New York Times” and from the magazine “New Yorker” to the program “60 minutes” CBS. Now, many years later, when the topic has been taboo for US officials, Congress is preparing to release a report with everything government agencies know about “unidentified airborne phenomena” (an alternative term to UFOs and considered less stigmatizing).
Even before the document was released, the Department of Defense attracted the attention of several suspected UFO recordings. Last year, the Pentagon confirmed the authenticity of three videos captured during Navy training flights and published between December 2017 and March 2018 by The New York Times, including one. accidentin 2004, when unidentified objects approached US aircraft carriers, 160 km off the coast of San Diego, and were pursued by F / A 18 fighters. So it was almost a taboo. In April and May of this year, the Pentagon did the same for two other videos recorded in 2019 by the naval forces: one with pyramid-shaped objects flying over the aircraft carrier USS Russell, the other showing an unidentified object diving into the water. sea off the coast of California.
The recent release of these records, explains the magazine “Super interesting”, linked to a law passed last year by the US Congress with the backing of major Democrats and Republicans and signed by former President Donald Trump, who initially criticized the law. Designed to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, including economic incentives and emergency assistance paid to U.S. citizens Appropriations Act HR 133 it includes another, the 2021 Intelligence Authorization Act, which requires, as a condition of intelligence funding, that the Navy publish “detailed analyzes of unidentified aerial phenomena” and that the FBI investigate them.
In August, the Ministry of Defense created task force collect data on these mysterious phenomena from various government agencies, and now the final report will be presented to Congress. However, this should not shed new light on the possibility that these phenomena, after all, are proof of the existence of extraterrestrial life, as some fans of speculative theories hope. According to “The newspaper “New York Times”, after examining over 120 incidents seen by military pilots between 2004 and 2015, task force did not find an explanation for most of the described phenomena. The main finding is that the vast majority of reported incidents were not caused by US technology.
One of the most talked about hypotheses is that many of these objects are experimental drones from other countries (such as China or Russia) that have invaded US airspace. The reality, however, is far less interesting, according to Andrew Fraknoi, an astronomer at the University of San Francisco: Most UFO sightings can be attributed to terrestrial or celestial phenomena such as vehicle lights or space debris returning to the atmosphere. “There has been a flood of misleading UFO advertisements lately. [baseada em relatórios militares]… A sober analysis of these statements shows that there are far fewer of them than meets the eye, ”he told the magazine. Scientific American…
Report task force it will have an app with classified information hidden from the public that promises to further fuel conspiracy theories.
