‘For right-wing politicians, this commodification is associated with an invasive, alien, foreign culture.’.‘Despite numerous campaigns among players and fans to try and tackle racism, the game is still submerged in a sea of stereotypes about foreigners and alien cultures.’.On the other hand, West added, "evidence that UAPs represent something extraordinary - like anti-gravity, possibly aliens - has not been forthcoming and it is unlikely it will be. The Air Force later said it found no indication of a national security threat or evidence of extraterrestrial craft.Ĭonventional national security risks posed by such incidents will likely be covered in the forthcoming report, according to Mick West, a UFO skeptic and researcher. While publicly dismissive of UFOs, the Air Force investigated and cataloged more than 12,000 sightings under its Project Blue Book program, categorizing 701 cases as "unidentified" before the project ended in 1969. So began the government's history of official skepticism toward such reports, according to Christopher Mellon, a former deputy assistant defense secretary for intelligence who has urged greater official transparency on the subject. Reacting to such incidents during the height of the Cold War, a CIA advisory panel concluded that UFO sightings posed a potential threat to national security. military officials said wreckage recovered near Roswell, New Mexico, represented remnants of a crashed weather balloon, though theories of a downed alien spacecraft and recovered bodies of extraterrestrial beings have lingered in UFO lore. His account gave rise to a newspaper headline about "flying saucers" and preceded a wave of similar U.S. Public fascination with UFOs generally dates to 1947, when the pilot of a small airplane reported seeing nine "saucer-like" objects flying at supersonic speed near Mount Rainier in Washington state. Senator Marco Rubio was instrumental in commissioning the report, ordered as part of broader legislation passed last year.
Navy-led task force established by the Pentagon in August 2020 to examine UAP incidents. The report, to be issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, will include the work of a U.S. East Coast have been confirmed by the Navy, with the objects deemed "unidentified." The term "unidentified flying objects," or UFOs, long associated with the notion of alien spacecraft, has been replaced in official government parlance by "UAP." In addition to the UAP 2004 incident, others from 20 occurring off the U.S. Navy aircraft and warships - did not originate from any American military or other advanced government technology. The Times, citing senior administration officials briefed on a classified version of the report, said officials found that the vast majority of more than 120 UAP incidents over the past two decades - many observed by personnel aboard U.S. intelligence officials have found no evidence that unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) witnessed by Navy pilots are alien spacecraft, but cannot explain the unusual movements of these objects and cannot definitively rule out extraterrestrial explanations. The New York Times reported on June 3 that U.S. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES)/File Photo military after decades of deflecting, debunking and discrediting observations of unidentified flying objects and "flying saucers."Īerial view of the United States military headquarters, the Pentagon, September 28, 2008. The report marks a turning point for the U.S. In the lead-up to its forthcoming report, Defense Department officials have made clear they take the issue seriously while sidestepping questions about any potential extraterrestrial origins. The Pentagon in recent years has released or confirmed the authenticity of video from naval aviators showing enigmatic aircraft exhibiting speed and maneuverability exceeding known aviation technologies. intelligence community, in conjunction with the Pentagon, is due in the coming days to submit a report to Congress on the subject. government, once openly dismissive of UFO sightings that for decades sparked the popular imagination, is poised to issue an expansive account of what it calls "unidentified aerial phenomena," based heavily on observations by American military pilots.
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